Ferguson

Open Letter From Ferguson Protesters & Allies

October 18, 2014 Ferguson Protesters and Allies, www.scribd.com Educate! Direct Action, Ferguson, Protests, Racial Justice

We are living an American Horror Story. The unlawful slaughter of black bodies by the hands of power has continued day after day, year afteryear, century after century, life by precious life, since before the first chain was slipped around blackwrists.Black youth, brimming with untapped potential, but seen as worthless and unimportant. Black activists,stalwart in pursuit of liberation, but perceived as perpetual threats to order and comfort. Black men,truly and earnestly clinging to our dignity, written off as the ravenous, insatiable black savage. Blackwomen, always unflinchingly running toward our freedom, dismissed as bitter and angry after longdenial and suffering.

Women On The Frontlines Of The Struggle In Ferguson

October 18, 2014 Michelle Zei, www.youngist.org Resist! Ferguson, History, Protests, Women

Women have always played integral roles in social movements and turning points in American history. For example, women in the Civil War revolutionized the nursing profession that we know today. Women were willing to get their hands dirty and fulfill an immense need that men alone couldn’t meet. Despite the contributions of fearless women throughout history like Eleanor Roosevelt, Angela Davis, and Dolores Huerta, women are often remembered in the margins as wives and supporting roles while history celebrates their male contemporaries with more distinction. The bravery of young women in St. Louis makes the powerful statement that women are resilient and fully capable of leadership – a statement that still receives skepticism in the United States, where we’ve yet to have a female president, and women only account for 99 of the 535 seats of the current 113th Congress, and women of color hold 30 seats (14 belong to Black women).

#FergusonLive: The End Of Suffering Silently

October 17, 2014 Linda Tirado, www.rhrealitycheck.org Resist! Ferguson, Michael Brown, Police abuse

Thousands of activists gathered in Ferguson, Missouri, October 10-13, to show the world they will not be silenced, unless they choose silence as a weapon. At one point during the “weekend of resistance”—a direct response to the slaying of Michael Brown on August 9, and other Black men across the country in recent months, at the hands of law enforcement—people lay silently in chalk outlines on the road, fists raised. Back in August, Ferguson residents made a simple demand: Arrest Brown’s killer, police officer Darren Wilson. That was it. Just get the wheels of justice turning. In the intervening weeks, the world learned Wilson didn’t even bother turning in an incident report. We watched the Ferguson police defy the Justice Department and refuse to wear their name badges. But the people in Ferguson were not only watching a failed justice system—they were adding Brown’s name to a long list of police shooting victims and getting organized.

Slave Patrols Alive And Well, Part 1: Vonderrit Myers

October 16, 2014 Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Ferguson, police brutality, Police the Police, Racial Justice, Vonderrit Myers

“This latest yet unidentified St. Louis police executioner claimed that he followed Myers and his friends because he felt that the teens were acting suspiciously.” Ten minutes earlier he had taken the turkey sandwich Berhe Beyet made him and cradled it away from his friend's playful snatching. Then stood breaking off a piece that he shared with another friend. By now, his mother has seen this tape of him standing in silhouette, and watched his peaceful chewing. On his way out the door he gives yet another friend a bite of what he did not know was his last supper, walking off into a night every parent in America cannot begin to imagine. A night every black person in America knows is coming and that the next one coming could be them—might as well be them—every time they imagine the high caliber bullet shattering his cheek bone, eye socket, aorta the medical examiner identified as the cause of death.

“Hands Up! Don’t Shoot!”: Gesture, Choreography, And Protest In Ferguson

October 15, 2014 Anusha Kedhar, www.thefeministwire.com Strategize! Direct Action, Ferguson, Protests, Racial Justice

Unlike other slogans, though, “Hands up! Don’t shoot!” is not just voiced. It is also embodied. Contained within the phrase is both a plea not to shoot, as well as the bodily imperative to lift one’s hands up. Since Michael Brown’s murder, we’ve seen photos of young black men and women in Ferguson, Tibetan monks from India, black Harvard law students, school children in Missouri, young people in Moscow, and a church congregation in New York City with their hands up. What does this gesture mean for the different bodies that enact it? How do protesters assign new meanings to such a codified bodily gesture? How can we read these protests as choreographic tactics and gestures of resistance? Why is the deployment of the body in the case of the Ferguson protests so significant? I want to offer five ways of reading this gesture in the following list, which is by no means exhaustive...

