SISTA Fire RI

SISTA Fire RI

We wrote this open letter in June 2020 to Womxn of Color in Rhode Island, 3 months after RI declared a state of emergency due to COVID-19, and in the midst of the national uprisings against structural racism and the police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and so many of our other Black sibilngs. We wrote this letter to Womxn of Color know that we see them, to acknowledge that our communities were in crisis before the global pandemic, and to ask Womxn of Color to stand with us in demanding divestment from state and local police and the Rhode Island Department of Corrections and reinvestment in the health of our communities, and long term infrastructure.

We would also like to credit SISTA Fire member Selene Means for creating the art piece.

01/10/2021

SISTA Fire RI

Providence; 02909