The “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” gesture has reached the House floor.
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Ferguson library stays open, attracts over $175,000 in grassroot support : Entertainment
The Ferguson Municipal Public Library, which has acted as an “ad-hoc school” when classrooms closed, has drawn donations of more than $175,000 in less than two days after famous authors such as Neil Gaiman tweeted their support.
Ferguson library stays open, attracts over $175,000 in grassroot support : Entertainment
A SocImages Collection: Police, Black Americans, and U.S. Society » Sociological Images
In lieu of a monthly update post, please consider this collection of SocImages posts related to the relationship between police, black Americans, and this country. See, also, the Ferguson syllabus put together by Sociologists for Justice and this summary of the facts by Nicki Lisa Cole.
A SocImages Collection: Police, Black Americans, and U.S. Society » Sociological Images
In this second installment of The Illipsis, Jay Smooth looks back at the week’s events in Ferguson and asks how we can truly apply Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s advice that “riots are the language of the unheard.”
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Barack Obama, Ferguson, and the Evidence of Things Unsaid
Violence works. Nonviolence does too.
Black people know what cannot be said. What clearly cannot be said is that the events of Ferguson do not begin with Michael Brown lying dead in the street, but with policies set forth by government at every level. What clearly cannot be said is that the people of Ferguson are regularly plundered, as their grandparents were plundered, and generally regardedas a slush-fund for the government that has pledged to protect them. What clearly cannot be said is the idea of superhuman black men who “bulk up” to run through bullets is not an invention of Darren Wilson, but a staple of American racism.
What clearly cannot be said is that American society’s affection for nonviolence is notional. What can not be said is that American society’s admiration for Martin Luther King Jr. increases with distance, that the movement he led was bugged, smeared, harassed, and attacked by the same country that now celebrates him. King had the courage to condemn not merely the violence of blacks, nor the violence of the Klan, but the violence of the American state itself.
How To Support the Ferguson Library – BOOK RIOT
Many other orgs closing. But we will stay open to serve people of #Ferguson as long as safe for patrons & staff, up to 8p. Love each other. — Ferguson Library (@fergusonlibrary) November 24, 2014 No matter what emotions you … Continued
If you want to help the children of Ferguson, the public library there has been providing support since the beginning. They’ve provided activities and a gathering space for the families and they need help.
12 things white people can do now because Ferguson
White people who are sick and tired of racism should work hard to become white allies.
The article is the best thing I’ve seen about ‘what to do next to undo the system’. Regardless of how you feel about this incident, knowing more about the systems of racism, how to recognize them in yourself and in the institutions of American culture is deeply important and needed. Now.
Why did Michael Brown, an 18-year-old kid headed to college, refuse to move from the middle of the street to the sidewalk? Why would he curse out a police officer? Why would he attack a police officer? Why would he dare a police officer to shoot him? Why would he charge a police officer holding a gun? Why would he put his hand in his waistband while charging, even though he was unarmed?
None of this fits with what we know of Michael Brown. Brown wasn’t a hardened felon. He didn’t have a death wish. And while he might have been stoned, this isn’t how stoned people act. The toxicology report did not indicate he was on PCP or something that would’ve led to suicidal aggression.
Which doesn’t mean Wilson is a liar. Unbelievable things happen every day. The fact that his story raises more questions than it answers doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
But the point of a trial would have been to try to answer these questions. We would have either found out if everything we thought we knew about Brown was wrong, or if Wilson’s story was flawed in important ways. But now we’re not going to get that chance. We’re just left with Wilson’s unbelievable story.
drst:
It’s at 47% pro right now (8pm eastern time)
You know what to do. FLY MY PRETTIES FLY!
57% at 9:20pm eastern. we can do better.
62% 10:54 pm Pacific. Boost the signal.
62% at 11:25pm pacific.
Ferguson Defense Fund
Ferguson protestors need money for jail, bail & life The Ferguson Legal Defense Fund will helpThe fact that a sick billboard telling Ferguson protesters to pull their pants up and dont loot got funded but this is only at 8% is the most depressing shit in the universe.
I have seen tumblr fund some wild shit. This shouldn’t be stuck at 2K. period.
PLEASE signal boost. And not just here but on twitter, facebook and anywhere else. Donate if you can, too!
we all know things are about to get really ugly. There is no better time than to try and meet this goal.
I have almost 500 followers. Thats not much compared to many others but if 100 people reblogged it and the other post thats floating around got some action we might fucking get somewhere so do it.
Boosting again. About $200 got tacked onto it since last night. I know $100 was from a friend of mine on FB so that warms the cockles of my heart.
booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooost
COME ON GUYS THIS IS EMBARRASSING! DARREN WILSON’S RACIST ASS FOLLOWERS RAISED $400,000 LET’S GO!
Let this be an object lesson to you that there are a LOT of shitty white people in the world.
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