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Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un
Salaam Fam,
Remember his name.
His name was Abdirahman Abdi.
His name was Abdirahman Abdi.
For the last week, yet again, we have been in mourning. We have been in mourning because another life was taken from us at the hands of a police. The system continues to target us, criminalize us brutalize us in hostility to our Blackness. To our Muslimness. We mourn for Abdirahman Abdi, publicly lynched by the bare hands of police officers Dave Weir and Daniel Montison from the Ottawa Police.
This Friday, Black Lives Matter Toronto will hold space for our community to come together and honour Brother Abdi through prayer, through the sharing of food, art, and an open healing space.
We will hold one another and love one another in spite of the systems that try to immobilize us and tear us apart. We will survive through love.
EVENT DETAILS:
Date: Friday, August 5, 2016
Time: 5:00pm 9:00pm
Location: North Regent Park Parkette in front Daniels Spectrum
Tentative Event Program:
-5:00pm – 5:15pm – Meet up & opening statements
-5:22pm – 5:40pm – Prayer Asr
-5:45pm – 7:00pm – Programming Performances, Speeches & Islamic Teachings
-7:00pm – 8:30pm – Open Healing Space
-8:37pm – 8:55pm – Closing Prayer Maghrib
This is an open event prioritizing the Somali community. Allies and all in support of Black Lives are welcome!
ACCESSIBILITY:
Somali translation is confirmed, and ASL is pending. Childcare services, food, and transportation support will be provided.
If you have any individual requests for accessibility please email us at info@blacklivesmatter.ca with the subject line: #Abdirahman Abdi Accessibility
#AbdirahmanAbdi #JusticeForAbdirahman
BROADER CONTEXT
It has been a week, and Brother Abdis loved ones are still awaiting answers from the Ottawa Police. From the hospital who collaborated with the police to hide his medical status. From the Special Investigations Unit, who is once again tasked with providing an accountability we know will never come. Once again, little information will be released. The only reason that we have access to the names of Brother Abdis killers are because of the community members who documented this heinous crime with their mobile phones.
In the week since Brother Abdis killing, we have witnessed a similar narrative take place. We saw it with Jermaine Carby. With Kwesi Skene-Peters. With Marc Ekamba. With Andrew Loku. The police are now strategizing and publicizing speculative information in an attempt to demonize Brother Abdis character, to hyperbolize the threat his black body posed, and shape a message box meant to justify the unjustifiable.
Brother Abdi was summarily executed in the streets, with the bare hands of Dave Weir and Daniel Montison, in broad daylight, for all to see.
This was a public lynching.
On Friday, we grieve and pay our respects to a fallen Black soul. We mourn for the incredible loss to the Somali community, and the broader Black community. We mourn.
After, we take action.
Remember his name. His name was Abdirahman Abdi. We are here for Abdirahman Abdi. We are here for all Black lives. We will fight back. And we will win.
In love, rage, and solidarity,
BLMTO
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