statement on black history month

This Black History Month, we’re honoring the memory of Fred Hampton. At just 21 years old, he led the Black Panthers in Chicago, uniting black, white, and Puerto Rican residents around their basic human needs.

Hampton led efforts to feed schoolchildren, unifying Chicagoans against police brutality and social policies that dismissed their housing, employment, and healthcare needs.

He was assassinated by the FBI in his fight against fascism, but his legacy lives on. We will continue his legacy and the legacy of movements that came before us to fight for fair pay, rent stabilization, housing and workforce vouchers. sanctuary protections for immigrants, healthcare access, and much more.

To fight the legacy of white supremacy in Minneapolis, we’re calling for reparations through housing, providing black communities the resources and sovereignty they need to meet their needs and determine their own futures, and for introducing alternatives for policing that are unarmed, de-escalatory, and culturally informed.

We will build class and racial solidarity because el pueblo unido jamás será vencido.