Black Lives Matter at Work

WHAT IS COLLECTIVE LIBERATION?
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oppression, how economic, political, and social factors uphold these
chains of oppression, and how to utilize disadvantages for our own
betterment.
Seeing that our world is a caucus of its own for privileged identities, we
elect caucus co-chairs to lead discussions for womyn, people of color,
queer, non-binary, and trans folks, queer trans people of color, working
class people, disabled folks, and mix race-identifying folks. We do this to
keep our organization in alignment with equal opportunities for
leadership for marginalized people and critical analysis and critique of
USAS’s inclusion. Further, we run solidarity campaigns to put our
principles into action. We often quote the late and great activist and
organizer, Fannie Lou: “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.”
Labor activists and the Movement for Black Lives need to feed these
principles and practices to all people, to our organizing and to our lives.
To get the world to see that Black lives matter, to see that we cannot
survive on poverty wages, and to see that unions matter, we cannot be
the only people saying so. The whites living in the same projects and
being paid the same poverty wages need Collective Liberation. Including
people of color, women, trans, queer, working class and disabled folks’
labor and lives amplifies our fight. We have to connect our oppressions
over fences of privilege. Marginalized folks have to recognize other
marginalized folks. We cannot afford to participate in the oppression
olympics anymore. We are all struggling under the same system that
holds a single bottom line over us: exploitation. We have to give one
another equal respect and concern. Labor is the cornerstone of all lives,
be it a privileged or working class one.