Ferguson

Nyle Fort, The 24-year-old Minister At The Heart Of Ferguson

November 15, 2014 FUSION, www.fusion.net Organize! Ferguson, police brutality, Racial Justice, Religion, Social Change

Nyle Fort says he was drawn to activism by the color of his skin. “We live in a country where black people are systematically and disproportionately stopped, frisked, harassed and killed based on the color of our skin,” said the 24-year-old grassroots organizer and minister. “It scares people, and it shouldn’t,” Fort said about being black. His activism, he says, is motivated by a desire to rise above that ignorance, hate and suppression. Fort recently focused his activism in Ferguson, where officer Darren Wilson killed Mike Brown, an unarmed black teenager, on Aug. 9. Fort was one of thousands of community leaders to descend on the small St. Louis suburb and lend his voice to the protest known as #FergusonOctober. It was an opportunity to deliver a very simple message to the world: “Black Lives Matter.”

‘Ready For War’: 1,000 Police Officers Mobilized In Advance Of Ruling In Ferguson

November 13, 2014 Carimah Townes, www.thinkprogress.org Educate! Ferguson, police brutality, Wars and Militarism

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon said that he will call the Missouri National Guard, should violence erupt after the grand jury decision in the case of Darren Wilson. During a press conference on Tuesday, Nixon also said that more than 1000 law enforcement officials have completed 5,000 hours of specialized training over the past two months, in preparation for the verdict, which will be announced any day now. In addition to the use of the National Guard, three police agencies including St. Louis County Police, city police, and highway patrol will follow the same command, if Darren Wilson is not indicted and protesters take to the streets. Many departments have invested in new riot gear.

#AfterFerguson: Organizing 104 – The Workshop

November 13, 2014 Bruce A. Dixon, www.blackagendareport.com Organize! Civil Disobedience, Education, Ferguson

Local residents and grassroots activists expressed their disappointment with their local officials, and have been planning and training for civil disobedience. Concerned individuals and activists in dozens of cities and towns across the nation plan to hit the streets the day after the grand jury decision is reached. Black Agenda Reports is running a series of instructional primers directed at activists who want to be organizers. Activists are people who just show up, but life changing and society-changing movements are put together quite intentionally by people we call organizers. Organizing 101 instructed would be organizers to ALWAYS collect the names, phone numbers and email addresses, the essential digits of those who turn out for any meeting, flash mob or demonstration of any kind.

Camera Training Is Revolutionizing Protests Against Police Brutality In Ferguson

November 13, 2014 Moreh B.D.K. and Jackson Marciana, www.countercurrentnews.com Strategize! Ferguson, Journalism, Media, police brutality, Police the Police

With the Ferguson Police Department, Missouri State Police, Federal law enforcement and military planning a heavy-handed response to upcoming protests, we decided there was no better time to get in touch with the activists on the ground who are revolutionizing the way police are held accountable. We contacted Jacob from the Canfield Watchmen to ask about the camera training that his group is engaged in, which is changing the game in Ferguson and surrounding areas. With newly leaked information tipping off protesters to police plans to use third party hackers to block cell phone video live streaming, this camera training might prove more important than ever with the reading of the verdict in the Officer Darren Wilson case.

Michael Brown’s Family Brings Message Of Police Violence To Geneva

November 12, 2014 Deirdre Fulton, www.commondreams.org Organize! Ferguson, police brutality, United Nations

The family of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager shot and killed by a white police officer this summer, and grassroots organizers from Ferguson, Missouri are in Geneva, Switzerland this week to testify before the United Nations Committee Against Torture, press for justice in Ferguson and other disenfranchised communities, and "to unite governments around the world against the human rights violations that result from racial profiling and police violence." The #FergusonToGeneva contingent—comprising Michael Brown, Sr., Michael's mother Lesley McSpadden, human rights advocates, and representatives from the Missouri-based organizations HandsUpUnited, Organization for Black Struggle, and Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment—will also present to the UN a report (pdf)released last month, condemning the Ferguson police department for Brown's killing as well as militarized law enforcement response to subsequent demonstrations.

