Organizing Against Systemic Racism During COVID-19

 
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In 2020, many of Praxis’ community partners have answered the call to leverage years of building trusted relationships to facilitate the distribution of emergency resources and aid, and to continue advocating for community needs. However, the challenges elevated in 2020—the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing, systemic racism, and their subsequent and intersecting impacts—are not new to community organizers. They surface for a broader swath of the population the fractured health, social service, and political systems that have long needed transformation. Advocates and basebuilding organizers from across the nation have consistently stood on the front lines in contests over social issues that disproportionately impact Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) and other historically oppressed groups. For years, Praxis’ organizing partners have been engaged in fighting racism in all of its forms: government divestment from BIPOC communities, inadequacies presented by many facets of our healthcare system, policing of Black and brown children and adults, and a range of other key issues that need to be addressed to achieve justice. Community organizers have had a vested interest in demanding equity before 2020 and will continue these efforts beyond 2020; our communities do not have the privilege to look away or lose interest in dismantling racism and fighting for justice. The purpose of this brief is to share findings about the priorities of organizers in 2020, particularly around challenges elevated by COVID-19 and systemic racism; and how public health, philanthropy, and other allied fields can support our diverse communities’ shared goals for health, justice, racial equity, and liberation.

Organizing Against Systemic Racism During COVID-19 is a resource from the Centering Community in Public Health - Learning Circle Brief Series.

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Base-building community organizers' have organized against all odds in 2020. Here how they did it, in @Praxis_Project newest brief ft. the work of their base-building network partners https://bit.ly/3m6iU6d

Organizers from across the nation have consistently stood on the front lines in contests over social issues that disproportionately impact BIPOC. In 2020, as challenges appeared they were still there for their communities. Check out @Praxis_Project's newest brief here: https://bit.ly/3m6iU6d

What does organizing look like in 2020?
• Building virtual community 📲💻
• Mutual Aid 🏘🧺🛍
• Being a leading voice for justice ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
Read more @Praxis_Project newest brief here: https://bit.ly/3m6iU6d

"We're being called upon to educate movements & communities, refine visions of what reparations looks like & our model democratic accountability of a 🌍 w/o prisons, punishment & 🚔" - USFWC This is organizing in 2020! To read more @Praxis_project brief: https://bit.ly/3m6iU6d

How can health professionals invest in base building community organizing into their advocacy & programs? Check out @Praxis_Project's brief featuring the work of their Learning Circle collective of base building organizations to learn more: https://bit.ly/3m6iU6d

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The Praxis Project (2020, December). Organizing Against Systemic Racism During COVID-19. Retrieved from http://thepraxisproject.org/resource/2020/organizing-against-systemic-racism-during-covid19

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The purpose of this brief is to present the findings from a series of surveys, Learning Circles, and media analyses designed by The Praxis Project and Berkeley Media Studies Group, a program of the Public Health Institute, to examine the extent to which community basebuilding organizations played a role in declarations of racism as a public health crisis and how the declarations were covered in the media.

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From Food Justice to Liberation: Building Community Power through Community Gardens & Urban Farms is a resource from the Centering Community in Public Health - Learning Circle Brief Series.

The purpose of this brief is to understand how urban farms and community gardens stewarded by Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) power-building and base-building organizations help raise community consciousness about healthy food systems, create opportunities for resident leadership and skill development, promote local economic development, and provide healthy alternatives to the typical commodified foods that are available in marginalized communities.

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