STATUES IN honor of Confederates and slave owners were largely built during the implementation of Jim Crow laws and the rise of terrorist organizations like the KKK, with the direct intention of spreading fear among Black residents and rewriting American history around the idea of the "Lost Cause."....

And as we know, these monuments continue to be rallying points for the hatred, violence and bigotry.....

As we organize around concrete demands for universal health care, living wages, clean water, against police brutality and more, we can link this to a broader fight to transform society and free it of racism and all oppression.