Plant Love Stories (PLS) is a movement to share love of plants and people. We stand with the protesters demanding an end to police violence against the Black community and institutional racism.
Black. Lives. Matter.
We have found the following resources helpful and are sharing them to encourage the Plant Love Stories community to get involved. The only way the system will change is if we make it.
Listen to Black people by following #BlackBirdersWeek #BlackInNature #BlackInSTEM #blackAFinSTEM (@BlackAFinSTEM) on your social media accounts
Amplify Black voices by retweeting and sharing Black voices on social media, signing petitions, texting or calling political and police leaders. Black Lives Matters provides links of many Ways to help
Learn more about racism and talk with your community. Here are anti-racist books for all ages like these listed by Brain Lair Books, a Black- female-owned independent bookstore.
If you are able, donate money to Black-led organizations fighting for racial justice.
Here is a longer list of resources by Lakshmi Batachari