Austin Council Candidates Participate In Forum Tackling Racism

Tony Cantu
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AUSTIN, TX — Austin City Council candidates will participate in a virtual forum on institutional racism on Monday.

This conversation with candidates will focus on issues of policing, gentrification and funding, officials said in an advisory. Specifically, candidates will be asked to discuss their commitments to the RISE (COVID relief) fund, development of the Austin Equity Office, funding for Austin Public Health, and access to low-income housing.

Organizers include Undoing White Supremacy Austin, Grassroots Leadership and Communities of Color United. The forum is designed to let members of the public hear from the candidates ahead of the Nov. 3 election. The forum will convene via Zoom: https://grassrootsleadership.zoom.us/j/96009543832, and via Facebook Live.

Confirmed candidates include:

  • District 2 candidates David Chincanchan, Vanessa Fuentes, and Alex Strenger.

  • District 4 candidates Greg Casar (incumbent), Ramesses Setepenre II, and Louis C. Herren III.

  • District 6 candidate Jimmy Flannigan (incumbent).

  • District 7 candidates Leslie Pool (incumbent) and Morgan Witt.

  • District 10 candidates Alison Alter (incumbent), Pooja Sethi, and Ben Easton.

WHAT: Candidate forum.

WHO: Grassroots Leadership, Communities of Color United, Undoing White Supremacy Austin, candidates from Districts 2, 4, 6, 7 and 10.

WHEN: Monday, Oct. 12, at 5 p.m.

WHERE:https://grassrootsleadership.zoom.us/j/96009543832.

About Grassroots Leadership

Grassroots Leadership is an Austin, Texas-based national organization that works for a more just society where prison profiteering, mass incarceration, deportation, and criminalization are things of the past. Follow @Grassroots_News.

About Communities of Color United for Racial Justice

The group is a collective of individuals and community-based organizations working to advance racial justice, build community and solidarity across communities of color, and support collective self-determination.

About Undoing White Supremacy Austin

This is a group of white-indentified Austin residents who work within to undo racism in many ways, including educating ourselves on racial oppression, mobilizing other people of European descent to dismantle white supremacy, and supporting social justice organizing led by people of color communities, including indigenous people. For more information, click here.

This article originally appeared on the Austin Patch