Fight Systemic Racism
Fighting systemic racism and achieving intersectional justice means we need to reform our institutions.
Get involved.
Racism is the weed of equality and when it abides unidentified and uncontested, it infiltrates our entire reality.
To eradicate the proliferation of this abhorrent weed we need to teach our current and future generations about privilege and supremacy — and about how to have honest conversations about race.
To help kickstart your activism in this space, we have drafted email templates for you adapt and send to traditional institutions within your own communities, to insist they take action to dismantle systemic racism.
Racial injustice is unique to each country and this ubiquitous weed cannot simply be obliterated with a few broad-brush emails. However these templates can encourage you to think about these topics within your own countries, to research some statistics within your communities and take action.
Please note: sending these emails is great, but does not mean your work is done. Think of them as your your initial dash from the starting line, in your life-long marathon against white supremacy.
Use our email template to demand comprehensive history of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) is taught in all our educational institutions.
Education enables students to understand our deeply racist histories and how colonialism and slavery construct systemic disadvantage.
SEND TO: Your local representative; State/Federal Education Ministers and Secretaries; schools, universities and colleges.
Use our email template to demand our elected officials address the high proportion of incarcerated BIPOC women and mothers.
Over-incarceration and absence of substantive investment in community diversionary programs, means our criminal justice system is broken. We must demand for urgent changes to bail legislation, for increased access to social workers and lawyers, as well as early intervention/alternatives to incarceration.
SEND TO: Your local representative; your Attorney General.
Use our email template to demand we enact comprehensive cultural awareness training for medical professionals, to address medical racism.
Black American women are dying from preventable pregnancy-related complications at 3-4 times the rate of white women. The life expectancy of Australian Aboriginal males is estimated to be 8.6 years lower than non-Aboriginal males and 7.8 years lower for females. We need comprehensive cultural awareness training for medical professionals, as well as increased recruitment of BIPOC.
SEND TO: Your local representative; Ministers/Senators for Healthcare; local and state hospitals, as well as community GPs.
