Ferguson is Everywhere
Police Brutality and Murder MUST STOP!

Updated February 3, 2015 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

 

Day — And Still the Killer Cop Walks Free

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JUSTICE FOR MICHAEL BROWN, ERIC GARNER AND ALL THE VICTIMS OF KILLER COPS!

Wilson Has Walked
AMERIKKKA MUST COME TO A HALT!
THERE IS RIGHTEOUS RESISTANCE AND YOU MUST BE PART OF IT!!!

by Carl Dix

November 24, 2014

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THE STRUGGLE AGAINST POLICE MURDER AND MASS INCARCERATION MUST BE INTENSIFIED

November 27, 2014

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The Grand Jury: A Sick Hustle, An Obscene Farce

November 25, 2014

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Grand Jury Decision: Protests Around the World

Updated November 30, 2014

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Ferguson Outrage vs. Police-State Repression

Updated February 3, 2015

Around the country, police are violently attacking protests demanding justice for Michael Brown and an end to police brutality and murder of Black people, and they are singling out leaders for arrest. This has to be taken on, in the courtrooms and in the streets. When people who have stepped forward are attacked, including when leaders and revolutionaries are threatened, targeted, and arrested, they have to be defended. We should not let these attacks derail our struggle—every attack has to be a way to expand and strengthen the movement.

» The Unjust Repression Against Protesters Fighting for Justice

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» Repression, Resistance, and Rebellion in Police State Ferguson, by Larry Everest

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» Assaulted by Police, Threatened, and Facing 11 Charges For Leading Resistance:
Defend Noche Diaz of the NYC Revolution Club!

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» From the Chicago Revolution Club:
Drop the Charges Against Grant Newburger and Everyone Arrested! They want to punish a Revolutionary and make you afraid to stand up!

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» Chicago: Ferguson Protesters Face Vicious Repression by Police and Court 

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» Hundreds of Arrests in LA Met With “Free the protesters, jail killer cops!”

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These slides are from the immediate aftermath of the murder of Michael Brown.

It took Darren Wilson 30 seconds to pump 6 shots into Michael Brown. It should not take any longer than that to indict him. Yet still the process drags out. 

This is “letting the system work.” Which really means letting them wear you down, tire you out, slander Mike Brown over and over again, and put bullshit stories into the air to confuse people. There are more than enough witnesses to indict this pig. All they’re really saying is that they don’t count because they’re Black. 

If the process had been reversed—if Michael Brown had somehow been able to shoot Darren Wilson 6 times, Michael Brown would never have survived. And if somehow he had survived, he’d be in jail with no bail. So if “this is how the system works,” then it works one way for the pigs and another for the people.

And don’t tell us that “there’s a different standard for police.” Yes, we know that all too well—the standard is that they can commit these crimes with impunity, without being punished. In the new society, after the revolution, the people’s security forces would sooner risk their own lives than kill somebody from the masses. THAT should be the standard.

If this is how the system works, and it is, then that’s one more reason why we need a revolution to get rid of this system! Because a system that works to enable the police to go on killing Black and Latino people with impunity, along with all its other great crimes, must be gotten rid of.

 

Bob Avakian, "The police, Black youth and what kind of a system is this?"

 

 

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A Statement and Call from Stop Mass Incarceration Network, Ferguson-St. Louis chapter

February 2, 2015

The Department of Justice (DOJ) decision on whether to bring civil rights charges against Darren Wilson is expected any day. Indications are Wilson will NOT be charged. If so, such a decision whitewashes and gives a stamp of approval to the police murder of Michael Brown. It gives a green light to killer cops everywhere. It is a slap in the face to Michael Brown’s family, to all who stood up against this injustice, and to the millions whose hopes were raised when people defiantly rose up and said, “Not this time!” If the DOJ brings down this outrage, we must take to the streets across the country.

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On the Justice Department "Leak" That Michael Brown's Killer Will NOT Be Prosecuted on Civil Rights Charges Either… Yes, the WHOLE Damn System IS Guilty as Hell!

January 29, 2015

Assuming the reports that have been recently published that no charges will be filed by the (in)Justice Department against Darren Wilson for violating Michael Brown’s civil rights prove to be accurate, this is not at all surprising. But the lack of surprise does not remotely diminish the outrage represented by such a decision. I think it is important to recognize this as a compounding, reinforcement, and escalation of the original outrages of the murder of Michael Brown and the Ferguson grand jury’s subsequent decision not to indict Darren Wilson for that murder...

