#BlackLivesMatter

US Cited For Police Violence, Racism In Scathing UNHR Review

May 13, 2015 Natasja Sheriff, www.america.aljazeera.com Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Human Rights, Indigenous People, UnitedNations

The United States was slammed over its rights record Monday at the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, with member nations criticizing the country for police violence and racial discrimination, the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility and the continued use of the death penalty. The issue of racism and police brutality dominated the discussion on Monday during the country’s second universal periodic review (UPR). Country after country recommended that the U.S. strengthen legislation and expand training to eliminate racism and excessive use of force by law enforcement. "I'm not surprised that the world's eyes are focused on police issues in the U.S.," said Alba Morales, who investigates the U.S. criminal justice system at Human Rights Watch. "There is an international spotlight that's been shone [on the issues], in large part due to the events in Ferguson and the disproportionate police response to even peaceful protesters," she said.

Stopping The Trans-Pacific Partnership Is A ‘Black Issue’

May 12, 2015 Ajamu Baraka, www.popularresistance.org Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), fast track, TPP, Trade

USA - The Neoliberal assault on U.S. workers continues – this time with a slick move on the part of the 1% to sneak by the people a noxious trade bill called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP. The TPP is just one of measures the elite hopes to conclude using Barack Obama - their most effective weapon since Ronald Reagan for convincing the middle-class and working people to support policies that are objectively against their interests. Like the North American Free-trade Agreement ( NAFTA) concluded under Bill Clinton that promised jobs, balanced economic growth and prosperity but instead created economic devastation in the agricultural sector of Mexico and the loss of jobs in the U.S., the TPP promises more of the same but on a grander scale.

Do Black Lives Matter In Seattle As Much As Tacos Do?

May 11, 2015 Reagan Jackson, www.seattleglobalist.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Racial Justice, Seattle

Now its time for Seattle to affirm the same. In this liberal bubble where pets are treated like people and everyone must recycle and compost, in a city with the nation’s highest minimum wage, where we regularly tout our progressive values, I felt a disconnect. In the middle of the street on a gorgeous sunny Saturday I looked around at the 200 others in attendance and wondered, where is everyone else? Why aren’t there thousands here standing with us? Shortly after the march, I caught the light rail to the International District for the Taco Truck Showdown and had my question answered. Half of Seattle was shoved into the two-block corridor lined on either side with food cards pedaling tacos from every ethnic background. There were pho tacos, duck tacos, Hawaiian tacos, curried goat tacos, chicken tikka tacos and so much more. And people were lined up for hours to stuff their face.

Why I Am Marching On Mother’s Day For My Son

May 7, 2015 Valerie Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality, Racial Justice

It's hard for me to celebrate on Mother's Day. I feel the absence of my 23-year-old son, Sean Elijah Bell, who was killed on November 25, 2006. He was out celebrating at his own bachelor party with his friends in New York City. It was only a matter of a hours before his wedding, and I was so thrilled. Sean and his friends were enjoying their night at a club where there happened to be three undercover police officers present, conducting an investigation of the club. A confrontation between patrons erupted outside. One of the undercover officer's, Isnora, said he overheard that Sean's friend was going to get his gun, and after calling in for backup, Isnora followed my son and his friends to their car.

Co-Founder Of #BlackLivesMatter Patrisse Cullors Explains #BlackSpring

May 4, 2015 Rahel Gabreyes, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, #BlackSpring, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality

Following the immense outcry after Freddie Gray's death, the phrase #blackspring has spread across Twitter, representing the latest incarnation of the #blacklivesmatter movement. Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of #blacklivesmatter, joined "The HuffPost Show" on Friday and explained how #blackspring is being used to describe the longterm struggle for racial equality in the wake of the violence in Ferguson, New York City and, most recently, Baltimore. She said: Black Spring is about really looking at this moment, as not these isolated incidences. … Black people are not a monolithic group, but what we are facing is something that's extreme -- and that's poverty, that's homelessness, that's higher rates of joblessness, that's law enforcement invading our communities day in and day out -- and we are uprising. And so this Black Spring is about really talking about a national uprising. We should be honored to talk about this moment.

#BlackWorkersMatter

May 2, 2015 Sean Thomas-Breitfield, www.demos.org Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Worker Rights and Jobs

Two weeks ago, New York City joined ten other states and municipalities in banning the use of credit checks in hiring. Like most forms of 21st century discrimination, weighing the credit histories of job applicants seems innocuous and race-neutral at first glance. But, as a Demos report found, people of color end up being at a serious disadvantage because they are more likely to have fair or poor credit. The decades of Black people first not having access to credit, and then being targeted by bad actors in the lending industry is one of many examples of how the historic and ongoing exclusion of African Americans from economic opportunity is inextricably linked to the quality of the lives lived by Black people today.

To Baltimore With Love: Chicago’s Freedom Dreams

May 1, 2015 Kelly Hayes, www.truth-out.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Chicago, Freddie Gray, Racial Justice

As protests continued in Baltimore on Tuesday, hundreds of Chicagoans rallied and marched in solidarity with those who've taken to the streets in the wake of Freddie Gray's death at the hands of Baltimore police. Local organizers passionately defended Baltimore's protestors, who have repeatedly been characterized as "thugs and criminals" by both politicians and media figures. Speakers also drew connections between the death of Freddie Gray and a number of community traumas in their own city, including the death of Rekia Boyd, and the recent acquittal of her killer, Chicago police detective Dante Servin. I was able to speak to two of the event's organizers about their intentions in planning the event, and the larger struggle their groups are currently engaged in. Page May is a prison abolitionist and an organizer with We Charge Genocide.

