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Project Censored 2015: Top Ten News Stories The Media Ignored

November 29, 2015 Tim Redmond, www.cascadiaweekly.com Educate! Arctic, Drones, Enviornment, Food and Agriculture, Fracking, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, Fukushima, Groundwater, killed by police, Mass Media, Methane, Oil and Gas, Poverty, Propaganda, Renewable Energy, spying, Wealth Ineqaulity

By Tim Redmond for Cascadia Weekly. As Project Censored staffers Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth note, 90 percent of U.S. news media—the traditional outlets that employ full-time reporters—are controlled by six corporations. “The corporate media hardly represent the mainstream,” the staffers wrote in the current edition’s introduction. “By contrast, the independent journalists that Project Censored has celebrated since its inception are now understood as vital components of what experts have identified as the newly developing ‘networked fourth estate.’”

#BlackLivesMatter Thanksgiving Dinner Outside MN Precinct

November 27, 2015 Staff, , www.ruptly.tv Resist! killed by police, Police abuse, Police violence, Racism

By Staff for Ruptly. Black Lives Matter activists gathered outside a Police station in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Thursday, to enjoy a Thanksgiving Day meal as protesters continue to demand justice for 24-year-old Jamar Clark, who was killed by a police officer on 15 November. The protesters, who have been blocking the streets outside the Fourth Precinct Police Department on Plymouth Avenue for the 12th day in a row, spent the holiday at the protest encampment with neighbours and supporters donating food in solidarity with the movement. Hundreds of people passed by the camp to receive their Thanksgiving day meal offered by volunteers despite the cold temperatures and snow. Ongoing protests, organised by the 'Black Lives Matter' movement, have been held daily outside the Minneapolis Police Department's Fourth Precinct building since the killing of Jamar Clark. Witnesses say the 24-year-old black man was shot by police execution-style while handcuffed, an account which the Minneapolis Police Department disputes.

Chicago Police Release Video Of Cop Shooting Teen 16 Times

November 25, 2015 Aviva Shen, www.thinkprogress.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Chicago, killed by police, police brutality, Police violence

By Aviva Shen for Think Progress - After a prolonged legal battle, Chicago police released a video of one of their officers, Jason Van Dyke, shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times Wednesday. The video shows McDonald carrying a small knife, walking away from Van Dyke before the officer opens fire. The entire shooting took about 15 seconds, and McDonald was lying on the ground for 13 of them. An officer appears to kick at McDonald’s body after shooting him. Van Dyke was finally charged with first degree murder more than a year after the shooting.

Black Lives Matter. NYC Shut It Down: The Grand Central Crew

November 4, 2015 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), killed by police, Police violence, Racism

By Staff for NYC Shut It Down. NYC Shut It Down (a.k.a. Grand Central Crew) is a NYC-based direct action organization in solidarity with the #BlackLivesMatter movement. We are the organizers of the weekly #PeoplesMonday demonstrations that honor a different victim of police violence every week. We demand an end to unaccountable police violence and criminalization of daily life. Every Monday since January NYC Shut It Down has taken to the streets of NYC, forcing attention to the ever-growing Black Lives Matter movement and the struggle for Black liberation. Through our weekly‪#‎PeoplesMonday‬ actions, NYC Shut It Down highlights different cases of police brutality against people of color. Some stories, like those of Sean Bell, Eric Garner, and Tamir Rice are highly publicized. Other stories receive little to no media attention. It is our duty to amplify these stories and we need your help to do that!

France: Probe On Police Killing Of Activist Stalls Amid Scandal

October 25, 2015 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! France, killed by police, Police violence

By Staff for Telesur - This was the first time that police repression killed a protester under a Socialist Party government in France. Almost one year after the activist's death, the investigation has not moved an inch further since the police handed its conclusions to the judge in March, according to a shocking revelation issued by Le Monde on Friday; their version conveniently coincides with the government’s initial statement that denied any error from the police officials. Remi Fraisse, a 21 year-old botanist, died on Oct. 25 around 2 a.m. local time, shortly after a military grenade hit his back while he was protesting with other environmental activists against the highly-controversial building of a dam in Sivens, in the southwestern department of Tarn. Yet, according to Le Monde, which gained access to the report the police investigative body handed in March to the judge, the investigation not only stagnates, but “worse: it retrocedes.”