Ferguson & Kenny Nero, Jr: The Front Lines Of Fighting Police Terror In DC

November 12, 2014 Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Ferguson, Law, police brutality, Racial Justice, Washington DC

During the recent Black is Back Rally and Teach-In in Washington, D.C., I had the pleasure of interviewing Kenny Nero, one of the original organizers of the #DCFerguson movement. The group has organized marches with 300-700 participants that have shut down major economic thoroughfares in DC from Chinatown and H Street, to U Street and Georgetown. These demonstrations provided the impetus for DC Council member Tommy Wells to organize hearings on police brutality, harassment and terror in Washington DC. Kenny Nero, Jr. is a librarian at the Howard University Health Sciences Library and a community organizer by night. He worked on the DC Jail Library Coalition initiative to make a library in DC’s jail a reality. The initiative's successes include the mayor's allocating $300K for the library to support: a full time librarian, to be hired in October 2014; a part time library technician, and job readiness and digital literacy programs.

Beyond ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’: What If There’s No Indictment In Ferguson?

November 11, 2014 Hannah Giorgis, www.theguardian.com Create! Ferguson, Law, police brutality, Racial Justice

Black lives matter? It’s tough to keep saying something like that – to shout it in anything but protest – with this impending reality: At some point in the next few days, it’s likely that Darren Wilson will not be indicted, by the US justice department or the state of Missouri, for the extrajudicial killing of Michael Brown – an 18-year-old unarmed black man – in Ferguson, in broad daylight, three long months ago. It is at once horrific and predictable that a law enforcement officer may never have to answer for his crimes in criminal court, that his life will remained buttressed by the power of a blue wall as more black people are shot dead in America simply for existing, and by secret online donations from supporters with names like “Jim Crow” who applaud him for “taking out the trash”, like George Zimmerman and so many others before him.

‘Day After’ Ferguson Grand Jury Plans Announced For DC

November 9, 2014 Salim Adofo, www.nbufdc.org Resist! Ferguson, Police abuse, police brutality, police murder

#DCFerguson will hold a rally, 7pm at Mt. Vernon Square in Washington DC, the "day after" if the grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, does not indict Officer Darren Wilson for the murder of teenager Michael Brown. #DCFerguson continues to stand in solidarity with the Michael Brown family and the sisters and brothers in Ferguson that are continuing to protest and resist the police murders of Black and Latino people every 28 hours in America. ANSWER Coalition organizer Eugene Puryear says, "The murder of Michael Brown and the situation in Ferguson can and should be a turning point. Where we finally come to terms with the root causes of these issues and address social deprivation and oppression and the police brutality that comes with it." The initial sponsors of #DCFerguson include the National Black United Front, the ANSWER Coalition, We Act Radio, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the American Muslim Alliance, as well as independent organizing networks that have sprung up in the wake of Michael Brown's killing.

Ferguson Friday

November 7, 2014 Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation, www.creativeresistance.org Resist! Creative Resistance, Ferguson, police brutality, Racial Justice, Student Activism

From CreativeResistance.org - Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation (SOUL) at University of Pennsylvania is engaging in a series of creative actions, held weekly on Fridays. The group aims to create a more conscious and active community at U Penn and in Philadelphia. Police brutality is modern day lynching, state sanctioned murder. There are more Black men in prison today or under the watch of the criminal justice system than were enslaved in 1850. On October 24th, Gina Marie, Jamal Taylor and another student portrayed slavery in 1814, lynching in 1914, and mass incarceration/prison industrial complex in 2014 to represent persistent acts of genocide against Black people. They wore tape over their mouths, symbolic of the silencing of African ancestors and brethren behind bars. “We will not be silent about our oppression.”

AP Exclusive: Ferguson No-Fly Zone Aimed At Media

November 4, 2014 Jack Gillum and Joan Lowy, www.bigstory.ap.org Educate! Ferguson, Freedom of Press, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Media, Police the Police

The U.S. government agreed to a police request to restrict more than 37 square miles of airspace surrounding Ferguson, Missouri, for 12 days in August for safety, but audio recordings show that local authorities privately acknowledged the purpose was to keep away news helicopters during violent street protests. On Aug. 12, the morning after the Federal Aviation Administration imposed the first flight restriction, FAA air traffic managers struggled to redefine the flight ban to let commercial flights operate at nearby Lambert-St. Louis International Airport and police helicopters fly through the area — but ban others. "They finally admitted it really was to keep the media out," said one FAA manager about the St. Louis County Police in a series of recorded telephone conversations obtained by The Associated Press.

