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Why Black Lives Matter And Fight For 15 Are Protesting Side-By-Side

April 16, 2016 Kira Lerner, www.thinkprogress.org , , , ,
By Kira Lerner for Think Progress - BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — On Thursday, low-wage workers across the country are taking to the streets to demand a $15 minimum wage. In New York, the protests were scheduled for the same day that a New York police officer was set to be sentenced for the killing of Akai Gurley, one of the most high-profile police misconduct cases in recent city history. Though a judge postponed the sentencing of former NYPD officer Peter Liang while allegations of juror misconduct are considered...

#BlackLivesMatter Camps At Police Station For 2 Weeks

April 8, 2016 www.dcindymedia.org , , ,
By Tamara Khandaker for Vice News - Any discussion of anti-black racism in Toronto, much to the frustration of many black Canadians, commonly elicits one response — that it's not as bad as it is in the United States. Patrisse Cullors, LA-based activist and co-founder of Black Lives Matter (BLM), said she didn't even know Canada had issues until she met her husband Janaya Khan, a co-founder of the Toronto chapter of the growing, international movement. It's the only active branch outside of the United States.

Toronto City Council Asks Province For Police Review

April 5, 2016 Staff, www.therealnews.com , , ,
By Staff of The Real News Network - BLM action gains traction among municipal politicians while longtime community activists tell The Real News about the continuity of Black struggles in Toronto

No Charges Against Minneapolis Police Officers In Jamar Clark Shooting

April 1, 2016 Erin Golden, Paul Walsh and David Chanen, www.startribune.com , , ,
By Erin Golden, Paul Walsh and David Chanen for Star Tribune - The two Minneapolis police officers involved in the November shooting death of Jamar Clark will not face criminal charges, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said Wednesday, as he released volumes of evidence that he said prove the officers feared for their lives during the 61-second altercation. Freeman said DNA and other evidence collected after the shooting on a north Minneapolis street show that Clark was not handcuffed during a scuffle with police officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze, and that Clark had grabbed for Ringgenberg’s gun after the officer tackled him to the ground.

Being Undocumented Black Immigrant In America Is A ‘Lonely Experience’

March 30, 2016 Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, www.thinkprogress.org , , ,
By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee for Think Progress - The pendulum swing of the campaign debate on immigration issues has largely centered on either denouncing undocumented Latino immigrants or getting their eligible family members to take to the polls on Election Day. It seems unsurprising that the conversation heavily focuses on Latinos — after all, 59 percent of the 11.3 million undocumented population are from Mexico. But there are also 400,000 undocumented black immigrants living in the United States who have largely been left out of the debate over immigration reform.

NYC’s New Generation Of Militant Activists

March 28, 2016 Vienna Rye, www.medium.com , , , ,
By Vienna Rye for Medium - Over the past year and a half, New York City has seen the growth of an organized, militant grassroots movement, lead by young activists of color and completely ignored by the mainstream media. Gaining steam a few months after the Ferguson Uprising in 2014, tens of thousands of New Yorkers began taking to the streets to demand justice for Mike Brown and Eric Garner. Now, seventeen months later, a coordinated network has formed, shutting down the streets on a weekly basis in every single borough.

4 Years Since Chicago Police Officer Killed Rekia Boyd

March 25, 2016 Mariame Kaba, www.inthesetimes.com , , , ,
By Mariame Kaba for In These Times - The fact that Rekia Boyd’s name might be familiar to you is a testament to her family and local Chicago activists’ persistent and effective organizing. Today marks four years since detective Dante Servin killed Rekia in the North Lawndale neighborhood. She was unarmed and hanging out with friends when Servin shot her in the head. He was off-duty and carrying an unregistered gun at the time. Servin is the very rare police officer who was actually tried for the extrajudicial killing of an unarmed Black person.

Canada: Police Crackdown On Toronto Black Lives Matter Protest

March 23, 2016 Staff, www.truth-out.org , , ,
By Staff of Tele Sur - Protesters said their encampment was attacked by police officers. Police shutdown a Black Lives Matter protest that had set up a camp in front of police headquarters in downtown Toronto Monday. Police reportedly forcibly removed the tents set up by demonstrators and had firefighters on hand doused the fire started by the demonstrators in order to keep warm.

