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Minneapolis Shooting Officers Identified As Protests Rage

November 19, 2015 Todd Melby, www.timdechristopher.org" target="_blank" >www.reuters.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Minnesota, police brutality, Race

By Todd Melby for Reuters - Minnesota officials on Wednesday identified the two Minneapolis police officers involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man as chanting demonstrators surrounded a key police station. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety said Minneapolis Police Department Officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze were involved in the shooting of Jamar Clark, 24, Sunday. Both men have been police officers for seven years, including 13 months with the city. The officers, whose race was not disclosed, are on administrative leave during an investigation.

Saddled Dinosaurs, Students Rise Up & Green Washed Low Life Scum

November 19, 2015 Staff, www.timdechristopher.org Resistance Report Higher Education, Race

By Staff of Occupy - This week, since when did stupidity become so popular? I guess since dinosaurs wore saddles – yes, saddles. Next up, education is a right and it's time to stop treating students like customers at a luxury store. #BlackOnCampus sheds light on the sweeping issue of racism in our schools and let these be calls to action for all students – time to rise up, we've been silent too long. Next, can't see the dying forest through the green-washing and finally, nous sommes unis. But first, we knocked something over – now we need to clean it up.

51 Arrested In Protests After Black Man Shot By Minneapolis Police

November 17, 2015 Staff, www.usatoday.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality, Race

By Staff of US Today - The Minnesota Department of Transportation reports protesters were on the freeway, attempting to block traffic. The shutdown first started around 7 p.m. Several area metro police departments were on scene attempting to control the situation. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, protesters were given four warnings to disperse or be subject to arrest. Shortly before 9 p.m., authorities began arresting protesters. The state patrol later said 43 adults and eight juveniles were arrested and will be charged with unlawful assembly and pedestrian on freeway, both misdemeanors.

When Safe Spaces Take Priority Over Media Access

November 17, 2015 Dave Zirin, www.youtube.com Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Media, Race

By Dave Zirin for Acronym TV - The viral video“#ConcernedStudent1950 vs. the media” shows a group of students at the University of Missouri physically blocking a journalist from taking pictures in a public space. Dave Zirin, sports editor at The Nation Magazine, joins Acronym TV host Dennis Trainor Jr for a conversation about the reasons that the activist community in general and black community specifically views the media with suspicion, hostility, or disdain. As Terrell Jermaine Starr writes in the Washington Post...

Massive French Crowd Forces Anti-Refugee Racists To Retreat (VIDEO)

November 16, 2015 Amanda Girard, www.usuncut.com Resist! France, Race, Refugees

By Amanda Girard for US Uncut - Even after a senseless massacre that left over 150 civilians dead, Parisians are choosing compassion over blind hatred, and are willing to go toe-to-toe with racists spouting anti-Islamic rhetoric. At a silent vigil today for victims of the attacks in downtown Paris, a group of racists holding a banner calling for the expulsion of Muslims was forced to retreat by a much larger crowd of several hundred, chanting “Fascists go home!” Eventually, the Islamophobic protesters were forced across the street.

Yale Protesters Occupy President’s Lawn With New Diversity Demands

November 14, 2015 Casey Breznick, www.campusreform.org Resist! Race, Student Protests

By Casey Breznick for Campus Reform - Student protesters at Yale released a list of 19 demands Thursday night, and have given Yale President Peter Salovey until Wednesday to announce his intention to implement them. The protest group, numbering about 200 and now calling itself Next Yale, marched to Salovey’s house at close to midnight Thursday and presented the demands to him, according to the Yale Daily News. The document was also published on DOWN Magazine’s website, a publication focused on issues for students of color at Yale.

Campus Race Protests About Systemic Racism That’s Never Gone Away

November 14, 2015 Luna Olavarría Gallegos, www.theguardian.com Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Race, Student Protests

By Luna Olavarría Gallegos for The Guardian - This week’s student protests may be organized on social media, but they’re not addressing anything new. The iconic moment of black campus protests was captured way back in 1969, when students from Cornell University’s Afro-American Society left Willard Straight Hall carrying rifles and wearing bandoliers, part of a protest against disciplining black students who had advocated for an Africana Studies and Research Center. Forty-six years later, students all over the country continue to protest for their right to exist on a college campus free of racial discrimination.

Black Lives Matter Meets Golden Goose That Came Home To Roost

November 13, 2015 Staff, www.youtube.com Resistance Report #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Race, University of Missouri

By Staff of Acronym TV - After months of protests at the University of Missouri over racial tensions and other issues, a the group Concerned Student 1950 won an extraordinary coup on Monday. The victory emerged after a hunger strike by 25-year old graduate student Jonathan Butler inspired a labor strike of the University’s football team forcing the resignation of University President Timothy Wolfe, as well as the chancellor, R. Bowen Loftin. Dave Zirin, the sports editor of The Nation magazine joins host Dennis Trainor, Jr. to discuss.

