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We Will Not Be Silent

December 23, 2014 Ferguson Action, www.fergusonaction.com , , ,
Activists issued a scathing statement this afternoon in response to recent attempts by the NYPD to silence the efforts of citizens seeking justice for victims of police violence. The letter, drafted by Ferguson Action, and cosigned by over a dozen grassroots organizations takes aim at PBA president Patrick Lynch and Commissioner Bratton for their reckless attempts to conflate constitutionally protected protest activities with the tragic murders of officers Ramos and Liu: “The events of this weekend are tragic. We renew our condolences to the families and friends of those injured and killed this weekend. As those who stand with the victims of police violence, we know all too well the deep sense of loss that a community feels when they lose a loved one."

Admission By Ferguson Prosecutor Could Restart Case Against Wilson

December 23, 2014 Judd Legum, www.nationofchange.org , , ,
Ferguson prosecutor Bob McCulloch admitted that he presented evidence he knew to be false to the grand jury considering charges against Darren Wilson. In an interview with radio station KTRS on Friday, McCulloch said that he decided to present witnesses that were “clearly not telling the truth” to the grand jury. Specifically, McCulloch acknowledged he permitted a woman who “clearly wasn’t present when this occurred” to testify as an eyewitness to the grand jury for several hours. The woman, Sandra McElroy, testified that Michael Brown charged at Wilson “like a football player, head down,” supporting Wilson’s claim that he killed Brown in self-defense. McElroy, according to a detailed investigation by The Smoking Gun, suffers from bipolar disorder but is not receiving treatment and has a history of making racist remarks.

Getting Rid Of Al Sharpton & The Misleadership Class

December 19, 2014 Glen Ford, www.blackagendareport.com , ,
Although many of the young activists may not have been aware that they were crossing a kind of Rubicon, the threat that “Ferguson” represented to the post-Sixties order was immediately evident to the Black misleaders that have colluded with the mass incarceration regime for the past two generations. It soon became obvious that the Al Sharptons of the community were attempting to isolate the core Ferguson activists and prevent the coalescing of a youth-led national Black movement – especially one that might act in concert with non-Blacks in the remnants of the anti-war and Occupy movements.

Revolutionary Love: Ferguson Protest Leaders Get Engaged At City Hall

December 18, 2014 Rebecca Rivas, www.stlamerican.com , ,
Ferguson protest leader Brittany Ferrell remembers the first time she saw Alexis Templeton step out of the car at the Ferguson Police Department in mid-August. Templeton said she found herself gravitating towards certain people in the movement, namely Ferrell, “making sure they are safe. Making sure they are okay more than everyone else is okay. And when they get arrested, you try to get arrested with them.” In the midst the movement’s intensity, they fell in love. On Tuesday, December 16 at about 2 p.m., Ferrell and Templeton arrived at St. Louis City Hall to get married – something that only became possible a month before in Missouri. On November 5, a state judge overturned Missouri’s constitutional ban on gay marriage. The Slay administration has been a strong advocate for marriage equality.

Post-Ferguson Moment Becoming A Movement

December 18, 2014 Dennis Trainor, Jr., www.acronymtv.wordpress.com , , ,
Over 50 thousand demonstrators marched from Washington Square Park, uptown through the heart of the holiday shopping district at Herald Square and then downtown to a rally and speak out at one police plaza. The march was lead by led by family members of those who have lost loved ones to police murder – including family members of Mike Brown, Jordan Davis, Shantel Davis, Sean Bell, Emmitt Till, Alberta Spruill, Ramarley Graham, and Kimani Gray. Local organizers stressed that this movement is growing out of the historical moment brought on by the Mike Brown case in and the “incredible bravery” of organizers and protesters in Ferguson, MO who have been in the streets, often facing down a paramilitary police force, for over 100 days and counting.

Dorchester Middle-School Students Protest

December 17, 2014 Universal Hub, www.universalhub.com , , ,
Students in the upper grades at the Joseph Lee K-8 School in Dorchester held a two-hour Black Lives Matter protest this morning. Kids who'd brought in permission slips walked from the school to the intersection of Blue Hill and Talbot avenues, where they chanted slogans such as "Hands up! Don't Shoot!" and "What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!" Several teachers stood with them; three BPD cruisers and officers were parked on Blue Hill Avenue. Many passing motorists honked in support. "We, the students and the staff of the Joseph Lee School are planning a demonstration to support and increase awareness that ALL lives matter, inspired by the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and so many more."

In The Struggle Against Police Violence, The Youth Shall Lead

December 17, 2014 Mychal Denzel Smith, www.commondreams.com , ,
This new movement is being led by mostly young black women who won’t allow us to forget that black women’s lives matter, too (Columbia University Law professor Kimberle Crenshaw was present with a large banner that featured the pictues and names of black women and girls also killed by police). It is drawing in diverse crowds, including white allies who are not calling for gradual change, but a total end to white supremacy. The people in the street have neck tattoos, are dressed in sagging skinny jeans, and curse loudly (among the more popular chants: “BACK UP, BACK UP, WE WANT FREEDOM, FREEDOM, ALL THESE RACIST ASS COPS, WE DON’T NEED ‘EM, NEED ‘EM!” and “WHO SHUT SHIT DOWN? WE SHUT SHIT DOWN!”). The movement doesn’t look or sound like anything our elders remember (or were taught) about the civil rights era. And that’s OK. We have a new fight. We have to create a new model of resistance.

