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January 14, 2015
MURDER BY POLICE SHOULD NOT BE TOLERATED!
A statement from Carl Dix
An Illegitimate System... and the Need for Revolution
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December 8, 2014
Statement by Carl Dix
Police Murder Black People All the Damn Time
Why Does This Happen and What Will It Take For This To End?
November 28, 2014
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Houston: Revolutionaries Bring Police Meeting to a Halt
February 10, 2015
Police and Sheriffs in the San Francisco Bay Area Shoot and Kill Two People on the Same Afternoon
February 9, 2015
NYC Revolution Club Member Takes on Attack against Ferguson Rebellion
February 9, 2015
MLK Day: Thousands Coast to Coast Take to the Streets to Protest Police Murder
January 26, 2015
Learning another way to RESPOND... Flash Mob Workshop: "We Can't Breathe"
January 27, 2015
New Video of Police Murder of 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice... and Attack on His 14-Year-Old Sister
January 19, 2015
Boston: Shutting Down I-93
January 19, 2015
Police Targeting Black Men in the Streets... AND at the Target Range
January 19, 2015
Weekend of Action in San Francisco Bay Area
January 19, 2015
San Francisco Bay Area SMIN:
“Pedie” Perez’s Life Mattered!
January 15, 2015
NO NEW YEAR UNDER THIS OLD SYSTEM! WE CAN'T BREATHE! Protest reports updated all night...
January 3, 2014
All Out for New Year’s Eve! No New Year Under This Old System!
December 29, 2014
A Reader Shares Some Thoughts on the Revolution Clubs and the slogan "Get Organized for an Actual Revolution"
December 11, 2014
This Must Stop Now!
December 24, 2014
Press Conference in NYC for New Year’s Eve Protest
December 30, 2014
Autopsy Report Released: Ezell Ford Was Shot in the Back at Close Range
December 30, 2014
Stop Mass Incarceration Network NYC Press Conference Calls for Ringing in New Year with Resistance
December 24, 2014
Thousands March in Los Angeles Against Police Violence
December 29, 2014
"Breaking 'Broken Windows'" Town Hall Meeting Exposes Criminal Policing Strategy
December 29, 2014
Mendocino High Girls Basketball Team Stands Firm Against Attacks on Their Righteous Protest Against Police Brutality and Murder
December 29, 2014
One in Five Surveyed Black Cops Had Guns Pulled on them by the NYPD While Off Duty
December 29, 2014
Selma and Orange Is the New Black Casts: “I Can’t Breathe”
December 27, 2014
Seattle: Protester Finally Released After Being Unjustly Jailed for Three Weeks
December 26, 2014
No Christmas Eve as Usual in Wake of Police Killing of Antonio Martin
December 25, 2014
Berkeley, MO: Antonio Martin, 18—the Latest Black Man Killed by Police in ameriKKKa
December 24, 2014
Outrage in Milwaukee After Yet Another Killer Cop Walks
December 24, 2014
Houston: OUTRAGE! Another Murdering Pig Walks Free!
December 24, 2014
Statement by The Coalition for Justice on the Refusal to Press Charges Against the Cop Who Killed Dontre Hamilton
December 24, 2014
Check it out: "Enough Is Enough" by Edwidge Danticat
December 24, 2014
December 20: The Defiant Ones from Ferguson Join Cleveland Protest
December 23, 2014
Scientists at the University of Washington Say: Police Murder of Black People Must Stop
December 23, 2014
Houston: Vigil and March Express Grief and Rage at the Police Murder of Jordan Baker
December 23, 2014
Shutting Down Walmart! Justice for John Crawford
December 22, 2014
Noel Night Protest in Detroit
December 22, 2014
Milwaukee: Shutting Down I-43 to Demand Justice for Dontre Hamilton
December 22, 2014
1,500 protest at Mall of America: “While you’re on your shopping spree, Black people cannot breathe”
December 22, 2014
Chicago Prosecutors Pile On More Felony Charges Against Grant Newburger
December 19, 2014
NYC: Clergy-Led Die-in In the Name of Justice
December 19, 2014
Lawyers Step Forward to Join and Support the Fight Against Police Murder
December 19, 2014
Seattle Police Target People Righteously Resisting Police Murder and Brutality
December 19, 2014
NYC: Indict Murdering Police, Not People Protesting Police Murder!
December 16, 2014
Seattle: "12th Man 4 Black Lives"
December 16, 2014
200 Oakland High School Students Walk Out: Determined to Be Heard
December 16, 2014
Berkeley People of Faith Take to the Streets Saying "Black Lives Matter"
December 15, 2014
Cal Women's Basketball Protest: "Black Lives Matter"
December 15, 2014
December 13: Tens of Thousands March Across the U.S. Against Police Murder
December 13, 2014
Ft. Greene, Brooklyn, NY: Emergency Town Hall: Rodney King to Eric Garner
December 13, 2014
Cleveland State University Students Speak Out Against Police Brutality
December 13, 2014
East Oakland: Week of Outrage in the 'Hood
December 11, 2014
1,000 Berkeley High Students Walk Out
December 11, 2014
San Lorenzo, California: High School Students Walk Out to Demand Justice Now
December 13, 2014
Berkeley: More than 1,500 Stop Train, Interstate 80 in Third Night of Protests
Berkeley, December 6: "It is our duty to fight for our freedom"
NYC: Artists Flash Mob Grips Grand Central Station
Athletes Stand Up for New York and Ferguson
December 9, 2014
#RoyalShutdown shuts down intersections in Brooklyn
Cleveland: Refusing to Go Along with Protest-as-Usual
Brooklyn, NY: Running Into—and Running with—High School Student Protesters
From the Los Angeles Revolution Club:
WEEK OF OUTRAGE - Wednesday, Dec. 10th High School and College Walkouts & Die-Ins Police murder must stop! NO business as usual!
December 9, 2014
Unprecedented Outpouring of Rage from Chicago Religious Forces
December 7, 2014
Taking Up "Ferguson Is Everywhere" in the Heart of Chicago's West Side
December 7, 2014
Honolulu, Hawai'i: Disrupting Celebration-as-Usual
December 7, 2014
Cheers to Derrick Rose
December 7, 2014
Oakland-San Francisco, December 4-5
Dec 5 in NYC: High School Students Protest, Die-Ins Disrupt Shopping
New York City 12/4/14
Well over ten thousand people stormed into the streets of New York City on the second night of mass protests in the wake of the decision of a Staten Island grand jury to refuse to indict the police who murdered Eric Garner. Some ten thousand rallied at Foley Square—where New York City’s police and government offices are centered. People from all walks of life chanting “Black lives matter” and “I can’t breathe.”
Chicago Comes Alive in Protest, December 4
Protest at St. Louis Federal Building / Dept. Of Justice
December 5, 2014.
Die-In at University of Chicago
Greensboro, North Carolina: WHO SHUT SHIT DOWN? WE SHUT SHIT DOWN!
December 5, 2014
December 4:
Protests Spread Across the U.S.
Tens of thousands of people, in cities across the country, took to the streets Thursday, December 4. Building on previous days, thousands in each of a number of marches in NYC shut down two bridges, two tunnels and two highways around Manhattan. In Chicago, the Dan Ryan Expressway was briefly shut down as a few protesters made their way onto the roadway. Protesters there also took over and shut down Lake Shore Drive. In Boston thousands shut down downtown. In Ferguson, St. Louis, Oakland, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Minneapolis, Albany, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Dallas, Pittsburgh, Richmond VA, and more, people blocked roads and highways, and held marches and "die-ins."
At schools from the University of Texas, to Princeton, to Stanford (where students shut down nearby Highway 101), students held die-ins and other protests on and off campus.
Photos of some of this are on the right.
Oakland: 500 March Through the Streets
December 3
From Class and Out into the Streets
December 3
Marches and Speak-outs in Downtown Seattle
December 3
Hundreds in Ferguson-St. Louis County Protest No Indictment in Eric Garner Murder: “I Can’t Breathe!”
December 3, 10 pm:
From the NYC Streets, Wednesday night, 9 p.m.
9:00 pm, Times Square, New York City
From the Streets of New York City Immediately After the Cop Who Murdered Eric Garner Was NOT INDICTED
New York City, Union Square, December 3, 2014, 6:00 pm
From the NYC Streets, Wednesday night, 8 p.m.
Day — and still the cop who killed Michael Brown is not indicted and is walking free! We demand justice!
Protests after Eric Garner Grand Jury Decision
December 5: Outcries Around the Country and Around the World
The Guardian: Eric Garner chokehold protests in New York
Yes, it IS about RACE. Police murder of Black people enforces a setup that has enslaved Black people in one form or another for hundreds of years. Communication, sensitivity, diversity… has its place, but the essential problem is not just understanding racism but ENDING police murder and every dimension of the oppression of Black people.
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New York City Dec 4, City Hall. Photo: Stephanie Strickland
"Interrupt your services and spill into the streets!"
Rev. Pfleger and six other Chicago clergy call for all churches in Chicago to take their congregations to the street and interrupt traffic this Sunday to declare that BLACK LIVES MATTER.
Those who send their police to terrorize and kill people of color, and their paid mouthpieces in the media, and those who fear righteous resistance more than they hate injustice… have no right to define what is a “good protester” against police brutality and murder.
