We discussed briefly the recent incident and assault on Dhoruba bin-Wahad and then moved on to the collective “police trauma” in Ferguson and beyond as described by Dr. Marva Robinson.
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Ferguson Protesters Are Occupying St. Louis Police Headquarters
Twenty-five people in Ferguson, Missouri,are occupying the St. Louis Police headquarters. In the meantime, SLPD are busy chasing around a diversion march on the streets. This comes as ongoing anti-police actions around the country have gained momentum, sparked by the most recent murders by police.
PRESS RELEASE:
We have received a cry for help, that as mothers, grandmothers, fathers, grandfathers, brothers and sisters we can NO LONGER IGNORE.
In response to this dispatch, we intend to evict injustice and blight, by occupying St. Louis Police headquarters on December 31st, 2014, at 11am. The decision to reclaim our police department is the result of willful neglect and violence on behalf of the department toward the community, which they are bound, by oath, to protect and serve. Continue reading
Mike Brown Memorial Intentionally Destroyed Christmas Night
From Jacob Crawford of We Copwatch
(CALL FLOOD) Ferguson Police Public Relations Officer refers to Mike Brown Memorial as “a pile of trash in the middle of the street.”
Call Ferguson PD at (314) 522-3100 and tell them what you think of Officer Timothy Zoll and his disrespectful comments. Let them know it’s situations like this where Ferguson Police would have earned some points showing some compassion. Instead, they showed us that their despicable department could care less. Maybe it’s time to disband this KKK outfit in Ferguson.
On Black Objecthood and Noodles
We were lined up zip-tied in Santa Rita, the seven of us searched, stripped and patted down. 23 was the only other person of color arrested with me that day, a young black man who spent the bus ride over heckling the California highway patrol officers to the best of his ability. I told 23 in the bus ride over, “If you think CHP are a bunch of fucking pricks, wait till you meet the correctional officers. If you talk shit to them like you just talked shit to the CHP they will drag your ass into a little room and beat the fuck out of you.”
He said, “I appreciate the advice, but you do things your way, and I’ll do things mine, if I die in here, tell them my name is 23.”
When we were marched out and lined up, 23 resisted, a cop laughed, and slammed his face into a wall, seven or so officers grabbed him and dragged him kicking and screaming into a little room. “I’m not resisting!” he screamed through the sound of beatings. Consecutive sounds of flesh smacking against bone and concrete like a round of applause, their microphones’ were on, and connected to the sound system in the hallway we were kept in. We heard everything. The screams echoed through all of the halls of the cell.
The cops were laughing, yelling to one another, “Turn your damn microphones off!”
One officer paced behind us and calmly said,
“Me, I hate violence. Honestly, I am a pacifist. But if you give us trouble, you’ll end up like him. Now if you just behave, you won’t have to end up like him. What else can I do? If me or my officers are put in danger, I’ll have my hands tied, I’ll have no choice.”
Interesting that he said “hands tied” eh? Oh yes officer. Never has the narrative of the state been so clear to me. Oh officer, I praise your honesty. Your lynchings do not go unnoticed. Black is the bottom; it is of no coincidence that you made an example of 23, just as you did of other black youths. My upward mobility as a yellow fellow depends on how far I can push black people down. Black is perpetually made example of. I am juxtaposed to black objecthood. If I decide to join them, my wretched little lot and I will end up like them. I get it now. Never has your message been so clear to me. Oh yes, my honest pig, preaches nonviolence. Maintaining order depends upon systematic black death, that is the central logic of anti-blackness, of black objecthood of black social and material death. My assigned API identity is dependent upon the example made with black death. The line is drawn.
A new political climate, the stage is set.
Yes, do you hear it? The background is moving, the stage props are shaking, they are growing feet, little beady eyes taking form, they are living now, and taking center stage, and devouring the actors alive.
Slurp their fucking intestines up like noodles.
Yours Truly,
Yellow Peril
[Photos/Video] “The Black Community Stands With Palestine from Oakland to Ferguson”
Oakland, California
How does one honor the call to “black out black Friday” for Mike Brown & Ferguson, to Boycott Walmart and to connect all the dots by showing solidarity w/ Palestine and BDS? Here’s How:
In the Bay Area protestors know how to be creative. In the past week since the acquittal of Darren Wilson in the murder of Mike Brown demonstrations have moved away from symbolism to strategy through diversifying tactics: Continue reading
[Video] Black Friday Protests in SF / Solidarity Demo for Ferguson
From Tom Goulding
San Francisco, California
An anti-Black Friday protest marched through San Francisco on Friday night, leading to a number of arrests and smashed store fronts throughout the Mission District.
