We Stand with Black Lives Everywhere.
"The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use, and it could only be used if they understood what was happening and how group action could counter violence..." -Ella Jo Baker
As healthcare practitioners, we recognize that racism is a public health crisis!
We recognize that Black people are systematically targeted by police and state violence, which is only the current manifestation of a 400 hundred-year legacy of oppression. We envision a world where Black lives are respected, protected and uplifted.
There is much work to be done. At the clinic we are working towards not only holding a safe healing space, but also deepening our commitment to creating a world that is actively and explicitly anti-racist.
To help shift the ground of petrified structures that reinforce institutionalized racism towards more equality and justice, one course of action is to support our allies who dedicate their lives’ work to this end.
In an effort to do our part in supporting Black people in our community, we are permanently donating 10% of our tea sales every month to organizations that support justice and social equity.
The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland co-founded by Van Jones “ works locally, statewide, and nationally to shift resources away from prisons and punishment and towards opportunities that make our communities safe, healthy, and strong.”
Causa Justa in SF and Oakland, is constructing housing and racial justice for Blacks and Latinos and immigrants, doing the ground work towards building a larger movement for social transformation, one person at a time.
World-Trust in Oakland is generating racial equity through film education and dialogue. They “ envision a world coming into wholeness where transformative love and wisdom heal the human family from racism and separation”.
The Anti Police-Terror Project
A Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color.
SoOakland
Local Black org distributing funds to Black-owned businesses that have been damaged.
Black Earth Farms
Local org delivering free food to Black people who have been arrested, bailed, injured, or traumatized during Oakland uprisings.
Oakland Relief Fund for Black and Brown Owned Businesses by Tizzy Haroun
San Francisco National Lawyers Guild (NLG)
Running a hotline to provide pro bono legal support for arrestees in the Bay Area.
Urban Peace Movement
Building youth power in Oakland to increase peace and end mass incarceration.
East Oakland Collective
100% Black-led nonprofit invested in deep East Oakland racial & economic equity.
Shakti Butler, founder of World-Trust recommends two books to read for us to get started in this dialogue :
“The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.”-The New York Times
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
“An irrefutable exposure of racism in thought and action and its call for humility and vigilance.” - The New Yorker
from Yaminah Abdur-Rahim and Rimaq Palma, two of our team members:
Stamped from the Beginning - Ibram X. Kendi
My Grandmother’s Hands - Resmaa Menakem
White like Me - Tim Wise
White Rage - Carol Anderson
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness - Michelle Alexander
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome - Joy DeGruy
These books can be purchased through one of these online Black-owned bookstores.
If they are out of stock, ebooks can be purchased through www.bookshop.org, where the profits from sales can be directed to your bookstore of choice.
Marcus Books
in Oakland is the oldest independent Black owned bookstore in the country!
They are celebrating their 60th anniversary this year!
Let’s support them with our patronage and donations: