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Show up for other communities. Work intersectionally. We are not one-issued communities, nor homogenous groups even amongst Blacks, Latinos, Arabs and South Asians.

Best practices definitely begin with building relationships, and making a commitment to NOT throw other POC under the bus.

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@lsarsour How have MASA communities done that esp around movement to support Black lives?

Root the conversations in practice. Instead of 'we think' or 'we need' it should be 'we do' 'we tried, and this is what we learned'

Organizing events, rallies, conversations about Black Lives Matter in non-Black communities & working towards action.

We need shard analysis and aligned strategies across communities.

@lsarsour Agreed on all points. We have to connect, fight together and commit to getting free together. And be real about what our folks are up against and who the real enemy is.

Yes, @marisa_franco: this work is messy, right?! And that's alright too. We don't have a roadmap, and it's okay to make mistakes.

Its easy on paper, in books. Real time scenarios are more complicated, but I feel thats where we stand a chance for these conversations to go beyond very small groupings of people.

Centering anti-Black racism in conversations w/ Arab and South Asian Muslim communities has been eye-opening and necessary.

@glennharriscsi Glenn - so a set of principles and guidelines around practice, as @marisa_franco and @tia_oso have said?

Truth. We need to take more chances with each other

Trust. Share pain. Get free together and know we can't do it without one another.

@marisa_franco: How do you see multiracial unity playing out in immigrant rts movements? What can we do to fill the gaps?

@glennharriscsi Yes - risks and ... forgive mistakes as we all learn

@tia_oso: Your work at @BAJItweet focuses on bridging relationships b/w immigrants and Black communities. What have been challenges? Successes?

@lsarsour PAIN!!

These are real challenges. CPA in Oakland is an example of sitting with the tension and naming strategies for moving forward.

Challenges are in addressing real tensions and differences, educating folks about one another's struggles. Which is ongoing work, within Black communities and w/other POC.

@glennharriscsi Sometimes, very important to acknowledge the tensions and the flashpoints, rather than gloss over them.

We have had many successes, including the Free the People Caravan @bajitweet #BAJIOAK led. A multiracial campaign that successfully freed a Ghanian Asylum seeker being indefinitely detained.

Flashpoints can be a real opportunity to take on the hard conversations.

Also successful was @bajitweet #TransformationalSolidarity webinar,where hundreds of IR advocates learned about solidarity w/ #BlackLivesMatter Video Available here: www.blackalliance.or...

Immigrant rights has several problems, including anti-blackness. But also, severe partisanship, political opportunism and putting orgl interests over greater good. Can't separate or else it can perpetuate what is causing so much harm for imm cmty.

Racial equity should be a central role of government.

The role of gov’t, educators, stakeholders is to support an inclusive America w theory, empirical evidence, and resources #Destination2043

@glennharriscsi Agreed. We need policy that will correct and repair structural inequity.

Every segment of the society, private and public sector has a role to play to center racial equity.

@glennharriscsi How can government advance racial equity when it also enforces and criminalizes communities of color (as @lsarsour and @marisa_franco would attest)?

We must create a taskforce to review policies and procedures of all govt entities, I guarantee you they don't work from a racial justice framework.

We need fundamental transformation of government.

Is the civil rights framework we have in place enough, @glennharriscsi @lsarsour @thecsi. Because it's an antidote and bandage, but not transformative.

It has to stop! We need our gov't to realize that criminalization of communities is killing us, separating our families and stopping us from succeeding in society.

We need to understand that truly effective gov has to center racial equity. We can't have a succesful democracy with out it.

Our approach has been to push these folks to not just be allies that say they try, but champions who match the courage of communities organizing to change the system.

We need community based solutions that are rooted in restorative justice practices, instead of punitive sentencing.

The current civil rights framework is not enough. We need gov to adopt racial equity in policy, practice, and principle.

I think we have the opportunity to define what it means in 2015 - its multiracial, it centers the most impacted, its radical and transformative. Thats my civil rights movement of now.

@glennharriscsi TRUTH

@lsarsour LOVE this vision.

We need real ownership of gov by communities of color.

Transformation is what is needed. We need to reimagine our world, one that works for all of us.

Also opportunity? Gov is the single largest employer of communities of color in living wage jobs.

@glennharriscsi This arena is one where I think sophisticated inside/outside game is needed.

@marisa_franco Truth. How do we step our game up?

@glennharriscsi @marisa_franco spaces to align that inside/outside stratey for one!

First and foremost we need to encourage radical thinkers & visionaries to run for public office. No more of the same old politicians. We need activists as leaders.

@glennharriscsi That, my friends, is (one of the) question(s).

@lsarsour Yes, and elected officials alone can't change the institution. We also need to operationalize our vision in all gov actions.