#BlackLivesMatter

#BlackLivesMatter Coalition Protest US Conference of Mayors

January 22, 2016 Staff, www.byp100.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Liberation, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Policy, Protests

By Staff of BYP100 - We are a united, decentralized, collaborative movement of Black organizations and Black people across the country working for the liberation of all Black people. We are the Movement for Black Lives. As DC organizers we stand in solidarity with Black people in Chicago who are organizing against the administration of Mayor Rahm Emmanuel. Rahm Emmanuel has covered up the murder of Laquan McDonald for political gain, gutted Chicago public schools, dismantled city mental health infrastructure, authorized a city budget where 40% of public services funds are spent on policing...

‘I Don’t Do Diversity, I Do Triage’

January 22, 2016 Lisa Brock, www.kzoo.edu Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Higher Education, Student Protests

By Lisa Brock for Praxis Center - On November 3, 2015, Jonathan Butler, a graduate student at the University of Missouri’s flagship campus in Columbia, Missouri, launched a hunger strike. Fed up with “institutional racism” and the university’s unwillingness to seriously tackle it, he stated that he and other black students “felt unsafe” on campus. Mizzou’s students recounted scary drive-by insults, being called the n-word, and racist “pranks” as regular occurrences.[1]

Black Lives Matter Commandeers Denver’s MLK Day Marade

January 22, 2016 Laura Bond, www.coloradoindependent.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Denver, MLK

By Laura Bond for The Colorado Independent - Roughly 2,000 demonstrators took control of Denver’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day march, turning what they say has become a corporate event into a day of protest against police violence. The activists decried Mayor Michael Hancock for failing to hold accountable the sheriff’s deputies who in November restrained black, homeless street preacher Michael Lee Marshall into unconsciousness. Nine days later he died. His death was ruled a homicide by the city coroner.

For Black Lives Matter, MLK’s Kind Of Activism Isn’t Only Way

January 21, 2016 Harry Bruinius, www.csmonitor.com Strategize! #BlackLivesMatter, Activism, Black Lives Matter (BLM), MLK

By Harry Bruinius for The Christian Science Monitor - NEW YORK — In years past, the civil rights mantle of Martin Luther King Jr. was taken up by other charismatic leaders, political figureheads such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton – each a skilled orator with roots in the black church, which in many ways is still the center of community life and politics for black Americans. But as the country remembers Dr. King on Monday, a new generation of activists is doing things differently. Many within the Black Lives Matter movement are uncomfortable with venerating any "great man" of the past, and they reject the idea that any dynamic figurehead should embody their struggle today.

Black Homes Matter: San Francisco’s Vanishing Black Population

January 21, 2016 Carl Finamore, www.beyondchron.org Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Homeless, San Francisco

By Carl Finamore for BeyondChron - This story is prompted by a picket sign I saw at a recent anti-police brutality protest sponsored by two San Francisco families, one Latino and one Black, whose sons were shot dead in separate incidents following a barrage of police bullets. Among the crowd of 150 activists standing in the pouring rain in front of the police-barricaded Bayview police station, were four young people holding a sign that simply read, "The Last 3 Percent." I thought their message was both powerful and poignant.

Indigenous Solidarity With #BlackLivesMatter

January 20, 2016 Matt Remle, www.lastrealindians.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Indigenous Peoples, Solidarity

By Matt Remle for Last Real Indians - Like the Idle No More movement in Canada, the #BlackLivesMatter movement was founded by women. In response to the murder of 17-year old Trayvon Martin in Florida in 2012 by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi issued a call to action for the Black community to address the anti-Black racism that manifested throughout the trail, one that seemed more interested in placing Trayvon on trial for his own murder, and that permeates throughout society.

Movement Reclaims MLK Legacy

January 19, 2016 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Inequality, militarism, MLK, Poverty, Racism

By Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. This Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend there was a call by #BlackLivesMatter to #ReclaimMLK. Events were held all over the country responding to the call and the radical Martin Luther King, jr was brought to people's hearts; not only the King who expressed his dream on racism, but the King who questioned the unfairness in the US capitalist economy and the long history of a foreign policy dominated by militarism. At the end of his life not only was he speaking clearly on these issues but he was organizing around poverty, planning a Poor People's March to Washington, DC. This march continued after his death and Resurrection City, an earlier occupation of the city, that focused on poverty and economic issues. The election year of 2016 is an opportunity to push forward a Black Agenda, not by supporting any particular candidate but by pushing all candidates. We must push to make up for the disinvestment and racially unfair treatment of black communities.

#BlackLivesMatter Critical Of Congressional Black Caucus

January 19, 2016 Tyler Tynes, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Congress, Congressional Black Caucus

By Tyler Tynes for The Huffington Post - It's no secret that many Black Lives Matter and other African-American activists feel disconnected from members of the Congressional Black Caucus. From Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) telling protesters in Baltimore to "go home" after Freddie Gray's death to Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) scolding protesters for drowning out Hillary Clinton's remarks in Atlanta, the generation gap is clear. The CBC has a hard time functioning in a way that best benefits black Americans. He pointed to the pernicious effects of big money in politics, the gerrymandering of congressional districts and the lack of effective accountability to the voters.

