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"Remaining Awake During a Great Revolution"
- MLK
"Remaining Awake During a Great Revolution"
- MLK
Our beloved Congresswoman is part of a collective body that is doing nothing to move us forward . Our distinguished 34 year incumbent isn't even ready to say ceasefire in Palestine where over 10k children have been murdered. That type of callousness makes child poverty 2x the national average & the fact DC is the most dangerous city in
Our beloved Congresswoman is part of a collective body that is doing nothing to move us forward . Our distinguished 34 year incumbent isn't even ready to say ceasefire in Palestine where over 10k children have been murdered. That type of callousness makes child poverty 2x the national average & the fact DC is the most dangerous city in America for a Black woman to give birth tolerable. If DC was a state, it would have been the most violent state in America in 2022. Even with that dubious distinction, the Opiod Crisis has claimed more than 2x the lives that violence has but no emergency legislation from current leadership has addressed this epidemic. Nor the fact that at one point DC had displaced more Black people than NYC. The average White family in DC has 81x the wealth of the average Black family.
"We have a lot of people representing us, but we have very little serving us." - Essence magazine
March 11th, 2024
PRESS:
"Kymone Freeman announces run," The Washington Informer, Jan 16, 2024
DC Delegate Candidate in General Election
Washington Informer, March 20, 2024
Kymone Freeman has dedicated himself to serving the DC community for many years. From organizing the Black L.U.V. Festival in 1997 which became the largest AIDS Mobilization in the city for
PRESS:
"Kymone Freeman announces run," The Washington Informer, Jan 16, 2024
DC Delegate Candidate in General Election
Washington Informer, March 20, 2024
Kymone Freeman has dedicated himself to serving the DC community for many years. From organizing the Black L.U.V. Festival in 1997 which became the largest AIDS Mobilization in the city for 6 years when DC had 12x the national infection rate largely due to the lack of voter representation. Congress barred DC from using it's own money to fund needle exchange programs that were responsible for over 30% of new cases. He established We Act Radio in 2011 which is now an award winning anchor institution in Anacostia & recognized as the Best Social Justice station in DC by the Washington City Paper in 2017. He is a founding board member of the Douglass Community Landtrust in 2018, addressing gentrification & displacement.
The DC Delegate's seat "doesnβt belong to any specific person," and it's time for leadership that will "broaden democracy." Kymone "will fight for us to have a vote in the House at the least and [ultimately] statehood"
-- Lisa D.T. Rice, quoted in The Washington Informer
Rice is ANC 7B07 and proposer of Initiative 83 (Ranked Choice Voting -- more below).
The late Dorothy Irene Height, a mentor to both Eleanor Holmes Norton & Kymone Freeman, supported the self-determination of DC residents & Palestinians. She lead two delegations to the World Conference on Racism in South Africa in 2001 where both US & Israel walked out.
The Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act in 1986 addressed racial segregation and oppression in South Africa. But Congress has not yet taken any steps to address legal segregation in Israel and the Occupied Palestine and the need for Palestinian self-determination.Failure of the US to speak out on violation of Palestinian human rights helps perpetuate those harms, endangers Palestinian Americans, and contributes to dehumanizing views and oppression in this country.
From 2018 up until the pandemic, Freeman and Spatz, a white Jewish woman from Ward 6, participated in Cross River Dialogue, meetings where Black, non-Jewish residents from east of the Anacostia River and white Jewish residents from west of Rock Creek Park engaged in thought-provoking discussions. "Anyone who tries to say certain things about Israel or Jewish involvement in politics gets labeled as antisemitic. Weβre becoming more and more fascist by the minute. Kymone could draw some attention to the way our country is settling into shutting people down.β
-- Virginia Spatz, quoted in The Washington Informer
Spatz is Ward 6 voter
DC's VOTE in Congress
DC's Delegate has in the past been allowed to vote on committee matters, including in Committee of the Whole.
RANKED CHOICE VOTING
Make All Votes Count: Initiative 83 and background
NPR's "Explainer" on RCV nationwide
US House Res 786, calling for an immediate deescalation and cease-fire in Israel and occupied Palestine, has only 18 co-sponsors , not including our current Delegate.
The US stands apart from substantial global majority -- 153 of 193 in the UN -- supporting peaceful resolution. Many leaders in- and outside Jewish communities around the world believe the current violence only endangers Israeli hostages held by Hamas.
"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I can no longer accept."
- Dr. Angela Y. Davis
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