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The Young Gifted and Black Coalition is a circle of young leaders determined to end state violence and raise the voice of communities of color. We are young Black women, queer folks, straight folks and feminist men who are fighting for Black Liberation. Our focus is on the low income Black communities that our core members call home. Our strategy is centered on direct action and community organizing.
We use direct actions to interrupt the status quo and bring awareness to key issues and different forms of state violence affecting the root causes of the plight of Black and Brown people around the world. Our strategy for change shakes the norm, demanding not only a seat at the table of decision-making for those most impacted by the many forms of state violence, but also a hand in setting that table in the first place.
This coalition is a grassroots organization led and founded by grassroots organizations: Freedom Inc, Operation Welcome Home, Madtown Community Response Team, and Justice and Equity in Dane. We use community organizing to build the knowledge base of those most impacted and our allies. Our commitment is to building and empowering the people to take effective and collective action toward change thus we host teach-ins, discussions, forums, debates, and lectures to help educate and organize communities.
We are here to stand in solidarity with the efforts of Ferguson, New York, Milwaukee, and all of the cities currently dealing with the hurt that state violence perpetrates. This is about justice for Michael Brown, Erik Garner, Tamir Rice, Dontre Hamilton, Tony Robinson and all of the black lives taken by the hands of police every 28 hours.
This is also more broadly about the issues of state violence against Black communities. In Madison it looks like mass incarceration and the murder of Tony Robinson. In Milwaukee it looks like the police killing of Dontrae Hamilton and mass incarceration, and in Detroit it looks like poverty and a host of other issues. Ferguson teaches us that there will be no change unless youth take to the streets.
We are Young Gifted and Black, and we will take to the streets until we get liberation.
Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement 
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