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Activist Calls Controversial Judge “White Racist Pig,” Sent to Rikers
Contact: Nick 631-278-9472 New York, May 15, 2012 — Stop Mass Incarceration Network — Occupy Wall Street/Stop Stop and Frisk activist Christina Gonzalez was arrested in court and sentenced to ten days in...
If you love this photo, but hate that she's alone: stoppatriarchy.tumblr.com
First, people don’t make choices in a vacuum. They do it in the context of the social relations they’re enmeshed in and the options they have within those relations—which are not of their own choosing. They confront those relations, they don’t choose them. Two, if people feel for whatever reasons that they want to choose to harm themselves and others, we’re going to struggle with them—but we’re not going to blame them. We’re going to show them the source of all this in the system, and call on them to struggle against that system, and transform themselves in the process. Just because a youth “chooses” to sell drugs, or a woman “chooses” to commodify herself sexually, doesn’t mean that they chose to have those choices. And there is no other way besides fighting the power, and transforming the people, for revolution that all this will change for the better. Blaming the masses for bad choices just reinforces the conditions that they are oppressed by.
Bob Avakian (via stoppatriarchy)
Kicking off from Atlanta and spreading revolution, communism and Bob Avakian's work through the South!
Follow the Tour at http://basicsbustour.tumblr.com
[our discussion on this uptown this past week was super interesting…so we’re doing this again downtown. If you’re in NY-area, come join us]
Come to a discussion inspired by the themes in the new HBO series “Girls”! Thursday - May 10 - 7-9 pm at Revolution Books 146 West 26th Street, NYC [btw...
Howard Morgan, A Black Cop Who Was Shot 28 Times By Several White Cops, Faces Attempted Murder Charges
As much of the country follows the Trayvon Martin case, activists in Chicago are hoping to bring some of that attention to Howard Morgan, a former Chicago police officer who was shot 28 times by white officers — and lived to tell his side of the story.
Morgan was off-duty as a detective for the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad when he was pulled over for driving the wrong way on a one-way street on Feb 21, 2005, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. While both police and Morgan agree on that much, what happened next is a mystery.
According to police, Morgan opened fire with his service weapon when officers tried to arrest him, which caused them to shoot him 28 times. His family, however, very much doubts those claims.
“Four white officers and one black Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad police man with his weapon on him — around the corner from our home — and he just decided to go crazy? No. That’s ludicrous,” Morgan’s wife, Rosalind Morgan, told the Sun-Times.
She was not the only person to doubt CPD’s side of the story. A Change.org petition signed by more than 2,600 people called for all charges against Morgan to be dropped, and now Occupy Chicago is getting involved.
“After being left for dead, he survived and was then charged with attempted murder of the four white officers who brutalized him,” Occupy wrote on their website, adding that Morgan was found not guilty on three counts, including discharging his weapon. The same jury that cleared him of opening fire on the officers, however, deadlocked on a charge of attempted murder — and another jury found him guilty in January.
That jury was not allowed to hear that Morgan had been acquitted of the other charges.
Protesters and Morgan’s family say the second trial amounted to double jeopardy, and claim officers have gone to great lengths to obstruct justice in the case:
“Howard Morgan’s van was crushed and destroyed without notice or cause before any forensic investigation could be done.
Howard Morgan was never tested for gun residue to confirm if he even fired a weapon on the morning in question.
The State never produced the actual bullet proof vest worn by one of the officers who claimed to have allegedly taken a shot directly into the vest on the morning in question. The State only produced a replica.”
“If they can do this and eliminate double jeopardy and your constitutional rights, then my God, I fear for every Afro-American — whether they be male or female — in this corrupt unjust system,” Morgan’s wife told the Sun-Times.
Howard Morgan will be sentenced Thursday. He faces 80 years in prison.
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Greetings from New York City. When I first heard about the BAsics Bus Tour I was immediately reminded of the Freedom Riders who traveled boldly and courageously into the belly of the beast, the Deep South, some forty years ago. Their mission was to desegregate interstate bus travel. Today, 40+...
photos from the Convict Leasing System of post-civil war centered around Alabama. Convict Leasing was another form of slavery in which mostly Black people were charged with false or trivial offenses and forced to labor while in prison. beatings, sometimes resulting in death, and all around dehumanizing behavior were as similar as during slavery.
stoppatriarchy:
Stickers to end patriarchy.
Imagine a World Without America
jamnopeanut:
Or at least ponder one in which we cast away this outmoded, played out culture to create something new. Coming to a history museum in a future near you. #revoltingculture
photograph by Jamnopeanut
eddievedderssweater:
Get there!
stufficareabout:
From “All Played Out” by Bob Avakian, music by William Parker.
Music is political because it inspires us to think to see beyond the horizon so it was my intent to give Avakian’s message some lift but also to become the words to bring them to life in another way too. A word is sound, a sound is a word.
People of privilege demanding their right to be a parasite
Lying about how things aren’t good like they used to be
Back in the day when they were done in an even worse way
They say it’s not about race or keeping half of humanity down
But want you in your place if you’re a woman or black or brown
What this is is
ALL PLAYED OUT
the bible taken literally is a horror!
brainhurl:
lol
f21ckth1t:
riyanoir:
He was 14 yrs. 6mos. and 5 days old — and the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th Century.
George Junius Stinney, Jr.,
[b. 1929 - d. 1944]
In a South Carolina prison sixty-six years ago, guards walked a 14-year-old boy, bible tucked under his arm, to the electric chair. At 5’ 1” and 95 pounds, the straps didn’t fit, and an electrode was too big for his leg.
The switch was pulled and the adult sized death mask fell from George Stinney’s face. Tears streamed from his eyes. Witnesses recoiled in horror as they watched the youngest person executed in the United States in the past century die.
Now, a community activist is fighting to clear Stinney’s name, saying the young boy couldn’t have killed two girls. George Frierson, a school board member and textile inspector, believes Stinney’s confession was coerced, and that his execution was just another injustice blacks suffered in Southern courtrooms in the first half of the 1900s.
(CLICK THROUGH FOR THE REST OF THE ARTICLE.)
Audio ^Sound Portraits
*When Killing a Juvenile Was Routine ^@nytimes
writing analyzing paper on this poem:
manderleigh:
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
There would be no United States as we know it today without slavery. That is a simple and basic truth.
BAsics, From the Talks and Writings of Bob Avakian, Chapter 1, Quote 1.
