Cleveland

Why Cleveland’s Black Lives Matter Chapter Is Sitting Out RNC Protests

July 19, 2016 Terrell Jermaine Starr, www.fusion.net Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Cleveland, Republican Party, RNC

By Terrell Jermaine Starr for Fusion - CLEVELAND—Thousands of activists will be in downtown Cleveland protesting the Republican National Convention this week, but one group you won’t see is Black Lives Matter Cleveland. The chapter doesn’t believe its organizing power will best serve black Clevelanders by protesting Donald Trump, a man who has shown no real interest in ending racist policing—the signature goal of Black Lives Matter chapters nationwide.

‘We Can Stand Together’: Protesters Prep For Cleveland As RNC Nears

July 18, 2016 Nadia Prupis, www.commondreams.org Resist! Cleveland, Protests, Republican Party, RNC

By Nadia Prupis for Common Dreams - Cleveland, Ohio is preparing for what many expect to be a volatile Republican National Convention (RNC) on Monday, as protesters and supporters converge on the city and controversy around presumptive nominee Donald Trump and his divisive running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, continues to build. About 50,000 people are expected to take part in protests and rallies for the four days of the convention, from July 18-21. The Guardian reports that thousands of police officers, secret service, and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents "swarmed the downtown area throughout the weekend."

Protesters To Wall Off Trump’s Hate At RNC In Cleveland

July 16, 2016 Staff, www.mijente.net Resist! Cleveland, Donald Trump, Protesters, Republican Party

By Staff of Mijente - In response to Trump’s insults, threats and his promises of mass deportation and building a border wall to separate neighbors, communities are traveling to Cleveland to give him a wall of their own. While Trump’s wall is an emblem of his xenophobic drive to Make America Hate Again, the protest wall to be built by organizers, artists, parents, children, and veterans gathered together by Mijente, the Ruckus Society, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Working Families Party, the Other 98%, First Seven Design Labs, and others will be a line of defense for the future of the country.

New Cleveland RNC Police & Military Docs: FEMA Base To Setup At NASA

June 22, 2016 Staff, www.unicornriot.ninja Educate! Cleveland, Military, NASA, Police, Republican Party

By Staff of Unicorn Riot - Cleveland has struggled with state violence in recent years; the killing by police of twelve-year-old Tamir Rice is one example among many. The police department is currently run under a consent decree reached with the Department of Justice. Foreshadowing coming events, community protests in Cleveland have been targeted with counterinsurgency-style policing in the last two years, with mass arrests taking place and protesters being detained at Burke Lakefront Airport.

Cleveland’s Greater University Circle Initiative

June 18, 2016 Walter Wright, Kathryn W. Hexter and Nick Downer, www.democracycollaborative.org Create! Cleveland, Development, Nonprofits

By Walter Wright, Kathryn W. Hexter and Nick Downer for Democracy Collaborative - Cities are increasingly turning to their “anchor” institutions as drivers of economic development, harnessing the power of these major economic players to benefit the neighborhoods where they are rooted. This is especially true for cities that are struggling with widespread poverty and disinvestment. Urban anchors— typically hospitals and universities—have sometimes isolated themselves from the poor and struggling neighborhoods that surround them.

Newsletter: Justice Takes A Lifetime

March 19, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter #BlackLivesMatter, Baltimore, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Chicago, Cleveland, Desegregation, Detroit, Donald Trump, Environmental Justice, Ferguson, Flint, Freddie Gray, Hillary Clinton, Incinerators, Inequality, Internet, Jeb Bush, Jim Crow, LAPD, Laquan McDonald, Los Angeles, Mass Incarceration, North Carolina, Prison Labor, Prisons, Privatization, Slavery, Student Activism, Tamir Rice, Wall Street, Water

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.

Cleveland Sues Tamir Rice’s Family For Ambulance Expense

February 16, 2016 Nathan Wellman, www.usuncut.com Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Cleveland, Lawsuit, police brutality, Tamir Rice

By Nathan Wellman for U.S. Uncut - Last December, a Cleveland officer killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice and forever shattered a family’s sense of peace in the process. Now police expect that same grieving family to foot the bill for the medical care provided to their dying son. The City of Cleveland has filed a creditor’s claim against the “estate” of the young boy. They expect the Rice family to pay five hundred dollars for “emergency medical services rendered as the decedent’s last dying expense.”

Complaint Filed Against Cop, Threatened Protesters With Car

January 23, 2016 Michael Nigro, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Cleveland, Police abuse, Protests

By Michael Nigro for The Huffington Post - During the Tamir Rice protest in downtown Cleveland, on December 29, 2015, police officer Brian Dorin, after using his cop car to "win" a game-of-chicken versus street protesters, rolled down his window and yelled at a 25-year-old black student-activist, "Do you want to be the next one." The incident is recounted in my Huffington photo essay published on January 8, 2016. Alana Belle, the student-activist to whom the phrase was directed, has now filed a complaint against Officer Dorin through the Office of Professional Standards (OPS), a civilian run police review board.

Coming Soon: The Next Tamir Rice

January 13, 2016 Michael Nigro, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Cleveland, Police abuse, Police violence, Tamir Rice

Michael Nigro for The Huffington Post - A Cleveland police cruiser lurches forward into a coterie of protesters and stops dangerously close to hitting a number of us who, along with about 150 others, had taken the streets for a second day in a row since the local grand jury decided not to indict the officers who shot and killed 12-year old Tamir Rice. And then, quite unbelievably, the officer behind the wheel does it again; he continues his odd and unnecessary game of chicken with the protesters. A siren blast. An engine rev. And then the cop bucks his car closer. And then he does it again.