What Happens When You Survive A Police Shooting In Baltimore?

January 19, 2016 Baynard Woods, www.theguardian.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Baltimore, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality

By Baynard Woods for The Guardian - On 7 June 2015, Baltimore was still reeling from the unrest that had put thousands of citizens at odds with battalions of police dressed in riot gear in the aftermath of the death of Freddie Gray. May had been the city’s most violent month since the 1970s. More than 40 people had been murdered in the city and more than 100 others non-fatally shot in the month since the hopeful day when state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby told the city that she felt its pain as she announced she would press charges against the officers tied to Gray’s death in the back of a police van.

MLK’s Hate Mail Parallels Criticism Of Black Lives Matter Movement

January 19, 2016 David Matthews, www.fusion.net Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Hate Speech, MLK

By David Matthews for Fusion - In the last year or so, as the Black Lives Matter movement has taken off, the cause has been criticized by (mostly) white people asking, “Yeah, but what about this?” It turns out that this argument has been in style for at least half a century. Indeed, this type of discourse is nothing new, as we can see when we examine the hate mail that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. receivedduring the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. It’s overwhelming how the fear of the status quo being changed has been something white America can’t stop thinking about–and loudly announcing how it’s a problem–for so long now.

How We Misunderstand The History Of Black Protest

January 19, 2016 Juliet Hooker, www.truth-out.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black History, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Black People, US history

By Juliet Hooker for Truthout - As the Obama era draws to a close, Black protest has resurfaced in a decisive way with the Black Lives Matter movement (BLM), which burst into national consciousness with the protests in Ferguson following the killing of Michael Brown in 2014. Yet many commentators have criticized the Black Lives Matter movement for failing to emulate the nonviolent tactics and reconciliatory politics that supposedly characterized the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

Suit Accuses City & LAPD Of Violating Protesters’ Rights

January 18, 2016 Richard Winton, www.latimes.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Lawsuit, Los Angeles, Protestors Arrested

By Richard Winton for Los angeles Time - Individuals arrested in Los Angeles while protesting the killing of a black man in Ferguson, Mo., have filed a class-action lawsuit accusing the city and police of violating their constitutional rights. The federal lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges that in November 2014, the Los Angeles Police Department surrounded several hundred protesters as they marched downtown and in the Westlake district. Police then arrested or detained and questioned dozens of individuals without lawful dispersal orders, the suit says.

Protests, Boycott Greet Rahm Emanuel At MLK Breakfast

January 17, 2016 Bill Ruthhart and Juan Perez Jr., www.chicagotribune.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Chicago, MLK, Police violence, Rahm Emanuel

By Bill Ruthhart and Juan Perez Jr. for the Chicago Tribune. For 30 years, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Interfaith Breakfast hosted by Chicago's mayor has had a political undercurrent, as politicians from across the city paid tribute to the legendary civil rights leader while paying attention to the important constituency of African-American voters. But on Friday, the event became a political spectacle. Those who chose to attend Emanuel's event were greeted by about 20 angry protesters shouting "Shame on you!" as Chicago police worked to keep the group of demonstrators from blocking the entrance to the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place. The breakfast itself was interrupted three times by protesters. Ministers produced a list, claiming that more than 100 pastors had chosen to boycott the breakfast. "The mayor had to go to his old tactics of bringing busloads of people in from the nursing homes, retirement centers to bring some black faces in to fill the room."

Newsletter: Why Protests Will Continue To Grow

January 16, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter #BlackLivesMatter, #FightFor15, Black Lives Matter (BLM), China, Climate Change, COP21, Corporatism, Democracy, Economic inequality, Empire, Environment, FERC, Finance and the Economy, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights, Iraq, Jobs, militarism, Necessity defense, oligarchy, Poverty, Russia, Solar Energy, Stratfor, Syria, TPP, Trade, Wealth Ineqaulity

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. This week the reason that there are a growing protest movement and growing disenchantment with government was put on display. The divergence between government and reality was thrust in our faces. The entire government came together, Members of Congress, the Cabinet, military leaders, the Supreme Court, Vice President and President (minus the 'selected survivor' in case the Capitol was attacked, the head of Homeland Security) to hear the State of the Union. The choreographed self-praise of people who will spend $5 billion this year of mostly big business money to get re-elected was evident from the moment the door was opened. Hugs and kisses, backslapping all around, required applause as the President approached the podium, more staged applause when he was introduced and then, as if they were trained, dozens of standing ovations on cue – 89 times in a 58-minute speech the President was applauded.

Afrikan Black Coalition Accomplishes UC Prison Divestment!

January 15, 2016 Anthony Williams, www.afrikanblackcoalition.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), California, Divestiture, Prisons

By Anthony Williams for Afrikan Black Coalition. Oakland, CA - After months of research, conversations with the University of California and steady pressure from the Afrikan Black Coalition against the UC’s complicity in the prison industrial complex, ABC confirms that the UC has begun selling all their shares in private prisons. This victory follows an initial November press release from the Afrikan Black Coalition announcing the University of California’s investments in private prisons and a unanimous vote from Black Student Unions calling for divestment from private prisons and their financiers. ABC Political Director, Yoel Haile, states: “This victory is historic and momentous.

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