#RiseUpOctober Mass Protest Against Police Violence

October 24, 2015 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! killed by police, Police violence, Racism

By Staff for Popular Resistance - #RiseUpOctober held a series of days of mass protests against police violence. The largest event on Saturday came one day after demonstrators gathered in Queens to protest Rikers Island, saying it should be shut down, according to a Bronx news station. About a dozen protesters were arrested outside the jail’s entrance Friday. Activists and concerned citizens marched the streets of Manhattan in New York City Saturday as part of “Rise Up October,” a mass demonstration to protest police brutality in the United States. A number of protesters were reportedly arrested, but it wasn’t immediately clear what the charges were. According to a tweet, a police officer allegedly smacked the cell phone out of the hand of the first woman arrested. It was not immediately clear how many protesters marched the streets, which were filled with chants of “justice now” and signs saying “Stop police terror!” and “Which side are you on.”

RiseUpOctober STOP Police Terror! Begins Thursday

October 21, 2015 Rise Up October, /www.PopularResistance.org Resist! killed by police, New York City (NYC), Police violence, Racism

By Rise Up October - "No More Stolen Lives: Say Their Names" will bring together some 40 families from across the U.S. who’ve lost loved ones to police violence. They will be joined by prominent voices of conscience in love, remembrance, and defiance to say THIS MUST STOP!” "No More Stolen Lives: Say Their Names" begins RiseUpOctober -- three days of mass resistance and acts of conscience to STOP Police Terror! and draw a line throughout society: "Which Side Are You On? Three days aimed at nothing less than changing “the whole social landscape to the point where more people take initiative and make it unmistakably clear that they refuse to live in a society that sanctions this outrage,” as actor Mark Ruffalo put it in a support statement.

US Attorney General Says ‘No’ To Police Reports On Killings

October 4, 2015 Ciara McCarthy, www.theguardian.com Create! killed by police, Police violence, Racism

By Ciara McCarthy for the Guardian - Attorney general Loretta Lynch says the federal government should not require police to report fatal shootings of civilians, sharply diverging from her predecessor Eric Holder’s stance on police killings. In a conversation with NBC journalist Chuck Todd on a range of criminal justice issues, Lynch said on Thursday that she does not support a federal mandate to report people killed by police. “One of the things we are focusing on at the Department of Justice is not trying to reach down from Washington and dictate to every local department how they should handle the minutia of record keeping, but we are stressing to them that these records must be kept,” she said at the Washington Ideas Forum, hosted by AtlanticLIVE and the Aspen Institute.

Judge Keeps Freddie Gray Prosecution In Baltimore

September 10, 2015 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Baltimore, killed by police, Police violence, Racism

By Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance - In what was the most important pre-trial ruling in the prosecution of the six police offices accused of killing Freddie Gray, Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams decided that the trial would continue in Baltimore. He wanted to go to jury selection to see if an impartial jury could be selected in Baltimore saying it was wrong to “assume they cannot be fair.” The judge said that the defense had failed to prove that the officers cannot receive a fair trial in Baltimore city saying in his ruling “The citizens of Baltimore are not monolithic. They think for themselves.” Protesters arrived early at the courthouse. There were concerns among protesters that is the judge moved the trial to the suburbs that a conviction would be impossible to achieve. If the decision had gone the other way and the trial had been moved out of the city protests against the decision would have been likely.

Baltimore Protester Arrested At Freddie Gray Court Hearing

September 2, 2015 Nicky Woolf, www.theguardian.com Resist! Courts, Criminal Justice, Freddie Gray, killed by police, Police violence, Racism

By Nicky Woolf for the Guardian - At the first pre-trial hearing in the Freddie Gray murder trial. Judge Barry Glenn Williams denied a motion to dismiss the charges and ruled that State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby does not have to recuse herself from the case. These were two of the three demands of the protesters seeking justice for Freddie Gray. The third demand is the critical issue of whether there will be a change of venue. That issue will not be heard until September 10th. There were dozens of protesters outside the courthouse who later marched through the streets of downtown Baltimore. The protests briefly shut down intersections and all was going smoothly until the police arrested one person who was trying to lead the group back to the courthouse.

