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Ferguson II

 

On Monday November 24th 2014 in the US, the grand jury of St Louis County said it would not charge Darren Wilson with a crime. Wilson is the White police officer who gunned down Michael Brown in broad daylight and let his body lie there in the street for four hours. Brown was 18 and unarmed. This was in Ferguson, Missouri, a mostly Black township in suburban St Louis. Nights of violence between police and protesters followed and 108 days of protest.

 

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Source: abagond.wordpress.com

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Tamir Rice’s family asks City of Cleveland, police to release video of fatal shooting

 

Tamir Rice (age 12)

 

Rice’s parents on Tuesday sent a letter through attorneys Tim Kucharski and David Malik to Mayor Frank Jackson and the Cleveland Division of Police asking for the release of the video, which police said depicts one of their rookie officers shoot Rice twice after he pulled a replica gun from his waistband.

 

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Source: www.cleveland.com

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In Response to #Ferguson

 

I recently read the book Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson. If you haven’t read it, you might want to get a quick intro to him by watching his TED talk:

 

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Source: www.onedropoflove.org

 

The middle part of the video and the second half are the most important.

 

And don’t miss Fanshen’s recommendations:

 

“Teaching About Ferguson and also this terrific crowd-sourced google document (which I will be adding to soon): Ferguson resources, crowdsourced in real-time by educators (thanks Abby Brown-Steinberg for the link!)”

 

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Teaching About Ferguson – History of Burning

 

1921

 

A mob of deputized whites looted and burned to the ground a black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This included the destruction of 40 square blocks of 1,265 African American homes, including hospitals, schools, and churches, and 150 businesses. By the time the terror ended, 300 African-Americans had been killed.

 

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Source: zinnedproject.org

 

HT Fanshen Cox @fanshen

 

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Xicana Nican Tlaca Rising

 

I come from Texas. I am indigenous. I am Xicana. I am Nican Tlaca. We might not remember her indian names any more but Texas was and is holy land.

 

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The version of American “history” that is socially programmed is one of the most powerful tools of colonialism that persists today. Labels like “immigrant” to describe indigenous peoples across Cemanahuac (the “Americas”) are a great example of the great wasichu crime against our humanity and connection to the earth.

 

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Source: xicanachronicles.com

No Justice – Ferguson on FIRE
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No Justice – Ferguson on FIRE

— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) November 25, 2014