Black Lives Matter at Work
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MADISON<br />
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Wh<strong>at</strong> Is St<strong>at</strong>e Violence?<br />
Student Labor Action Coalition, USAS Local 1<br />
As a labor-focused organiz<strong>at</strong>ion, SLAC has prioritized <strong>at</strong>tending <strong>Black</strong><br />
<strong>Lives</strong> <strong>M<strong>at</strong>ter</strong> events in Madison, ranging from rallies and protests to<br />
community meetings, and generally organized by Young, Gifted and<br />
<strong>Black</strong>. As an organiz<strong>at</strong>ion focused on economic justice, we know<br />
economic justice and racial justice are tied together. Mass incarcer<strong>at</strong>ion is<br />
a union-busting way to get cheap labor for the wealthiest elites. Poverty<br />
wages for people of color and African-Americans in particular is just<br />
another version of st<strong>at</strong>e violence against <strong>Black</strong> and brown people. As<br />
students, we know th<strong>at</strong> this form of st<strong>at</strong>e violence directed <strong>at</strong> people of<br />
color, alongside others like incarcer<strong>at</strong>ion and murder, contributes to the<br />
lack of diversity <strong>at</strong> our University and the continu<strong>at</strong>ion of the priv<strong>at</strong>iz<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
of our public University into one th<strong>at</strong> is only intended to serve wealthy<br />
white people. Th<strong>at</strong>'s why SLAC is in solidarity with <strong>Black</strong> <strong>Lives</strong> <strong>M<strong>at</strong>ter</strong>.
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