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Berkeley Law Faculty Statement Expresses "Despair and Outrage" About the Police Killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner

January 27, 2015

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In the Streets in Ferguson: "It is our duty to fight"

January 14, 2015

On January 10, 50 people took to the streets in Ferguson, Missouri, blocking traffic on W. Florissant Ave. where the rebellion began last August after Michael Brown was murdered by cop Darren Wilson.

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December 13: Tens of Thousands March Across the U.S. Against Police Murder

December 13, 2014

Saturday, December 13, tens of thousands converged on Washington, DC for the "Justice For All" march. Protests also marked the day in dozens of other cities around the country, including tens of thousands in New York City. Other cities with protests include Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco-Oakland, Houston, Boston, and more. There was also a large police presence at these protests, and reports of multiple arrests in Chicago, Boston, Houston, and Oakland.

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Scenes from Ferguson: the Uprising's Reach, and the Reaction

December 10, 2014

Tuesday, December 9, Ferguson, Missouri—I've been in Ferguson since November 22, and I don't think a day has gone by where there hasn't been a protest, most often multiple protests. There may be one at the Ferguson police station, and another in the St. Louis Shaw neighborhood, just south of the City Center, or perhaps on one of the campuses: Washington University, St. Louis University, the University of Missouri St. Louis, and/or out in Clayton or West County.

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A Reader Shares Some Thoughts on the Revolution Clubs and the slogan "Get Organized for an Actual Revolution"

December 11, 2014

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East Oakland: Week of Outrage in the 'Hood

December 11, 2014

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1,000 Berkeley High Students Walk Out

December 11, 2014

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St. Louis-Ferguson, December 10: Actions at the Federal Court and Washington U Med School

December 10, 2014

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Berkeley: More than 1,500 Stop Train, Interstate 80 in Third Night of Protests
"Unless we're free, we will prevent the system from operating."

December 10, 2014

December 8—After facing the clubs of riot police, tear gas, and rubber bullets on the two previous nights, more than 1,500 took to the streets in Berkeley on Monday night, marching for hours, blocking freeways, lying on railroad tracks to stop an Amtrak train, and facing off with police to demand justice for Eric Garner, Michael Brown and other Black and Latino people murdered by the cops.

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Berkeley, December 6: "It is our duty to fight for our freedom"
Police Repeatedly Stop, Corral and Attack Student Protesters in the Home of "Free Speech"—but the People Stay in the Streets

December 10, 2014

Several hundred protesters gathered in Sproul Plaza on the University of California Berkeley campus on Saturday night to join with the massive nationwide outcry against the decisions not to indict the police who killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Shouts of “Black Lives Matter!” filled Berkeley as the march took off down Telegraph Ave, soon growing to around 1,000. The march followed an action on Thursday by the Black Student Union on campus shutting down the Golden Bear Cafe on the campus.

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Denver High School Students Walk Out, December 3

December 6, 2014

On Wednesday, December 3, hundreds of high school students in Denver, Colorado, walked out of school in protest of the grand jury decision in Ferguson that let the cop who killed Michael Brown walk free.

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Tuesday, December 2, Ferguson, MO:
Hundreds of High School Students Walk Out:
“Turn up, don’t turn down!  We do this for Mike Brown!”

Hundreds of high school students from Ferguson and St. Louis County walked out on December 2 in response to the #HandsUpWalkOut call for nationwide school walkouts....

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Cheers to Ariyana Smith: “I could not play that game”

December 5, 2014

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Monday: "Hands Up Walk Out" Actions Coast to Coast and Worldwide

December 1, 2014

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NYC High School students.

 

St. Louis Rams Football Players: "Hands Up" in Support of Ferguson Struggle

November 30, 2014

St. Louis, November 30—While taking the field for their Sunday National Football League home game against Oakland, several players on the St. Louis Rams did the "Hands up, don't shoot!" gesture in solidarity with the struggle in Ferguson.

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Harlem:
Courageous Speakout Denounces NYPD Crimes, Demands Justice for Mike Brown

November 29, 2014

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“Black Lives Matter” Day Around the Country - November 28, 2014

  • "Black Lives Matter Friday," November 28, San Francisco Bay Area
    (November 29, 2014)
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  • Seattle: Hundreds of Protesters Disrupt Business as Usual at Westlake Center Mall
    (November 29, 2014)
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  • Cleveland: Marching into Walmart on "Black Lives Matter" Friday
    (November 29, 2014)
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  • Black Lives Matter Friday – Major St. Louis Mall Disrupted and Shut Down
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  • Bay Area Transit Station Shut For 2 Hours: Black Lives Matter!
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    Activists from The Blackout Collective chained together bringing the BART train station to a halt for two hours, November 28, 2014.

