#BlackLivesMatter

Inside The Protest That Stopped The Trump Rally

March 13, 2016 Keith O'Brien, www.politico.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Racism, Student Activism, Trump

By Keith O'Brien for Politico. Just 50 feet in front of the podium where Trump was scheduled to appear at any moment, Nathaniel Lewis, a 25-year-old African-American graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago, had established a beachhead of sorts: a pocket of about three dozen college students and activists. What Lewis and dozens of his UIC classmates had planned was perhaps bigger—and better organized—than any protest Trump had faced to date. “I don’t want to get punched in the face,” one woman, an undergrad, told Lewis over the din inside the UIC Pavilion. Lewis nodded. “I’m not going to let that happen to you,” he assured her. They had begun four days earlier with nothing. They had hoped that morning just to get inside the arena, maybe just a few of them, and maybe make a dent in the side of Trump’s candidacy.

New Doubts About Official Version Of Sandra Bland’s Death

March 12, 2016 Michael McLaughlin, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, #SandraBland, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality

By Michael McLaughlin for The Huffington Post - Contradictions in files about Sandra Bland's death are raising new questions about how the 28-year-old woman died in a Texas jail last summer. A medical examiner ruled in an autopsy that Bland killed herself in a jail in Waller County, Texas, three days after a state trooper was filmed manhandling her during a combative traffic stop. But documents obtained by The Huffington Post show discrepancies in the way officials described the condition of Bland's body when she was found dead in her cell.

State Declines To Charge Police For Killing India Kager

March 11, 2016 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Police Shootings

By John Zangas for DC Media Group - The Virginia Beach Commonwealth’s Attorney declined to charge four police officers with any wrongdoing in the shooting death of India Kager. At a press conference on Wednesday in Virginia Beach, Colin Stolle said, “I’ve come to the conclusion that the four Virginia Police Officers involved did not violate the law and will not be prosecuted.” Attorney Stolle released the results of a six-month investigation during the press conference, along with a one-minute video sequence of the incident which he claims exonerates the four police officers involved in the September 5th shooting. The video was obtained from an out of focus surveillance camera mounted outside a 7-11 convenience store.

No Federal Charges Against Officer Who Shot Ramarley Graham

March 9, 2016 Lia Eustachewich, www.nypost.com Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), NYPD, police brutality

By Lia Eustachewich for New York Post - A federal grand jury will not be convened to weigh criminal charges in the police-involved shooting death of Bronx teen Ramarley Graham, officials announced Tuesday in closing the 2012 case. US Attorney Preet Bharara’s office had been investigating since 2014 whether Graham’s civil rights were violated – but concluded there was “insufficient evidence to meet the high burden of proof required for a federal criminal civil rights prosecution.”

60 Groups Demand Investigation Of Spying On Political Groups

March 8, 2016 Chip Gibbons, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), FBI, Homeland Security, Occupy, spying

By Chip Gibbons for Defending Dissent. Over 60 national and local groups have signed on to a letter initiated by the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and Defending Dissent Foundation, calling on the Senate and House Judiciary Committees to investigate the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) monitoring of political protests and social movements. Signatories include the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, Center for Constitutional Rights, ColorOfChange, Government Accountability Project, Greenpeace USA, National Lawyers Guild, Popular Resistance, Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, Rising Tide North America, School of the Americas Watch, US Uncut, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, and Veterans for Peace.

Fortune Warns CEOs: Protests Coming Your Way

March 7, 2016 Adia Harvey Wingfield, www.fortune.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Corporations

By Adia Harvey Wingfield for Fortune - As the #BlackLivesMatter campus protests have swept across some 60 colleges nationwide, American students, especially the most liberal ones, are being criticized for their intolerance of free speech. Recent data showthat 43% of incoming freshmen in 2015 thought it should be a college’s right to ban extreme speakers; 71% supported prohibitions against racist and sexist speech. Pundits and comics on the left and right have derided rampant “political correctness” on campuses, and some ridiculed University of Missouri demonstrators who tried to block media coverage and Yale students who shouted down a lecturer.

Texas Trooper Who Arrested Sandra Bland Is Officially Fired

March 3, 2016 Kim Bellware, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality, Sandra Bland

By Kim Bellware for The Huffington Post - The Texas state trooper who arrested Sandra Bland, the motorist who days later was found hanged in a jail cell, was formally fired on Wednesday, according to theTexas Department of Public Safety. Trooper Brian Encinia was fired after failing to rebut disciplinary charges leveled against him in January, Public Safety Director Steven McCraw wrote in a letter of final termination. Encinia had been accused of failing to act courteously during his July traffic stop of Bland, prolonging her detention, violating general orders and perjury.

