Protests Nationwide
Police riots and police violence with over a hundred arrests in Rochester, Baton Rouge, St. Paul, Phoenix, Atlanta, Baltimore. Excellent video embedded, Please share. Its time to shut the country down until systemic racism is rooted out. "No justice! No peace!"
Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Friday night, authorities went on to arrest 31 in a rally that drew hundreds just outside police headquarters. Louisiana State Police said that arrests had been made mostly for obstructing a highway and inciting people to riot. At one point the situation got tense enough for an officer to pull his handgun on protesters.
More than 70 arrested at Black Lives Matter protest in Rochester. The SWAT team and police came and everybody took a seat on the ground because we didn't want any of our movements to be misinterpreted as violence or trying to get aggressive or resisting arrest," said Ashley Gantt, one of the protest's organizers...
Protesters shut down I-94 from Hwy. 280 to downtown St. Paul
The protest of the shooting death of Philando Castile followed a demonstration Saturday at the governor's residence in St. Paul.
Caption: In Phoenix Arizona police responded with pepper spray and tear gas to disperse crowds, when protesters tried to take over the freeway as authorities cordoned off 10 ramps. Three people were arrested and six were injured by the end of the night, police confirmed.
Link to Hundreds of protesters arrested
Sunday
Tear gas, 102 arrested, 21 cops injured in Black Lives Matter protests in St. Paul (VIDEO) https://www.rt.com/usa/350463-paul-gas-protest-black/
There is a fine line between violent and non-violent. In the case of heavily armed troopers with shields I consider rock throwing and fireworks to be non-violent and defensive. I have not yet studied the "21 cops injured".
No revolution can be successful using gun violence. It is an absolute necessity in any revolution to slowly win the police forces and a large portion of politicians to the revolutionary side so that in the final confrontations they lay down their arms and support the revolution.
The revolution is reaching critical mass where there are some 3-5% of the population organized and ready to march. It becomes impossible for the oligarchy to govern against this critical mass and they must capitulate.
Washington, D.C. Protesters Win the Streets in Washington DC (Video) http://www.leftvoice.org/Protesters-Win-the-Streets-in-Washington-DC
Sunday Evening
After blocking the I-40 Bridge in Memphis, police join marchers to march back to town for a meeting. Chief of Police and other brass arm and arm with protesters. City offers buses for transport. Bridge clear, no arrests, no injuries. "No anger, people smiling." Sourde WMCTV
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It's long past time for democracy in America...
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Arrested Deray in Baton Rouge for no reason.
Beat in the USA.
Holy crap - Deray's arrest
Holy crap - Deray's arrest for no reason somehow hits home even harder... gut just dropped like a rock seeing that...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Response to #AllLivesMatter
From the Light House.
Alex, white hand over black face should be male
Much more effective, traumatic for some, as it should be.
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Once again
the "cops" have their widdle fee fees all hurt because people are once again talking about rampant police brutality.
1. Not all cops are bad...Sacred duty.... I know one good cop...they have really, really hard and skeery jobs...
2. When we are allowed to discuss police brutality we need to make sure we don't have any anger or outrage...in fact it's better if we just are silent about such matters...
3. Support the troops er cops... or else!...
Now the most pathetic of pathetic 4. "all lives matter..."
Well apparently not all lives matter and that's the whole fucking point. They should matter but they don't.
"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison
When the state institutionalizes racism, that state must die
From Chris Hedges in Wages of Rebellion
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From the Light House.
Getting home safely while black.
I protest the fact that this film needs to be made at all. I protest that we need to march in the streets shouting "Hands Up, Don't Shoot." Get Home Safely: 10 Rules of Survival
https://vimeo.com/116706870
From the Light House.
Why aren't the white folks marching?
There are a few, we need thousands.
Washington, DC happening now... they have reached the Capitol Building.
From the Light House.
Because I already did, for Trayvon, and Michael Brown, and Tamir
Rice, and back in 2000 and 2004 when Bush stole FL by ransacking the black vote--I protested this stuff up till sometime in late summer 2014.
It didn't do any good. Like the rest of the rallies I've attended since the Clintons and Newt took over in 94.
My last rally ever was Sept 2014, the big climate rally in NYC.
rallies don't do anything except show the movement to itself (which can be helpful, but is less so under emergency conditions like these)
unless of course we're threatening to actually do something if they don't listen--like taking over a building or everyone striking. I'm not recommending these courses of action--just saying that unless you have *some* action that you're threatening to do--something other than just showing up and waving signs--they don't have to care about your rally.
1)We don't have the power to fire politicians anymore. That's in the donors' hands. They don't give a damn what we think of their actions. So merely rallying doesn't do much.
2) I'm not even sure that politicians have control of police anymore, so even if we could influence the politicians, no guarantee we could control the police through them--but the most important point here is #1.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
So what's your point, do nothing? Give up?
No justice, no peace! When we combine marching with economic boycott, they all feel the pain. It's time for more of both.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. - e.e.cummings
Nope. My point is, create a real, strategic action plan.
Don't just rally, and then ask why I'm not rallying.
Or, you can do that, but I'm not going out to rally without a plan that might actually do something.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver