Ain't I Black?

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Aurielle Lucier: The (free) radical 

via Creative Loafing

Rarely is Aurielle Lucier at a loss for words. But on an unseasonably warm Friday last November, she sat in her northwest Atlanta home stumped by her own inability to articulate how life-altering the last few months have been.

And this was still 10 days before she'd occupy the mic for 13 minutes at Ebenezer Baptist Church to passionately deliver a list of demands to the man of the hour, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

Days after Michael Brown's death at the hands of a police officer last August, Lucier sent out a tweet calling for 10 people to take a stand in solidarity with protestors in Ferguson, Mo. That 10 multiplied into 5,000 for an Atlanta rally one week later. When she blasted out her phone number over the megaphone at the mass gathering, she had no idea that her cell would still be blowing up three months later. Read more....

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132. #BlackLivesMatter

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Another Boko Haram Attack Repelled By Armed Women

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The conference call WILL happen. I just need to Iyanla my life. Stay tuned.

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Transgender People Are Paying The Price For The Media's Willful Ignorance

The failure to effectively and respectfully cover stories about transgender people has consequences. "A state of emergency."

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Native American Man Who Attended Anti-Police Brutality Rally Is Killed By Police Next Day

Native American Man Who Attended Anti-Police Brutality Rally Is Killed By Police Next Day

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Files this under things white people can do that black ppl get murdered for doing

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lets make this hashtag trend cause I’ve been seeing a lot of white privilege, and white supremacy in protest spaces.

Just a couple pro-tips for white people at these protests:

Stay off the mics

stay out of the die ins( use your visibility to hand out flyers or protect the Black folx staging the die ins from being stepped on)

Don’t be cosigning “I am Mike Brown” or “I Can’t Breathe” neither of those would be true for y’all to say, when y’all say that shit it shows that you really don’t understand the forces of white supremacy and anti Blackness that devalues Black life and make you guys incapable of ever being Mike Brown or systematically suffocated because of your race. Plus, to me this is essentially the same as saying “All Lives Matter”

If a reporter comes to talk to you about the movement point them in the direction of a Black protestor

Don’t try to be all in front taking the attention

Don’t you dare pull that “All Lives Matter” shit

If you plan on doing any of these things at a protest about Black lives mattering or the lives of any and every PoC  mattering, don’t fucking show up.

#whiteprivilegeinprotestspaces #whitesupremacyinprotestspaces

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Black women's deaths should be given the same visibility and concern that Black men's deaths receive. Period.

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Off Duty Black Officers In New York Say They Fear Fellow Cops

(Reuters) - From the dingy donut shops of Manhattan to the cloistered police watering holes in Brooklyn, a number of black NYPD officers say they have experienced the same racial profiling that cost Eric Garner his life. Garner, a 43-year-old blac...

"The officers said this included being pulled over for no reason, having their heads slammed against their cars, getting guns brandished in their faces, being thrown into prison vans and experiencing stop and frisks while shopping. The majority of the officers said they had been pulled over multiple times while driving. Five had had guns pulled on them."

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LAPD officers celebrate Michael Brown’s death in parody song

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40-year-old woman fatally shot by Ann Arbor police officer identified

Police on Tuesday released the 40-year-old Ann Arbor woman shot and killed by an Ann Arbor police officer Sunday night. Aura Rosser was fatally shot when she allegedly attacked officers with a knife inside a home in the 2000 block of Winewood of Ann Arbor, according to officials.

Did anyone else know about her? I sure didn't.

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Georgia Civil Disobedience Fund

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Georgia’s legacy for using nonviolent civil disobedience as a tactic to shed light on injustice is deep, and has led to progressive changes that have positively impacted our communities. This fund exists to support principled strategic nonviolent direct action aimed at exposing injustice and creating the changes our communities need to survive and thrive. The fund may also be used to provide bail support for victims of targeted, politically motivated arrests. The funds are Facilitated by a committee with representation from the Atlanta Economic Justice Program of the American Friends Service Committee, Atlanta Jobs with Justice, and Atlanta Jobs With Justice. The Georgia Civil Disobedience Fund has provided bail support to immigration actions, Moral Monday Georgia, housing justice work of Occupy Our Homes Atlanta, and a number of other actions. Please consider supporting nonviolent direct action by making a contribution today.

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an empty seat at the table. unopened, unwrapped presents. a family forever incomplete. why do our lives matter so little to an establishment, to society.

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"Empty chairs at empty tables"

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Atlanta’s legacy as the cradle of the civil rights movement is in part what inspired us to take action on Saturday, and our experience in the process is what inspires us to continue. The attempts to intimidate, discredit, or threaten us only make our movement stronger. It's up to the people of our city to decide now, as they did before, which side of history they wish to be on.

Why local protesters blocked a Buckhead intersection

via Creative Loafing and Rise Up

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Emerald Garner, daughter of Eric Garner, lays a wreath on the memorial of the officers that were killed in Brooklyn last weekend.