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Dear friends—like everyone in the Twin Cities, we are reeling and heartbroken and sad and angry and all the things. We want #JusticeForGeorge. We want our neighbors and friends to be safe and okay. We want everyone to be shouting together that #BlackLivesMatter 
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The store and our staff are safe, and we're so grateful to the folks who have reached out to check on us. We're okay, and to keep it that way we're going to to be shutting up shop early tonight and sending our staff home. If you want to pick up your books, we'll be here till 3.
We are not sure what tomorrow will look like, for us or for the Twin Cities or for the state. We'll keep you posted with what we know.
In the meantime, if you want to buy a book, we recommend @MoonPalaceBooks. They are working hard to keep the community fed and safe.
In the meantime, if you want to buy a book, we recommend @MoonPalaceBooks. They are working hard to keep the community fed and safe.
As soon as we can, we'll get up a list of books we recommend for this moment. If you need it right away, @librofm has audiobooks of lots of them, and you can choose to support any indie bookstore—including @MoonPalaceBooks—with your purchase.
If you want to help in concrete ways, here are a few orgs and fundraisers that could use your donations:
Bail for arrested protesters: https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/
Rebuild Lake Street small businesses: https://www.welovelakestreet.com/
Bail for arrested protesters: https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/
Rebuild Lake Street small businesses: https://www.welovelakestreet.com/
Support George Floyd's family:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd
https://www.gofundme.com/f/george-floyd-bigfloyd
Street medics: https://www.northstarhealthcollective.org/donate
https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd
https://www.gofundme.com/f/george-floyd-bigfloyd
Street medics: https://www.northstarhealthcollective.org/donate
Food assistance for low-income families whose grocery stores were destroyed:
https://www.loavesandfishesmn.org/
https://www.2harvest.org/ https://thefoodgroupmn.org/
https://www.loavesandfishesmn.org/
https://www.2harvest.org/ https://thefoodgroupmn.org/
Please, please be safe out there, Twin Cities folks. We are holding on to Valerie Castile's words:
Seek justice. Show kindness.
#BlackLivesMatter #JusticeForGeorge
Seek justice. Show kindness.
#BlackLivesMatter
#JusticeForGeorge
Here's our preliminary book list, including some more books for littler kids, as requested. We'll keep adding as we think of things, so please let us know if you spot a book we've missed! https://www.redballoonbookshop.com/black-lives-matter
