A year ago, history was made as California became the first state in the US to have reparations legislation (AB 3121). Continuing in this spirit and energy, we hope to see you on June 29th for the first JUNETEENTH REPARATIONS BUS TOUR.
Where We Are Going
We will be starting in Oakland where the Black Panthers were formed and made their home and where the community plans to build land trusts to preserve their history. After this, we will visit UC Berkeley where we will hear from students, staff, professors, and the community to discuss reparations in the form of free college. We will move onto San Pablo where the community is fighting back against the city’s efforts to build a massive Cop City, and then we will see the Richmond Oil Refinery which is the site of countless environmental battles. The bus will move on to San Quentin Prison, a powerful site of organizing and a blaring reminder of the violence of mass incarceration, before concluding in the historic Fillmore District in San Francisco.
What We Are Doing
The bus tour will be a fun-filled day of games and celebration, as well as skill building for those who wish to learn more and win reparations. We hold a three-fold commitment to political education, action practice, and healing towards a more just and equitable society and reparations in our lifetime. Reparations Now!
We will explore strategies for integrating community into local reparations work and bring Black joy to our reparations curriculum. We will share best practices for addressing the systemic racism in our local cities and reflect on our role and contributions during times of crisis and change. Our goal for this day is to uplift a comprehensive step-by-step guide for participants and community members that come to each site (all are welcome).
We will also center the tireless efforts of those who came before us, building off of N’COBRA’s five injury areas of systematic racism (Health, Criminal Punishment, Peoplehood/Nationhood, Wealth/Poverty, Education), The California Reparations Task Force (AB 3121) and their extensive research, and The Movement for Black Lives (Reparations Toolkit).
We wish to establish and adopt historical and new best practices for racial justice and anti-racism while building towards a 59 county Reparations tour of California next year. Our involvement in the hearing for AB 3121 California legislation, and the synergy of the 34th National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA) Oakland Convention will help to inform this work. Since last year, our project teams from the Got Reparations? Mobilization Campaign, N’COBRA, and M4BL, have continued to build and refine pathways to healing, community organizing strategies, funding programs and political education. Motivate, Educate, and Organize!
We will explore strategies for integrating community into local reparations work and bring Black joy to our reparations curriculum. We will share best practices for addressing the systemic racism in our local cities and reflect on our role and contributions during times of crisis and change. Our goal for this day is to uplift a comprehensive step-by-step guide for participants and community members that come to each site (all are welcome).
We will also center the tireless efforts of those who came before us, building off of N’COBRA’s five injury areas of systematic racism (Health, Criminal Punishment, Peoplehood/Nationhood, Wealth/Poverty, Education), The California Reparations Task Force (AB 3121) and their extensive research, and The Movement for Black Lives (Reparations Toolkit).
We wish to establish and adopt historical and new best practices for racial justice and anti-racism while building towards a 59 county Reparations tour of California next year. Our involvement in the hearing for AB 3121 California legislation, and the synergy of the 34th National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA) Oakland Convention will help to inform this work. Since last year, our project teams from the Got Reparations? Mobilization Campaign, N’COBRA, and M4BL, have continued to build and refine pathways to healing, community organizing strategies, funding programs and political education. Motivate, Educate, and Organize!