Students Share What It’s Like To Be Black At Mizzou

November 13, 2015 Taryn Finley and Mariah Stewart, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Black Lives Matter (BLM), Race, Students

Taryn Finley and Mariah Stewart for The Huffington Post - Being black at the University of Missouri was tough long before the country started paying attention to why. Cultural insensitivity, racial slurs and de facto segregation are the common threads minority students say separate the 7 percent of black students from the 77 percent white students that make up the school's population. In the video above, four black students share their experiences with The Huffington Post on what their life is like dealing with racism on campus. For months, students of various backgrounds protested a lack of administrative action on racial tensions and other significant issues.

Racism At Yale Culminated In Over 1,000 Marching

November 12, 2015 Avianne Tan, www.abcnews.go.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Race, Student Protests

By Avianne Tan for ABC News - Two weeks of protests culminated in a "March of Resilience" at Yale University Monday afternoon, when hundreds of students, faculty and administrators marched from the Ivy League school's Afro-American Cultural Center carrying signs with messages like "Black Students Matter," "We out here. We've been here. We ain't leaving. We are loved" and "Your Move, Yale." Here are the allegations of racism that numerous student organizations cite as perceived examples of issues of concern to students of color and their supporters...

Mizzou-Inspired Protests Coming At Other Colleges

November 12, 2015 Staff, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Race, Student Protests

By Staff of Reuters - NEW YORK, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Students are holding events designed to bring attention to racial issues on a handful of U.S. college campuses this week, spurred on by the impact of protests at the University of Missouri, which culminated in the resignation of the school's president and chancellor on Monday. Peaceful marches or walkouts have occurred, or are planned, at Yale University, Ithaca College and Smith College in the Northeastern United States, though none has yet reached the intensity of demonstrations at Missouri, where hundreds of students and teachers protested what they saw as soft handling of reports of racial abuse on campus.

What Happened At The University Of Missouri?

November 11, 2015 Claire Landsbaum and Greta Weber, www.slate.com Resist! Race, Student Protests

By Claire Landsbaum and Greta Weber for The Slate - On Monday, the University of Missouri system president Tim Wolfe resigned amid student protests against his handling of racial incidents on campus. “My decision to resign comes out of love, not hate,” Wolfe said. "Please, please use this resignation to heal and start talking again.” Wolfe’s decision comes during a tense time at the University of Missouri’s Columbia campus. On November 2, MU graduate student Jonathan Butler announced his decision to go on a hunger strike until Wolfe took his concerns, as well as theconcerns of activist group Concerned Student 1950, seriously.

High School Students Walk Out In Response To Racist Threats

November 9, 2015 Ashoka Jegroo, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Berkeley, Race, Student Protests

By Ashoka Jegroo for Waging Nonviolence - More than a thousand high school students in Berkeley, California walked out of class on November 5 in a protest against racist threats left on a school library’s computer in support of the Ku Klux Klan and threatening a “public lynching” next month. “This is an act of domestic terrorism,” one student attending the protest told Fusion. “This is terrorism and it should be treated as such.” The controversy began at around 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday when people at Berkeley High School — a public school located a few blocks away from University of California — discovered that one of the school library’s computers was displaying a page full of racist slurs and threats, including messages like “KKK Forever” and “Public Lynching December 9th 2015.”

Act Out! [36] – Big Banks, America’s Biggest Cash Crop & White Privilege

November 5, 2015 Staff, www.youtube.com Resistance Report Race, White Privilege

By Staff of Occupy - This week we've got a lot to cover – first up – race issues. What race issues? A brief but important little segment specifically designed for my fellow white people. Next up, fuck big banks – move your money and starve the beast. Next, Uncle Sam hates immigrants, but he doesn't mind making money off of 'em – immigrant detention centers and the sanctuary across the road – Sarah Jackson's casa de paz. Then we've got 7 reasons why this corporate coup matters to you and finally, Obama busts a move. But first, perception's reality – scene.

Shocking South Carolina Video No Isolated Case

November 2, 2015 Susan Ferris, www.publicintegrity.org Educate! Education, Race, Virginia

By Susan Ferris for The Center for Public Integrity - As the Center for Public Integrity recently reported, 11-year-old Kayleb Moon-Robinson, in Lynchburg, Virginia, was “slammed” down, as the sixth grader said, after a school principal asked a resource officer to stop Kayleb in a hallway because the boy walked out of class without permission. Kayleb is autistic. The officer told him to go the office. He didn’t comply immediately. And the officer grabbed him. Kayleb struggled and used some foul language—and ended up wrestled to the floor, handcuffed and charged with felony assault on a police officer, as well as disorderly conduct.

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