Cleveland, Ohio – As the riots and police state presence in Ferguson has taken center stage in the news, people in Cleveland protested the killing of a local 12-year-old boy, and also showed their support for the Michael Brown family as well. Young Tamir Rice was shot and killed by a cop this past Saturday, because…
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The Sand Creek Massacre (November 29th 1864) took place in Colorado, then a western territory of the US, now a state. US Army Colonel John Chivington had at least 105 women and children and 28 men …
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Connecting the dots between historic oppression, and murder to modern day oppression, and murder.
What’s in common: Euro-Americans oppressing in the past and now. Euro-Americans not punished for murdering in the past and now.
Sharon Chang discusses a social media campaign as a response to the death of Michael Brown and so many black lives unjustly lost.
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Make sure to check her Storify.
In an announcement today, the White House has pledged $263 million in new federal funding for police training and body cameras, set aside by executive order. The money includes $75 million allocated specifically for the purchase 50,000 cameras for law enforcement officers across the country.
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It’s about time. Now we need a law that the police must use the cameras, and a stiff penalty if they do not.
We have seen their faces, heard their names, another senseless loss of life. Gone before their time and all for holding a “toy”. As you will see I use “s” when referring to these “toys”. What I’m talking about are air soft and BB guns/rifles. This is the story of 3:
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Dornnella Conner was inspired this week to travel to Ferguson, Missouri and join along in the ongoing protests there against police brutality in the wake of the non-indictment of Darren Wilson who killed Michael Brown.
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Remembering Black Lives Unjustly Lost http://t.co/vEAHgg5NcF cc @NotAllBhas @getgln @SeouljaboyPark @arjunsethi81 pic.twitter.com/T1GER1Pj67
— Sharon H Chang (@multiasianfams) November 26, 2014
A Cleveland police officer shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice about two seconds after the officer and a partner pulled up.
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Does the police car not have bullet proof glass and a PA system that can be used to say ‘DROP the GUN”???
The US preaches the right to bear arms, but the second a Black person has a gun, or a black wallet, or cell phone, or nothing in their hand, the Black person is shot dead.
Eyes from around the nation and world have been watching events in Ferguson, Missouri, for some time now.
The bifurcated nature of the responses is particularly problematic when it specifically comes to the inability of many people colorized (or racialized) as White, regardless of their otherwise everyday political leanings. Our nation, especially its institutions, have serious issues with all things related to racism/colorism, privilege, acknowledging history (and remember I define history as everything and anything from less than a microsecond ago), and seeing how this affects the future.
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We are asking you and your organizations to support a mass walk out on Monday at 12:01pm—the time that Mike Brown was murdered. Folks can put their hands up as they leave their job, schools or wherever they are and gather together. Please share widely on social media using #HandsUpWalkOut. Click here for an image to share.
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