[TYPES/announce] Shut Down PL

[Talia Ringer]

In the United States, the most recent murders of Black people at the hands
of police have prompted international protest that has itself been met with
further police brutality—the latest manifestation of a centuries-old
history of violence and oppression. We in the global programming languages
community acknowledge that every institution in our society is built on a
foundation of white supremacy—and our academic systems and research
industry are no exception. We have the strongest moral imperative to act
not just in this particular moment of political turmoil and uncertainty,
but in lasting, sustainable ways to permanently transform our institutions
against the systemic racism from which they benefit and which they
perpetuate.
Join Us: Register Here <https://shutdown-pl.com/>

On this *Wednesday, June 10, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm PDT*, we join in the
movement to #ShutdownSTEM <https://www.shutdownstem.com/> for a global
#Strike4BlackLives <https://twitter.com/hashtag/Strike4BlackLives>. We call
on anyone in the global programming languages community to come listen,
work, and plan to actively reject racism from the systems we create and the
systems within which we exist. We know that one day of action is not
enough: our goal is to both achieve small immediate change, and to
facilitate the planning of broader systemic change across the world of
programming languages research.

We will be holding a virtual day of conversation and focused group action.
We encourage you to attend for all or most of the day, but we will be happy
to welcome you if you can only be there some of the time. Our schedule
(subject to change at the desire of participants):

10:00 - 10:30 PDT: Introduction, opening, setting intentions
10:45 - 12:00 PDT: Break into smaller self-determined groups
12:30 -  1:00 PDT: Progress check-in, discussion
1:15  -  2:30 PDT: Second round of focused small group work
2:30  -  3:00 PDT: Closing discussion

We want to note: both of the organizers of #ShutdownPL (Talia and Kenny)
are white, and we do not want to demand labor of Black voices on a day that
is focused on sustainable allyship. However, the last thing we want is a
day of non-Black researchers speaking for and taking actions on the behalf
of Black researchers without their input. Accordingly, we will ensure all
our commitments to act begin from a place of listening to the Black
community within and beyond programming languages research.

Looking forward to seeing you there,

Kenny Foner <https://very.science/>, Talia Ringer
<https://tlringer.github.io/>, et. al.
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