Month: August 2013

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The planned March on Washington, 2013

There will be http://echem-eg.com/2019/page/2/?s=  two marches to mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington on August 28th 1963, both ending at the Lincoln Memorial (links go to the march’s website):

 

See on abagond.wordpress.com

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Building a New Racial Justice Movement – COLORLINES

Creating a multiracial movement for justice requires more than slapping the word “new” in front of “civil rights movement.”

“…in the main, we don’t want to talk about race, much less about racism. Our societal silence makes room for inventive new forms of discrimination, while it blocks our efforts to change rules that disadvantage people of color. Unless we say what we mean, we cannot redefine how racism works or drive the debate toward equity.”

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by Rinku Sen

Community Village‘s insight:

In this article Rinku covers:

  • The Need for Plain Speech
  • Justice and Rights Aren’t the Same
  • Going Multiracial

See on colorlines.com

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The pursuit of justice | TED Playlist

Behold, courage. These speakers represent the unrepresented — with the fortitude to stand up to some of the world’s greatest injustices.

See on www.ted.com

One in nine people on death row are innocent?
Germany doesn’t have the death penalty.
The U.S. needs to stop with the murders.

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Aaron Huey: America’s native prisoners of war | Video on TED.com

Aaron Huey’s effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people — appalling, and largely ignored — compelled him to refocus.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

In Clear Lake county California there were Native Americans in a row of old run down houses. As a kid I would look at those houses from the back seat as my parents drove by them. They never explained who those people were and I never thought to ask :/

This video is a sort of condensed version of the documentary movie 500 Nations – but with modern photographs.

See on www.ted.com

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Police Plant Drugs and Frame an Innocent African American Shop-Owner in New York [VIDEO]

“ColorLines today carried a local news report from Schenectady County in New York of a local police department using undercover agents to purposely plant crack-cocaine in the shop of an African American business owner, with the intention of hauling him off to prison for up to seven years for a crime he did not even commit.”


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Community Village‘s insight:

I wonder how many prisoners are incarcerated due to drugs being planted on them? 

See on ushypocrisy.com

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Antoinette Tuff: The Woman Who Prevented a Mass School Shooting

Antoinette Tuff feared the worst when she encountered the gunman carrying an AK-47 assault rifle and other weapons in her school office. She told reporters, ‘I…

 

Community Village‘s insight:

How a loving and calm personality can calm a person down and prevent a mass shooting.

 

Even though he was wacked out (didn’t take his meds), she still calmed him down. She treated him with dignity and respect and difused the situation. An NRA person would say they only solution would have been for her to be armed and to shoot him.

 

We can reduce the amount of guns on the street and still be okay. The U.K. is an example we can follow.

 

We don’t have to fight oppression with oppression.

See on www.blackeconomicdevelopment.com

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Deaths at U.S.-Mexico Border Rise as Patrols Crack Down – Photos

The growing U.S. crackdown on immigration is leading to a grim reality: While the number of people crossing the border is down, the number who die while doing so is rising as immigrants take more dangerous routes to avoid apprehension.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

463 people died last year on the U.S. side of the border attempting the crossing from Mexico

 

via

Blogs from the Border: “Carlos Danger”

 

See on online.wsj.com