  • Friday, November 28 Actions in Chicago
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Entertainers, Artists, and Athletes Speak Out on the Grand Jury Letting Killer Cop Walk Free

Updated December 2, 2014

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Students from Coast to Coast Protest Grand Jury Decision to Let Mike Brown's Killer Go Free

November 28, 2014

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"Nothing To Be Thankful For"
Protesters Disrupt Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

November 28, 2014

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Cleveland: Determined to Have No Business as Usual

November 28, 2014

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Kent State Black United Students Stage a Walkout and Protest

November 28, 2014

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Detroit: Marching and Blocking Traffic to Demand Justice for Mike Brown

November 28, 2014

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Rage in the Streets of Ferguson - report by Larry Everest

November 24, midnight

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People Around the Country Join the Struggle

November 25, 2014

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On the Battle for Justice for Mike Brown

Which Side Are You On?

 

Points of Orientation on Righteous Rebellions

People in Ferguson have repeatedly stood up and righteously rebelled. They have refused to back down in the face of dogs, tear gas, guns, and tanks. At a time when the powers counterattack through absolutely irrelevant slanders against Michael Brown and honeyed words from Ron Johnson, this struggle must not die down. 

Two guidelines on going forward:

1) If people do not rebel against such oppression and repression, they can only expect things to get worse and their lives to become more unbearable. When people in positions of power tell you not to protest and rebel, they are part of the problem, not the solution.

2) Any action should be evaluated by what it contributes to the righteous rebellion against injustice. That is the standard. Telling people to stop rebelling does not contribute to ending such outrages and injustices, it undermines the fight against them.

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18-year-old Michael Brown was walking down a street with a friend when he was fatally shot multiple times by a cop. Photo: Justice for Michael Brown Facebook page.

Slander

There is one issue, and one issue alone, regarding the murder of Michael Brown: once again, some racist pig has taken the life of an unarmed Black youth—in this case, trying to surrender. Don’t let them fucking change the subject! 

This other shit they’re running about some unrelated incident is nothing but demonization, nothing but brainwash. This is nothing but a strategy to derail the righteous, long-overdue and much much needed fight, of many people in many different ways, from Ferguson to the whole world, against this horrific injustice and the whole larger agenda it’s part of.

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A Call to Act Against the Killing of Michael Brown

GET OUT IN THE STREETS—in the downtowns and barrios and ghettoes across the country—to make it known that people are standing with and acting in unity with the people who have stood up in Ferguson, Missouri to protest the police killing of Michael Brown.

Bring, distribute and blow whistles. Bring many copies of the Three Strikes posters and also posters of “We Refuse to Accept Slavery in Any Form” with revcom.us prominently displayed. Spread the posters among everyone to get out widely.

Get out REVOLUTION! Raise your arms and raise your fists. March. ACT, ACT, ACT!!!


 

 

The Peculiar History of the United States: Slavery, "States' Rights" and the Federal Government

by Bob Avakian

Editor’s note: Attorney General Eric Holder has been deployed to Ferguson, MO to try to dampen the courageous uprising against the police murder of Michael Brown. Both in relation to that, but because it reveals essential truth behind illusions about the Federal Government’s role in relation to the oppression of Black people, we are sharing the following excerpt from Birds Cannot Give Birth to Crocodiles, But Humanity Can Soar Beyond the Horizon by Bob Avakian.

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Black figurehead dnt change the slave ship. NO to slow genocide. We need Revolution–Nothing Less! revcom.us #Ferguson #Michael Brown

[retweet from https://twitter.com/Carl_Dix] Obama says Now is time 4 healing, peace and calm in #Ferguson. I say, this is time 2 step up struggle . Name, Indict & Jail killer cop. revcom.us

Stop slandering the victim and send the killer to jail. #Ferguson #MichaelBrown revcom.us

Cosmetics don't mean shit.  A pig is still a pig. #Ferguson #MichaelBrown revcom.us

Black, white or Latino: once you put on the blue, you gonna serve the system and come down on the people. #Ferguson revcom.us

The heart of the problem is not the color of the skin of the pig. #Ferguson revcom.us

Wolf or fox, just a different way to eat you. #Ferguson #MichaelBrown revcom.us

Calm Down?  Hell No!  The pig is still walking the streets... and the whole genocidal program is still in full effect #Ferguson #MichaelBrown revcom.us

