Peace!Love!Fight!

Dedicated to the people who stand/stood up for their rights and the rights others.

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lets play “which download link is the real one”

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FUN FACT real download links won’t move if you drag them along with your mouse so if it does drag it’s an ad!!

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Viola Liuzzo’s monument on HWY 80.

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Marilyn was a big supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. Ella Fitzgerald was one of Marilyn’s idols and a major inspiration. However, the Mocambo nightclub in West Hollywood, the most popular dance spot at the time, refused to let Ella perform there because she was black. Outraged, Marilyn told the owners that if they would let Ella perform, she would be there in the front row every time Ella was onstage. She did, and the two became friends.

According to the great Ella Fitzgerald: “I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt…it was because of her that I played the Mocambo, a very popular nightclub in the ’50s. She personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night. She told him - and it was true, due to Marilyn’s superstar status - that the press would go wild. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman - a little ahead of her times. And she didn’t know it.”

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AMERICA WILL BE VIDEO SERIES - Poor People's Campaign

“ We call you to witness the powerful organizing taking place to fight systemic racism, poverty, the war economy and ecological devastation. We’re so excited to share three videos from filmmaker Dara Kell, who has been capturing the stories of poor people, clergy and moral leaders joining together around the country to build the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. “

Please watch this video and look into the Poor People’s Campaign. We need to work together, love each other, and support each other. We need to fight!

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Heather Heyer’s mom gives heartbreaking yet stirring funeral speech

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SELMA ALABAMA’S CHILDREN NEED OUR HELP

Without our help their doors will soon close

In the heart of Selma, Alabama, just a stone’s throw from the Edmund Pettus Bridge is the McRae-Gaines Learning Center, an award winning, historic preparatory school ages 6 mos to 9 years, founded in 1978 to serve low-income and minority children of working families in Selma, Alabama and Dallas County.

Click link to read more

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Women’s History Month: Remembrance,celebration

L-R; Mary Liuzzo Lilleboe, Viola liuzzo. An interview with Mary Liuzzo Lilleboe, daughter of Civil Right’s martyr, Viola Liuzzo. By Kelli Green In January the world shook with the voices of thousands of women from across all seven continents, in the largest protest in the history of our country. Among them were a group of […]

52 years ago, Viola Liuzzo participated in the March from Selma to Montgomery Alabama in support of protecting voting rights for black citizens in the south. Liuzzo was murdered the night the march ended by 4 klansmen. Mary Liuzzo Lilleboe, daughter of Liuzzo speaks on her mother, society and the civil rights movements of the past and present in this article. 

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Celebrate Black History Month! Public Figure Profile: Jimmie Lee Jackson

Born: December 16, 1938

Died: February 26, 1965

Jimmie Lee was born in Marion, Alabama. Father of one daughter, he was a Vietnam Veteran and a deacon at his church. Jackson tried several times to register to vote, but he was repeatedly blocked the unfair obstacles many blacks faced when it came to registering.

On February 18th, 1965 Jackson ,along with his mother and grandfather, took part in a night march to protest the arrest of civil right’s leader, James Orange. The march was met with violent opposition from segregationists and police officers.

Jackson and his family ran to Mack’s Cafe, but the police caught up with them. An officer by the name of James  Fowler shot Jimmie Lee in the stomach, claiming he thought he was reaching for a gun. Fowler apologized for killing him but maintained that it was in self defense, until 2007 when he was finally charged with the murder. He pleaded to manslaughter and served 6 months. He was also investigated for the killing of another black man, by the name of Nathan Fowler in 1966.

Jackson’s death inspired the Selma to Montgomery march which led to the passing of the Voting Rights Bill. He’s known as a Martyr to the civil right’s movement.

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Celebrate Women’s History Month!

Public Figure Profile: Sophie Scholl

Born: May 9,1921

Died: February 22, 1943

Sophie Scholl was born in Forchtenberg, Germany in 1921. Scholl had a pretty normal childhood until Hitler took power in 1933. Scholl joined the League of German girls and at first she enjoyed it, but she became upset with the way Jewish children were excluded from the group. Over the next years she became increasingly opposed to the Nazi regime.

In 1942, Sophie’s brother Hans Scholl formed the White Rose Resistence long with, Willia Graf and Christoph Probst. The group wrote 6 anti-Nazi resistance leaflets. Sophie eventually joined them and helped distribute leaflets, and anti-nazi propaganda.

