Now that Barack Obama has been reelected President of the United States of America, it is imperative that the racial justice movement hold him and his administration accountable for the extrajudicial killing of Black and oppressed people throughout the country. The Obama administration must assert its authority over the various law enforcement entities throughout the [...]
Join us for a panel of family members from the East and West Coasts who have lost loved ones to police brutality, as they tell stories of their struggles for justice and strategize on taking action within our communities, to confront police terror and hold them accountable for brutality and racist murder. SPEAKERS: ·Ramona Africa, [...]
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has been fighting against discriminatory policing practices — like stop and frisk — in New York and beyond for many years. We’ve brought you data documenting the skyrocketing numbers of stops and racial disparities. This summer we brought you the stories behind the numbers, sharing the experiences of those [...]
This event is part of the No More Trayvon Martins Campaign and the organizing around building the National Plan of Action for Racial Justice and Self Determination that the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement has initiated with support from the Black Left Unity Network, and the National Alliance for Racial Justice and Human Rights. Self-Respect and [...]
We are deeply saddened by the unintended murder of Lloyd Morgan, and our hearts go out to his family in this time of mourning. We need to grieve for the loss of his young life. But we also need to consider how we can resolve conflicts in our neighborhoods, to stop the violence we direct [...]
What is lynching? In its prevalent forms in American history, it appears as the administration of racial formations through terror. The mutilation, shaming and degrading of black bodies, and also the corpses being retrieved and displayed as trophies, was intended to maintain the symbolic subjection of black people to, in bell hooks’ formulation, “white supremacist [...]
Once again another young Black man has been shot and killed, under highly questionable circumstances, by a representative of law enforcement. Also once again, African Americans and our allies fear that justice will not be served on the perpetrator. Unfortunately, this fear is neither imagined nor an overreaction; it is grounded in concrete reality. That [...]
By scott crow Note: On the fifth anniversary of Katrina I want to share this narrative, an excerpt of stories about anarchist organizing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. This excerpted piece is made of stories about the early violence we came across in dealing with the white vigilantes and police in Algiers. It takes [...]
As many have heard, a relentless anti-police movement has grown from the tragedy of Oscar Grant’s murder on January 1, 2009 by former officer Johannes Mehserle.* Recently, Mehserle was convicted of the deplorable charge of involuntary manslaughter, a weak charge which carries a sentence of probation to four years in prison. When the news of [...]
Much love to the Crimethinc squad for its latest poster, challenging the police. Text reads: “The ones who beat Rodney King, who gunned down Sean Bell and Amadou Diallo and Oscar Grant, who murdered Fred Hampton in his bed. The ones who broke Víctor Jara’s hands and Steve Biko’s skull, who disappeared dissidents from Argentina [...]
The righteous anger and indignation on graphic display in Oakland, California Thursday, July 8th at the mockery of justice rewarded to Johannes Mehserle for murdering Oscar Grant and the open collaboration of several non-profit organizations with the government to contain and delegitimatize the people’s resistance is a clarion call. It’s a call not just for [...]
The Oakland group Youth Uprising was putting these messages out before the Oscar Grant verdict. Essentially, stay in your place, no matter how much the pigs and system screw you. Check it. [youtube UPYImUdv1FE]
There are preparations on many sides as the trial of Johannes Mehserle comes to a close — with a verdict possible today. Different classes prepare in different ways. What does justice for Oscar Grant looks like? And if the system follows the murder of Oscar with a new outrage — if they don’t truly punish [...]
Margaret Sakaggya Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders UNCOG Palais des Nations CH-1211 Geneve, Switzerland EU Petition Protesting the Continued Persecution of Mr. Lorenzo Komboa Ervin. Urgent Action Requested. Dear Spec. Rapporteur Sakaggya: Background Information Lorenzo Ervin is a native of Chattanooga, Tennessee currently residing in the capitol city of Nashville, Tennessee. He is currently [...]
This article was posted on Voxunion.com May 25, 2010. Her Name Was Aiyana Jones Her name was Aiyana Jones. She was 7, Black, in a poor family, living in Detroit and was killed by the police. She was the victim of an unbroken and thoroughly vicious cycle of police brutality, followed by temporary, short-lived outcry [...]
Released May 7, 2010 by Uhuru News
Houston Police Department officers Timothy J. Riley II, Quang Tran and Victor Olivares have been assigned to other duties after allegedly beating the wrong person of color last week. That Chinese man, Yu Boren, claims cops hit him in the face. However, Yu Boren is a Chinese diplomat, deputy consul-general to be exact, and HPD [...]
The story of Diop Olugbala: why he must be set free In 1986 Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton said, “You might not have the Black Panther Party, but you have the Uhuru House; you might not have The Black Panther newspaper but you have The Burning Spear. So they really haven’t done anything [...]
“The Aboriginal community is moving to call for a national day of action against Black deaths in custody on Saturday April 10,” Queensland Aboriginal leader and Socialist Alliance member Sam Watson told Green Left Weekly on March 19. “We are calling on all state and federal governments across Australia to conduct a national audit of [...]
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