Justice for Breonna Taylor.
During these Days of Awe, Jews worldwide imagine a celestial court where we are all on trial for our deeds this past year. Faith and hope mix in our age-old trust that justice and love prevail over transgressive hatred and fear, offering us all another chance of rising higher to our human potential and co-creating a better world for all.
As our champion of human rights and justice is laid to rest in our nation’s capital, we are outraged today that justice is once again denied in one of our nation’s courts in Kentucky. We join the wave of rage, protest and condemnation of yesterday’s proceedings and demand justice for Breonna Taylor. Yesterday’s verdict is yet another disgraceful racist disregard for human life masked under legal proceedings and must be loudly protested, so that no further lives are lost.
On this day and all days we rise to pray for peace and healing, protest continued racism, protect our most vulnerable family members, and demand justice for all.
How to Help
Donate to the Louisville Community Bail Fund. The Louisville Community Bail Fund exists to not only bail out folks, but provide post-release support to get them from jail, fed, and to a situation of safety. LCBF also maintains a focus on preventative measures for those targeted by law enforcement and threatened with incarceration.
Donate to & amplify the work of the Reparations Roundtable. The Reparations Roundtable works in conjunction with Black organizers who call themselves The GumBall Machine. Together, they make sure that direct giving as reparations are directly sent to BIPOC mothers, femmes, trans, and GNC MaGes in crisis. Reparations Roundtable is an online (and sometimes physical) brave space where white and white adjacent folks are trained and educated on how to do reparations work under the models built by Chanelle Helm of BLM Louisville, April Goggans of BLM DC, Creighton Leigh of Voix Noire, and Amy Jones of Citizen Action New York as well as unpack feelings and internalized White Supremacy Culture around this work without disrupting BIPOC spaces.
