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if you don't know who @MsLaToshaBrown is, please pull up a chair... #KeepSharingtheMic https://twitter.com/MsLaToshaBrown/status/1322182865514385408
"Now based in Georgia, she’s a nationally recognized political organizer and educator, co-founder of Black Voters Matter and a fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics" https://www.alreporter.com/2020/08/24/latosha-browns-alabama-roots-inspired-the-work-shes-doing-for-black-voters/
"“What do you see?” she asked throughout the event, held to give activists and residents in Selma a platform for their thoughts about changing the name of the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Her entreaty..was open-ended, meant to center their individual visions for their struggling town"
Her entreaty..was open-ended, meant to center their individual visions for their struggling town"
"Rather than parachuting into communities & organizing as they see fit ('We reject that model') @BlackVotersMtr supports existing grassroots infrastructure in Black communities, particularly those outside of the urban centers that tend to be th focus of voting rights initiatives"
"BVM also develops org. infrastructure where little or none exists (training local staff/developing candidates/networks)& funding activities related to specific elections
eg what BVM is most known for — Democratic Sen. Doug Jones’s 2017 defeat of Republican candidate Roy Moore."
eg what BVM is most known for — Democratic Sen. Doug Jones’s 2017 defeat of Republican candidate Roy Moore."
"Long before the IA Caucus, before @JoeBiden beat @BernieSanders & #COVID19 cancelled canvassing, before the #BidenHarris ticket was a twinkle in @TheDemocrats eye, @MsLaToshaBrown and @cliff_notes were crisscrossing the country to talk to Black voters" https://time.com/5889888/black-voters-michigan/
"They weren’t stumping for a particular candidate/political agenda. They were on a larger mission: to restore Black voters’ faith in a democracy that so often seems to disregard them. They spoke about becoming “trusted messengers,” & restoring “credibility” to American democracy"
" @MsLatoshaBrown explained her reasoning as she leaned back on the bus’s leather seats: Black voters, she said, had come to think of the Democratic Party like 'the friend you only hear from when they want something.'" https://time.com/5889888/black-voters-michigan/
"You can be as blue as you want to be in CA, you can be as..progressive as you want to be in NY, but right now the policy priorities..are being led by senators of the South, who set up a system where they have an enormous amount of power." @MsLaToshaBrown https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/black-voters-matter-founder-latosha-brown-explains-how-the-south-runs-the-country.html
"..what is a financial center..Wall Street, right?..Where is the policy center? (DC)..the entertainment center? (Hollywood). When I say white patriarchal racism, structurally the capital (is) the South.
So, if this country is..to move forward? As goes the South, goes the nation"
So, if this country is..to move forward? As goes the South, goes the nation"
"if we can look at the South..being instructive around voter suppression, we can also look at..how do you resist and how do people organize. in the(2017) Doug Jones race, that Senate seat was held by the Republican Party, which had been deeply disconnected and actually, quite..."
"..aggressively working against the Black community..to suppress our vote, for >20 yrs. Here it is..where Black women and the organizing of Black women (won) It’s important that we don’t just keep saying this state is blue/this state is red. The South is only red until it ain’t."
so anyhow, yeah.
watch her video with a tissue...
and then get to work supporting @MsLaToshaBrown & @cliff_notes @BlackVotersMtr work:
PayPal: http://paypal.me/BlackVotersMatter
Cash app $blackvotersmatter
Volunteer, donate online, and learn more:
https://blackvotersmatterfund.org/
watch her video with a tissue...
and then get to work supporting @MsLaToshaBrown & @cliff_notes @BlackVotersMtr work:
PayPal: http://paypal.me/BlackVotersMatter
Cash app $blackvotersmatter
Volunteer, donate online, and learn more:
https://blackvotersmatterfund.org/
