NBS Party

New York based organization focused on bringing transformative politics to bear on issues concerning Black communities.

[fergusonresponse]

NEW YORK CITY

SAT APR 18 - 9:00 AM

THE NEW SCHOOL 66 W 12th Street

#BAM2015: Building a Movement: Against Police Brutality

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Welcome and Conference Overview

Milano Dean: Michelle J. Depass

Time: 9:00am - 9:30am    

Keynote: Antiblackness and American Society

Frank Wilderson III

Time: 9:30am - 11:00am

Policy Demands and Strategies  

Carmen Dixon, Dante Barry, and Opal Tometi

What are the demands and strategies organizers are using to create social change?

Time: 11:00am - 12:30    

Youth Conversation on Policing

Brooklyn Tech High School: Against Police Brutality

What are the ideas that young people bringing to this current movement?

Time: 1:00 - 2:00    

Police Brutality on the Margins

I'nasah Crockett, Monica Dennis, and Shaadi Devereaux

How are bodies and communities that have been historically marginalizd in civil rights spaces shaping the current discussion and work.

Time: 1:30pm-3:00pm    

Black Social Movements & State Violence

Joy James and Selamawit Terrefe

What role has state violence and police brutality played in social movements?    

Time: 2:30pm - 3:30pm    

Economic Violence and Police Brutality

Imani Henry and Ty Black

How does economic violence facilitate police brutality?

Time: 2:30 - 3:30    

Technology, (Social) Media, and Social Movement

Robin J. Hayes, Janisha Gabriel, Shannon Shird, and Sydette Harry

How can we leverage technology, (social) media, and art for social change?    

Time: 3:30pm - 5:00pm    

Building Communities of Resistance

Jay Espy, Tanya Fields, and Zahira Kelly

How do we build sustainable resistance lives, communities, and organizations?

Time: 5:00pm – 7:00pm

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#BAM2015 Building A Movement - Against Police Brutality 

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#BAM2015

[micdotcom]

What the map of Africa might look like had colonists not carved it up 

Africa is not a country. It’s an entire continent filled with an amazing, unparalleled diversity of languages, peoples and nations, some of the latter among the most heavily urbanized places on the entire planet.

2 more maps show the true diversity of Africa

[ethiopienne]

AMID the car and mattress sales that serve as markers for Presidents’ Day, Black History Month reminds Americans to focus on our common history. In 1926, the African-American historian Carter G. Woodson introduced Negro History Week as a commemoration built around the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Now February serves as a point of collision between presidential celebration and marginalized black history.

While Lincoln’s role in ending slavery is understood to have been more nuanced than his reputation as the great emancipator would suggest, it has taken longer for us to replace stories about cherry trees and false teeth with narratives about George Washington’s slaveholding.

When he was 11 years old, Washington inherited 10 slaves from his father’s estate. He continued to acquire slaves — some through the death of family members and others through direct purchase. Washington’s cache of enslaved people peaked in 1759 when he married the wealthy widow Martha Dandridge Custis. His new wife brought more than 80 slaves to the estate at Mount Vernon. On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly 150 souls were counted as part of the property there.

In 1789, Washington became the first president of the United States, a planter president who used and sanctioned black slavery. Washington needed slave labor to maintain his wealth, his lifestyle and his reputation. As he aged, Washington flirted with attempts to extricate himself from the murderous institution — “to get quit of Negroes,” as he famously wrote in 1778. But he never did.

[blackfemmejeanvaljean]

I had teachers in middle school tell me he never owned slaves his wife did

[theybc]

After a string of high profile police killings over two-hundred communities across the country erupted in massive protests and sustained acts of civil disobedience. People flooded the streets demanding an end to police brutality and a recognition that black lives matter.

The state response to this...

[safetybeyondpolicing]

The NYPD is the 7th largest military in the world, it does not need 1K new cops. There is a national dialogue underway about de-militarizing the police. City officials must not play into the agenda of a militarized NYPD ahead of the community’s needs. We believe in holding people, organizations...

[safetybeyondpolicing]

“Community Policing” is a euphemism for more surveillance; it does not guarantee our safety. Broken windows policing keeps immigrant New Yorkers in terror of law enforcement due to fear that any interaction with local police will lead to summonses, unaffordable fines, jail, or immigration...

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[newblackschool-blog]

"What if the problem is democracy?"

Joy James | Refusing Blackness as Victimization: Trayvon Martin & the Black Cyborgs (via newblackschool)

[stability]

The grinch had 2 moms and no one ever said anything about it

[nonbinaryjackfrost-deactivated2]

the grinch isn’t a good example of a child successfully being brought up by homosexuals 

[jawkey-blog]

He saved a whole town from a corrupt capitalist institution and singlehandedly took down every prominent member of the whoville bourgeoisie all in one night

I think it’s an excellent example

[newblackschool-blog]

Antonio Martin (un)armed does not deserve to die.

[wilwheaton]

[misantropo-deactivated20180605]

Land of the free…

[likehercoffee-deactivated202008]

if they come for Assata Ferguson will look like a warm up

[transwomanism]

Gender, Sex, Biology & Trans Women

Many of us understand sex and gender as categorically separate when envisioning trans women. How do we enforce transmisogyny through biological essentialist views of what we define as “sex” when imagining trans women? This storify examines how we enforce physical & ontological gender violence through non-consensual cisnormative separations of sex and gender. Sex is very much a gendered concept with its own colonial and violent baggage.

Note: This is a partial storify. Read the full version here

https://storify.com/TGirlInterruptd/gender-sex-biology-and-transwomen 

[acolossus]

…wait so now you’re going as far as denying biological terms BECAUSE YOU DON’T LIKE THEM? Sorry, you are a woman, that is true, but if you have a penis, you are biologically male. Your biological sex is not a societal concept. It’s a physical thing. If you were born with a penis you are and will be biologically male until you get a sex change. Then you become a biological female, and not a seocnd beforehand. Vice versa for trans dudes. You can’t change medical definitions because you don’t like them.

[blackfoxx-deactivated20211115]

You are cat. Cats have ears. Don’t you know all things with ear are cat!? Dont be silly! Science!