Nearly 100 community members were drawn to Swanny City Park last night for a candlelight vigil organized by Moab Pride. The event aimed to hold space for lives lost to police brutality, and create strategies on how this rural Utah town can “do better and be better” for marginalized people and communities. Among solutions, accountability was a priority of many attendees, who called out Moab’s majority white community on individual and systemic racism. Tune in.

Show Notes:

Moab Pride Candlelight Vigil Organizers Meeting www.facebook.com/events/236208157…e_tab=discussion

George Floyd protests en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floy…otests_elsewhere

Annual Demographic Profile: Grand County jobs.utah.gov/wi/data/library/de…edemographics.html

Black Lives Matter Moab (local demonstration info) www.facebook.com/groups/585795275672019/

Black Lives Matter Utah www.blacklivesmatterutah.com

The BIPOC Project: A Black, Indigenous, & People of Color Movement www.thebipocproject.org

Seek Collective: Resources for Anti-Racist Action www.seekcollective.com/blogs/stories…racist-action

Justice in June, Learn How to be An Active Ally of the Black Community docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1H…N1gtnP7qU1h5Tok4Y