Cleveland Police To Review Shooting Of 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice

December 30, 2015 Kim Palmer, www.reuters.com Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Cleveland, Tamir Rice

By Kim Palmer for Reuters - Cleveland police will review from start-to-finish the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice to determine if the two officers involved or others should face disciplinary action in the November 2014 incident, officials said on Tuesday. A grand jury on Monday declined to bring criminal charges against the officers in the death of Rice, who was brandishing a replica gun in a park before an officer shot him, drawing a protest on Tuesday afternoon in downtown Cleveland. "People are very upset about it and I believe legitimately and rightfully so," Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson said of Rice's shooting and other police-involved incidents around the United States.

Newsletter: Their Greed Is Our Ally

August 2, 2015 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Cleveland, Kayactivists, Police abuse, Police violence, Shell Oil, sHellNo!, TPP, Trade

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flower for Popular Resistance. The radical transformation that is needed is not on the agenda of anyone running for president in either the Democratic or Republican primary. The reality is that nothing offered by mainstream politics will achieve the transformational change that is needed. A normally mainstream Democrat, Robert Kuttner writes: “This is one of those moments when there is broad popular frustration, a moment when liberal goals require measures that seem radical by today’s standards. . . . Muddle-through and token gestures won’t fool anybody.” Consciousness is rising and with that so will the demands and actions of an organized populace. Sometimes it will take the shape of protests, other times a rebellion, sometimes cities will be shut down and there will be riots. The system is not responding to the reasonable demands for social, economic, racial and environmental justice.

Experiencing Police Brutality Made Me An Activist

July 29, 2015 Monica Raye Simpson, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, #SayHerName, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Black Women, Cleveland, police brutality, Social Change

By Monica Raye Simpson in The Huffington Post - This past weekend, I joined over 1500 other activists from across the country in Cleveland, Ohio for the Movement For Black Lives Convening. We were all together -- black cis-gendered women and men, black queer women and men, trans women and trans men, black elders, black young people, black babies -- from across all movements learning, strategizing, resisting, creating and healing together. For me, it was a truly spiritual experience. I was sad that I had to return to Atlanta early, especially when I realized that this powerful and historic weekend took an unfortunate turn when Cleveland law enforcement arrested a 14-year-old boy and used pepper spray on protestors who fought to protect him. As I watched this ordeal unfold on social media, I wanted so desperately to be on the front lines with my sisters and brothers. I thought to myself, How could this weekend -- one full of so much love and brilliance -- end like this?

Police Pepper Spray At #BlackLivesMatter Meeting

July 27, 2015 NewsOne Staff, www.facebook.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, #SayHerName, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Cleveland, police brutality

By NewsOne Staff - With screams of “Take them off!” Black Lives Matter activists refused to disperse until police released a 14-year-old boy who was arrested with no apparent cause. The boy was allegedly thrown to the ground and pepper spray was used all because he was suspected of breaking open container laws. According to witnesses, he was carrying a Snapple. Hundreds of Black freedom fighters from around the country will come together for the inaugural Movement for Black Lives Convening in Cleveland, OH, from Friday July 24 to Sunday July 26th, 2015. This historic event comes at a pivotal time for the growing movement for Black lives in the United States. Black people are facing unabated police violence, increasing criminalization, a failed economic system, a broken education system and the loss of our communities to gentrification and development.

‘This Is A Movement, Not A Moment’

July 24, 2015 Sonali Kolhatkar, www.truthdig.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, #SayHerName, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Cleveland

By Sonali Kolhatkar in Truthdig - On July 24, The Movement for Black Lives National Convening will bring bringing together activists from all over the United States, organizing under the banner of Black Lives Matter. The organization will meet in Cleveland. Among those activists will be such prominent leaders as Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, the original founders of Black Lives Matter. Also present will be hundreds of members and local chapter leaders like 28-year-old Jasmine Richards, a powerful activist in Pasadena, Calif., where I live. Pasadena is typical of most midsized cities in the United States. It boasts a major university, a handful of art museums, cosmopolitan restaurants, hipster coffee shops and a popular sports arena. But bisecting the city is a major freeway with a rough but stark demographic divide. On one side live relatively wealthy and middle-class whites, while on the other side, poor black and brown folks struggle to get by.

Brelo Decision Presents Crucial Moment For Clevelanders

June 6, 2015 Austin C. McCoy, www.truth-out.org Resist! Cleveland, Criminal Justice, Law, police brutality

By Austin C. McCoy in Truthout - Many expected the city of Cleveland to erupt after watching Judge John O'Donnell pronounce Cleveland Police Officer Michael Brelo "not guilty" in the November 29, 2014, killing of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams with 137 gunshots. Seeking to prevent Cleveland from becoming the next city to explode, Mayor Frank Jackson released a public letter in late April assuring residents that he and the police were prepared to address any scenario. Several days before O'Donnell's May 23 decision from his Cuyahoga Common Pleas Court bench, The Washington Post published a story with a headline that asked, "Will Cleveland riot if a police officer is found not guilty?"

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