We will continue to build and implement community budgeting power far beyond the current mayor’s hand-selected task force. /thread
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Our Black Brilliance Research Project well underway includes over 100+ Black community members. It is laying the groundwork for widespread, equitable participation in a 2021 participatory budgeting (PB) process.
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The PB process allows hundreds of thousands of Seattle residents to come together to directly and democratically determine investment priorities to generate true public health & safety.
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We and many others oppose this task force process that mimics real community involvement and input. Dozens of Black community leaders have been very outspoken and actively refused to participate.
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OPINION: Beware the Bootleg Rolex (A Response to Mayor Durkan’s $100 Million Proposal for BIPOC Communities) | South Seattle Emerald southseattleemerald.com/2020/09/27/bew
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This is an uprising in defense of Black lives. Millions are demanding that we address systemic anti-Black racism.
Clearly, these funds should go toward Black communities. And Black community should determine investment priorities.
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1/ POLITICAL ED: Black-led solutions means BLACK.
This isn't a "civil rights" reckoning. This isn't a general "racial" reckoning. This is a reckoning w/ anti-Black racism. This is about the very specific ways that anti-Black racism manifests & the policies needed to remedy it.
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We invite task force members to join us in this visionary work. To move away from old normal tactics that have chronically & consistently failed our communities, & towards a new participatory budgeting process that includes everyone in our City.
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