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NYC Agrees To Pay Over $4 Million To Family Of Akai Gurley

August 18, 2016 Andrew Emett, www.nationofchange.org , , , , ,
By Andrew Emett for Nation of Change - After an NYPD officer accidentally killed an innocent, unarmed man inside a dark housing project stairwell, the city and the New York City Housing Authority have recently agreed to pay Akai Gurley’s family more than $4.1 million to settle their wrongful death lawsuit. Although the officer was fired and initially convicted of manslaughter, a judge reduced the charge and sentenced him to community service instead of serving jail time. On November 20, NYPD officers Peter Liang and Shaun Landau were conducting vertical patrols on the eighth floor of the Louis H. Pink housing project in Brooklyn.

New York To Pay $4.5 Million To Settle Police Killing Lawsuit

August 17, 2016 Staff, www.reuters.com , , , ,
By Staff of Reuters - The city of New York has settled for $4.5 million a lawsuit over the 2014 police killing of an unarmed black man in an unlit stairwell that sparked demonstrations around the city, officials said. The settlement comes amid a wave of angry protests that have roiled the United States over the past two years in response to high-profile police killings of unarmed black men, with the most recent killing in Milwaukee unleashing rioting.

In Solidarity With Movement For Black Lives

August 16, 2016 Staff, www.endtheoccupation.org , ,
By Staff of End The Occupation - Last week, the Movement for Black Lives released its policy platform, articulating a visionary agenda for Black power, freedom, and justice. On the second anniversary of Mike Brown's killing by a cop in Ferguson, we at the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation fully endorse the platform and recommit to the urgent work of dismantling the systems that dehumanize Black people, devalue Black lives, and allow for the state to kill Black men, women, and children with impunity.

Milwaukee Declares Curfew After Protests Over Police Shooting

August 16, 2016 Brendan O’Brien, www.reuters.com , , ,
By Brendan O’Brien for Reuters - The city of Milwaukee imposed a 10 p.m. curfew on Monday in an attempt to quell rioting that erupted the previous two nights in response to the police shooting of an armed black man in one of the most segregated cities in the United States. Mayor Tom Barrett also renewed his call for state officials to release a video of the Saturday night shooting in hopes it convinces angry protesters that deadly force against Sylville K. Smith, 23, was justified.

Arresting Development

August 16, 2016 Bakari Kitwana, www.colorlines.com , , ,
By Bakari Kitwana for Color Lines - At the height of the presidential primary season in March, about 30 activists gathered at St. Louis' Peabody Opera House to protest a Donald Trump campaign rally there. One of the activists, Melissa McKinnies, says that even before the Republican candidate took the stage, his supporters were chanting, “Build a wall! U.S.A! Build a wall! U.S.A!” McKinnies, a 40-year-old Black mother of three who was a consistent fixture at the protests in Ferguson followingMichael Brown’s death, was among 20 Black and Latino protesters stationed on the ground floor trying to be heard above the din.

9 Critical Points On Anti-Blackness And Immigration

August 14, 2016 Raul Alcaraz-Ochoa, Jorge Gutierrez, Alan Pelaez and Deborah Alemu, www.telesurtv.net , , ,
By Raul Alcaraz-Ochoa, Jorge Gutierrez, Alan Pelaez and Deborah Alemu for Telesur TV. An Open Letter to the Immigrant Rights Movement: In light of the brutal murders of Alton Sterling, Philando Castille, Delrawn Smalls Dempsey, Alva Braziel, Joyce Quaweay, Skye Mockabee and Korryn Gaines, anti-Blackness, patriarchy and transphobia need to profoundly and urgently be addressed within immigrant rights organizing, now more than ever. Although non-Black Latinx solidarity with Black lives has increased and grown, there is still a lot of work to be done. How do Latinxs and the immigrant rights movement navigate anti-Blackness? First of all what is anti-Blackness? “Anti-Blackness is not simply the racist actions of a white man with a grudge nor is it only a structure of racist discrimination—anti-blackness is the paradigm that binds blackness and death together so much so that one cannot think of one without the other,"

Dream Defenders On Condemnation of M4BL Platform

August 14, 2016 Dream Defenders, www.dreamdefenders.org , , , ,
By Dream Defenders. On Monday, the Dream Defenders along with 50 other organizations, representing hundreds of Black people across the country launched A Vision for Black Lives, an agenda that clearly defines policies, organizing tactics and resources to advance Black liberation. The platform included a call for the US government to divest from military expenditures and US aid to the State of Israel and instead, invest this war-making money towards building infrastructure to support Black and Brown communities in the US. Since our launch, some Zionist organizations have condemned the platform and have announced that they will cut all ties with the Movement for Black Live, going so far as to label some in the BLM movement anti-semitic.

