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Delegation Of Grieving Mothers Tells Congress What It’s Like To Lose A Son due to Police Brutality & Excessive Force

On Wednesday, a group of nine African American women, called the Delegation of Grieving Mothers, went before the House Judiciary committee to discuss what it meant to lose their sons to violence at the hands of police.

Tressa Sherrod, mother of John Crawford; Wanda Johnson, mother of Oscar Grant; Valerie Bell, mother of Sean Bell and a number of other mothers who have experienced the impact of police brutality and the use excessive force were also in attendance.

Source: thoughtprovokingperspectives.wordpress.com

 

#BLACKLIVESMATTER

#HANDSUPDONTSHOOT

#ICANTBREATHE

 

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#WhiteCoats4BlackLives: Medical Students Stage Nationwide Protests Against Police Brutality

 

Medical students from more than 70 schools on Wednesday protested racial profiling and police brutality through the social media initiative #WhiteCoats4BlackLives.
Hundreds of medical students wore white coats at “die-ins” and other protests on campuses to spotlight racial bias as a public health issue.
The medical students joined others who have demonstrated since grand juries in Ferguson, Missouri, and in New York City declined to indict white police officers in the killings of unarmed black men. Some of the protests have involved students, including those in high schools, colleges and Ivy league schools.

 

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

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

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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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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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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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Pay Reparations 2.0

 

Every penny donated here will be paid straight back as reparations.

Who whould collect reparations?

  • African Americans
  • Native Americans
  • Latinos of Amerindian heritage

Thank you to Thank you to Damali Ayo for her genius work, Reparations Day.

Source: www.youcaring.com

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Motorist hits crowd members, pulls gun at Central West End protest

 

A motorist pulls his gun and keeps an eye on protesters who just broke out the rear window of his minivan along Euclid Avenue on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. The motorist had struck protesters at the intersection of Euclid and Maryland Avenue about 80 yards before he was stopped by other protesters who chased him and surrounded his vehicle. Photo By David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com

 

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Source: www.stltoday.com

 

Instead of joining the protest, this White man runs into the protesters and then pulls out his gun.

 

#DontSayItsNotAboutRace #iCANTBREATH #HANDSUPDONTSHOOT #SHUTitDOWN