2016

Young Black Men Again Faced Highest Rate Of US Police Killings In 2016

January 19, 2017 Jon Swaine and Ciara McCarthy, www.theguardian.com Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, 2016, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality

By Jon Swaine and Ciara McCarthy for The Guardian - The Counted project points to continuing racial disparities, with black males aged 15-34 nine times more likely than other Americans to be killed. Young black men were again killed by police at a sharply higher rate than other Americans in 2016, intensifying concerns over the expected abandonment of criminal justice reform by Donald Trump’s incoming administration. Black males aged 15-34 were nine times more likely than other Americans to be killed by law enforcement officers last year, according to data collected for The Counted, an effort by the Guardian to record every such death. They were also killed at four times the rate of young white men.

How American Life Continued To Deteriorate In 2016

January 18, 2017 Paul Buchheit, www.nationofchange.org Educate! 2016, Inequality

Paul Buchheit for Nation of Change - The reality of the disposable American has been building up in recent years, and new evidence keeps pouring in. Now the potential exists for greater suffering under the rule of a billionaire Cabinet that is far, far removed from average workers and renters and homeowners. First the “upside” – 5% of us are millionaires. Depending on the source, America has anywhere from 7 million to 13.5 million millionaires – about 5% of U.S. adults, and about a 40% increase in just six years. At the other end, 90% of us have gained NOTHING since 1997, and at least half of us NOTHING since 1980.

Seven Inspirational Protests Of 2016

December 27, 2016 Jayde Tynes, www.globaljustice.org.uk Resist! 2016, Protests

By Jayde Tynes for Global Justice Now - Needless to say, 2016 has been a tough one for social justice activists around the world. With the rise in xenophobia after Brexit, the presidential election of Trump and the looming threat of trade deals such as TTIPand CETA, we’ve been busy. But let’s also make sure we celebrate the fact that we have risen to the challenge. Here are seven protests of 2016 that can inspire more movement building and successful activism in 2017. With thousands of people taking part and millions talking about it on social media, the North Dakota pipeline protests got an international following in 2016.

Why Millennials Don’t Vote and What To Do About It {aTV 007)

June 9, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report 2014 mid-term election, 2016, 2016 Elections, Acronym TV, ATV, Christina Tobin, Congress, Constitution, Daniel Lee, Democracy movement, Dennis Trainor Jr, Elections, Free and Equal, mid-term election, Millennials, Millennials democracy, Millennials voting, Move To Amend, President, Senate, Vote, Voting

On Acronym TV this week, two individuals working to fix our Democracy in crisis. Christina Tobin is the founder and chair of Free & Equal. She has a long history of supporting ballot access, having gathered and defended over 1 million signatures for the Green Party, Constitution Party, Republican Party, Democratic Party, Libertarian Party, Socialist Equality Party and independents. Free & Equal Elections Foundation is a non-partisan grassroots organization, whose mission is to shift the power back to the individual voter through education. Their motto, “More Voices, More Choices.” Daniel Lee is a lifelong activist. He serves on the national leadership team for the group Move to Amend, which is a coalition of hundreds of organizations and hundreds of thousands of individuals committed to social and economic justice, ending corporate rule, and building a vibrant democracy; Move To Amend is calling for an amendment to the US Constitution to unequivocally state that inalienable rights belong to human beings only, and that money is not a form of protected free speech under the First Amendment and can be regulated in political campaigns.

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