GET UP STAND UP: NOW
GET UP STAND UP: NOW welcomes people of color from all walks of life to contribute short, personal videos that confront issues of justice and inequality. Your voice is power!
400 YEARS OF INSPIRATION
The CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT inspired every other social justice movement that followed, providing not only the intellectual framework, but the organizational tools that have allowed ordinary people to enact extraordinary change. In this time of nationwide pain and promise, GET UP STAND UP: NOW looks to some of the brightest lights of the movement for inspiration, wisdom and guidance in helping to carry our country to a better, more just, more equitable place…By any means necessary.
CALL TO ACTION
In this year of pain and devastating loss, we the people are still standing. It’s now, while every woman, man, and child with breath in their bodies are restless, activated, and eager for change, that we must continue this fight – this righteous struggle to which John Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr., and so many others devoted their lives.
We must continue fighting not only for ourselves, but for all of our voiceless brothers and sisters who deserve justice. With the names of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and too many others still ringing in our hearts, we must seize this moment of global passion and attention. The momentum is ours. As President Obama reminded us, “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