Newsletter: Justice Takes A Lifetime

March 19, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. The #BlackLivesMatter movement continues to grow its power and have notable victories, but 600 hundred years of racial oppression, older than the nation itself, will not be rooted out quickly. The movement had a series of electoral and other victories this week. These victories for #BLM and their supporters are notable but problems still persist and the movement must continue to grow and get stronger. There are no quick fixes to a country that is crippled by its history of racism. We must all recognize that the work we are doing for racial, economic and environmental justice requires us to be persistent and uncompromising. achieve the transformational justice we seek will last our lifetimes – a marathon and not a sprint.

Trooper Pleads Guilty To Shooting Black Man Who Followed His Orders

March 19, 2016 Thandisizwe Chimurenga, www.dailykos.com , , ,
By Thandisizwe Chimurenga for Daily Kos - Sean Groubert, a former South Carolina state trooper, has pleaded guilty to assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature for the shooting of Levar Jones at a Columbia gas station in September of 2014. Video from Groubert’s patrol car went viral at a time of heightened scrutiny and anxiety of police executions of unarmed African Americans—immediately after the murders of Mike Brown in Ferguson, John Crawford in Ohio and Eric Garner in New York and just prior to the murder of Tamir Rice in Cleveland and the non-indictment of Darren Wilson for Brown’s murder.

#BlackLivesMatter Drastically Impacted College Admins And Campus Policy

March 18, 2016 JE Reich, www.jezebel.com , , , ,
By JE Reich for Jezebel - The youths! Everyone loves to complain about the youths. But a study that polled the presidents of hundreds of higher educational institutes have more or less proved that the last gasp of Millennials and the first wave on Gen Z-ers are organizing for social causes—and in turn, they’re changing the very make-up of their campuses. But it’s not only students who are doing this—it’s the administrators, too. The study opened with three simple words that have embodied the dynamism of the socio-political activist movement over the past few years: “Black Lives Matter”

Two Prosecutors Who Poorly Handled Police Who Killed Blacks Defeated

March 17, 2016 Jon Swaine, www.theguardian.com , ,
By Jon Swaine for The Guardian - The protest movement that formed in response to deadly shootings of African Americans by police won a remarkable series of political victories in the American midwest on Wednesday night, including its first oustings of prosecutors in major cities. In successive upsets, Democratic primary challengers in Chicago, Illinois, and Cleveland, Ohio, wrested the party’s nomination from sitting prosecutors who came under sharp criticism for their handling of the fatal shootings of Laquan McDonald and Tamir Rice.

LA Police Commission: De-Escalate, Stop The Killing

March 17, 2016 Thandisizwe Chimurenga, www.dailykos.com , , ,
By Thandisizwe Chimurenga for Daily Kos - Members of Los Angeles’ Police Commission have called for “significant” changes regarding the use of deadly force by the city’s cops. According to a new report, they want to make sure that Los Angeles Police Department officers did all they could in the past to de-escalate tense situations, and they want to urge the city’s cops to do all that they can in the future to de-escalate before they have to use significant force. Yes, that sounds like common sense.

The End Of Discriminatory Policing In Ferguson?

March 17, 2016 J. Weston Phippen, www.theatlantic.com , , ,
By J. Weston Phippen for The Atlantic - The Ferguson, Missouri, City Council reversed its previous position and voted Tuesday night to accept the changes to its courts and police departments that were recommended by the U.S. Justice Department in the wake of the killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, by a police officer. The council voted unanimously, 6-to-0, to accept the Justice Department’s changes, and likely spared itself from an expensive legal battle.

Independent Autopsy Finds Cop Shot Akiel Denkins In The Back

March 14, 2016 Michael J. Dawson, www.filmthecops.news , ,
By Michael J. Dawson for Filming Cops - An independent autopsy states that a Raleigh, N.C. police officer fatally shot 24-year-old Akiel Denkins in the back, contrary to what the police department has stated. The results of the autopsy were announced at a press conference by the family, along with their attorneys, and members of the North Carolina NAACP, yesterday. “An initial review by the family, their legal team, and a forensic pathologist, indicates Mr. Denkins was shot from the back,” said Priscilla McCoy, one of the family’s attorneys.
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