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USA: A statement in support of #BlackLivesMatter: Injury to one is an Injury to all

USA: A statement in support of #BlackLivesMatter: Injury to one is an Injury to all

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by IDWFED published Jun 05, 2020 12:00 AM
We join our sisters and brothers of our affiliates - the United Domestic Workers of America, National Domestic Workers Alliance, We Dream in Black and all Black community organizers and Black-led initiatives, in calls for action supporting the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

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It is with profound pain  and anger that we have witnessed police brutality ending yet another Black life in the US. As states continue to kill and criminalize Black people, communities of colour and migrants as means of population control and as their agents continue walking away with impunity, we as union leaders primarily women and domestic workers from the Global South, find it of utmost urgency and importance to reiterate time and time again that #BlackLivesMatter.

We join our sisters and brothers of our affiliates - the United Domestic Workers of America,  National Domestic Workers Alliance, We Dream in Black and  all Black community organizers and Black-led initiatives, in calls for action supporting the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Justice must prevail,their needs must be met and their plights must be answered. We see racial capitalism and structural inequalities pertaining to Blackness in particular translating in different parts of the world. We call out all leadership that ignores the racial implications of its discourse, policies, and actions. We see states, systems, and individuals who contribute, profit of, and promote anti-Blackness: be it in state policies, media demonization of Black people, fetishizing and appropriation of Black cultures, institutional racism and barriers to access to rights and services, police brutality and entitlement over the use of violence against Black bodies, disproportionate incarceration of Black people, the control of their reproductive rights, and so much more.

This is a labor issue as much as is a community issue; we see it in domestic work as well: the racism, gender inequalities, economic injustice, disenfranchisement, and brutality faced by Black domestic workers is yet another expression of the status of anti-Blackness. We see their compound vulnerability to crises, and we see the strength of their organizing and its revolutionary momentum.

Together, we are committed to fight for racial justice, to never losing sight of Blackness as a political signifier in our labor and gender battles. We are committed to fighting racial injustice in all its forms.

Stand on the right side of history.


Let us speak their names:
Nina Pop. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Tony McDade. Ahmaud Arbery. David McAttee. James Scurlock, and so many others Rest in Power.



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