Our Salem Keizer School Board Leadership must take a stand against white supremacy and white nationalism to protect our BIPOC students and their families. Help us call on SKPS Board Chair Satya Chandragiri and Vice-chair Danielle Bethell to publicly denounce white supremacy and all groups associated with racist and nationalist hate. 

Satya Chandragiri and Danielle Bethell must denounce the Tree Percenters and Proud Boys, now! 

Last week we witnessed the community be terrorized by white nationalist hate groups, Such as The Three Percenters, Proud boys, and others. This weekend Salem was not a safe space for BIPOC and Queer communities. During this nationalist rally, speakers threatened to take armed Proud Boys into our school grounds to replace School Resource Officers, essentially threatening the lives of Black and Brown, and Queer students, and their families.

Vice chair Danielle Bethell and Satya Chandragiri have responsibility to denounce these hate groups and uphold the equity lens. They must show the community that they do not stand with violent hate groups that threaten the safety of our Black and Brown students. 

This year, Bethell and Chandragiri have done the opposite to making our school board an inclusive and welcoming space, by silencing and limiting public testimony, creating more barriers for non- English speaking communities and communities of color.

This time, we ask that they do the right thing and denounce white supremacy and white nationalism.