Popular Resistance Newsletter: Internet Emergency

November 1, 2014 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Blockade, Climate Change, Cove Point, Extreme Energy, Ferguson, Fracking, Gas, Internet, Net Neutrality, Oil, Pipelines, Police abuse, police brutality, Snowden, Tar Sands

The FCC meeting on December 11 is likely to be the day they announce new rules for the Internet. We’ve made a lot of progress in ensuring net neutrality but are not there yet. We need you to act now. Take two steps: Take a photo of yourself holding a sign that says #RealNetNeutrality, #ReclassifyTheInternet. You can add another slogan if you like, e.g. Save the Internet, Equal Access for All, My Voice Matters. Then upload a photo to the campaign page: My Voice Matters that will show a broad national consensus for no compromise on net neutrality. Sign up to join us in taking action this Thursday evening. We are urging people to take a very simple action to save the Internet. Organize an event in your community, at your college quad, a local Comcast or Verizon – or wherever works for you. The event should be in the evening so you can hold your cell phone lit up to symbolize the Internet. And, hold a sign like the one we describe in the first action. Sign up your event on our map. Do this now so we quickly show momentum and build the day of action; and people can learn about your event and join you.

Art Broadens Conversation About Police Brutality

November 1, 2014 Geoff Gilbert, www.indypendent.org Resist! Art, Ferguson, New York City (NYC)

Millennial Activists United and Lost Voices, two youth activist groups operating on the ground in Ferguson. Through poetry, graphic art, film screenings and music, the participants explored connections between recurrent police brutality and larger problems of systemic racial inequality and state and economic violence that, in today’s supposedly ‘post-racial’ America, affect communities of color. The #NYCStandsWithFerguson showcase is part of a growing movement of black youth organizing according to a common experience, a process that has begun in the aftermath of the high-profile killings of unarmed black youth like Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Renisha McBride. For the artists, some of whom traveled from Philadelphia and New Hampshire, and their audience of close to 70 people, art functioned as the means to articulate and engage with an experience of systematic racial profiling, mass incarceration, educational deprivation and chronic economic underinvestment.

Ferguson Police Prepare For Protests

October 29, 2014 John Swaine, www.theguardian.com Educate! Ferguson, police brutality, Police the Police, Wars and Militarism

The police department overseeing the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, over the killing of an unarmed 18-year-old has spent tens of thousands of dollars replenishing their stocks of teargas, “less lethal” ammunition and riot gear in advance of a potential revival in demonstrations. St Louis County police made the purchases amid concerns that hundreds of demonstrators will return to the streets if Darren Wilson, the officer who shot dead Michael Brown in August, is not indicted on criminal charges by a grand jury currently considering the case. A breakdown of the department’s spending since August on equipment intended for the policing of crowds and civil disobedience, which totals $172,669, was obtained by the Guardian from the county force.

St. Louis Businesses Warned Of Unrest After Grand Jury Verdict

October 29, 2014 Curtis Kalin, www.cnsnews.com Organize! Business, Ferguson, Law, police brutality, Police the Police

A St. Louis property manager is warning businesses near the St. Louis County courthouse to prepare for “civil unrest” in the wake of the imminent grand jury decision in the Michael Brown shooting. Public demonstrations and random acts of violence have plagued the St. Louis area since August, when a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed, black teenager in the North St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, MO. The warning to businesses came by way of a letter, dated October 21, addressed to “all tenants” in The Boulevard shopping center in Richmond Heights, MO. The shopping center is less than a mile and a half from the site of the grand jury proceeding in Clayton, MO.

#OpFerguson: No Indictment of Officer Wilson Coming Nov. 10th

October 29, 2014 #OpFerguson, www.pastebin.com Educate! Anonymous, Ferguson, Michael Brown

On or about November 10, 2014 the Grand Jury decision will be announced. Darren Wilson will NOT be indicted on ANY charges related to the murder of Mike Brown. All local police Chiefs and jail commanders have been notified to begin preparing for major civil unrest. Governor Nixon has been notified of the impending announcement and has ordered the Missouri National Guard to begin preparations for a possible re-enstatement of the martial law that was declared at the beginning of the Ferguson protests. As additional evidence that neither the State nor Federal authorities intend any legal action against Darren Wilson for the murder of Mike Brown, one of our sources has provided a very intriguing close up glimpse of Darren Wilson – his current where abouts and lifestyle. Darren Wilson is still in the St. Louis area and recently attended a Blues game.

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