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2024 Primary Election Resource
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Visit our Election Resource information for the 2024 Primary Season In April 2024 all Dem primary candidates received a questionnaire covering issues vitally important to the mission goals and values of #BLM Btown who then evaluated and rated each candidate’s responses for voters. These assessments are provided to voters for informational purposes. Black Lives Matter does NOT endorse specific candidates. VOTER's GUIDE COMING April 12th 2024 blm.btown-in.org/2024-primary-election.html |
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BLM BTOWN in the Lilly Library Archives!
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In May 2023 BLM Btown dropped off a number of our paper ephemera, documents, fliers, posters, buttons, stickers, and rally cards to the Lilly Library to be use in a local exhibit about global slavery and the post slavery movements including the larger BLM movement. The exhibit was called "Global Slaveries, Fugitivity, and the Afterlives of Unfreedom" and ran at the Lilly Library from Aug 14th to Dec 15th of 2023.
We were asked to donate our items as a way to tie in our local movement into the exhibit to save for all time the work we have done in Bloomington, IN. We are truly honored & excited because Black Liberation work especially our radical work is rarely ever persevered & often forgotten! This will ensure that BLM Btown’s hard work will never be forgotten or lost! Here is additional information on the exhibit "Global Slaveries, Fugitivity, and the Afterlives of Unfreedom" can be found in the link below. Additionally those doing scholarly research on the BLM movement or Local Black or activist movements can request to see our material through the Lilly Library. https://blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/lilly/2023/09/20/exhibition-highlights-global-slaveries-fugitivity-and-the-afterlives-of-unfreedom/ BLM Btown would like to thank the efforts of Curator Ursula Romero for including us in this amazing exhibit and allowing our work in part to be archived in this manner. She is a pleasure to work with and we are grateful for her inclusion and ours on the project. |
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SUPPORT BLM BTOWN
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Since 2021 BLM Btown has seen a dramatic drop in financial support for the work we do. We believe this is because of the white lash after the overwhelming support we received in 2020 following George Floyds death. Many Black run organizations have also noticed a drop in public support and financial support post the 2020 surge. We get that support ebbs and flows BUT need is always there. We are asking that people set up recurring donations of just $5 a month to help keep our programs afloat. These programs bring VITAL support for MANY Black people in our community as well as further intersectional anti-racist causes in our community.
Our Current Programs Include: Farm to Families - Local Nutrient Dense Food to Black Families Black Family Holiday Micro-Grants - Gifts of $100-$300 given to Black families in our community during the holidays. Black Progressives Podcast - Podcast dedicated to intersectional anti-racism and Black progressive political ideals Anti-Racist Community Training - Educational trainings via , speeches, events and one to one trainings on intersectional anti- racism from LOCAL Black educators. Juneteenth Donation Drive - fund to buy necessities for people in need in our community with priority to BIPOC folks. |
Black Progressives Podcast
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Podcast devoted to providing a progressive, intersectional anti-racist Black platform for current social, political events and news locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.
You can find our podcast via our podcast host Buzzsprout HERE Also on these other Podcast hosts: Spotify Google Podcast Amazon Music |
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DONATE to BLM BTOWN
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What have you done to support Black Women that you know (not hypothetical Black women elsewhere) those IN your community!?
One way you can help is to donate to BLM Btown. Our money ALWAYS goes to help Black people but in particular we help Black Women! Especially with our “Farm to Families” connection to People's Market. We feed Black women & Black Children EVERY WEEK! 52 weeks a year & have done so for 4 yrs since People’s Market started! You can easily donate by emailing BLM Btown at [email protected] for our mailing address or by Venmo at @blm-btown & Please note that you donation is for BLM for our bookkeeping purposes! |
BLM BTOWN Moving Social Media to Instagram & TIKTOK!!
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Hey all we have done it we have left Facebook entirely!
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