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Beyond Dallas And Orlando, A Global Arc Of Violence

July 14, 2016 William C. Anderson, www.truth-out.org , ,
By William C. Anderson for Truthout - The United States will never be at peace with itself until it resolves the fact that it was birthed through injustice, exploitation and genocide. America, as many call it, was never great for everyone. Now, as problems that have existed since the earliest days of the US project boil over yet again, we should be prepared for what is to come. It shouldn't be hard to imagine what we can expect next from a reactionary state apparatus, when we know what's happened before. Activists and those who resist oppression and the state's attempts at social control should be prepared for the coming repression.

America: The Land Of Terrorists And Massacres

June 22, 2016 Marsha Cole, www.blackagendareport.com , , , ,
By Marsha Cole for Black Agenda Report - The updated 2016 ROOTS historical chronicle finally got it right. Africans have resisted European/American terrorism from the moment it reared its ugly head to present day struggle against state sponsored police murders of African peoples. The current version of ROOTS reminds us that beheadings, lynchings, rapes, kidnappings, selling children, working and boiling people to death did not start with ISIL – these perverted and psychopathic practices constituted the building blocks of the American empire.

#BlackLivesMatter Speaks Out On Orlando Killings

June 21, 2016 Staff, www.blacklivesmatter.com , , , , ,
By Staff of Black Lives Matter - Homegrown terror is the product of a long history of colonialism, including state and vigilante violence. It is the product of white supremacy and capitalism, which deforms the spirit and fuels interpersonal violence. We especially hold space for our Latinx family now, knowing that the vast majority of those murdered were Latinx, and many were specifically Puerto Rican. From the forced migration of thousands of young people from the island of Puerto Rico to Orlando, to the deadly forced migration throughout Latin America and the Caribbean...

Overnight Peace Vigil At NRA

June 18, 2016 Rebecca Green, www.codepink.org , ,
By Rebecca Green for Code Pink - This Monday, June 20, CODEPINK and a diverse coalition are organizing an overnight peace vigil in front of the NRA to honor the 49 people killed and 53 injured in the tragic mass shooting this past weekend in Orlando and call for a ban on assault weapons. We will have 49 hearts to honor those slain in the horrific act, and will have individuals volunteer to represent these lives that were ended too soon. We will be joined by representatives of Muslim groups, LGBTQ groups, anti-gun violence organizations, mothers who have lost children to gun violence, peace groups, and individuals who have been directly affected by the epidemic of gun violence

LGBTQ Community Mourns Victims Of Orlando Shooting

June 17, 2016 John Zangas and Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us , ,
By John Zangas and Anne Meador for DC Media Group - Washington, DC — Victims of the June 12 shooting at an Orlando, Fl., gay nightclub were remembered in two vigils in Washington, DC. Now pronounced the country’s deadliest mass shooting ever, the massacre was carried out by a lone gunman armed with a semi-automatic weapon who killed 49 people and injured 53 more at the Pulse nightclub. Hundreds of people in the Washington LGBTQ community and their supporters joined two separate gatherings at the White House and DuPont Circle to express feelings of grief, fear and anger.

Shady History Of Private Security Firm Omar Mateen Worked For

June 16, 2016 Aviva Shen, www.thinkprogress.org , ,
By Aviva Shen for Think Progress - Omar Mateen’s employer, private security behemoth G4S, is taking a nosedive in the stock market after the 29-year-old suspect went on the deadliest shooting rampage in recent history, killing at least 49 and injuring 53 others in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. G4S is currently being thrust into the spotlight because it employed Mateen, but the firm’s murky reputation precedes it. Staffers have been caught beating and abusing detained immigrants,keeping children in solitary confinement, and torturing inmates all over the world.

They’re Killing Us. Help Us Stop Them.

June 16, 2016 Grace Dolan-Sandrino, www.otherwords.org , ,
By Grace Dolan-Sandrino for Other Worlds - From Orlando to Washington, a culture of fear and bigotry is taking hold of this country. We can stop it together. The weekend of June 12 sent me on a rollercoaster of emotions I never thought possible. The previous Friday, I was an invited participant in the first-ever White House Summit for African American LGBTQ Youth. I felt amazingly supported, empowered, and valued — by my school, by my family and friends, by President Obama, and by my LGBTQ community.

Given Orlando, Has U.S. Government Been Protecting Public?

June 14, 2016 Ivan Eland, www.huffingtonpost.com , ,
By Ivan Eland for The Huffington Post - The mass shooting in Orlando, Florida at a gay nightclub, by a man pledging a seemingly last-minute allegiance to the ISIS terror group, leads to questions about whether the U.S. government has been adequately protecting its citizens. Going back in time, the U.S. government inadvertently created al Qaeda by encouraging, funding, and arming radical Islamist fighters against the Soviet Union in faraway Afghanistan during the 1980s.

Don’t Let Orlando Nightclub Terror Further Strangle Civil Liberties

June 14, 2016 Chelsea E Manning, www.theguardian.com , ,
By Chelsea E Manning for The Guardian - This morning, I woke up in my cell to an even more shattered and fractured world. We are lost. We are devastated. We are bewildered. We are hurt. And we are angry. I haven’t been this angry since losing a soldier in my unit to an RPG attack in southeastern Baghdad during my deployment in Iraq in 2010. As a young queer kid growing up, I explored my identity through the Chicago and Washington DC club scene. As many have said, the club is our sanctuary – a place where we find ourselves, love ourselves and find community.

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