Black lives have always mattered
In the days following the murder of George Floyd, my friends and I on the Steering Committee of Weaving for Justice joined organizations throughout the world to express our solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. On June 3rd we posted the following words on the Weaving for Justice Instagram page (https://www.instagram.com/p/CA-l5NwAuU1/) We continue to post inspirational quotes from individuals standing up for justice in the U.S. and Chiapas, Mexico on Instagram.
Weaving for Justice stands in Solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and with all people protesting the brutal legacy of racism in the United States.
Black lives have always mattered, as Abiodun Oyewole, founder of the Last Poets reminds us.
So have the lives of the Maya weavers of Chiapas.
The liberation of the Maya people of Chiapas is bound with that of the Black people of our nation. It is bound with the non-Maya and non-Black members of our organization.
None of us is free until we are all free.