On February 18, 1948 Sophie and other members of the group were arrested for distributing anti-nazi propaganda. Hans, Sophie and Probst were charged and ultimately convicted of high treason. They were executed on February 22nd, 1943.

Sophie’s last words were brave and hopeful.:

“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause. Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?”

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Women’s March here in Pensacola #womenMarch #MoreLoveNoHate #Pensacola

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Mr. Barbero Presents: Today In History On October 14th, 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent resistance to racial prejudice in America. At thirty-five years old, King became the youngest recipient of the award. After receiving a doctorate degree in theology from Boston University, in 1955 King organized the first major protest of the modern civil rights movement–the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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Happy Women’s Equality Day!

In 1971, Representative Bella Abzug from New York put forth a bill to designate August 26 as National Women’s Equality Day in honor of the incorporation of the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed women the right to vote in 1920. President Gerald Ford signed a presidential proclamation officially making the day Women’s Equality Day in 1974.

The proclamation was issued under the backdrop of the of the Equal Rights Amendment ratification process. The amendment passed through both houses in 1972, but unfortunately failed to reach the 38-state ratification quota needed by the 1979 deadline.

Organizations continue to use Women’s Equality Day to highlight the challenges to equality women still face today. Learn more about the 19th Amendment, the Equal Rights Amendment, and the history of women’s rights in America in the “Records of Rights” exhibit at the National Archives Museum: recordsofrights.org

Images:

President Gerald R. Ford seated at the Cabinet Room table signing a proclamation on Women’s Equality Day 1974. Standing behind him are Representatives Yvonne Brathwait Burke (D-California), Barbara Jordan (D-Texas), Elizabeth Holtzman (D-New York), Marjorie S. Holt (R-Maryland), Leonor K. Sullivan (D-Missouri), Cardiss Collins (D -Illinois), Corinne C. Boggs (D-Louisiana), Margaret M. Heckler (R-Massachusetts), Bella S. Abzug (D-New York), and Shirley Chisholm (D-New York). 

Bella Abzug, Betty Freidan and Billy Jean King Accompany Torch Relay Runners into Houston, 1977 

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Kimkardashian: This week we watched Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, two innocent black men, get senselessly murdered by police officers. Like a lot of you guys, I watched the videos, and was appalled and completely heartbroken. I was left speechless, angry and numb.

I want my children to grow up knowing that their lives matter. I do not ever want to have to teach my son to be scared of the police, or tell him that he has to watch his back because the people we are told to trust—the people who “protect and serve"—may not be protecting and serving him because of the color of his skin.

The last thing we need is to fuel anger with more hate or violence, especially toward the many incredible police officers who risk their lives every single day to protect our families and communities. We must peacefully use the power of our voices and the strength of our numbers to demand changes in the judicial system so that brutality doesn’t ever go unpunished.

It is our responsibility as Americans and as parents to create a safe future for our children. We must do something NOW. We must speak up until we are heard and real, effective changes are made.

Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, Sean Bell … and unfortunately so many more.

Hashtags are not enough. This must end now.

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The victims of the Birmingham church bombing shall forever be written in the history books as a clear example of racial violence. However, the related killing of another young African American boy, seems to have been completely forgotten about. On 15 September, 1963, 13-year-old Virgil Lamar Ware, an eighth grader that dreamed of becoming a lawyer, was returning home from a shopping trip with his older brother, James. Virgil was riding on the handlebars of his brother’s bike when they tragically encountered Larry Joe Sims and Michael Lee Farley, two white teenagers who had just attended a segregation rally. Sims reached for his gun and shot the oblivious Virgil in the cheek and chest. He died on the Docena-Sandusky Road on the outskirts of Birmingham. A true tale of injustice, the two killers received no prison time. Convicted by an all white jury, they were sentenced to a measly two years probation.

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When I grew up, you wanted to look like Marlene Dietrich, Betty Grable. Fortunately, I didn’t know that I really wanted to look like Lena Horne. When I grew up…black stars were stigmatized. Nobody wanted to look like Lena Horne.

Dorian Corey (via 500sandwiches)

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All I'm saying is, if #AllLivesMatter is a real thing and not just a way to bully #BlackLivesMatter movements and what not, then it should be plastered over literally every human interest story. Actually every human interest story, animal story, and environmental issue. #AllLivesMatter should be the busiest hashtag alive, if it's really what they want to say it is. Instead of crossing out the word black on #BlackLivesMatter and other #livesmatter act like you know that all lives matter and back up #BLM and any other movement.