Time to heal?  Hell No!  Time to step it up!  The dogs are still in the street! #Ferguson #MichaelBrown revcom.us [to Gil Scott Heron: Jose Campos Torres]

Earlier Posts

Statement from The Revolutionary Communist Party, USA On the Arrests of Carl Dix, Travis Morales and Joey Johnson

August 20, 2014


We Urge You to Come to Ferguson, Missouri, October 10-13

September 24, 2014


For immediate release August 23, 2014
Revolutionary Leader Carl Dix Says Peoples' Defiance of Police Murder of Michael Brown is not the Problem: Keep Fighting What Needs to Be Fought 


Carl Dix Press Conference:
“Stand up, demand justice, don’t be intimidated”

August 19, 2014


To all revolutionaries and fighters for emancipation:
THIS WEEKEND, IN FERGUSON, TEXAS AND EVERYWHERE ELSE...

August 21, 2014


Sunday, August 17, Editorial
One week into the struggle for justice for Michael Brown and everything has changed—and nothing has changed.


Carl Dix, Arrested in Ferguson, Called “Outside Criminal Element,” Says Systematic Police Brutality & Murder is Criminal, Not Peoples' Protest

August 19, 2014


Flash: Savage Police Attack Sunday Night in Ferguson—ACT NOW

August 17, 2014


Ferguson, Missouri:
No Time to “Calm Down”—Time to Step Up the Struggle

August 15, 2014


Statement from Carl Dix on the People Standing Up in Ferguson

August 14, 2014

The brave people who are standing up in Ferguson, Missouri, are changing the way everybody in this country is looking at what's going on.

The demands are clear: this murdering cop must be named, indicted and put in prison!

One more thing: these Uncle Toms need to get the hell out of the way of the people who are daring to stand up and fight back!


Black Man Murdered by Cops! Again!! This Must Stop!!!

by Carl Dix | August 11, 2014


People Take to the Streets After Police Kill 18-Year-Old Michael Brown

August 10, 2014

 

August 11. Photo: AP


From an online comment thread in the Washington Post, August 13:

Heavily armed, white protesters force authorities into retreat at Cliven Bundy Ranch despite allegations of the theft of over $1 million in fees from use of federal land. The police and FBI do nothing.

Unarmed, black protesters are gassed, shot, and beaten by authorities in their own backyards as they peacefully rally to expose a crime committed by a police officer witnessed by many. The police bring armored cars, helicopters, attack dogs, and riot weapons to use against the citizens.

 

SHUT UP YOU BOOTLICKERS

These bootlickers and backstabbers of the oppressed—and of those standing with the oppressed—join with the reactionary forces of the system in attacking the masses who refuse to passively accept brutal and murderous oppression and repression, and attack those who stand with them in standing up. Not only do they do this, but let’s be clear:  THESE BOOTLICKERS, ET. AL., HAVE NO SOLUTION, NO ANSWER TO THE BRUTALITY, MURDER AND ALL-AROUND OPPRESSION THAT IS CONTINUALLY BROUGHT DOWN ON THE MASSES OF PEOPLE. ALL THEIR RAGGEDY SHIT OF "PLAYING NICE" "BEING RESPECTABLE" AND BEGGING FOR MERCY CAN NEVER LEAD TO ANYTHING POSITIVE FOR THE MASSES OF PEOPLE. HOW MANY TIMES IN THE FACE OF THESE MURDEROUS OUTRAGES, AND HOW LONG, HAVE THEY RUN OUT THIS RAGGEDY SHIT, AND WHAT HAS IT DONE TO PUT AN END TO THE ENDLESS ABUSES?! THEIR SHIT IS TRULY PLAYED OUT, AND THEY NEED TO BEG FORGIVENESS OF THE MASSES, STAND WITH THEM IN STANDING UP—OR SHUT UP AND GET OUT OF THE WAY.


Antonio French—Bootlicker Supreme

August 20, 2014

What do you say about someone who not only attacks people who are standing up, who not only goes on TV to run slanders against the revolutionaries who are standing with those people, but who goes so far as to physically assault one of the revolutionaries (only of course when he has the backing of the armed pigs!)?  And all while posing, and being promoted as, the “champion” of the people.

Antonio French - Bootlicker Supreme

“Bootlicker” hardly captures the shame and low-life character of such a person.  Better to call him “Supreme Bootlicker.”