Drawings Capture Last Words Spoken By Black Victims Of Police

August 30, 2015 Zak Cheney-Rice, www.mic.com Create! killed by police, Police abuse, Police violence, Racism

By Zak Cheney-Rice for Mic.com - In the year that has passed since Brown's death, Barghi has been illustrating and tweeting her own creative depictions of the last words spoken by slain black male victims of state violence in the U.S. The result is a haunting tribute to the dead and a heartbreaking reminder of the toll American racism takes daily on black families and communities. In many ways, #LastWords has assumed a life of its own, she says. Artists and musicians have reached out to her about creating similar series' focused on other topics, like the war in Yemen. Activists in Ferguson have also spoken to her about amplifying the last words spoken by black women who have died at the hands of American police. "I really want other people to continue this work," Barghi says. "First, I'm not black, which I realize influences my perspective. Black pain [in the U.S.] is very real. So the first thing I try to do is educate myself, build an awareness." Barghi moved to the United States from Iran in 2011.

Seattle Protest: Stop Denying White Privilege

August 17, 2015 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! killed by police, Police violence, Racism, Seattle, White Privilege

By Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance - Bring this to your community! On August 17th during lunch hour in Westlake Park, Seattle people coming out to the downtown park for lunch saw an unusual site - an elephant in a living room. The elephant in the living room was so large it could not be ignored. The elephant had a banner across it calling out "RACISM." People were encouraged to sit in the "living room" to have a conversation about the reality of racial injustice. Many of the people wore a "White Privilege" blinder over their eyes. People spread through the area with fliers and began conversations about racism and white privilege. A mic check told the story of racial injustice in US history as well as currently. People were encouraged to commit to take action to fight racism. The point of the protest, put on by primarily white organizers, activists and advocates in support of #BlackLivesMatter, was to show people that racism is the elephant in the living room and white privilege could no longer be denied.

One Year Later: Reflections On The Ferguson Uprising

August 8, 2015 Pamela Merritt, www.rhrealitycheck.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Ferguson, killed by police, Mike Brown, Police violence, Racism

By Pamela Merritt for Reproaction - It was through a series of tweets sent by a friend who lives in Ferguson that I learned a young man had been shot and killed by a police officer. Additional tweets relayed the shock of people who gathered at the scene and looked on in horror as Michael Brown lay dead in the street for hours. What followed is best understood as the Ferguson Uprising, an almost unbearable public display of grief, anger, frustration, and disgust that spilled out into the streets to confront an over-the-top militarized police force and the callous disregard of a legal system as unfamiliar with justice as it is with accountability. It felt as if the killing of Michael Brown on August 9, 2014, was the last straw, as if we hit the breaking point and collectively decided to make our stand for justice. Protests broke out all over the nation, as communities rose up and declared Black lives matter.

This Weekend Remember #MikeBrown & The #FergusonUprising

August 8, 2015 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Ferguson, killed by police, Mike Brown, Police abuse, police brutality, Police violence, Racism

By Staff for Popular Resistance - Since the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson one year ago the #BlackLivesMatter movement has swept the nation. Tomorrow, there will protests in many parts of the country to remember his death and the uprising that has followed. Michael Brown was not the first person to be killed by police, this is a long, historic reality of US policing of black and brown communities, nor was his death the first to be protested. Popular Resistance has reported on protests against police violence throughout its existence and in our earlier incarnation as the Occupation of Washington, DC at Freedom Plaza. Historically, riots in urban areas have often been ignited by police violence. Something is different now, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has created an organized revolt against police violence. It is developing a broad base in communities of color with many Caucasin communities participating, standing with #BlackLivesMatter leaders. Postive changes have been made in the last year and we expect escalation of the #BlackLivesMatter over the next year and will do all we can to support it.

Black Lives Matter Gets Laws Passed In 24 States

August 4, 2015 Staff, www.ap.org Resist! killed by police, Michael Brown, Police abuse, Police violence, Racism

By Staff for Associated Press - Since the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, legislators in almost every state have proposed changes to the way police interact with the public. The result: Twenty-four states have passed at least 40 new measures addressing such things as officer-worn cameras, training about racial bias, independent investigations when police use force and new limits on the flow of surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. Despite all that action, far more proposals have stalled or failed, the AP review found. And few states have done anything to change their laws on when police are justified to use deadly force. National civil rights leaders praised the steps taken by states but said they aren't enough to solve the racial tensions and economic disparities that have fueled protests in Ferguson, Baltimore, New York and elsewhere following instances in which people died in police custody or shootings.

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