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Funds raised by this campaign will go entirely to Just Resisting.
The Mayoral Election of Jackson, MS will be a rare opportunity for us all to be exposed to the innovative Jackson Plan being implemented in Mississippi, a decades- long initiative to strengthen participatory democracy, solidarity economy and sustainable development through deep grassroots organizing and electoral politics. It’s also a plan that is grounded in the political understanding of the rich history of Black resistance within the United States and attempts to address the root causes of structural inequities and exploitation. Due to our political climate, we don’t get to see anything like this in Buffalo. We believe that the work in Jackson can inform our organizing for self-determination and assist us in building a new culture of organizing.
For a very long time we have recognized that young People of Color have had deep distrust engaging with the electoral system; we have seen people in power who look like us, both Nationally and locally, and our conditions have not changed, our neighborhoods have not been invested in, our people our without work and we are confined to living in poverty. Because of this, many have become disillusioned with the value of voting. The controversial primary win of Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders stoked the flames of these feelings. We believe Jackson will lift spirits and inspire people to bring knowledge back to continue to build in Buffalo while learning to find alternative ways of doing things that don’t result in us making the same mistakes as those before us.
We cannot jump into this opportunity without some help; JR is a collective and everyone involved are volunteers who believe in the work and dedicate their “spare” time to it. We are asking if you can dig deep by making a contribution to give us the experience of seeing Black– led leadership outlining a left strategy for self-determination.
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