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The Community Solidarity Response Network of Toledo was formed on
November, 25, 2014, the day after it was announced that the
killer (a Ferguson, Missouri police officer) of Michael
Brown (an unarmed teenager) would NOT be indicted.
We Bring Awareness to the Injustices experienced by Black men,
women and children who are disproportionately murdered,
attacked, provoked and harassed by law enforcement. Police
Brutality has to end. We bring awareness to the fact that
most often; police brutality goes without consequence and
accountability. Police Impunity has to end.
We utilize the tactics of Protest, Civil Disobedience,
Event-Disruption, and Citizen Advocacy to give voice to
those who are otherwise voiceless.
We facilitate progressive community –based events that help to
foster self-development, and we discuss measures to hold
local leadership accountable to their sworn duties, be they
politicians, clergy, law enforcement, educators, etc.
It is our duty to fight for our freedom….it is our duty to
win.
#FreeBlackMamas or #BlackMamasBailOuts is an annual campaign by
National Bail Out.
Seeking to raise awareness about the
human and financial costs of money bail and
emphasize its impact on Black mothers and caregivers. The
National Bail Out Collective is a Black Centered Black Led
collective of abolitionist organizers, lawyers and
activists building a community-based movement to support our
people and end system of pretrial detention and ultimately
mass incarceration.
Every year since 2017, this movement coordinated tactical bail
outs nationwide – called #BlackMamasBailOuts – to free Black
Mothers and caregivers so they can spend Mother’s Day with
their families where they belong.
We at CSRN support this effort and we plan to do the following:
Starting today we’re contacting our
supporters, sympathizers and fellow activists to help us
raise $2500.00 to bail out five (5) Black moms by Juneteenth.
We’ve already began the process of planning how this will happen
and how the funds will be distributed and to who.
This is also part of a much larger issue. The issue of cash
bail. The
most fundamental criticism of the bail system is that
it needlessly imprisons poor people. In 2010, when he was
16, Kalief Browder was accused of stealing a backpack and to
be released on $3,000 bail, which his family could
not afford.
To all of our fellow activist and freedom fighters; raising
awareness during the pandemic has been a challenge for most
if not all of us. However, we have to stay vigilant and
consistent in exposing the systematic and unequivocal
imbalance of the system of white supremacy and those charged
to uphold it. Join us by donating via our CSRN CashApp or
CSRN PayPal. You’ll find the links on our page as well as
with this short video.
We want Justice, Equal Justice under the law. We want justice
applied equally to all regardless of creed or class or
color. For all lives to matter, Black Lives must Matter.
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice Everywhere.”
Justice Or Else,
Peace
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