#BlackLivesMatter

‘Major Shortcomings’ In Baltimore Police Response

November 17, 2015 Kevin Rector, www.baltimoresun.com Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Baltimore, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality

By Kevin Rector for The Baltimore Sun - As rioting erupted on Baltimore's streets in April, the city police Command Center — where top decision-makers had gathered to get a handle on the situation — was itself in disarray, according to a new review of the agency's response to the unrest. In a room designed to hold 30 to 40 people, as many as 100 had gathered, some without a clear role. The crowding was so severe that the department's 10-person Analytical Intelligence Section, which was charged with developing information that could help the department deploy resources and anticipate threats, was blocked from its own equipment — and provided just two computers to do its work.

When Safe Spaces Take Priority Over Media Access

November 17, 2015 Dave Zirin, www.youtube.com Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Media, Race

By Dave Zirin for Acronym TV - The viral video“#ConcernedStudent1950 vs. the media” shows a group of students at the University of Missouri physically blocking a journalist from taking pictures in a public space. Dave Zirin, sports editor at The Nation Magazine, joins Acronym TV host Dennis Trainor Jr for a conversation about the reasons that the activist community in general and black community specifically views the media with suspicion, hostility, or disdain. As Terrell Jermaine Starr writes in the Washington Post...

It’s So Dangerous To Be A Black American, I’ve Sought Asylum In Canada

November 16, 2015 Kyle Lydell Canty, www.theguardian.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Canada, Refugees

Kyle Lydell Canty for The Guardian - Black people or people of African descent living in the United States should consider seeking asylum in other countries. That’s what I did. On 23 September, I applied for asylum in Canada. We were brought to America as slaves, and the country hasn’t changed its ways at all since then. Throughout my life, police departments have harassed me and made me fear for my life – this is something many other people of color will have experienced too.

Campus Race Protests About Systemic Racism That’s Never Gone Away

November 14, 2015 Luna Olavarría Gallegos, www.theguardian.com Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Race, Student Protests

By Luna Olavarría Gallegos for The Guardian - This week’s student protests may be organized on social media, but they’re not addressing anything new. The iconic moment of black campus protests was captured way back in 1969, when students from Cornell University’s Afro-American Society left Willard Straight Hall carrying rifles and wearing bandoliers, part of a protest against disciplining black students who had advocated for an Africana Studies and Research Center. Forty-six years later, students all over the country continue to protest for their right to exist on a college campus free of racial discrimination.

Black Lives Matter Meets Golden Goose That Came Home To Roost

November 13, 2015 Staff, www.youtube.com Resistance Report #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Race, University of Missouri

By Staff of Acronym TV - After months of protests at the University of Missouri over racial tensions and other issues, a the group Concerned Student 1950 won an extraordinary coup on Monday. The victory emerged after a hunger strike by 25-year old graduate student Jonathan Butler inspired a labor strike of the University’s football team forcing the resignation of University President Timothy Wolfe, as well as the chancellor, R. Bowen Loftin. Dave Zirin, the sports editor of The Nation magazine joins host Dennis Trainor, Jr. to discuss.

Racism At Yale Culminated In Over 1,000 Marching

November 12, 2015 Avianne Tan, www.abcnews.go.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Race, Student Protests

By Avianne Tan for ABC News - Two weeks of protests culminated in a "March of Resilience" at Yale University Monday afternoon, when hundreds of students, faculty and administrators marched from the Ivy League school's Afro-American Cultural Center carrying signs with messages like "Black Students Matter," "We out here. We've been here. We ain't leaving. We are loved" and "Your Move, Yale." Here are the allegations of racism that numerous student organizations cite as perceived examples of issues of concern to students of color and their supporters...

Mizzou-Inspired Protests Coming At Other Colleges

November 12, 2015 Staff, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Race, Student Protests

By Staff of Reuters - NEW YORK, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Students are holding events designed to bring attention to racial issues on a handful of U.S. college campuses this week, spurred on by the impact of protests at the University of Missouri, which culminated in the resignation of the school's president and chancellor on Monday. Peaceful marches or walkouts have occurred, or are planned, at Yale University, Ithaca College and Smith College in the Northeastern United States, though none has yet reached the intensity of demonstrations at Missouri, where hundreds of students and teachers protested what they saw as soft handling of reports of racial abuse on campus.

Police Unions Call For Tarantino Boycott After He Protest Police Violence

November 6, 2015 Scott Eric Kaufman, www.salon.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Police, police brutality, Police Union

By Scott Eric Kaufman for Salon, Note: Huffington Post reports the threatening language of police union leader. The language sounds like he means Tarantino will suffer a “surprise” before his next film is released, it is not until much later where he clarifies it will be an economic surprise. Will this kind of language incite violence or other police abuse against Tarantino? If it does police should expect a huge blowback from the action. The head of the Fraternal Order of Police said he has a "surprise" for filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. Jim Pasco, executive director of the largest U.S. police union, offered the creepy statement Thursday to The Hollywood Reporter, vowing to get back at the "Pulp Fiction" director for comments decrying police brutality at a rally last month.

Half Of Black Millennials Know A Victim Of Police Violence

November 5, 2015 Jesse J. Holland, www.bigstory.ap.org Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality

By Jesse J. Holland for The Associated Press - WASHINGTON (AP) -- Years before the high-profile deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Freddie Gray, more than half of African-American millennials indicated they, or someone they knew, had been victimized by violence or harassment from law enforcement, a new report says. The information, from the "Black Millennials in America" report issued by the Black Youth Project at the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago, reflects starkly different attitudes among black, Latino, Asian and white millennials when it comes to policing, guns and the legal system in the United States.

