Bozeman Magazine

America is not free until every black person can jog, sleep and breathe free.
Montana is not free until every black person can jog, sleep and breathe free.
Montana is not free until black lives matter.

Join us this Sunday at 12pm to rally for Black Lives in Bozeman. SIGN UP HERE: bit.ly/BLMBozeman
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ATTENTION: This action is BIPOC led (Black, Indigenous and People of Color), and sponsored by the MSU BSU (Black Student Union) and the Montana Racial Equity Project.
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On May 27th, Tony McDade, a 38 y/old black transgender man was murdered by police in Tallahassee, Fl.
On May 25th, George Floyd, a 46 y/old black man was murdered by white police officers in Minneapolis, MN, who kneeled on top of his neck and body for 8 minutes and 46 seconds until the life had left his body.
May 6, Sean Reed, 21, Indianapolis, IN
March 13, Breonna Taylor, 26, KY
February 23, Ahmaud Arbery, 25, GA
Tamir Rice, Laquan McDonald, Korryn Gaines, Philando Castile, Meagan Hockaday, Eric Garner, Deborah Ddanner, Trayvon Martin, Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland. . .this list is endless. This list goes back to the founding of the United States, to the fugitive slave catchers who became the Ku Klux Klan who became the police.
There has never been liberty and justice for all.

Tomorrow, May 31st, the MSU Black Students Union and the Montana Racial Equity Project are demonstrating in solidarity with our black siblings in Minneapolis and all across the nation. We are gathering to be in community, to make our grief and rage public, and to demand that our country live up to its promise of freedom and justice for all. Freedom and justice does not stop at reform. We dream of the abolition of police and prisons.
To our BIPOC siblings in Bozeman, we invite you to join us and lift up your voices. To our white siblings in Bozeman, your silence is deafening. Your absence from this fight is complicity in the violence of white supremacy. We need your solidarity now.
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Logistics:
- We will gather at Bogert Park at 12PM, then march through downtown Bozeman to the courthouse.
- This action will be non-violent. Action Marshalls will be present to de-escalate potentially tense situations and liaison with police.
- Face masks and social distancing outside of your pod is required. This demonstration will not be a vector for COVID-19 which has disproportionately taken the lives of people of color.
- Food will not be provided to make sure to eat beforehand
- Bring your water bottles and stay hydrated because social justice advocacy is thirsty work
- Bozeman BIPOC, bring your full selves, come as you are
- Bozeman white folks, leave your white guilt at home and bring your love as readiness to act
- We will provide signs for participants but if you want to make your own sign(s) please use the following statements:
~Support Black Bozeman~
~End Police Brutality~
~Freedom Over Fear~
~Say Their Names: George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and so on. . .~
~Defund the police, invest in us (*for BIPOC)~
~I Can’t Breathe (*for BIPOC)~
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Join us this Sunday at 12pm to rally for Black Lives in Bozeman. SIGN UP HERE: bit.ly/BLMBozeman