Month: December 2014

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The revolution will be live-tweeted: why #BlackLivesMatter is the new model for civil rights

 

The events of the past few months, now simply referred to as Ferguson, have touched off nationwide protests of a scale not seen in a half-century. From billboards to T-shirts, protest banners and news headlines – all emblazoned with the words #BlackLivesMatter – we are witnessing the makings of a social movement of the 21st century kind. The revolution that Gil Scot Heron famously said, “would not be televised”, is today, in fact, recorded and tweeted.

 

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Source: www.theguardian.com

 

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How to Use Twitter to ‘Fight the Power’

by Fanshen Cox

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RIP Eric Garner….Artists respond “WE CANT BREATHE”

#WEEKOFOUTRAGE Artists respond to the Murder of Eric Garner. Grand Central Terminal. 12-9-14 NYC

Source: www.youtube.com

 

Remember, all the other officers ALLOWED the illegal choke hold to continue through 11 “I can’t breathe’ statements.

The officers who are hired to serve and protect us are either killing us or ALLOWING others to kill us.

 

#BLACKLIVESMATTER

#ICANTBREATHE

#SHUTITDOWN

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Knox College lifts suspension for player’s Ferguson protest

 

Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, reversed its decision to suspend a women’s basketball player who protested the Ferguson decision right before  a regulation game in St. Louis, County Missouri over the weekend.
“I could not go into that gymnasium and pretend that everything was okay. I could not, in good conscience, I could not play that game,” said Ariyana Smith, a junior from New Lenox, Illinois.

 

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Source: wqad.com

 

These ‘team players’ are the WORST, clueless uneducated about solidarity and uneducated about human rights and uneducated about social justice, college students to not back their Black teammate during the largest Civil Rights protest period since the 1960’s Civil Rights marches.

 

And if her ‘team players’ are not uneducated then they are heartless as hell – I’m calling out both heartless and uneducated.

 

#BLACKLIVESMATTER

#ICANTBREATHE

#HANDSUPDONTSHOOT

#SHUTITDOWN

 

Privileged people who don’t get it are making me sick to my stomach.

 

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MARCH! Dec. 13th 2pm Downtown Santa Rosa! Justice for Andy Lopez! Justice for Mike Brown! Justice for Tamir Rice! Justice for Eric Garner!

 

DEC. 13th @ 2:00pm Downtown Santa Rosa, CA.JOIN ON FACEBOOK!We need to continue to build momentum in struggle for justice for Andy Lopez, Mike Brown,Tamir Rice and all victims of police murder. Join us Saturday 12/13 at 2pm at Old Courthouse Square. We’ll make the short trek to the Santa Rosa Plaza where we will participate in a die in inside the mall in solidarity with Ferguson. After that we will regroup and decide together (on the spot to neutralize police interference) where to march, and YES, we will march. Please invite everybody you can to come! Let’s do this!

 

Source: justicecoalitionforandylopez.com

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Dec 9th, 2014: UNARMED Black man shot by white cop in Orange County, Florida

 

Law enforcement officials told reporters that Chaney had complied with the deputies’ commands, but that Bartee had “extensive furtive movements,” causing McCarthy to fear for his safety and open fire.
One witness questioned why shots had been fired, saying both of the alleged suspects had been complying with the commands.

 

 

“You could see right in the car. Both of them had their hands up and they still shot at the car,” Ernest Miles Jr., told WKMG, adding that he had to take cover in his second-floor apartment.

 

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Source: www.cbsnews.com

 

Is there any movement that a Black or Latino person can make that is not ‘furtive‘?

 

#HANDSUPDONTSHOOT

#BLACKLIVESMATTER

#ICANTBREATHE

#SHUTITDOWN

 

 

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NY Attorney General Asks to Probe Deaths by Police

 

New York state’s attorney general has asked the governor to authorize his office to investigate deaths at the hands of police following the public outcry over the death of Eric Garner on Staten Island.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, in a letter Monday to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, said that authority exists under New York law, has been used in the past, and is needed now because of the “crisis of confidence” in law enforcement.

 

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Source: www.wnyc.org

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Tim Wise Speech – “Racism, White Denial and Criminal Justice: Ferguson and Beyond,” 12/5/2014 – Lexington, KY

 

My keynote speech at the MOSAIIC conference, 12/5/2014 in Lexington KY at the Lyric Theatre, organized by Bluegrass Community and Technical College.

 

Source: oppressionmonitor.us

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Zemir Begic


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Protesters, later on Sunday, tried to block Itaska Street where Begic was killed. On Monday 300 showed up, saying “Bosnian lives matter”. The police, in both cases, did not show up in riot gear with attack dogs. Instead they talked to protesters as if they were human beings, taking their concerns seriously. It can be done.

 

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Source: abagond.wordpress.com