To: Governor Doug Ducey
Never Again
Together we can assure that Never Again will we live by the principles that white lives mean more than black, brown or native lives. Or that we will devalue another human being based on how they worship, who they love, what language they speak, where they were born.
Why is this important?
We demand Governor Doug Doucey remove memorials and monuments that pay tribute to the Confederacy immediately and without hindrance.
We implore him to remove and replace the following with plaques that give a true account of what the Confederacy stood for and that Never Again will we devalue and enslave persons based on color of skin or where they or their ancestors were born.
Arizona has six tributes to the confederacy.
Phoenix:
Arizona Confederate Veterans Monument in Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery in Phoenix, erected in 1999 by the Sons of Confederate Veterans
Arizona Confederate Veterans Monument in Wesley Bolin Park, next to the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix, erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy
Sierra Vista: Confederate Memorial in the Historical Soldiers Memorial Cemetery area of the Southern Arizona Veterans' Cemetery in Sierra Vista. The monument was erected in 2010 to honor the twenty-one soldiers interred in that cemetery who served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and later fought in Indian wars in Arizona as members of the U.S. Army.
Tuscon: Sign, plaque and monument which commemorates the Battle of Picacho Pass and in one case only honors the Confederate troops and includes a Stars and Bars flag.
Remove and Replace...NEVER AGAIN!
We implore him to remove and replace the following with plaques that give a true account of what the Confederacy stood for and that Never Again will we devalue and enslave persons based on color of skin or where they or their ancestors were born.
Arizona has six tributes to the confederacy.
Phoenix:
Arizona Confederate Veterans Monument in Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery in Phoenix, erected in 1999 by the Sons of Confederate Veterans
Arizona Confederate Veterans Monument in Wesley Bolin Park, next to the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix, erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy
Sierra Vista: Confederate Memorial in the Historical Soldiers Memorial Cemetery area of the Southern Arizona Veterans' Cemetery in Sierra Vista. The monument was erected in 2010 to honor the twenty-one soldiers interred in that cemetery who served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and later fought in Indian wars in Arizona as members of the U.S. Army.
Tuscon: Sign, plaque and monument which commemorates the Battle of Picacho Pass and in one case only honors the Confederate troops and includes a Stars and Bars flag.
Remove and Replace...NEVER AGAIN!