Massive Demonstration At St Louis U. For Brown And Myers

October 14, 2014 Cassandra Rules, www.thefreethoughtproject.com Resist! Ferguson, police brutality, Racial Justice, Social Change, St. Louis

St Louis, MO — On Sunday’s action for the Ferguson October Weekend of Resistance, demonstrators gathered at the site of the killing of VonDerrit Myers for another very secretive act of civil disobedience. When protesters arrived in the area, police had once again set up check points at all side streets leading to the location. Non residents were not permitted to enter, and residents were forced to provide identification to be able to get to their homes. At the memorial site there were at least two hundred people when we arrived around 1 am. We came to learn that we were in Group 2 with the Myers family, and that another group had already set off marching. We kept to the side walks and marched quietly to make sure we could peacefully make it to our destination, although none of us had any idea where that was.

Moral Monday Ferguson: Marches, Banners, Arrests And More

October 13, 2014 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Ferguson, Police abuse, police brutality, police murder

The Ferguson, Moral Monday protest brought people of all ages into the streets of Ferguson and St. Louis seeking justice. Rev. Osagyefo Sekou wrote a column in the St. Louis American that clarified the issues the nation is confronting: "America has a choice – death or rebirth. Will it be a nation where we kill unarmed black teenagers with their hands up, hogtie peaceful protestors and teargas pregnant women and children, or can we envision a nation that would give justice to all the Mike Browns of America? The deadly option, it seems, is the preference. The police brutality embodied in the killing of all the Mike Browns of America and the blatant disrespect shown to his body and community are emblematic of a nation heading toward spiritual death."

Ferguson: Red Fountains For Generations Of Blood

October 13, 2014 Kevin Gosztola, www.dissenter.firedoglake.com Educate! Ferguson, police brutality, Racial Justice

There were well over a thousand people from various community, union and activist organizations out in the streets of downtown St. Louis yesterday. They were not just marching for justice for Mike Brown, the unarmed black teenager who was gunned down by white Ferguson police officer, but were also coming together to highlight the need to transform a moment into a movement that will confront police violence in communities. One of the more powerful moments of the day came when Montague Simmons, chair of the Organization for Black Struggle (OBS) and founder of Hands Up United, took the stage during the rally after the march through the city. Simmons mentioned that the “red fountains” were freaking him out because they made him think of the blood shed throughout generations in America. [Note: St. Louis dyed the fountain red for the Cardinals baseball team, which is currently in the playoffs.]

Deadly Force, In Black And White

October 13, 2014 Ryan Gabrielson, Ryann Grochowski Jones and Eric Sagara, www.propublica.com Educate! Ferguson, police brutality, Racial Justice

Young black males in recent years were at a far greater risk of being shot dead by police than their white counterparts – 21 times greater i, according to a ProPublica analysis of federally collected data on fatal police shootings. The 1,217 deadly police shootings from 2010 to 2012 captured in the federal data show that blacks, age 15 to 19, were killed at a rate of 31.17 per million, while just 1.47 per million white males in that age range died at the hands of police. One way of appreciating that stark disparity, ProPublica's analysis shows, is to calculate how many more whites over those three years would have had to have been killed for them to have been at equal risk. The number is jarring – 185, more than one per week.

