Sign the #WeAreOneAmerica Petition: CEOs/Corporate America – Call to Action for Fortune 500 CEOs to pledge $50MM USD or more towards decreasing the disproportionate number of Black Americans killed by law enforcement. Nike, Gucci, Fenty, and others have got us started.  Our corporations can do more! Read below...

The Washington Post published an article in August 2019, “What we’ve learned about police shootings 5 years after Ferguson,” which 1.)illustrates the disproportional data on Black Americans being killed by law enforcement,and 2.) that unarmed Black men are killed 4x more often than any other race (#georgefloyd).

Source:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/08/09/what-weve-learned-about-police-shootings-years-after-ferguson/?arc404=true

We need real and measurable change!

Call to Action: #WeAreOneAmerica Petition (for $50MM USD CEO Fortune 500 Pledge – see below)

#WeAreOneAmerica Pledge: $50MM USD ($100K/per Fortune 500 Company). Funding goes towards NAACP Legal Defense Fund to lobby/drive measurable improvements in the two findings sited above.

Actions:
1.)Fortune 500 Employees: Sign the Petition.  Share this w/your colleagues, organizational executives, and C-Suite. Start the conversation. Ask your organization to pledge $100K by signing the petition.

2.)CEOs: Fund $100K or more towards #WeAreOneAmerica Pledge.

3.)NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Lobby/direct initiatives that improve the findings sited above for ALL people of color. Drive results!

Together, we can do more! #WeAreOneAmerica. Please, support/sign this petition!

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