As we process these horrific acts of racism, systemic inequality, and the hopelessness of the current political climate, we reflect on the part Green Bee Botanicals can play. Allyship and anti-racism is active, daily work — racism and white supremacy is everyone’s problem, and we acknowledge our role. So we want to start by sharing three powerful quotes that have given us perspective:
We’ve seen so many resources thrown around on the internet it can feel overwhelming. So we’ve compiled a few good ones here, organized under loose categories.
This is our singular call to action for ourselves and for you:
Share, follow, and/or become a patron of Rachel Cargle’s The Great Unlearn at:
https://www.patreon.com/thegreatunlearn/posts
Rachel is a brilliant activist and academic who has created a self-guided monthly syllabus for you and me to unlearn the racism woven into our society and be a better ally. Please share this widely.
Educate Yourself & Your Friends
A Guide to White Privilege (infographic)
A Timeline of Events that Led Up to the 2020 ‘Fed-Up’-rising
75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
What’s My Complicity? Talking White Fragility with Robin DiAngelo
Closing the Wealth Gap: Financial Literacy in the Black Community
Support Black-owned Businesses
200 Black-Owned Indie Beauty Businesses to Buy From Right Now
Black Female Owned Dispensaries and Delivery Services in the Bay Area
7 Black-Owned Cannabis Brands to Support This 4/20
6 Black-Owned Dispensaries in California
10 Black-Owned Cannabis Brands You Can Support
12 Black-owned cannabis companies to gift
BIPOC and Minority-owned Cannabis Brands to Support
Go Green But Buy Black: 10 Black-Owned Cannabis Companies
By donating to organizations such as @blackvisionscollective, @reclaimtheblock, @NAACP and @lastprisonerproject.
By assisting protesters through organizations such as the National Bail Fund Network and @bailproject.
By uplifting equity organizations in the cannabis industry such as @equityorg, @thesocialimpactcenter, and @cannaclusive.
By educating ourselves via organizations and resources such as @innocenceproject, @npap_nlg, @campaignzero, and @aclu_nationwide.
Report: The War on Marijuana in Black and White
Life for Weed: The Injustice of Cannabis Convictions (video)
Marijuana Record Expungement Movement Growing Rapidly, Report Shows
Here are a few dozen more great Anti-racism Resources, including videos, podcasts, TV shows, films, books, organizations and more compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein in May 2020.
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With unimaginable luck and gratitude, we’re writing to say we’re BACK, BAYBEEE! We’re saying goodbye to state-regulated cannabis and going all-in with phytocannabinoids
Synopsis of the 3-minute, 49-second video clip from “What is the Endocannabinoid System?” aired on PBS by NOVA, the most-watched prime time science series on American television.
Did you know the human body has an endocannabinoid system? And that it helps regulate and balance virtually every other system, function and organ of the body, including your skin?
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