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Add your name to the global statement of solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter, and show the world how huge this movement has become.

This email is from Chris Percy, a staff member at our sister organisation in the United States, MoveOn. Just like WeMove Europe, they are a movement of people working towards a world where everyone has a place of honor and dignity.  

Stand in global solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter! Join the fight to end police brutality, liberate Black people and end white supremacy. No one is free until we are all free. Add your signature

My name is Chris Percy, and I’m the training director at MoveOn. We support the same work in the U.S. that you do in Europe: doing whatever we can to mobilize for a better society.

Normally, I write emails to other MoveOn members the way people at WeMove Europe write emails to you. But today, I’m reaching out beyond our country, to speak to you and others around the world about an issue that has gone beyond our borders. Today I am writing to you about #BlackLivesMatter.

I am a 34-year-old Black man from the West Side of Chicago witnessing history in the making.

A picture of me - Chris Percy during Protecting Working Families Tour by MoveOn.org

This point in our world’s journey is pivotal and consequential - not just here in the U.S., but everywhere. Something about this moment feels different. Feels ripe. At no point in my life’s journey have I seen the amount of collective solidarity and resistance to the system of white supremacy and racial hate than I have seen in the last two weeks, sparked by the killing of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.

And let’s be clear, this moment is the result of over 400 hundred years of oppression, not just of George and Breonna, and not just of Black people in the United States, but of Black and Indigenous peoples throughout the world.

So today, I have a request. Solidarity is like hope and faith, it shows that we are not few but that we are many; that we are not alone but together. That’s why members of WeMove Europe and other movements around the world are getting behind a global statement of solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter. We will publish it here in the U.S. on June 19th, also known as Juneteenth, a day that is sacred to Black people in the United States as the effective end of slavery.

Will you add your name to the global statement of solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter, and show the world how huge this movement has become?

Sign to stand in solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter

The work I do every day aims to dismantle systems of oppression and inequality. I work to ensure that everyone, regardless of who they are or what they look like, has a chance to live freely and prosper, unhindered by the limitations born from hate or greed. The fight for the preservation and liberation of Black lives is a fight that we can all coalesce around.

So let’s do that. Let’s choose to affirm Black life globally in our work and personal lives. The fight for Black liberation intersects with all other forms of liberation. If we aspire to unite globally to fight for the Black diaspora, First Nations peoples, women, the LGBTQ community, the poor, the immigrant, and the disabled, we must continue our work and create a sustainable anti-racist plan to realize our aspirations of a more equitable world.

By showing up for each other, we can prove that #BlackLivesMatter is an unstoppable force - here in the U.S., and all around the world. So, Vladimir, will you sign a global statement of solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter?

I know we can not only witness history, but together, we can make history!

Thanks for all you do!

Chris, and the MoveOn and WeMove Europe teams

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From: David - WeMove Europe

Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2020 8:27 PM

Subject: Your Pain is Our Pain

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