How #BlackLivesMatter; #Ferguson Became Movement

March 1, 2016 Deen Freelon, Charlton D. McIlwain, and Meredith D. Clark, www.cmsimpact.org Strategize! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Ferguson, Social Media, Social Movements

By Deen Freelon, Charlton D. McIlwain, and Meredith D. Clark for CMSI - IN 2014, A DEDICATED ACTIVIST MOVEMENT—Black Lives Matter (BLM)—ignited an urgent national conversation about police killings of unarmed Black citizens. Online tools have been anecdotally credited as critical in this effort, but researchers are only beginning to evaluate this claim. This research report examines the movement’s uses of online media in 2014 and 2015. To do so, we analyze three types of data: 40.8 million tweets, over 100,000 web links, and 40 interviews of BLM activists and allies. Most of the report is devoted to detailing our findings...

Protests After Police Shoot Teen Holding Broomstick

February 29, 2016 www.dailymail.co.uk Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality, Protests, Salt Lake City

By Staff of By Associated Press - This is the 17-year-old boy fighting for his life in a coma after Utah police shot him in the chest because he was brandishing a broomstick. Abdi Mohamed was hospitalized in downtown Salt Lake City on Saturday night after the shooting near a homeless shelter. Mohamed, who lives with his girlfriend and their son, moved to the States from Kenya 10 years ago, according to the New York Daily News.

Remembering Trayvon Martin: His Death Built A Movement

February 28, 2016 Aprill O. Turner, www.campaignforyouthjustice.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Racism, Trayvon Martin

By Aprill O. Turner for the Campaign for Youth Justice. The tragic death of Trayvon has set off a national conversation about racial profiling and the role race played in the death of this young man. Trayvon’s death, and those of other young black men, has served as a catalyst for a new generation of activists that seek to dismantle the structures that target and criminalize black youth. New organizations have been formed, new leaders have emerged, the spirit of resistance has been given a reboot, and a new modern day civil rights movement has emerged. The question at the center of this movement is, “What does the world look like when Black Lives Matter?” What does education look like when Black lives matter? What does economic opportunity look like when Black lives matter? What does the criminal justice look like when Black lives really matter?

Why I Refused To Meet With President Obama

February 27, 2016 Aislinn Pulley, www.truth-out.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Barack Obama, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Media

By Aislinn Pulley for Truthout - On February 18, civil rights activists and leaders from around the country were invited to the White House for what the Obama administration has called a "first-of-its-kind" intergenerational meeting to discuss "a range of issues, including the administration's efforts on criminal justice reform" and "building trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve." The event's guest list includes high-profile civil rights leaders like Al Sharpton, student organizer DeShaunya Ware and others.

Mother Demands DOJ Investigate Police Killing Of India Kager

February 26, 2016 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality

By John Zangas for DC Media Group - Gina Best, the mother of India Kager, who was killed by Virginia Beach Police, delivered a petition to the Department of Justice on Thursday, to investigate her daughter’s killing. She was accompanied by Black Lives Matter activists, and demanded an “independent parallel investigation”. Six months after her daughter was killed she has yet to receive an official report from the Virginia Commonwealth Attorney’s office. Kager died with Angelo Perry, her child’s father, on September 5, 2015, when Virginia Beach police fired 30 shots into her car and deployed flash-bang grenades.

Black Lives Matter Protestors Join Chicago Apple Store Rally

February 25, 2016 Staff, www.abc7chicago.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Apple, Black Lives Matter (BLM), FBI

By Staff of ABC 7 and The Associated Press - CHICAGO (WLS) -- Rallies took place Tuesday evening at Apple stores in Chicago and in cities across the world to protest a court order forcing the tech giant to help the FBI hack into a locked iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino terrorists. But most of the protesters in Chicago were not there to support Apple but, instead, to call for Mayor Rahm Emanuel's resignation after the Laquan McDonald shooting.

Black Lives Matter Activists Interrupt Hillary Clinton

February 25, 2016 Tyler Tynes, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, 2016 Elections, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Hillary Clinton

By Tyler Tynes for The Huffington Post - Two Black Lives Matter activists interrupted a private Hillary Clinton fundraising event Wednesday night in Charleston, South Carolina. Youth activist Ashley Williams demanded that the Democratic presidential candidate account for inconsistencies in her record on race, specifically around comments she made about crime in 1996. Williams said she and a colleague, whom she did not identify, contributed $500 to attend the Clinton event, which was held at a private residence and was attended by around 100 guests.

50 Years Later Black Panther Political Prisoners Still Fighting

February 23, 2016 Asha Bandele, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black History, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Black Panthers

By Asha Bandele for The Huffington Post - It's early on the Monday morning, post-snowmaggedon 2016, and I have an unexpected 10 minutes to spare. I know I should close my eyes, center myself for the day ahead, but instead I FaceTime Baba Sekou Odinga. I don't really have anything to say. Mostly I just pick on him, tell bad jokes, make faces, sing off-key. "Why you do that to that man," the homie Everton who has been navigating me through the storm all weekend, asks, laughing.

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