Such a title goes to Antonio French, an alderman from the city of St. Louis.  After getting arrested early in the protests—and getting notice and “credibility” for it—he became one of the “go-to spokespeople” for the media.  Yesterday, after police carried out yet another killing, this time in St. Louis, this bootlicker actually claimed credit for keeping things calm.  First off, why the hell is THAT—keeping people under the boot of the system—something to claim credit for?  Then he made out like this shows what you can do when you have Black people in the power structure.  Does this fool really want to claim that life is good, or even getting better, for the masses of Black people in St. Louis?  No, in fact, life is getting worse, with police repression serving to defend a system of high unemployment and no decent jobs, horrible education, bad health care, evictions and homelessness, and all the rest that is life for the Black masses in 2014 America. 

Antonio French, do the people a favor.  SHUT THE FUCK UP!!


LZ Granderson

August 12, 2014

Fury and righteous outrage are sweeping the country after the wanton murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson by police.

Photo: AP

On CNN—LZ Granderson says he’s tired of the murder of unarmed Black men. But then says:

“I hate black looters at peaceful rallies the way I hate the KKK.”

and

“Number one, it’s very important that the community down in Ferguson identify the people who were involved with looting and make sure those people were apprehended and arrested.” 

You beg the vicious oppressors to stop killing Black people. But when those who this system considers less-than-human rise up and demand to be treated as human beings, you say they are as bad as the murderous white-supremacist KKK lynch mobs.

And you direct your real venom at those courageous people who refuse to beg the oppressor for mercy and insist on standing up strong when the oppressor is brutalizing and killing people.

That is the definition of a bootlicker.

So SHUT UP YOU BOOTLICKERS.

On August 19, St. Louis police shot and killed Kajieme Powell, a 25-year-old Black man, just a few miles from where Michael Brown was gunned down by Ferguson police. We will have more on this soon. Watch this video, which shows that this was yet another cold-blooded murder by the police.

Editor’s note: Tyisha Miller was a 19-year-old African-American woman shot dead by Riverside, California police in 1998. Miller had been passed out in her car, resulting from a seizure, when police claimed that she suddenly awoke and had a gun; they fired 23 times at her, hitting her at least 12 times, and murdering her. Bob Avakian addressed this.

If you can’t handle this situation differently than this, then get the fuck out of the way. Not only out of the way of this situation, but get off the earth. Get out of the way of the masses of people. Because, you know, we could have handled this situation any number of ways that would have resulted in a much better outcome. And frankly, if we had state power and we were faced with a similar situation, we would sooner have one of our own people’s police killed than go wantonly murder one of the masses. That’s what you’re supposed to do if you’re actually trying to be a servant of the people. You go there and you put your own life on the line, rather than just wantonly murder one of the people. Fuck all this “serve and protect” bullshit! If they were there to serve and protect, they would have found any way but the way they did it to handle this scene. They could have and would have found a solution that was much better than this. This is the way the proletariat, when it’s been in power has handled—and would again handle—this kind of thing, valuing the lives of the masses of people. As opposed to the bourgeoisie in power, where the role of their police is to terrorize the masses, including wantonly murdering them, murdering them without provocation, without necessity, because exactly the more arbitrary the terror is, the more broadly it affects the masses. And that’s one of the reasons why they like to engage in, and have as one of their main functions to engage in, wanton and arbitrary terror against the masses of people.

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Photo: Reuters

From Ferguson, Around the Country and Around the World

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From on the ground in Ferguson...


Support for the people in Ferguson from around the country and around the world...

 

Entertainers, Artists & Activists Speak Out on Ferguson

 

Jon Stewart Goes After Fox in Ferguson Monologue

 

Cheers to Illustrator Mary Engelbreit for "In the USA"
August 28, 2014

Mumia Abu Jamal "Outside Agitators"

 

Reverend Jeff Hood—"The Violence of Demanding Peaceful Protest: The Missteps of Clergy in Ferguson"
August 23, 2014

Anti-War Activist Cindy Sheehan Supports Courageous Rebellion in Ferguson
August 20, 2014

Read: “Why the Climate Movement Must Stand with Ferguson” Posted at 350.org. By Deirdre Smith, Strategic Partnership Coordinator
August 23, 2014

Holocaust Survivor Hedy Epstein arrested in protest Against Deploying National Guard
August 18, 2014

Ferguson Protests: Where Do We Stand? Russell Brand The Trews

 

Jesse Williams and the depiction of Michael Brown (on CNN)

 

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization (HBO)

 

Cornel West on Missouri: "Obama reeks of political calculation not moral conviction"—BBC Newsnight

 

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