Davis: Police Violence Takes Us Back To Slavery

December 17, 2014 Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com , , ,
“There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, the development of the Ku Klux Klan,” says Angela Davis. “There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.” “We talked about the fact that people like to point to Obama as an individual and hold him responsible for the madness that has happened. Of course there are things that Obama as an individual might have done better – he might have insisted more on the closing of Guantánamo – but people who invested their hopes in him were approaching the issue of political futures in the wrong way to begin with."

System For Prosecuting Cops Is Broken

December 16, 2014 Josh Voorhees, www.slate.com , ,
So, the system is broken. How exactly should we fix it? A number of promising options have already been floated, most notably proposals either to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate police-involved killings or to shift that responsibility to the state attorney general. Both would put some much-needed distance between the officer being investigated and the officials doing the investigating. But neither would address the core problem of a system that is tasked with coming to a conclusion about guilt and responsibility, but not with figuring out what actually happened. Our legal system is designed to absorb complex stories and spit out oversimplified verdicts: indictment or no indictment, guilty or not guilty.

5 Big Myths About ‘Next Generation’ Civil Rights & Open Internet

December 16, 2014 Malkia A. Cyril, www.huffingtonpost.com , , , , ,
As Black communities emerge from the shadows of criminalization, hashtags like#BlackLivesMatter have jumped off the computer screen and into the street. Beyond sparking a long-awaited new civil rights movement, they are also catalyzing an amazing 21st century model for civil rights activism. But the ability of Black communities to use the Internet to sustain this growing movement is threatened. Last year, a D.C. circuit court struck down network neutrality rules. The court told the FCC, the agency that regulates the Internet, that the only way to legally prevent discrimination online and enforce the net neutrality rules that make the Internet such a powerful tool, is to reclassify broadband as common carrier service -- a public utility, like electricity or water.

Police Made On-The-Spot Decision Not To Arrest Protesters

December 15, 2014 Eric Golden, www.startribune.com , , ,
Rather than make arrests, Minneapolis police and State Patrol officials said they made on-the-spot decisions to keep demonstrators safe from traffic. Police who blocked traffic for protesters who shut down Interstate 35W in Minneapolis last week said they didn’t have advance warning the group planned to march down one of the state’s busiest freeways in the middle of the afternoon. About 150 demonstrators took to the freeway on Dec. 4, protesting a grand jury’s decision not to indict a police officer in the death of a black man. The group marched for 3 miles from south Minneapolis to downtown, where they entered City Hall and climbed the stairs to the offices of the City Council. The freeway was shut down for more than an hour.

Penn Student Questioned In Dorm By Police Over Ferguson Posts

December 15, 2014 Dustin Slaughter, www.phillydeclaration.org , , , ,
Recent organizing and demonstrations around the issue of police accountability in Philly, set in motion by grand jury decisions in Ferguson, MO and Staten Island, NY not to indict police officers who gunned down unarmed African American men, have taken a new, though rather historically familiar, twist. Laura Krasovitzky, a University of Pennsylvania student organizer, tells The Declaration that she was visited on the morning of December 8th by a Philadelphia Police Department detective, who she soon learned was in the Homeland Security Bureau, asking about posts in a Facebook group.

‘Cops Got Wild’: Two Protesters Face Charges After #MillionsMarchChi

December 15, 2014 Sarah Macaraeg, www.chicagoist.com , ,
This afternoon, in Cook County’s 26th and California court building, three protesters—all young people of color—faced felony charges of aggravated battery of a police officer. 25 total participants were taken into custody yesterday, according to a Chicago Police Department spokesperson. As a video circulates on social media of the moment when, in the words of demonstrator Andy Winger, “cops got wild,” CPD’s Office of News Affairs declined further comment on the nature of the felony charges. By the time Chicagoist filed, one protestor, Lookman Muhammad, had a felony charge reduced to two misdemeanors, while the remaining two still face aggravated battery felony charges and a $7,500 bond each for release.

Tens Of Thousands Surge Through Manhattan, Decry Police Violence

December 15, 2014 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us , , , ,
Like the waves of a tsunami tens of thousands surged through Manhattan on Saturday to decry police violence and the killings of unarmed Blacks. The Millions March reflected growing public anger towards a broken justice system tilting towards police impunity for misconduct. Marchers chanted “Black Lives Matter,” I can’t Breathe,” and “No Justice, No Peace,” popular catch-phrases of the growing movement.The Millions March was “unlike anything I’ve seen since the civil rights movement,” said Tippy Brooks, an activist who has been involved in social justice issues for 50 years.

Here’s What Happened When Undercover Cop Pulled Gun On Protesters

December 15, 2014 Gabrielle Canon, www.motherjones.com , , ,
Squad cars and white vans full of officers followed the march slowly as announcements rang out over a police intercom informing protesters that police were there for their protection and that their right to demonstrate was being respected. They also warned that any vandalism or violence would lead to citation or arrest. According to reporter David DeBolt, writing for Inside Bay Area, officials say it was then that two undercover officers joined the march, both wearing dark handkerchiefs and hoods that covered their faces. I had not seen them earlier, and they did not appear in any of the photos I took. Suddenly, behind me, someone started to yell. A protester had discovered the undercover cops and shouted an alarm.
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