Popular Resistance Newsletter – The People Are Ready For Action

October 11, 2014 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Climate Change, Ferguson, Indigenous Rights, TPP, Wars and Militarism

There is no doubt that the people are rising. Today there are at least three major events taking place – the Ferguson October massive march to end police brutality and racism in St. Louis, the European-wide day of actions against the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Agreement (TAFTA) and the Global Frackdown. People are also protesting the World Bank meeting in Washington, DC and the Maine Walk for Peace is beginning. This week we remembered Popular Resistance’s roots in the occupation of Freedom Plaza which began as October2011. At that time we wondered if people were ready to take stronger actions to challenge the corrupt political and economic systems that rule and the answer in the form of hundreds of occupations and the ongoing protests that followed was a clear ‘Yes!”

Thousands Rally For Justice In #FergusonOctober

October 11, 2014 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Ferguson, Militarized police, Police abuse, police murder

People from coast-to-coast joined the people of Ferguson and St. Louis County calling for justice in the killing of Mike Brown. Below are a series of tweets that give a sense of the massive protest held in St. Louis today. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch describes the scene: Thousands of demonstrators from across the country marched in downtown St. Louis Saturday, chanting "We are Mike Brown," as part of a series of events to protest police violence nationwide. "We're fighting for our lives,'' St. Louis activist and rapper Tef Poe told the crowd. The march started in the middle of Market Street at 15th Street and ended at Kiener Plaza. The crowd chanted, "Hands up, don't shoot,""No justice, no peace," and "United we stand, divided we fall." Police used barricades to keep traffic away from the crowd. Officers patrolled on bicycles and foot. But unlike the protests in August after Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson shot unarmed teenager Michael Brown, St. Louis police avoided any visible show of force during Saturday's downtown march.

First Night Of Protests In FergusonOctober Weekend

October 11, 2014 Staff, www.bigstory.ap.org Resist! Ferguson, Militarized police, Police abuse

"It's important for this country to stand with this community," said protester Ellen Davidson of New York City, who was making her second trip to the St. Louis area since Brown's death. "This community is under siege. ... The eyes of the world are watching." On Saturday, the protests shift to downtown St. Louis, hours before the Cardinals host the San Francisco Giants in the first game of the National League Championship Series. And on Monday, a series of planned — but unannounced — acts of civil disobedience are to take place throughout the St. Louis region. "I'm not planning to get arrested," said Davidson, who was meeting up with other protesters from Illinois, Minnesota, New York and Tennessee. "But I do plan to do what I believe are in my rights as a protester. If I get arrested, that's on the people who arrest me."

Protesters March In Clayton, Ferguson, Kick Off FergusonOctober

October 11, 2014 SL Today, www.stltoday.com Resist! Ferguson, Human Rights, police brutality, Racial Justice

CLAYTON • A rain-soaked crowd of several hundred people marched in downtown Clayton on Friday afternoon, kicking off this weekend’s FergusonOctober rallies and protests. Hours later, a similar crowd took to the streets of Ferguson for a candlelight march and protest across from the police department, beating drums and chanting into the night as well as blocking West Florissant Avenue. Several protesters used bullhorns to direct the crowd, some asked protesters to move to south St. Louis where a police officer killed a teenager earlier this week after the teen opened fire on him. The Clayton march began outside St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch’s office. Activists have demanded that McCulloch step aside in the Michael Brown case. Clayton police had barricaded Carondelet Avenue between Central and Bemiston avenues in anticipation of the event.

After Ferguson, From Civil Rights To Human Rights

October 11, 2014 Nathan Schneider, www.wagingnonviolence.org Strategize! Civil Rights, Ferguson, Human Rights

A rebellion can’t last forever. But in the weeks since the killing of Michael Brown, the people of Ferguson, Mo., have been keeping it up for the rest of us. Now is when vision matters most — a vision or visions that can carry people from the moment to momentum, within which a movement can mature and grow and win. That’s why we should be discussing proposals like Forward from Ferguson, a new report by Max Rameau, M Adams and Rob Robinson — all veterans of the influential housing-justice group Take Back the Land, now working as the Center for Pan-African Development. The document, drawing on utterances of Malcolm X, calls for the U.S. racial justice movement to turn from the framework of civil rights to human rights. This is Malcolm speaking: We need to expand the civil-rights struggle to a higher level — to the level of human rights.

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