The march combined protestors from a wide range of causes, such as anti-police brutality, Ferguson and Ayotzinapa, and begun at Embarcadero at around 5p.m..
The protestors walked peacefully down Market Street, and after police blocked their entrance to One Bush Plaza, there were some minor skirmishes and a few arrests. The march continued towards the Mission District, going peacefully for nearly an hour throughout the Mission.
The police then forcibly split the crowd into separate groups at around 9p.m., and started making a large number of arrests at Valencia and 23rd, the majority of which were of seemingly peaceful protestors. There was then several spates of vandalism of Mission store fronts, mainly of large corporations’ windows and doors.
Black Friday Protests in SF from Tom Goulding on Vimeo.
break the laws/break the chains: political reflections on Mike Brown and White Supremacy from Oakland CA
Reposted from Kissing in the Dark
To be free is to break the law
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
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I write to you from a humbled place. Striving to be a warrior for my people; looking and listening. This is an attempt to share some political reflections as a Black womyn in the struggle since I left the womb. The last two days Turtle Island (united states) has been on fire in solidarity with Mike Brown’s family and Ferguson, Missouri to protest the murder of Mike Brown by pig Darren Wilson, who continues to live freely with no charges filed against him. Mike Brown, like many of my brothers and sisters before me, was murdered for being a Black man in the White mans system. A system built out of the genocide of Black and Native folks. No justice will ever be served in their courts. This week in particular is a powerful week to be remembering and honoring native resistance, and Indigenous resistance all over this earth to white supremacy and state violence. Nothing has changed including the lies and bullshit holidays they try to feed us to distract us from these truths. We honor by continuing to resist. Continue reading
[Action Alert Oct 10th- 13th] A National Call to Action: Weekend of Resistance – Ferguson
From OBS – Organization for Black Struggle
We are in a movement moment.
What began as a local call for Justice for Mike Brown has grown into a nationwide shout for justice. Mike Brown falls in a long line of others killed as a result of systemic racial bias and violence against black and brown communities. John Crawford, III, Ezel Ford, Eric Garner, Oscar Grant, Amadou Diallo, Marilyn Banks and countless others named and unnamed have been killed through the excessive use of force by law enforcement.
As droves of people, many of them young and black, took to the streets of Ferguson in resistance and to demand justice for Mike Brown, thousands of others joined in solidarity around the country. The interconnectedness of our struggles became clear. Police brutality and excessive use of force against young people of color, militarized policing, poverty, economic inequality, and the absence of real participatory democracy deeply harm our communities from Dayton, OH to Los Angeles, CA.
The uprisings in Ferguson and mobilizations around the country represent a desire by community members to claim their right to self-determination, energy to strengthen a movement for racial justice, and end violence against black and brown communities.
[Commemoration] 48th anniversary of the Black Panther Party: Birthday Celebration for Jalil Muntaqim, Solidarity with Trayvon 2
By Aisha Mohammed
Please Join us for the 48th Anniversary for the Black Panther Party, Political Prisoner/P.O.W. Jalil Muntaqim’s Birthday, & Solidarity for the Trayvon 2.
Shango Abiola-MC-Discussion Host
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS 630pm-830pm :
Melvin Dickson-CCBPP-On the BPP
Jovanka Beckles-Richmond Vice Mayor-TBA
Frances Moore-Aunti Frances Self Help Hunger Program
Aisha Mohammed- On PP Jalil Muntaqim
Anita Wills-Report on Ferguson
Sharena Diamond Thomas-On PP Antoine Thomas
Nawal Tamimi-Middle East Children’s Alliance-On Gaza
Hannibal/Tanzeen-On Trayvon 2
Yusef Bunchy Shakur TBA
Mamma Ayanna Mashama-MXGM-Tribute to Baba Herman Ferguson (RIP)
[Video] Oakland to Ferguson Protest FTP
Ferguson To Oakland : Get Free
Oakland, California
From Justice for [Fill in the Blank]
On Friday August 15th Oakland residents took to the streets in solidarity with those resisting police violence in Ferguson, Missouri. Here’s a short video of what took place:
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