Civil Rights, Racial Justice, and Gun Violence Prevention Organizations Urge Congress to Decouple Police Funding Bills from Assault Weapons Ban and Community Safety Investment Bills

For Immediate Release: July 29, 2022 Press Contact: media@colorofchange.org Civil Rights, Racial Justice, and Gun Violence Prevention Organizations Urge Congress to Decouple Police Funding Bills from Assault Weapons Ban and Community Safety Investment Bills As organizations that have spent years fighting for civil rights, racial justice and the genuine safety that all of our communities deserve, […]

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DEMOCRACY NOW: The Killings in Buffalo NY

Color Of Change President Rashad Robinson is interviewed by Democracy NOW’s Amy Goodman on the racist murders at a grocery store in Buffalo NY earlier this month. Rashad talks not just about the horror of the violence inflicted by the white nationalist shooter, but also how Big Tech could and should be intervening, instead of escalating and amplifying violence like this. He says, “There is a direct thru line between the tech industry’s lack of regulation and the anti-Black violence we saw in Buffalo.” The entire attack was livestreamed on Twitch, and even once removed from that platform, put up on Facebook, where it stayed up because execs insist it doesn’t violate their terms of service.

Watch the whole interview at bit.ly/3Ybmpf5

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BLAVITY: Now It’s Up To Prosecutors To Ensure Pregnancy Outcomes Aren’t Criminalized

Color Of Change’s criminal justice team writes about what we can do in this moment to protect women and access to abortion. Now is the time to fight for reproductive freedom at the state and local levels. The easiest way to do this: ensure DAs don’t prosecute pregnancy outcomes. DAs have the power to sanction arrests and create prison pipelines for abortions, stillbirths, miscarriages and accessing types of care. They also have the power to sidestep criminalization and enforce policies that put women’s well-being first. Since they are elected officials, they report to voters like us who keep them in office. We’ve heard horror stories of women in Texas sent to jail for having abortions and women in Mississippi denied abortions for ectopic pregnancies that would save their lives. It’s time to flex our power by targeting DAs.

Read the full article at https://bit.ly/3OJF1xD

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THE LAURA FLANDERS SHOW: Fighting to Reform Prosecutorial Power After Roe

Sakira Cook, Color Of Change’s interim vice president, appears on the Laura Flanders Show to discuss the immense power of prosecutors to protect women and personal health decisions after the overthrow of Roe v Wade. DAs decide which cases to bring, what charges to make and what sentences to ask for — and whether to prosecute pregnancy outcomes or women seeking abortions in states where it’s been banned. Sakira shares what prosecutors can do, or not do, especially when it comes to implementing new abortion bans. Sakira says, “We have to hold prosecutors accountable, judges accountable, police accountable to a new approach. There is a great responsibility for prosecutors to use their power in a positive way, to divert people away from the criminal legal system, to reduce mass incarceration, and really funnel people out who don’t belong there.”

Watch the segment at
https://youtu.be/K8Q-aEjYxYc

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COLOR OF CHANGE: BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S SAFER AMERICA PLAN PRIORITIZES CRIMINALIZATION OVER COMMUNITY SAFETY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 21, 2022 CONTACT media@colorofchange.org  COLOR OF CHANGE: BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S SAFER AMERICA PLAN PRIORITIZES CRIMINALIZATION OVER COMMUNITY SAFETY Sakira Cook, co-interim vice-president of Color Of Change, issued the following statement following the release of President Biden’s Safer American Plan:  “Black America will not be made safer by the Biden administration’s new Safer […]

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BLAVITY: We’re Demanding Accountability From Big Tech In The Fight For Reproductive Freedom

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, many states have introduced laws to provide financial incentives fo citizens to report people having “illegal” abortions, even those who cross state lines for abortions. This type of legislation combined with easy-to-access, unprotected medical information, like menstruation tracking apps and geotargeted tracing around abortion providers, creates a new danger: digital abortion bounty hunters. Tech companies need to put a stop to it. They have an abundance of data on reproductive health — and they’re not doing enough to protect it, while downplaying privacy slip-ups. There’s too much at stake! We need accountability in the form of policies and promises not to collect personal health information that can be weaponized against women.

