Don't Fear Us

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/yapb We're a group of High School students from San Francisco trying to make a change. Our purpose is to stop police brutality and stereotypes that people of authority have about youth of color. #DontFearUs

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"Violence isn't the answer," said a million white ppl today who normally remain silent as Black ppl are killed daily & w/impunity.

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THIS IS SO SICK

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#first

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Many of us remember the names of victims of police abuse, like Michael Brown and Rekia Boyd, as well as those killed by vigilante violence, like Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis. But it’s easy to forget the names of the women in these victims’ lives whose pain remains long after the media and the public move on.

In honor of Mother’s Day this Sunday, let’s take the time to remember those black women who have lost sons, daughters and partners to violence. Their stories are important.

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We have to allow figures like Beyoncé and Nicki Minaj to stumble and course-correct in the same way we do for white public figures. When you’re white, the feminist label is almost literally shoved down your throat, and you’re criticized for not identifying with the movement. When you’re black, your right to do the same is questioned at every turn and actively denied at an institutional level. This division is so clearly racist in nature, and yet mainstream feminism has the audacity to turn around and chastise women of colour who do not wish to identify with your movement.

BattyMamzelle: For Feminists Who Resort To Racism When Slut Shaming Is Not Enough. (via stephaniesilver)

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thoughts

The riots and violence in the streets following Dr. King’s assassination attempt in Birmingham forced Kennedy’s hand in shepherding the voting rights act through congress. It wasn’t the “nonviolence” and peaceful protest that you learned about in high school that got shit done.  It was kids being beaten in the streets and the media showing it all over the world that made the ruling class fear for their safety and reputation. Yet the voting rights act of 1964 was just giving crumbs to a revolutionary movement.  A way to housebreak it, a way to subdue it while it was in the streets.  The real reason the riots had sparked all over, when L.A. erupted, was in incidences of police brutality.

The riots in Ferguson and Baltimore are symptomatic of the tinderbox we have been sitting on since the ‘60′s. Giving people the right to vote just took wind out of the sails of the black rights movement, people thought that was the end. That they had won.  This is the real struggle happening right now, the crumbs only keep people satisfied for so long. They are hungry for real equality.  And taking to the streets will eventually force someones hand.

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Ferguson and Gupta Article Abstract

In this article Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality the authors examine how states regulation over communities is structured spatially. How these constructs are interacting with communities and changing the states specialty. They also extend Foucault’s theory of governemntality through a global lens to look at the impacts of governance on how communities create and enforce their social structures.

In the first part the article talks about specialization of the state. The boundaries of the state are exemplified through two examples. The first is that the state is vertically constructed; meaning that the state operates above the local communities. The second example is the state is encompassing; meaning the state works seamlessly from the perspective of the local communities and the needs from a national level. “These two metaphors work together to produce a taken-for-granted spatial and scalar image of a state that both sits above and contains its localities, regions, and communities” (982). The specialization of the state is a way to use boundaries to control people through the enforcement of these boundaries with laws. The authors use the local example of the Anganwadi Programs in India that care for children and pregnant women. Control is kept by monitoring the boarders and boundaries of the facility and enforcing the imposed rules and laws through surprise visits from superiors. However, the workers and those attending the facility can know when the superiors are coming from the marked UNICEF vans. This example of the state ruling from above by imposing rules and procedures and enforcing them without a real understanding of what the people need.

The second topic is concerned with governmentality. This has to do with how people’s behavior is governed and regulated by the state, social norms, identities, or self-regulation. The authors agree with Foucault that large MNCs and NGOs use that state as a tool to assert their power but also the grass roots efforts are influencing the NGOs which helps to reinforce their authority and power. Looking at Africa, the authors point out the involvement of NGOs MNCs and large banks in controlling and influencing the government and how local grass roots movements are pushing back against it. “As critics have pointed out, such “governance” of African economies from afar represents a kind of transfer of economic sovereignty away from African states and into the hands of the IMF. Yet, because it is African governments that remain nominally in charge, it is easy to see that they are the first to receive the blame when structural adjustment policies begin to bite” (992). These to forces are dictating the conduct of the citizens, or governmentality, of the culture and the “civil society” of the state. These complex relationships and perceptions of the situations in many nations is vastly misunderstood. Ferguson and Gupta call for more ethnographic and analytical work to be done exactly how the state is shaping social practices and processes

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Youth Against Police Brutality (YAPB)

Show us your support by signing our petition against Police Brutality

We haven’t forgotten, have you?

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Please there’s no money needed or anything just your name and email. You won’t get emails from us or anyone, just let us know you support us!

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Chris Rock Sounds Off About White Kids, Insists They’re Never Victims Of Police Brutality

Read More Here ..

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Tyler Paxson

CopBlock Radio will be having Tyler Paxson and his mother, Lima-Allen County CopBlock admin, Kristina Croft. Tyler is fresh out of trial, where he was found not guilty of assaulting a police officer. This of course, means the officer lied in his reports, and lied in court perjuring himself. His punishment? Nothing yet. Had a citizen been found perjuring himself, he would be carted off the witness stand in handcuffs. Not when your a cop though!

Lima police have been deleting comments critical of them, on their facebook page. Truthvoice reports:

The police department of Lima, Ohio which is known for several instances of police brutality, abuse and lying are now actively deleting critical comments made by users on their Facebook page, something which appears to be a direct violation of users’ first amendment rights, as the Facebook page is owned, run and maintained by a governmental entity and monitored by government employees.

After the recent news of Lima police losing their bid to prosecute a 19 year old beaten unconscious by a group of their officers, users have taken it to Facebook to voice their opinions and displeasure with the behavior of these officers and the decision of the city to prosecute someone who was almost killed by their cops.  Comments on Facebook however started disappearing, especially comments critical of the police department or the cops in general.

In a call with Lt. Andy Green who is the public relations officer for the department, TruthVoice was told that all comments made on the Lima Police Department Facebook page are subject to the Terms and Conditions posted on the page. Lt. Green stated that comments critical of police are not deleted, but only comments that use profanity or violate the conditions are, something which is in fact blatantly false as TruthVoice was provided evidence of screenshots showing that this is not true.

Lt. Andy Green can be contacted at [phone].

Its gonna be a great show as usual!

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Tyler Paxson is a post from Cop Block - Badges Don’t Grant Extra Rights

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Warning for sexual assault, rape, murder

“Let us remember that Stonewall was lead by trans women of colour.”

“We are not here to change the system. We want to shut it down!”

Watch and share this important mini documentary about police violence against Black women (cis and trans) and gender non-conforming people produced by the Audre Lorde Project. If you’re able, make a donation of $15 or more to sustain their important work!

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At ‪#‎justiiceforFrankMcQueen‬ rally, Black man killed by cops in Chester, PA @REALjusticePHL ‪#‎BlackLivesMatter‬

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Well this is disgusting

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corrupt

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Genocide

Killing of a race. That is what these white men in the blue coats are doing to our kids, parents, cousins, aunts and uncles, grandparents, friends, every colored person trying to make it out here.

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Philly Coalition activists take a trip to Baltimore 

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When Jason Disitso saw Officer Jonathan Munoz walk up to his friend and begin inappropriately touching her, sticking his hand in her pockets and frisking her, he did what anyone concerned with her safety might do in the 21st century: He asked another friend for his cell phone and began recording Munoz.

Minutes later, Disitso was being driven away in cuffs. According to sworn testimony from Munoz, the March 12, 2014, incident escalated quickly when Disitso tried to punch him. But as the full video shows, that’s not what happened.

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