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S. Carolina Teen Who Filmed School Cop’s Assault Arrested

October 28, 2015 Adam Johnson, www.alternet.org , , ,
By Adam Johnson for AlterNet - WLTX reports that Kenny was trying to "stand up for her friend" when she filmed the assault, telling Loren Thomas of WLTX, "I was crying, screaming and crying like a baby. I was in disbelief." Both Kenny and her mother are understandably skeptical as to why she was arrested for "disturbing schools." "But looking at the video, who was really disturbing schools?" Kenny's mother told WLTX. "Was it my daughter or the officer who came into the classroom and did that to the young girl?" Ben Fields, the South Carolina police officer whose attack on a black student went viral in a video Monday, has faced previous abuse allegations.

Tens Of Thousands Call For Justice Or Else

October 10, 2015 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org , , , ,
By Staff for Popular Resistance - Twenty years after the Million Man March, thousands came back to Washington, DC to renew the call for justice. The Washington Post reports: Thousands of black men, women and children gathered on the Mall on Saturday to demand justice at a time of growing anger and fraying tensions in African American communities across the nation over the killings of young black men by police. By noon Saturday, the crowds had swelled just beyond the stage at the west front of the Capitol, with onlookers watching on several jumbo screens set up on the lawn. Some people sat on lawn chairs and others on blankets to listen to the speakers, including Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, which sponsored the “Justice or Else” rally.

Black Lives Matter Takes Back The Night & Shuts Down Toronto

September 30, 2015 Al Donato, www.huffingtonpost.ca , , ,
By Al Donato in The Huffington Post - Black lives were the focus at Take Back The Night on Saturday, an event that shut down Toronto streets and highlighted sexual violence. Hundreds rallied against police brutality and in solidarity with marginalized black lives, with particular attention to the lives of black individuals who are cis women, trans, queer, on the gender spectrum, with disabilities, and are sex workers. Take Back The Night, an international feminist event since 1976, has featured protests, marches and vigils against sexual violence. For this year’s 35th annual protest, the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre (TRCC)/Multicultural Women Against Rape partnered with Black Lives Matter Toronto Coalition for the theme “All Black Lives Matter: Black Communities Take Back the Night.”

From Hashtag To Strategy: Growing Pains Of Black Lives Matter

September 30, 2015 Bill Fletcher, Jr., www.inthesetimes.com , , ,
By Alicia Garza and Jamala Rogers for In These Times - We’ve said, very directly, that to rebuild the Black Liberation Movement, we actually need to build a different kind of united front—both internal to Black communities and external to Black communities. We have also been very clear that our election strategy is to push the Democratic Party to acknowledge the concerns of Black people. It’s not just about having candidates say “Lives Matter,” but certainly it is about exposing where candidates stand as it relates to Black people. We should figure out how not to try to make everybody fit into the mold we are most comfortable with. I organize domestic workers. Domestic work is a relic of slavery, and very much Black women’s work. I can’t talk about domestic work without talking about Black women. And there’s nothing wrong with that.

Black Lives Matter Schism: A Vision For Black Autonomy

September 28, 2015 Joel Northam, www.counterpunch.org , , ,
By Joel Northam in CounterPunch - The Black Lives Matter movement exhibited a schism since the first few days following the first Ferguson rebellion. I remember watching live streams of the rebellion early on as Ferguson’s youth waged small scale urban combat armed with little more than rubble and glass bottles. The heroic resistance to state power, against all odds of victory in forcing a retreat of the occupying militarized police, and in the face of material consequences in the form of a brutal crackdown, was a demonstration of courage that we all should aspire to. The repression by the armed apparatus of the state in Ferguson (and Baltimore months later) provoked another popular response. But this response took on a different character. It seemed to want to place distance between itself and those who were engaged in combat with the police.