Full article available at https://bit.ly/3Ji6wgY

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COLOR OF CHANGE AND THE FREEDOM BLOC LAUNCH PETITION DEMANDING ACCOUNTABILITY FROM AKRON, OHIO LEADERS IN WAKE OF JAYLAND WALKER’S MURDER

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 13, 2022 CONTACT media@colorofchange.org  COLOR OF CHANGE AND THE FREEDOM BLOC LAUNCH PETITION DEMANDING ACCOUNTABILITY FROM AKRON, OHIO LEADERS IN WAKE OF JAYLAND WALKER’S MURDER  NEW YORK — Color Of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization, and The Freedom BLOC, an organization that works to build Black political […]

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COLOR OF CHANGE CALLS ON PROSECUTORS, CORPORATIONS TO PROTECT BLACK PEOPLE FOLLOWING SCOTUS OVERTURNING ROE V. WADE.

For Immediate Release: June 29, 2022 Media Contact: media@colorofchange.org COLOR OF CHANGE CALLS ON PROSECUTORS, CORPORATIONS TO PROTECT BLACK PEOPLE FOLLOWING SCOTUS OVERTURNING ROE V. WADE. Rashad Robinson, president of Color Of Change, issued the following statement. “For the last several days, the vast majority of the country has been responding to the Supreme Court’s […]

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STATEMENT FROM RASHAD ROBINSON, PRESIDENT OF COLOR OF CHANGE, ON DOBBS v. JACKSON WOMEN’S HEALTH ORGANIZATION RULING

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 24, 2022 CONTACT: media@colorofchange.org STATEMENT FROM RASHAD ROBINSON, PRESIDENT OF COLOR OF CHANGE, ON DOBBS v. JACKSON WOMEN’S HEALTH ORGANIZATION RULING  Rashad Robinson, president of Color Of Change, issued the following statement following the overturning of Roe v. Wade  “The Supreme Court’s ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is […]

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MSNBC: Leaked SCOTUS Opinion Draft Is a Warning to LGBTQ+ Americans

Democrats warn that same-sex marriage could be the Supreme Court’s next target after Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion draft on Roe v. Wade is leaked to the public. Color Of Change President Rashad Robinson is interviewed by Jonathan Capehart on how real the threat is against LGBTQ Americans. “Time and time again, this Court and the larger right wing has shown us what their agenda is… This is a larger strategy to both take this country backwards and chip away at all of the rights and hard-earned victories of so many communities. So many issues are on the line here and we can’t fight issue by issue but to build the type of momentum that takes us into elections and beyond.” He adds, “When our backs are up against the wall, we have to fight like it!”

Full interview is available at https://on.msnbc.com/3zpqBgF

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Good Housekeeping and Prevention to Remove Body Mass Index as a Metric for Health in Reporting Across All Platforms

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 7, 2022 MEDIA CONTACT: media@colorofchange.org Good Housekeeping and Prevention to Remove Body Mass Index (BMI) as a Metric for Health in Reporting Across All Platforms Color Of Change partnered with Hearst Magazines’ Good Housekeeping and Prevention to raise awareness of the dangers of relying on BMI and to encourage audiences to focus […]

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COLOR OF CHANGE: CHARGES IN PATRICK LYOYA CASE ARE A FIRST STEP IN ACCOUNTABILITY–– BUT IT’S TIME TO LOOK BEYOND POLICE FOR TRUE SAFETY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 10, 2022 CONTACT: media@colorofchange.org  COLOR OF CHANGE: CHARGES IN PATRICK LYOYA CASE ARE A FIRST STEP IN ACCOUNTABILITY–– BUT IT’S TIME TO LOOK BEYOND POLICE FOR TRUE SAFETY  Rashad Robinson, president of Color Of Change, issued the following statement following the charges in the murder of Patrick Lyoya:  “Patrick Lyoya should […]

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