Youth and families march for BLM

As our future leaders, we find it important to encourage youth to be involved members of society and take part in shaping their world.

On the anniversary of stonewall we invite youth and families for a safe march in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and allowing them to utilize their voices in a positive way!

We will be meeting on the corner of 2nd St & Lapham St and walking north to 2nd and National.

All speakers will be youth and teens from our community.

We will have hand sanitizer and help with social distancing, however, masks are still encouraged.

20-hour Street Medic Training

Forward Action Medics (FAM) is hosting a 20 hour street medic training in Milwaukee

Friday, June 26th: 5:30PM – 10:00PM
Saturday, June 27th: 9:00AM – 6:30PM
Sunday, June 28th: 9:00AM – 6:30PM

Location will be shared with participants. We can help make transportation arrangements if needed.

You must be on time for the training. Individuals later than 30 minutes will not be able to attend. This is because there is a lot of information to cover in a very short amount of time, and what we cover in 30 minutes is the equivalent of one workshop’s worth of information…. so please be on time! If you know that you are often late to events, make sure you leave early to compensate.

This 20-hour training covers basic first aid skills and prepares you to help others stay safe and healthy at protests. It will also prepare you to meet health needs as part of a team in your organization, in your community, or as a member of Forward Action Medics, so that activists and communities can stay well and stay in the streets.

This training is rooted in street medics’ history of sharing first aid skills as a form of self-defense for our communities. It focuses on situational awareness and on issues that are common at protests including weather, delays in accessing medical care, and police violence. This training does not cover CPR.

Accessibility:

While we strive to make these training opportunities accessible to all, some restrictions apply due to the intense physical nature of the training scenarios. Must be able to lift 30 pounds, move 25 feet independently, and easily handle and utilize first aid supplies. To request and/or discuss accommodations, please indicate so on the registration form and we will contact you.

Please register as space is limited. We will be in contact with participants before the training.

https://forms.gle/ThKnkAtmuSu96QvC6

BLM March – St. Francis, Cudahy, South MKE

Black Is Beautiful Ride

Fighting the power is a full-time job, especially if you’re Black. Take this event as a moment to collectively exhale as a community and join us on a ride for Black lives. We’ll keep marching, we’ll keep chanting, but for one day we need to feel the wind in our face again. Black Lives Matter. Black Mental Health Matters too.

Meeting at Reservoir Park at 1pm
Ride at your own risk, more details to come…

DefundRPD CareNotCops Block Party and Teach In

Hey ya’ll,

On Saturday, we will be hosting a socially-distanced #DefundRPD Teach-in and Block Party from 12pm to 10pm at Haskell Park. We intend it as an educational and community event as there is a need for community learning in Rockford about police and prison abolition, black history, the black revolutionary struggle, the history of the RPD’s brutality and the Winnebago County Jail. We also hope it strengthens the relationships that we have formed in the streets. We want a free store and a free library to support the community in these hard times.

What we need from ya’ll to support is this…

Food for people to eat during the event
Masks and gloves
Water
Chairs
Books and zines to be donated to a free library (black history, radical history, anything about black radicalism, political theory, abolition, prison struggle, skills)
Seeds for a seed drive for a free store
Clothes for a clothing drive for a free store
Non perishable food to be donated to a free store

We plan to have most of these things ourselves but we’d appreciate any help that you can give.

Please contact us at our email at 2020RYA@protonmail.com if you would like to present (please tell us about what), donate any of these items or do a monetary donation. If that doesn’t work, hit our inbox.

We encourage everyone except for the police and police sympathizers to attend. We aren’t asking politicians to speak publicly but we’d encourage them to come as private residents.

#NoCopZone #Abolition #DefundRPD #FoodNotCops

Geopolitics Alert

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Standing In Solidarity With The Native People Rally

Hello to all in the light of the new civil movement we are bringing light of police brutality and racism against the Black community. I love that there has been so much support across the nation. Unfortunately the original people of America are not being talked about or even being referred to as people of color. Even in statistics we are labeled as other or unknown. So please come show your support, hear story’s, and experience the life of the native people in their words. Moon Shadow drum will be there in support with some traditional songs.