An amateur photographer from Baltimore is being celebrated for his photos taken during the recent demonstrations in the name of Freddie Gray. His images are so touching, in fact, that the 26-year-old’s work is featured on the latest cover of TIME Magazine.
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Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA is co-founder of the Stop Mass incarceration Network. Here he was speaking at a rally on May Day, 2015 held by the ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union) following a shut down of ports in the San Francisco Bay Area in protest of Police Terror.
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Kevin filmed Freddie Gray’s fateful arrest, capturing the last moments before a “rough ride” snapped his spine at the hands of Baltimore PD.
Tonight, Kevin Moore and two members of Cop Watch from Ferguson, Missouri – Chad Jackson and Tony White – were arrested tonight, in Baltimore.
Kevin Moore’s footage of Baltimore Police’s actions that day went viral, touching off protests for a week in Baltimore prior to Freddie’s funeral, and have begun sweeping the nation since then.
Kevin claimed that the police had been harassing and intimidating him after he went public with the footage.
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When Baltimore police broke Freddie Gray’s neck, the president said nothing.
When the police, who had arrested Freddie Gray for running, would not arrest anyone for killing him, the president said nothing.
When the police would not say who killed him or how, the president said nothing.
When the people of Baltimore protested, day after day, the president said nothing.
When some protesters broke car windows and shop windows, the president said nothing.
But when people in West Baltimore rioted, robbing and burning a CVS pharmacy, owned by the 12th largest company in the country, a White-owned business, the president spoke out.
He called what the rioters did “violence”, but not what the police did.
He called the rioters “thugs”, but not the police.
As if the rioters had killed someone, not the police.
As if it was the CVS pharmacy that could never be brought back, not Freddie Gray.
The president said the “violence” was “counterproductive”. He, the Drone Master himself. He who helps Israel bomb women and children.
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In a capitalist country, what is the best way to get the attention of those in charge?
PS – President Obama called those who started the fires in Baltimore ‘thugs’. Shame on him. No human is a thug. Civil rights activists know we the disenfranchised and disrespected are being pushed into a corner and are crying out. The president has not called the police ‘thugs’ for killing #FreddieGray
Thug is the new n-word.
The word ‘thug’ is dehumanizing, just like the n-word.
Drop the t-word
Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA and a co-founder of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network speaks out in Baltimore against the police murder of Freddie Gray and the larger genocide this is part of.
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genocide
The National Guard was unleashed on Baltimore yesterday to quell unrest following the funeral of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, who died of injuries sustained in police custody. On 12 April, Gray was pinned to the pavement by officers before being loaded into a police van. When he was taken out of it his spine was ‘80 per cent severed’, according to the family’s lawyer. He spent a week in a coma and died on 19 April.
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The acquittal of Rekia Boyd’s killer and the mysterious death of Freddie Gray in custody outraged protesters as police credibility is further damaged nationally.
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#BlackLivesMatter
Let us not forget that over the last year more people of color [black people] have been killed by the police indiscriminately than at anytime in recent memory. Some compare it to “lawful lynchings” only through the use of a gun. More than six months after Michael Brown was killed by Officer Darren Wilson, the youth-led protests in Ferguson continue to fuel a national movement against police brutality. #blacklivesmatter
“Part of the struggle for us in Ferguson is to break a four-hundred-year belief that black people are not human,” says St. Louis native and activist Rev. Osagyefo Sekou.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The heat over Indiana’s new religious objections law spread Friday across social media and to the White House as many local officials and business groups around the state tried to jump in and stem the fallout.
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Ferguson and Beyond: Race, State Violence, and Activist Agendas for the 21st Century
Panel: #Blacklivesmatter: A Universal Call for Social Justice
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