Today In Solidarity (10.5.14): Voter Registration surges in Ferguson in the wake of Mike Brown’s death. The ballot box is not a singular or final solution to dismantling the systems of oppression in Ferguson and beyond, but it’s certainly an important area to focus on. Remember, the current city council/government is disproportionately white due in large part to voter apathy. It’s not too late to get registered, but many state deadlines are coming up this week! For more info visit: VOTE MISSOURI or Rock the Vote.
There’s no place where you can affect change more directly or effectively than at the local level. Don’t sleep on municipal elections. #staywoke #farfromover
Tag: michael brown
(9.23.14) — Another morning in Amerikkka. Somebody thought it would be fun to desecrate the Mike Brown Memorial early this morning. I… I really can’t even. #staywoke #farfromover
When #IfTheyGunnedMeDown Happens in Print:
Section from the Rolling Stone profile of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings vs section from the New York Times profile of Michael Brown, who was shot and killed by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson.
Oh my god
Let us be vividly clear about this.
What the New York Times did to Michael Brown today was not merely slander. It wasn’t a case of a lack of journalistic integrity.
Highlighting that a black teenager was “no angel” on the day he is being laid to rest after being hunted and killed by racist vigilante forces is not an unfortunate coincidence.
The New York Times deliberately played into an archaic American tradition in devaluing both the merit of black life and the tragedy of black death.
They chose the day of his funeral, as his family, friends and activists everywhere have to grapple with a human being lost to pontificate about how he was “no angel”. Michael Brown was many things to many people; a son, a brother, a cousin, a nephew and another black causality of murderous police institutions and today, amidst all the racist violence he, his loved ones and community have had to endure, he was going to finally receive the respect and moment of honor he deserved and NYT decided today, of all days, to tune in their audience onto wholly irrelevant facts about his life – that in turn, transform the very injustice surrounding his death and the following police violence that plagued Ferguson into a national panel about whether or not his death is actually worth mourning and their language suggested that to them, it indeed is not.
This was hardly an accident or mistake. This is the perpetual hostility that is met against black life in America. The consensus is that black people deserve no respect and for black life to be legitimized and honored, we must meet a list of prerequisites. Subsequently, if black people aren’t valued, neither are our deaths understood as tragic or murders seen as criminal action.
This has been the atmosphere of America since its inception and much has not improved.
August 20th, 2014
Tonight, just over a week after the killing of an unarmed black teen at the hands of Ferguson, MO police, Oakland residents took to the streets in solidarity with protesters across the country to demand an end to police brutality against black (and brown) communities. Centered around the failure of Ferguson’s local authorities to arrest killer cop Darren Wilson, the officer responsible for Michael Brown’s death, protesters in Oakland rallied to demand “Justice for Mike Brown.”
SF Gate reported:
The marches started in four separate locations – Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Jack London Square, the main branch of the Oakland Public Library and the African American History Museum – but came together outside of Oakland Police Headquarters around 6 p.m.
Protesters from the different marches were briefly prevented from joining up with each other by a line of police.
Quanah Brightman, executive director of United Native Americans, an Indian protest group was angered by police attempting to block the marchers from uniting.
“They won’t even let us walk on the public street,” he said. “I don’t feel safe. It is what it is, and they hate us. When they put on a badge, they’re allowed to kill us.”
Several protesters and family members had recently returned from Ferguson, where police have been criticized for their heavy-handed tactics, and urged support for their counterparts there.
Oakland certainly is not unfamiliar with police brutality. Like today, it was not long ago that the community was in the streets over the death of Oscar Grant, who was killed by BART police in 2009. Or the nearby deaths of Alex Nieto and Andy Lopez, who both died at the hands of law enforcement officers.
Even more recently, however, over the death of Alan Blueford, who was shot and killed by Oakland police on May 6, 2012. His mother, Jeralynn Blueford, along with Grant’s mother, attended the protest tonight.
As quoted by SF Gate, she rallied the crowd with chants of “They say get back! We say, fight back,” as police formed a line to block merging groups of protesters.
She went on to tell the folks to take the fight to Washington D.C., saying “We’re going to change this crooked system. Obama, if you hear me, Alan Blueford’s life matters. Mike Brown’s life matters.”
(Photo Credit: Top by Scott Strazzante | All remaining by AmericaWakieWakie)
LORD LOOK AT THIS
Theyre are really trying their hardest to demonize this child
WEED?
How many of us have weed in our system
Hell, I have weed in my system
I knew they were going to bring this up as a Reason that he is an aggressor.
Since when does marijuana make folks aggressive?
Since when does having marijuana in your system make you a raging criminal
The officer didnt even know that Mike a that in his system
But you see, they waited until the other autopsy was released to expose their own autopsy report
This is so much bullshit. They really are scraping the bottom of the barrel now.
Even if true OR relevant, having weed in your system makes you more likely to chill out than charge through a hail of bullets toward your certain death.
michael brown was eighteen years old, he was very shy, he was funny and silly, he loved music, his mother loves him very much, please don’t forget about him, please don’t let him be forgotten
WITH RESPECT TO THE BROWN FAMILY WE SHOULD REMOVE PICTURES OF MICHAEL BROWN SLAIN IN THE STREET.
#respect
as far as I know I haven’t shared any of the pictures of Michael’s body, but I’m reblogging this for my followers who have.
Ferguson Masterpost
a masterpost of everything i could find on the situation. if there’s anything important i missed, please message me and i’ll add it.
(click my url to see updated links & stuff)What’s going on in Ferguson:
basics by clehmentine
with respect to the brown family
livestream of ferguson
live twitter feed of ferguson
officer who shot mike brown
live CNN coverage
live updates from NY TimesWhat the police are doing:
rubber bullet attacks
jamming phone signals?
told off someone asking for help
removed their badges and id tags
false accusations
slurs and threats
more slurs/insults over phone
tear gas violence
arresting/threating news reportersHow you can help:
petition to protect against police brutality/misconduct
food/meal drive for ferguson
what you can do to help post
find contact info for your local reps
help pay for legal fees
protest/fundraiser info
help ferguson links
michael brown memorial fund
help ferguson (outside USA)Videos/Photos:
twitter posts of riots
paralells, then and now
video of tear gas violence
video proof police attacked peaceful protestersEtc.
tips against police brutality/tear gas
st. louis county police to be REMOVED from ferguson!
barack obama’s statements
opferguson is a trap website, be warned
by-the-numbers look at ferguson
this is important please spread
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