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title: Global Pledge In Defense of Black Lives
date: 2020-06-10T02:28:07Z
modified: 2020-06-12T02:26:08Z
permalink: "https://350.org/global-in-defence-of-black-lives/"
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author: Rachel Hubbard
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### IN DEFENCE OF

# BLACK LIVES

### Watch: Why racial justice matters for climate justice

## What are we pledging?

#### Right now, as we are able, we commit to:

- - **Visibly and vocally support** the global movement for Black Lives and its demands, including divestment from police and reinvestment in Black communities.
    - **Show up in support** of Black-led mobilisations and protests in our communities.
    - **Give money and resources** to Black-led organisations to support work for racial justice. ([You can start with this coalition of bail funds and organisers](https://secure.actblue.com/donate/350-bail-funds?refcode=blm-pledge)).
    - **Ask our white and non-Black POC friends, family and neighbours to join us in action**, and take the time to engage them in conversations about why the struggle for racial justice is happening, and critical to all our liberation.

As we continue to fight for climate justice, we commit to ensuring our work addresses the racial injustice that is at the core of the climate crisis. **We will:**

- - **Prioritise Black communities, communities of colour, and Indigenous peoples** that are hardest hit from the COVID-19 pandemic as we respond to the virus.
    - **Demand a [Just Recovery](https://350.org/just-recovery)** that centres racial and economic justice by investing in Black community and worker needs. At the same time, we must defund harm from police, prisons, and the fossil fuel industry that drives climate crisis.
    - **Build a multiracial climate movement** that shows up to defend Black, Indigenous and communities of colour, through campaigns that centre these communities.

With Black lives on the line, whether from police violence or climate catastrophe, there is no time for neutrality. We commit to take action, and to invite our white and non-Black people of colour family, friends, co-workers and neighbours to join us.

[Sign the pledge](#sign)

Written with gratitude for the leaders of the Movement for **Black Lives, Reclaim the Block, Black Visions Collective, and everyone taking the streets** for a more just world for all of us.