Host: Take Em Down Nola
Location: Lafayette Square: S Maestri Pl, New Orleans, LA 70130
Plea after plea, request after request, statement after statement.
The people of New Orleans have made it clear that symbols to white supremacy (mediocrity and inferiority) that clearly represent systems to white supremacy (mediocrity and inferiority) are no longer welcome in New Orleans. But it appears that the elected officials want to not talk about their support in the middle of uprisings across the country, while simultaneously taking minimal action.
The demands are clear:
Demand 1: Release an immediate timeline to remove ALL symbols to white supremacy, which includes the street names, school names, monuments and parks.
Demand 2: The city needs to follow a community driven process for any replacement monuments/symbols in the city.
Demand 3: Enact Take Em Down NOLA’s ordinance now, that demands only confederate symbolism be removed. When we say ALL symbols to white supremacy need to be removed, we mean all. This includes all racist, slave owning, genocidal symbols of exploitation and oppression.
Demand 4: Because we know that symbols to white supremacy represent SYSTEMS to white supremacy, we demand that the police be abolished. Flip the budget, and instead of investing in police and jails, invest in the people (children/families/LIVING wage job development).
It's time that they be met, once and for all!
At a press conference earlier this month, we declared that the city should release this timeline by the end of the month.
Hundreds of people wrote statements in support of these demands during the last city council meeting, and all the city council did was vote in favor of another committee to "take a look" at what we already know, and examine how to proceed with Jefferson Davis Pkway, which should have already been removed when the statue was taken down.
This is not time to piecemeal this thing! Take ACTION!
When the elected officials take too long to care for the demands of the people, it leaves the people to find ways to meet those demands for self!
This is the will of the people, and self-determination of a people will not be silenced.
Meet us in the streets for this action!
This rally will be followed by a march.