President Biden: Protect Haitian Refugees Now!

Our Haitian brothers and sisters are seeking refuge. TX’s Gov Abbott is answering with violent, mass deportation. Our Haitian brothers and sisters are seeking refuge. TX’s Gov Abbott is answering with violent, mass deportation. What we’re seeing along the southern border is nothing short of a humanitarian disaster. As thousands of asylum seekers from Haiti and elsewhere wait out their asylum proceedings under unlivable conditions, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has taken the extraordinary step of dispatching the National Guard and exceeding his authority to further militarize our borders. The images of U.S. Border Patrol agents riding horseback, whipping and caging Black asylum seekers, invoke a long and disturbing history of slavery -- one whose legacy lives on through unconscionable acts of racial violence just like this. President Biden cannot "restore the soul of America" as he allows his agencies to replicate the original sin which plagues that damaged soul. We stand with organizations like[Black Alliance for Just Immigration]( the[Haitian Bridge Alliance]( and Black-led grassroots groups in Texas who are providing direct support to those on the ground in Del Rio. And we join in their demands that President Biden immediately stop deportations and follow through on the established process for protecting refugees. Black voters did not risk our lives in order to put President Biden in power only to see him continue the racist immigration and asylum policies of his predecessor. [Read Our Statement]( Calling All HBCU Students! As students return to school this fall in the wake of rampant voter suppression and racial injustice across the country, we call on young people to get in “good trouble” with us and continue to lead the way in the fight for change. America’s HBCUs are hotbeds of talent and innovation, producing some of the great change-makers of the 20th and 21st centuries. By providing resources and support to students as they organize, engage and call on campus leaders to divest from corporations that don’t have our best interest at heart. Heading into the new school year and homecoming season, BVM will be announcing a multi-pronged campaign to work with HBCUs to carry on the great tradition of Black youth-led organizing. From voter engagement and civil disobedience, to holding corporations accountable and calling for student debt relief, this effort will help to inspire and engage the next generation of student activists. [Get Involved]( BVM Has Gone International: Watch LaTosha at The Budapest Forum Last week, we told you about our co-founder, LaTosha Brown’s participation at the inaugural [Budapest Forum](. As a speaker at the forum, LaTosha joined more than 200 policymakers, ministers, academics, experts and activists for debates and discussions on how to rebuild and strengthen democracy around the world as well as ideas on tackling inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as environmental and technological sustainability. If you’re eager to hear LaTosha’s address as part of the panel “Towards Polycentric Governance: Building Room for Democratic Experimentalism in the Political, Urban and Corporate World” click below to watch the full session! Know Your Rights 2021! Join Black Voters Matter and our partners on Oct. 2nd, for Know Your Rights 2021! This session will be an informative meeting regarding human rights, and your rights as an organizer and activist. Come learn about your rights and join the Legal Observing training. 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