We're going LIVE on Facebook in 30 mins! We demand that Southern Governors take action to ensure the health and safety of all before reopening! Hear from our Co-Founders, partners, health experts, and more! Tweet us with the hashtag #HealthOverProfit

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We should not put lives on the line! Tell Southern governors to not prioritize profits over people. We need to work and we need to live without putting our families in danger of contracting this virus. #HealthOverProfits

Read and sign the petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/southern-governors-prioritize-healthoverprofit/

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"We want out Governors all across the deep south to put our health, and our well being, and the holistic needs of our communities over profits" - Ash Lee Woodard Henderson, ED @HighlanderCtr

"What is really important for us now is to be able to get information and organize ourselves." - @MsLaToshaBrown, BVM Co-Founder

"Black and Brown people have been getting impacted more because we are more exposed and less protected when we're in those frontline jobs." - Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones, M.D. #HealthOverProfit #ItsAboutUs

"We have to speak out and say that it is not time to open up . . . This virus is going to affect all of us. We need to make it feasible for as many people as possible to shelter in place." - Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones, M.D. #HealthOverProfit #ItsAboutUs

"We need to get resources and funding into these states. The money is there. We need to have a different approach to testing, the way that we are using test." - Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones, M.D. #HealthOverProfit #ItsAboutUs

"Asymptomatic and symptomatic people need to be tested to stop the exponential spread . . . our people are not disposable." - Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones, M.D. #HealthOverProfit #ItsAboutUs

"The virus itself is ripping through our communities, frontline workers are the evidence as to what's going on." - Clayola Brown, Pres.ident A. Philip Randolph Institute #HealthOverProfit

"There is systemic and intentional discrimination for our communities to be disenfranchised." - Clayola Brown, Pres.ident A. Philip Randolph Institute #HealthOverProfit

"Now is the time for us to lift up those barriers that are intentional. It is time to get angry and to get active. Nobody is coming on a white horse to save us but us." - Clayola Brown, Pres.ident A. Philip Randolph Institute #HealthOverProfit

"We need accurate data as we make the case on all of these issues, we see that lacking in our states." - @cliff_notes, BVM Co-Founder #HealthOverProfit

"55% of the Black population of the United States lives in the South. We don't want to make this problem worse than it already is." - Spencer Overton, President @JointCenter #HealthOverProfit

"We found that there has been a consistent focus on exploiting Black labor and not investing in human beings." - Spencer Overton, President @JointCenter #HealthOverProfit

"This rush to go back to work is built on a premise that our people are replaceable." - Oleta Garrett Fitzgerald, Executive Committee Member, @SRBWI #HealthOverProfit

"These Governors have not instilled in us that they are able to keep our people safe when they go back to work. We have to speak up now for those who can't speak up for themselves." - Oleta Garrett Fitzgerald, Executive Committee Member, @SRBWI #HealthOverProfit

"We know that these Governors are not ready. They weren't ready before the pandemic." - Oleta Garrett Fitzgerald, Executive Committee Member, @SRBWI #HealthOverProfit

"We don't have a vaccine, we don't know what the treatments are - we're sending our people back out there." - - Oleta Garrett Fitzgerald, Executive Committee Member, @SRBWI #HealthOverProfit