Donate to the Legal Defense Fund for Justice for Mike Brown :: Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment - Piryx
Please donate to the legal defense fund to help release those arrested in Ferguson protests standing for Justice for Mike Brown!
Since
the killing of Mike Brown, dozens of people have been arrested by the
Ferguson police for participating in protests. This legal defense fund
has been set up to support all people currently in jail.
All
people, regardless of their charges, have a right to legal
representation. We know that currently public defenders are overworked.
If you are a lawyer and are interested in doing support for those
arrested, please email join@organizemo.org. If you are interested in helping with jail support as a volunteer, please email join@organizemo.org. If you know people who are currently in jail, also please email join@organizemo.org.
According
to the law, each person is innocent until proven otherwise; however,
this is not how the system plays out on a day-to-day basis, particularly
for communities of color. Mike Brown’s murder is only the most recent
reminder that the United States criminal justice system is at war with
many of our communities. We see daily that the criminal justice system
impacts people of color much more severely than white people -- in 2012
alone, 313 Black men and women were extrajudicially killed by police, security guards, and vigilantes.
These
deaths are also part of a broader system of exploitation and injustice
under the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC), which has led to the
exponential growth of the United States inmate population and the
influence of private prison corporations that make enormous profits off
of the backs of people of color. Because of the PIC, the United States
houses nearly 25% of the entire world’s prisoners, 60% of whom are
people of color.
One small way that we can fight the PIC is to assert the right of every individual,
regardless of the crime, to proper legal representation and due
process. No matter where you are, this is an immediate and tangible way
that you can stand for justice for Mike Brown and support the members of
the Ferguson community. We cannot afford to wait until this happens
again. Help us take collective action now.