Police Killings Surpass Worst Years of Lynching, Capital Punishment

November 5, 2015 Jerome Karabel, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality

By Jerome Karabel for The Huffington Post - Video cameras have transformed how we view police killings. First, there was the horrifying homicide in July 2014 of Eric Garner, placed in a choke-hold for selling loose cigarettes and denied medical assistance for several long minutes despite pleading "I can't breathe" eleven times. Then there was the shocking slaying in April 2015 of Walter Scott, stopped for a non-functioning third brake light and shot in the back in broad daylight while running away from the police. Most recently, there was the fatal shooting this July of Samuel Dubose, stopped for a missing front license plate and shot in the head while attempting to drive away. In all three cases -- two of them caught by citizen videos and the third by police camera -- the victims were African-American.

Black Lives Matter. NYC Shut It Down: The Grand Central Crew

November 4, 2015 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), killed by police, Police violence, Racism

By Staff for NYC Shut It Down. NYC Shut It Down (a.k.a. Grand Central Crew) is a NYC-based direct action organization in solidarity with the #BlackLivesMatter movement. We are the organizers of the weekly #PeoplesMonday demonstrations that honor a different victim of police violence every week. We demand an end to unaccountable police violence and criminalization of daily life. Every Monday since January NYC Shut It Down has taken to the streets of NYC, forcing attention to the ever-growing Black Lives Matter movement and the struggle for Black liberation. Through our weekly‪#‎PeoplesMonday‬ actions, NYC Shut It Down highlights different cases of police brutality against people of color. Some stories, like those of Sean Bell, Eric Garner, and Tamir Rice are highly publicized. Other stories receive little to no media attention. It is our duty to amplify these stories and we need your help to do that!

Texas Granted Cop Immunity In Fatal Shooting Of Unarmed Man

November 3, 2015 Joanna Plucinska, www.worldbeyondwar.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality

By Joanna Plucinska for Time - Manslaughter charges against a Texas cop who shot and killed an unarmed black man have been dropped by a federal judge, after he ruled that the police officer had federal immunity at the time because of his work with the FBI. Charles Kleinert, a former Austin police detective who also worked for the FBI, killed 32-year-old Larry Jackson Jr. after shooting him in the neck following a chase in Texas on July 26, 2013. Kleinert was initially indicted on manslaughter charges by a Texas grand jury for the crime. However, on June 26, 2015, he filed a motion to dismiss the indictment.

Hillary Clinton Speech Interrupted By Black Student Activists

November 1, 2015 Julia Craven, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Criminal Justice and Prisons, Hillary Clinton, Police violence, Racism

By Julia Craven for Huffington Post - Hillary Clinton was drowned out by student activists while introducing her criminal justice reform platform in Atlanta on Friday. Two of the student activists who interrupted Hillary Clinton's rally Friday at Clark Atlanta University said the title of the event -- "African Americans for Hillary" -- explains why they decided to drown out the presidential candidate's remarks. "That raises a question, because I'm wondering, why it isn't Hillary for African Americans?" Avery Jackson, one of the students, told The Huffington Post. "Because that's the issue. She continues to exploit the spaces that black people value." "She doesn't really express the centering and prioritizing of black issues, which are at the root American issues," he continued. "I think we see that with the campaign -- that she sees the issues of black people outside of the American agenda." Clinton was at the university to unveil her criminal justice reform plan. She has been heavily criticized during the campaign for her past support for tough-on-crime initiatives that facilitated mass incarceration.

Harry Belafonte: Activism, Unrest & Making People Squirm

November 1, 2015 Cambria Roth, www.crosscut.com Strategize! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Human Rights, Racism

By Cambria Roth for Crosscut - The people who turn away from radical thought are people who don’t like to be uncomfortable. And radical thought at its best is supposed to make people feel uncomfortable. We talk about the uprisings in communities like in St. Louis and Baltimore, and it is what protests are supposed to do. The fact that some niceties are inconvenienced and people can’t get to work on time because there are protests in the streets, well, hello, that is what we do. That is what we are supposed to do. That is what Dr. King did. I pointed out in a strategy session we had in Baltimore, when the state teargassed, machines of oppression showed up, and then applied a curfew. Everyone kind of bemoaned that fact. I said, “Those of you who are caught up in protest, this is a golden opportunity. If the state says you go to bed by 10 o’clock, then you should make sure that by 11, the streets of our cities are filled with human protest and bodies!” The fact that some might have a restless night with the noise downstairs or find it inconvenient because people blocked traffic, well that’s the point — to snap you out of your indifference! So those who are turned off by radical thinking, or radical behavior, well, as a matter of fact, in many ways, you are our target.

Serena Williams To #BlackLivesMatter ‘Keep It Up’

October 30, 2015 Serena Williams, www.wired.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM)

By Serena Williams for Wired - BACK IN 2008, when I was competing in the US Open, I would keep little “match books,” where I’d write affirmations to myself and read them during matches. It worked pretty well. But before long I found an even better way to inspire myself: I started using affirmations as the passwords to my phone and my computer. (No, I’m not going to tell you what my current affirmation is!) You should try it. You’ll be surprised how many times a day you log in and have an opportunity to trigger that positivity. I love that I can use technology that way.

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