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Movement for Black Lives
The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) is a coalition of more than 50 groups representing the interests of Black communities across the United States. Members include the Black Lives Matter Network, the National Conference of Black Lawyers, and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. They are endorsed by groups such as Color of Change, Race Forward, Brooklyn Movement Center, PolicyLink, Million Women March Cleveland, and ONE DC, and the coalition receives communications and tactical support from an organization named Blackbird.
On July 24, 2015 the movement first convened at Cleveland State University where between 1,500 and 2,000 activists gathered to participate in open discussions and demonstrations. The conference initially attempted to "strategize ways for the Movement for Black Lives to hold law enforcement accountable for their actions on a national level". However, the conference resulted in the formation of a much more significant social movement. At the end of the three days conference, on July 26, the Movement for Black Lives initiated a year long "process of convening local and national groups to create a United Front". This year long process ultimately resulted in the establishment of an organizational platform that articulates the goals, demands, and policies for which the Movement for Black Lives supports in order to achieve the "liberation" of black communities across America. Following the murder of George Floyd, M4BL released the BREATHE Act ,which called for sweeping legislative changes surrounding policing. The policy bill included calls to divest from policing and reinvest funds directly into community resources and alternative emergency response models. In 2020, the Movement for Black Lives released policy demands in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Movement for Black Lives was described by Deva Woodly,a Professor of Politics at The New School, during the George Floyd protests as "an umbrella organization that consists of a coalition of movement organizations across the nation" which allowed people to "connect the dots between the symptoms of the present crisis and their structural causes."
The movement's platform, published in August 2016, entitled A Vision for Black Lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom and Justice, has six demands:
M4BL believes that reparations are a possible and credible goal, precedented by reparations paid to African-American farmers in 2012.
Movement for Black Lives supports prison abolition, having issued a statement calling for an "End to All Jails, Prisons, and Immigration Detention".
In 2023-2024, it released the statement "we demand an immediate ceasefire and end to the U.S.–backed occupation of Palestine," committing to resisting the genocide of Gaza."
Shortly after the movement published its platform in 2016, 50 organizations had registered their support. One major endeavor was the establishment by philanthropic organization Borealis Philanthropy of the Black-Led Movement Fund (BLMF). Designed to support the work of M4BL, the BLMF is both a pooled donor fund aiming to bring $100 million to the movement and an initiative aimed at helping the movement build organizational capacity.
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Movement for Black Lives
The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) is a coalition of more than 50 groups representing the interests of Black communities across the United States. Members include the Black Lives Matter Network, the National Conference of Black Lawyers, and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. They are endorsed by groups such as Color of Change, Race Forward, Brooklyn Movement Center, PolicyLink, Million Women March Cleveland, and ONE DC, and the coalition receives communications and tactical support from an organization named Blackbird.
On July 24, 2015 the movement first convened at Cleveland State University where between 1,500 and 2,000 activists gathered to participate in open discussions and demonstrations. The conference initially attempted to "strategize ways for the Movement for Black Lives to hold law enforcement accountable for their actions on a national level". However, the conference resulted in the formation of a much more significant social movement. At the end of the three days conference, on July 26, the Movement for Black Lives initiated a year long "process of convening local and national groups to create a United Front". This year long process ultimately resulted in the establishment of an organizational platform that articulates the goals, demands, and policies for which the Movement for Black Lives supports in order to achieve the "liberation" of black communities across America. Following the murder of George Floyd, M4BL released the BREATHE Act ,which called for sweeping legislative changes surrounding policing. The policy bill included calls to divest from policing and reinvest funds directly into community resources and alternative emergency response models. In 2020, the Movement for Black Lives released policy demands in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Movement for Black Lives was described by Deva Woodly,a Professor of Politics at The New School, during the George Floyd protests as "an umbrella organization that consists of a coalition of movement organizations across the nation" which allowed people to "connect the dots between the symptoms of the present crisis and their structural causes."
The movement's platform, published in August 2016, entitled A Vision for Black Lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom and Justice, has six demands:
M4BL believes that reparations are a possible and credible goal, precedented by reparations paid to African-American farmers in 2012.
Movement for Black Lives supports prison abolition, having issued a statement calling for an "End to All Jails, Prisons, and Immigration Detention".
In 2023-2024, it released the statement "we demand an immediate ceasefire and end to the U.S.–backed occupation of Palestine," committing to resisting the genocide of Gaza."
Shortly after the movement published its platform in 2016, 50 organizations had registered their support. One major endeavor was the establishment by philanthropic organization Borealis Philanthropy of the Black-Led Movement Fund (BLMF). Designed to support the work of M4BL, the BLMF is both a pooled donor fund aiming to bring $100 million to the movement and an initiative aimed at helping the movement build organizational capacity.