Date: Tuesday, June 16
Time: 5:30pm - 6:15pm PST
Platform: Zoom (download and install Zoom before the session)
NOTE: If you are a Non-ASL user, please purchase your ticket 3 days in advance, so I can find an interpreter for you.
**PLEASE READ BELOW BEFORE PURCHASING!**
For this week's online meditation group, instead of paying me, please donate your $5 (or more) to an organization supporting #BlackLivesMatter, racial justice, police reform, or PIC (Prison Industrial Complex) abolition. If you donate to an organization not listed below, please make sure their goals are focused on supporting the above.
Once you donate, please email matt@wellbeingwithmatt.com a screenshot or copy of your receipt proving your donation. You don't need to share how much you donated :)
I donated to Critical Resistance for this meditation.
Each organization's mission statement along with a direct donation link is listed below:
Bail Project
Select Here For Direct Donation Link
The Bail Project, Inc. is a non-profit organization designed to combat mass incarceration by disrupting the money bail system ‒ one person at a time.
We believe that paying bail for someone in need is an act of resistance against a system that criminalizes race and poverty and an act of solidarity with local communities and movements for decarceration. Over the next five years, The Bail Project will open dozens of sites in high-need jurisdictions with the goal of paying bail for tens of thousands of low-income Americans, all while collecting stories and data that prove money bail is not necessary to ensure people return to court. We won’t stop until meaningful change is achieved and the presumption of innocence is no longer for sale.
Color Of Change
Select Here for Direct Donation Link
Color Of Change is the nation’s largest online racial justice organization.
We help people respond effectively to injustice in the world around us. As a national online force driven by 1.7 million members, we move decision-makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people in America.
#BlackLivesMatter
Select Here for Direct Donation Link
#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer.
Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives.
Campaign Zero
https://www.joincampaignzero.org/
Select Here for Direct Donation Link
Campaign ZERO was developed with contributions from activists, protesters and researchers across the nation.
This data-informed platform presents comprehensive solutions to end police violence in America. It integrates community demands and policy recommendations from research organizations and President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing. Together, we will win.
Critical Resistance
http://criticalresistance.org/
Select Here for Direct Donation Link
Critical Resistance’s vision is the creation of genuinely healthy, stable communities that respond to harm without relying on imprisonment and punishment.
We call our vision abolition, drawing, in part from the legacy of the abolition of slavery in the 1800s. As PIC (Prison Industrial Complex) abolitionists we understand that the prison industrial complex is not a broken system to be fixed. The system, rather, works precisely as it is designed to—to contain, control, and kill those people representing the greatest threats to state power. Our goal is not to improve the system even further, but to shrink the system into non-existence. We work to build healthy, self-determined communities and promote alternatives to the current system
HEARD - Helping Educate for to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities
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HEARD’s work has radically shifted since its creation in 2011.
Our current mission, vision, values are not reflective of our current work which is much more broad and pushing back against all forms of systemic and structural violence and oppression. We have grown into an police and prison abolitionist organization due to the immense harm created by the carceral system on marginalized and oppressed communities including deaf/disabled communities. We also have moved beyond a single-issue struggle framework because we know that anti-ableism and anti-audism advocacy alone will not liberate our communities.
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Join in for an evening group meditation lead visually in American Sign Language (ASL) by me! I will cover different topics such as anxiety, letting go, focus, relationships, and more!
All information will be emailed before or on the day of the session.
This open to all - ASL users and non-ASL users. I will lead the session in a way that everyone can understand. So please join us!