New Film ‘Love and Solidarity’, Non-violence For Systemic Change

August 14, 2016 Will Jones and Mike Honey, www.portside.org , ,
By Will Jones and Mike Honey for Portside. Non-violence is NOT passive, but is militant and effective theory and practice. Portside Moderator Will Jones interviews Honey about the film and highly respected, long time RELIGIOUS LEADER, organizer, and educator James Lawson. Will Jones: Why this film now? Mike Honey: James Lawson’s theory and practice, ranging from the early civil rights and anti-war movements until now, offers us on the left, in the streets, a long term view based on his experience of teaching and organizing since the 1950s. He never claims to have all of the answers but provides a framework that challenges us to not just protest but to transform situations and systems, to build coalitions, to win people over to sanity. The Black Lives Matter movement’s evolution from impressive protests in Ferguson and elsewhere to a platform and call for continued action is an example of both the power and challenges faced by us here in USA and globally.
Family spokesman and activist Ja'Mal Green, attorney Michael Oppenheimer and Briana Adams, sister of Paul O'Neal, spoke to the news media Aug. 5, 2016, after viewing footage of the July 28 police shooting death of 18-year-old O'Neal. Protesters gathered at Chicago police headquarters later in the day.

City Declines To Identify Cops In O’Neal Fatal Shooting

August 13, 2016 Dan Hinkel, www.chicagotribune.com , , ,
By Dan Hinkel for Chicago Tribune - Chicago officials have declined to identify the police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Paul O'Neal, citing in part alleged dangers faced by the officers if their names became public. The Independent Police Review Authority declined to give the officers' names in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the Tribune, releasing a document Tuesday with the officers' names blacked out. The agency cited, among other parts of state records law, a clause that allows an agency to withhold information if disclosure would "endanger the life or physical safety of law enforcement personnel or any other person."

George Zimmerman 2.0 Kills Unarmed Black Man In North Carolina

August 12, 2016 Jonathan Drew, www.news.nationalpost.com , , ,
By Jonathan Drew for The Associatd Press - RALEIGH, N.C. — A young black man shot to death while leaving a house party – allegedly by the host’s white neighbor – was described by his mother Tuesday as loving, funny, and so careful that his family called him “Safety 101.” Kouren-Rodney Bernard Thomas was killed early Sunday when a man living two doors down from the party called police to complain of “hoodlums” in his neighborhood, and then fired a shotgun out of his garage, according to authorities and 911 tapes.

Look, Black People Aren’t Lying About Police Violence

August 12, 2016 Julia Craven, www.huffingtonpost.com , , ,
By Julia Craven for The Huffington Post - A damning report from the Justice Department found that the Baltimore Police Department routinely used excessive force, retaliated against citizens for exercising their First Amendment rights and committed other civil rights abuses. Baltimore police officers often stopped, frisked and arrested residents unconstitutionally. The report, formally released on Wednesday, also says officers within the department were purposefully careless in sexual assault cases, used slurs against LGBT people and, in some cases, were told by supervisors to target black residents and “lock up all the black hoodies.”

It’s Time We Recognize Black Lives Matter Behind Bars, Too

August 12, 2016 J. Soffiyah Elijah, www.ebony.com , ,
By J. Soffiyah Elijah for Ebony - Similar to police officers on the streets, violence between guards in jails and prisons is a crucial problem that has gone from brutality to outright homicide. As is the case with police violence, African Americans and other people of color are disproportionately the victims of abuse at the hands of prison and jail officials. Last week, the shocking video footage of Darius Robinson’s April 4, 2016 death while in police custody was released.

2nd Anniversary Of Michael Brown’s Death; Black Lives Matter

August 11, 2016 Sarah Aziza, www.wagingnonviolence.org , , ,
By Sarah Aziza for Waging Nonviolence - The two-year anniversary of the death of Michael Brown came yesterday, August 9, prompting vigils and marches around the country. While the rage and grief that ignited the streets of Ferguson two years ago remained a clear subtext in these gatherings, events surrounding the anniversary of Brown’s death also demonstrated the levels of pragmatism and coordination that have emerged among organizers since the chaotic summer of 2014. The weeks leading up to August 9 have been busy for Black Lives Matter and its allies.

Black Lives Matter Is Joining The Fight Against Deportations

August 11, 2016 Jorge Rivas, www.fusion.net , , ,
By Jorge Rivas for Fusion - The Black Lives Matter movement this week announced it has adopted a 10-point platform that includes a call to end all deportations. It could be a game changer. Black Lives Matter, which started as a hashtag in 2013, has quickly evolved into a leading civil rights movement that until this week has mainly focused on policing issues that affect the black community. But on Monday the movement adopted a more comprehensive platform developed by the Movement for Black Lives, which has a list of demands, including a call for an “end to the war on Black immigrants.”

My Mother, Stopped For Driving While Black

August 10, 2016 Milen Mehari, www.otherwords.org , , ,
By Milen Mehari for Other Worlds - When the police pulled their guns on my mother, I reached for my phone and told her to be calm and do as they say. My parents and I had just been swarmed by police cars, sirens blaring, as we drove on I-64 through Virginia. Shock and fear consumed my family as we came to a stop and were ordered out of the vehicle at gun point. A third car even showed up to stop traffic.
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