Policy Overview: Right To Breathe Policies to Ensure Safety and Respect for Black People
Communities that adopt these policies recognize Black People’s unalienable Right to Breathe. If communities refuse to adopt these policies, clear public warnings will be issued to the Black community, other People of Color, and community at large that the specific community does not recognize Black people’s Right to Breathe. It is a matter of life and death that these policies be adopted or Black people be warned against living, working, shopping, and traveling to communities that cannot guarantee a Right to Breathe. We must hold municipalities and their police departments, school districts, employers, and retailers accountable for implementing and enforcing Right To Breathe policies to ensure Black people are safe and respected.
Right To Breathe Policies
Purpose: Ensure safety and respect for Black People
Core Principles: Abolishing systemic Anti-Blackness to ensure equal justice. Oversight and accountability through equitable, shared decision-making – nothing about us without us. De-escalation of encounters with people enforcing laws and rules against Black people.
Domains:
Municipal government
Law enforcement
School districts
Employers
Retailers and other public accommodations
Community education and communication
