#raulsaavedravargas

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As the Brown Community it is in OUR duty to utilize each other, each other's connections, ideas, opinions, and voices. A huge problem we face is hatred within one another in our cultures. Chicanx/Mexican/central and south Americas are always butting heads with one another. Even in our own cultures we ignore Afro-Latinx/brown folx. The Colorism is real. What we need to do, is 1) decolonize ourselves and EDUCATE ONE ANOTHER. Whether it be meeting after meeting, call ins, library meet ups, whatever. We need to teach one another and learn our struggles and unite for justice. These Latinx/Brown folx who were reduced by hashtags deserve more than that. They all do. What can we do? We can begin organization, starting a collective, talking, speaking up, doing shit about it. Y'all who say you're revolutionaries or down for the struggle need to really be down and do something. I want to start LA based meetings/ a collective named ESCUCHA and for every hermanx lost we should now hashtag #ESCUCHA BC we need people to listen. We need our voices heard to. Also, we need to be in solidarity with our black brothers and sisters bc without them we are nothing. Check your friends when they're language is antiblack, using the N word, it's not theirs to reclaim. Check you family, coworkers, boss don't be afraid BC fear will get us nowhere but a bullet in our chest. #unite with our #BlackLivesMatter family BC it's time. It's now. DM ME YOUR NAME (first and last) AND AGE IF YOU ARE DOWN FOR THIS REVOLUTION. ITS TIME TO BE HEARD!!!! #ESCUCHA #pedrovillanueva #raulsaavedraVargas #melissaVentura #anthonyNunez #VinsonRamos

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#VinsonRamos #MelissaVentura #AnthonyNunez #PedroVillanueva #RaulSaaverdraVargas have been shot this week due to police brutality. Their names will too be reduced down to a hashtag. Please don't let them go unnoticed. From 2000-2014 80% of Police murders have been angels from the brown community. The media never focuses on us Brown folx. #VinsonRamos was shot in east Los Angeles after a domestic violence call, he was allegedly reported "not complying to put his pocket knife down" and was shot until murdered. #MelissaVentura a 24 mother of three was shot and killed in Yuma Arizona because she was holding a knife when they arrived after another domestic violence call. #AnthonyNunez was suicidal and after 14 minutes of trying to talk him out of suicide they shot him instead. His 19 year old life never mattered to them. #PedroVillanueva was 19 and was being shot at by undercover police after chasing him down, to his death. #raulsaavedravargas was too chased down and shot to his death by highway patrol after fleeing from police. As African Americans are disproportionally killed by police brutality, latinx/brown folx make up half of those numbers. Latinx demographics are fairly proportional, but I'm some cities like Los Angeles and others with a wide Latinx demographic the proportion of murders by police is skyrocketing. 14 of the 23 killed by police in Los Angeles last year were Latino. He black community knows how to mobilize and utilize their connects and bodies to unite with one another. Why can't the brown community do the same? I'm going to make a separate post on why people expect the #BlackLivesMatter Movement to speak up against Latino deaths when that is not their job. WE SHOULD MOBILIZE TOGETHER. #Escucha #speakUp http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/4-Latinos-Killed-by-US-Cops-This-WeekAnd-Media-Ignored-It-20160708-0024.html