Rise Of The New Black Radicals

April 29, 2015 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Racial Justice

The world’s hundreds of millions of disenfranchised youths—in America this group is dominated by the black and brown underclass—come out of the surplus labor created by our system of corporate neofeudalism. These young men and women have been discarded as human refuse and are preyed upon by a legal system that criminalizes poverty. In the United States they constitute the bulk of the 2.3 million human beings locked in jails and prisons. The discontent in Ferguson, Athens, Cairo, Madrid andAyotzinapa is one discontent. And the emerging revolt, although it comes in many colors, speaks many languages and has many belief systems, is united around a common enemy. Bonds of solidarity and consciousness are swiftly uniting the wretched of the earth against our corporate masters.

Protesters Honor Black Kids Who Never Got To Become Adults

April 28, 2015 Prachi Gupta, www.animalnewyork.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality

A group of anonymous Black Lives Matter protesters temporarily took over the Union Square Forever 21 on Sunday, replacing mannequins’ threads with Black Lives Matter sweatshirts and placing a Black Lives Matter banner across a window. The anonymous collective, who goes by the Never 21 Project, wasn’t protesting Forever 21. Rather, they pulled the stunt to raise awareness for black children who have been the victims of police brutality and violence, like Michael Brown (18), Trayvon Martin (17) and Tamir Rice (12). “They were up for about 20-30 minutes,” a member of Never 21 told ANIMAL via email. “It was so busy in the store that the employees didn’t really notice us. I think what gave it away is the fact that passerby actually thought that Forever 21 was selling these shirts.”

Rightwing Media Exploits Unrest To Push “Race War” Narrative

April 27, 2015 Adam Johnson, www.alternet.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Media, Racial Justice

When Breitbart’s Matt Boyle isn’t framing xenophobia as “pro-worker” or rambling on about a big gay hate machine (don’t ask), he’s attending baseball games with his family. A harmless enough act, and one I’m glad to see rightwing demagogues and communists alike can agree is a wonderful way to spend a spring evening. While attending last night’s Orioles game, however, things quickly got out of hand for the Breitbart journo when unrest resulting from the apparent police killing of Freddie Gray boiled over into property damage and “clashes” between police and angry citizens outside of Camden Yards baseball stadium. Boyle's piece begins with the type of breathless hysteria one would expect from Breitbart: WAR ZONE: BALTIMORE ERUPTS INTO VIOLENCE, CHAOS AS #BLACKLIVESMATTER RIOTS RAGE.

Million Moms March, May 9th: Praying with our Feet

April 26, 2015 Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, www.blackagendareport.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), killed by police, Police abuse, Racism

On May 9th Black mothers from across the United States will converge on Washington, DC to demand an end to the murder of unarmed husbands, sons and more frequently their daughters by police terror and white vigilantes. Frederick Douglas once said: “I prayed for twenty years (during captivity) but received no answer until I prayed with my leg.” Hundreds of mothers are coming to Washington, DC to pray with their feet and demand an end to the killings of their children. Maria Hamilton, founder of Mothers for Justice United will lead the Million Moms March for Justice. Hamilton’s son, Dontre (31) was killed by Milwaukee Police Officer Christopher Manney on April 30, 2014.

Newsletter: The Moment Has Arrived, Now Is The Time

April 25, 2015 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter #BlackLivesMatter, Baltimore, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Corporatization, fast track, killed by police, Racism, TPP, Trade

After a more than three year campaign, the moment has arrived, now is the time. We are at the key battleground that will determine whether the TPP and other corporate trade agreements will become law. Fast track trade authority, as expected, passed the two committees of jurisdiction in the House and Senate. The next step is where we have always expected we could stop them, the full US House of Representatives. We must maintain our pressure on them to vote “No” on fast track. We urge you to continue to call your member frequently. You can use www.StopFastTrack.com to do that. And we urge you to organize actions in your local district during the next recess from May 2 to 11. This is a critical recess, if our support grows during the recess, it is unlikely they will be able to achieve majority support. Join the next weekly National Fast Track Resistance call on Wednesday, April 29 at 9 pm EDT/6 pm Pacific.

How To Destroy A Black Life: A Step-By-Step Guide

April 12, 2015 Aurin Squire, www.talkingpointsmemo.com Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), killed by police, Police abuse, Racism

Michael Thomas Slager did everything by the book. The South Carolina police officer’s only mistake was being filmed. But his approach in killing Walter Scott, seeming to plant evidence, and initiating a cover-up was a classic scenario of how cops get away with murder. Given what we know about police shootings, it wouldn't surprise me if Slager was coached after he shot and killed Walter Scott. But judging by his dispatch call following the shooting, he was already pretty skilled at using the system to his advantage. Perhaps things will be different this time. Slager was charged with the murder of Walter Scott, which is incredibly rare in America. (Cops are rarely indicted for these incidents, and even fewer are convicted, regardless of videotapes and evidence.) A crowdsourcing campaign for Michael Slager has already been rejected by GoFundMe. But it’s not over yet. Judging by history, there is a good chance that Slager ends up free. And another campaign on IndieGoGo is going strong. These are the rewards of playing things by the book.

Mall Of America Security Catfished #BlackLivesMatter

March 19, 2015 Lee Fang, www.firstlook.org Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Consumerism, Racial Justice, Surveillance

Documents obtained by The Intercept indicate that security staff at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota used a fake Facebook account to monitor local Black Lives Matter organizers, befriend them, and obtain their personal information and photographs without their knowledge. Evidence of the fake Facebook account was found in a cache of files provided by the Mall of America to Bloomington officials after a large Black Lives Matter event at the mall on December 20 protesting police brutality. The files included briefs on individual organizers, with screenshots that suggest that much of the information was captured using a Facebook account for a person named “Nikki Larson.”

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