"Today, June 8, 2020, workers in publishing and media commit to a day of action in solidarity with the uprisings across the United States in response to the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and the many, many others in the long history of Black people murdered by the state. Participants were asked to post an out-of-office message and use this language on social media: Yesterday, at least 1,300 publishing professionals started their workdays by informing their managers that they would be using their personal or vacation time in solidarity with protestors of racial injustice, as part of a collective using the hashtags #PubWorkers4Justice and #PubWorkers4BlackLives, that coordinated the "June 8 Day of Solidarity" event. Real dollars for real people in real communities not so far from home." The racial inequality that also creates an injustice in the food systems, neighborhoods with no grocery stores who depend on their little bodegas, in keeping small businesses down, to the inequality of education, opportunity and political systems that all keep a knee on the neck of people just trying to make it. So, if you marched in a protest this weekend, or donated to a bail assistance program, or posted #blm please consider also thinking deeper than the police brutality issue and talk about the system of racism and inequality that seeps through all layers of society.
Who don't have access to bank loans, or customer support because their customers don't have extra cash, or those businesses who already had crushing debt.
Those run by people who don't have that extra dollar, who don't have the resources to make reopening happen, for whom English isn't a first language to fill out all these forms for reopening or won't get PPP loans, or those businesses that were barely hanging on in these neighborhoods before corona hit. But I'm worried about other small businesses in the Bronx. She's a badass, a self-starter, a PR maven, a mover and a shaker. Bar is the only independent bookstore in the Bronx. "This is one of my favorite and well-worn pieces of clothing, purchased from a special place called The Lit.
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