Last night, civil rights lawyer Larry Krasner won a crucial District Attorney’s race in Philadelphia.

Krasner, who has defended Black Lives Matter activists in court, is on the record saying: ¹

1. “Policing and prosecution are both systemically racist…You have to be willing to study that to know exactly what points need to change. Then you have to be willing to push against it and train against it if you want to change that.”
2. “We need to end cash bail. We need to fix civil asset forfeiture so no one’s property is taken without conviction. We need to decarcerate. We need to stop the death penalty.”
3. “Every study confirms that good public education means less crime and yet we won’t fund public education. We just fund jail cells. That has to stop.”

Larry Krasner gets it. And this is exactly the type of bold, transformative leadership we need if we’re going to fix America’s broken criminal justice system which unfairly targets Black folks and other people of color.

Color Of Change PAC helped Larry Krasner win. During the primary election, we mobilized and trained 50 volunteers in Philadelphia and held two text-a-thons in the city. Together we sent 100,000+ peer-to-peer text messages to Black voters in Philly asking them to vote for Krasner. And he won!

In 2018, we want to do this but at a much larger scale. Color of Change PAC has a plan to flip DA races across the country. Will you contribute?

Yes, I want to help elect more District Attorneys like Larry Krasner across America.

With your donation we will:

1. Train volunteers around the country on how to use technology to mobilize Black voters and our allies
2. Scale up our cutting edge peer-to-peer texting program to turn out voters when it matters
3. Deploy hyper-targeted Facebook persuasion ads. Republicans are already doing this to suppress Black voter turnout. We need the resources to fight back.
4. Scope and build new technology that can help us win even BIGGER in 2018

…and so much more!

Here’s what’s at stake:

Black folks are 5x more likely to be incarcerated than white folks. Black women are imprisoned at the twice the rate of white women. Black children make up almost a third of all children arrested in the United States. Black people are unfairly targeted and over-incarcerated at every level! District Attorneys can help change this.²

District Attorney is one of the most powerful roles in our criminal justice system. They set prosecutor priorities and help shape sentencing. They can either choose to acknowledge that policing and prosecution are systematically racist, and commit to changing this reality – as Larry Krasner has – or run their offices like a sports league where all that matters is maximizing conviction counts

Larry Krasner calls this “a failed approach.” ¹ We believe that America can do better. We believe that America must do better by Black folks and all those unfairly targeted by bad District Attorneys.

Please chip in $20.18 (or another amount) to help transform America’s criminal justice system.

Until justice is real,

Arisha, Jenni, Bhavik, and the rest of the Color Of Change PAC team

Let’s elect Larry Krasners across America!
Sources:

1. https://act.colorofchange.org/go/10219?t=9&akid=8136%2E1174326%2EK0wNsY

2. http://act.colorofchange.org/go/10220?t=11&akid=8136%2E1174326%2EK0wNsY