SOA Watch Actions: Resist Empire, Create Peace

September 27, 2015 Maria Luisa, www.soaw.org , , , , ,
By Maria Luisa for School of the Americas Watch. Fort Benning, GA - Join us this November 20-22, on the 25th anniversary of our movement, to connect with activists and organizers from across the Americas. Our continental movement will converge in Georgia to call for the closure of the School of the Americas and the closure of Stewart Detention Center, one of the largest private for-profit immigrant prisons in the country. It is incumbent upon us to continue making the connections between SOA violence and the root causes of migration. Join us as we continue to denounce the failed U.S. policies, which have left a brutal legacy of impunity and Human Rights violations throughout the hemisphere.

Activists Target Newspaper Critiquing #BlackLivesMatter

September 25, 2015 Tyler Kingkade, www.huffingtonpost.com , , ,
By Tyler Kingkade in The Huffington Post - A group of activists at Wesleyan University want the school's student government to defund the campus newspaper for publishing a controversial op-ed that criticized the Black Lives Matter movement. At least 172 students, staff and recent alumni signed a petition asking that the Wesleyan Argus lose all funding until it meets a number of demands. Signatories pledged to boycott the Argus because it does not "provide a safe space for the voices of students of color and we are doubtful that it will in the future." The Sept. 14 op-ed in question was written by Bryan Stascavage, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran who is a staff writer for the Argus and a member of the class of 2018. Stascavage criticized Black Lives Matter for its role in creating an atmosphere that facilitated and condoned violence, and questioned whether the movement had "the potential for positive change."

U of Delaware: Gun Rights Speaker Ignites Protest On The Green

September 23, 2015 Patrick Witterschein and Matt Moore, www.udreview.com , , ,
By Patrick Witterschein and Matt Moore in UD Review - Hands folded and legs crossed on a gray couch, acting president Nancy Targett smiled as her eyes surveyed a back room at the Center for Black Culture, surrounded by student activists. “That was really powerful, that was just so powerful,” she said, referring to the emotionally charged #BlackLivesMatter protest that took place Monday night outside Mitchell Hall. Moments before, the small group of student leaders were joined by fellow classmates at the steps of the historic building to voice their opposition to keynote speaker Katie Pavlich, who was asked to speak by the registered student organization, Students for the Second Amendment.

The Art Of The Black Lives Matter Movement

September 17, 2015 Antwan Sargent, www.i-d.vice.com , ,
By Antwan Sargent in Vice - Since the start of the internet-driven #BlackLivesMatter movement in 2012, following the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and amplified by innumerable incidents since, artists like Pendleton have sought to represent its issues visually and conceptually—from police brutality to structural inequality to trans violence. The Black Lives Matter website states: "Every 28 hours a black man, woman, or child is murdered by police or vigilante law enforcement in America." It's a reality that has pulled the #BlackLivesMatter movement from social media to the streets. It is also what has motivated a multitude of artists to integrate themes of social justice directly relating to Black Lives Matter into their work.

BlackLivesMatter: A Call To Pan-African Unity – Justice For Emmanuel!

September 11, 2015 Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, www.blackagendareport.com , ,
By Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo in Black Agenda Report - This is a wake-up call for African people across national boundaries to stop the in-fighting, self-hatred and come together to determine how to win the war against white supremacy that is literally killing us. The African Union (AU) must rise to the challenge of speaking out against US state-sponsored murder of Black people and provide affirmative programs for Africans in the diaspora (who are so inclined) to repatriate to Africa. Comfort has now found her voice and mission: to make sure that no other Black family suffers the death of their children by killer cops. She has also found her sea legs. Comfort has started two new businesses; she’s once again active in her church and caring for her remaining children. Comfort is fighting for Black mothers and children in America. But, she needs your help. We must demand a full, transparent investigation of the circumstances surrounding the murder of Emmanuel.

