[Fdu] JVP statement: Getting Organized in the Wake of Charlottesville

[Cynthia Wright]

  Getting Organized in the Wake of Charlottesville

14 August 2017 Press Release 
<https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/stories/press-release/>

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Jewish Voice for Peace stands unequivocally and emphatically against the 
white supremacy, antisemitism and fascism on display in Charlottesville 
this weekend.  We join the voices of mourning for Heather Heyer, who was 
murdered by one of the white supremacist marchers, and for the full 
recovery of all those injured and traumatized by Saturday’s events.

The events in Charlottesville this weekend showed us the violence of 
white supremacy at its most visceral and blatant. We must work to ensure 
that our sadness and outrage at what happened in Charlottesville this 
weekend fuels us to continue the work to fight the less visible of its 
violent manifestations that harm communities of color everyday.

White supremacy has been ever-present in the history of the United 
States. The overt pronouncements of antisemitism, nazism, and anti-Black 
racism at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville were an appalling 
display of the dangerous ideologies emboldened by the Trump presidency. 
The response of the local and federal government–from the police who 
allowed armed and avowed white supremacists to march unimpeded, to the 
President of the United States, who equated those fighting white 
supremacy with those promoting it–remind us that we must always rely on 
our people and our movements to ensure safety for all people. We must 
confront and challenge state-sponsored and state-tolerated violence at 
every turn. We must get organized.

We honor and are grateful for all those who stood up so bravely against 
the attempt to terrorize Black people, Jews, and communities of color in 
Charlottesville. As a multiracial Jewish organization, we are more 
committed today than ever to help build the numbers of people standing 
up and fighting back. We will keep fighting antisemitism, white 
supremacy and Islamophobia. We will show up for each other wherever we 
need to be.

*To those in our community who are feeling fear we say to you:* you are 
not alone. We are with you, we are here for you. We have each other and 
need each other.

*To those in our community who are feeling despair, we say to you:* We 
are so much bigger, so much stronger, so much more ready and able to 
build the just world we need.

*To those in our community who feel rage, we say to you:* let this lead 
you into the streets, into your power, into communities that will swell 
with love, commitment, resiliency, and a vision of a world redeemed.

*To those of you who are ready to fight we say:* let’s get organized! 
#wearethemajority

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*To join a solidarity demonstration or vigil, search here 
<http://act.indivisibleguide.com/event/stand-in-solidarity-with-charlottesville/search/>. 
To create your own, go here 
<http://act.indivisibleguide.com/event/stand-in-solidarity-with-charlottesville/create/?source=jvp>. 
You can show up in your community with the “We Will Defend Each Other” 
T-shirt. <https://teespring.com/wearethemajority> *

*<https://teespring.com/wearethemajority>
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*To donate to organizing, legal and medical funds see:*

Black Lives Matter- Charlottesville <https://www.paypal.me/blmcville>

Medical fund <https://www.gofundme.com/medical-fund-for-comrades-in-cville>

Legal fund 
<https://fundly.com/solidarity-c-ville-7-8-anti-racist-legal-fund>

Support Heather Heyer’s family 
<https://www.gofundme.com/our-sisters-keeper-heatherheyer>

*To learn more, see our book:*

On Antisemitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice 
<http://onantisemitism.com/>

*Download and share this free poster 
<https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/We-All-Belong-Here-11x17.pdf>:*

<https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/We-All-Belong-Here-11x17.pdf> 

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