Black Lives Matter Activists Confront ‘Southern Heritage’ Rally

September 7, 2015 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us , , ,
By John Zangas in DC Media Group - Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement activists and supporters confronted a White Supremacy Southern Heritage group which rallied at Upper Senate Park next to the U.S. Capitol Saturday, September 5. The White Supremacist group displayed two dozen Confederate flags while BLM activists held signs reading “Smash Racism and Bigotry,” “White Supremacists Go Home” and “End The Confederacy.” U.S. Capitol Police officers formed a 200-foot barrier around the white supremacist group during the demonstration. In spite of police presence, angry clashes between white supremacists and counter-protesters nevertheless erupted as latecomers tried to join the rally. BLM activists confronted them as police intervened. They urged Capitol Police to remove the Supremacists, but police said they held a valid protest permit.

Why We Disrupted Hillary Clinton On Behalf Of Black Trans Women

September 7, 2015 Rian Brown and Angela Peoples, www.getequal.org , , , ,
By Rian Brown and Angela Peoples in Get Equal - Last week, we disrupted Hillary Clinton’s campaign event in Cleveland, OH, asking her to “divest from private prisons, invest in black trans women.” As representatives of Black Lives Matter and GetEQUAL our ask was strategic and intentional. Since Hillary Clinton makes equality for women a critical tenet of her campaign platform, we demand that Clinton -- and our own movement for black lives -- center the black transgender women so often left out of conversations about gender and racial equity. As cisgender Black women, we are fighting for our trans family: we understand that Black liberation means all Black people, and we resist the idea that anyone is disposable in our work. We are in a state of emergency -- the murder rate of trans women of color, particularly Black trans women, is higher than ever, with at least 20 women murdered since the beginning of 2015. Black trans women make up at least 13 of those killed -- in the state of Ohio alone, 6 trans women have been murdered since 2011.

Until We Win: Black Labor & Liberation In The Disposable Era

September 5, 2015 Kali Akuno, www.counterpunch.org , , , ,
By Kali Akuno in Counterpunch - What the combination of theses efforts will amount to is the creation of Black Autonomous Zones. These Autonomous Zones must serve as centers for collective survival, collective defense, collective self-sufficiency and social solidarity. However, we have to be clear that while building Black Autonomous Zones is necessary, they are not sufficient in and of themselves. In addition to advancing our own autonomous development and political independence, we have to build a revolutionary international movement. We are not going to transform the world on our own. As noted throughout this short work, Black people in the US are not the only people confronting massive displacement, dislocation, disposability, and genocide, various people’s and sectors of the working class throughout the US and the world are confronting these existential challenges and seeking concrete solutions and real allies as much as we do.

Black Lives Matter Disavows Democratic Party’s Show Of Support

September 1, 2015 Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com , ,
By Amanda Terkel in The Huffington Post - Activists with the Black Lives Matter movement rejected the Democratic Party's recent statement of support, making clear that they are not affiliated with any political party. "A resolution signaling the Democratic National Committee's endorsement that Black lives matter, in no way implies an endorsement of the DNC by the Black Lives Matter Network, nor was it done in consultation with us," the Black Lives Matter Network wrote in a statement Sunday. "We do not now, nor have we ever, endorsed or affiliated with the Democratic Party, or with any party. The Democratic Party, like the Republican and all political parties, have historically attempted to control or contain Black people's efforts to liberate ourselves," the statement continues. "True change requires real struggle, and that struggle will be in the streets and led by the people, not by a political party."

BLM & GetEQUAL: Clinton, Stand W/ Black Trans Women

August 28, 2015 Get Equal, www.getequal.org , , ,
By Get Equal - Moments ago, organizers with GetEQUAL and Black Lives Matter disrupted Hillary Clinton’s grassroots campaign event in Cleveland, OH, demanding that she divest from private prisons and invest in the liberation of black transgender women. The organizers interrupted Clinton’s speech in order to name the three black trans women who have been recently murdered in the state of Ohio including Cemia Dove, a black trans woman murdered in Cleveland, carrying signs that read: “Hillary: Divest from Private Prisons, Invest in Black Trans Women.”
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