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Click for full cartoon. We would like to thank Danica Novgodoroff for permission to publish this artwork.
The Los Angeles Revolution Club issued a call for people to take action on Friday, December 5 to disrupt business-as-usual—and to take pictures, post them on social media, and send to revolution.reports@yahoo.com. A reader sent in this photo of a die-in protest at Crenshaw High School in LA. Signs say “Mike Brown,” “Emmett Till,” and “Black Lives Matter.”
NO, the fact that a Black woman cop supervised the murder of Eric Garner does not “take race out of the equation.” What it does is demonstrate why more Black police are not the solution to the police murder of Black people.
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NYC Foley Square 8 pm Dec 4
Washington, DC, shutting down 395, December 4
NYC shutting down Brooklyn Bridge, December 4
Chicago, Michigan Avenue, Dec 4
Oakland, December 3
Dan Ryan freeway at Roosevelt, Chicago, December 4
Downtown St. Louis, Dec 4
Foley Square, NYC, December 4
University of Texas, December 4
Blocking the 3rd Street Tunnel, Washington D.C. December 3
Shutting down the Lincoln Tunnel, NYC, 10 pm December 3.
Times Square NYC Ayotzinapa protest chanting "Hands Up Don't Shoot" December 3
Radio City Music Hall, NYC, 8 pm Dec. 3
Chicago, 7 pm December 3
Grand Central Terminal 9pm, Dec 3, NYC
San Francisco, shutting down Market Street, 7 pm Dec 3.
Oakland, CA, 7 pm Dec 3
Thousands of people blocked and marched up West Side Highway, NYC. 8pm-10pm Dec 3.
Woman stuck in traffic on West Side Hwy, NYC, 9 pm Dec 3.
Die-in Grand Central Terminal NYC 4:30 pm Dec 3.
Eric Garner protest Union Square December 3 2014
Interview with High School Student Protesters in SF Bay Area:
"Students Are Powerful and They Won't Shut Up"
December 13, 2014
A Young Latina on the Protests: "Something I've only seen be told in history books"
December 18, 2014
Talking to revcom.us: "I can't sit it out any longer"
December 13, 2014
Scenes from Ferguson: the Uprising's Reach, and the Reaction
December 10, 2014
TWEETS:
Updated December 4: After the news broke on December 3, that the grand jury had decided NOT to indict the cop who murdered Eric Garner, many thousands of tweets went out immediately—in the hour afterward, there were more than 13,000 tweets of people voicing their outrage. Here are just some of them, including many from celebrities:
Diddy
I can't take it anymore! It's Enough, and enough is enough! Honestly my emotions are all over the… http://instagram.com/p/wKaJbzpl48/
Justice is a right all of us are entitled, not a privilege that can be denied. We need to use this… http://instagram.com/p/wK3qBFpl8Y/
Actor Aaron Paul
How do "crazy" cops keep getting away with this?!? He murdered that man. Stop the madness. #EricGarner #ICantBreathe
Author John Green
Eric Garner's last words.
The Lucas Bros.
so america is basically saying: it's ok to kill big, tall black dudes if they do anything except play sports...#ericgarner
Rapper Azealia Banks
The media is trying to scare black people into believing that our lives are worthless.
DAMN.
Orlando Jones
TIL although selling loose cigarettes is a crime apparently choking a man to death is not #RIPEricGarner
Shonda Rhimes
How is this America? #ICantBreathe
Questlove Gomez
I'm ashamed. Mostly because I'm no longer shocked at things now-a-days. Nothing is shocking. #EricGarner
iamdiddy
#WATCH when I see a cop car I get scared! My kids get scared! #UNITE #EricGarner #MikeBrown . #Fact this tragedy is not a one time occurrence this happens every day in different in the cities across America!!! #SpeakUp
John Mayer
I wouldn't feel right posting anything else before saying my heart hurts today.
Bill Maher
I'd just like to know what a cop WOULD have to do to get indicted - and what good are cop cameras since Eric Garner IS on tape?
Macklemore
RIP Eric Garner and condolences to his family. We must start holding the police accountable for their… http://instagram.com/p/wKc-FQwK6K/
MC HAMMER
Deep Hurt. We're Men. Human. We feel pain. There will be one collective cry added to these tears.Then the birth of a New Anger. #EricGarner
Michael B Jordan
Fruitvale Station..all too familiar
Musician Ezra Koenig
if ur desperately trying to justify violence against unarmed civilians in 2014, who do u think you would have been in 1964 or 1944?
u want to disprove the claims of ppl talking abt an unjust & racist system today but u would have listened during Apartheid, Jim Crow, etc??
Film director Gina PrinceBythewood
eric garner. no indictment. indictment just means a question of facts. they decided there was no need to question...
Mack™
to the family of Mr. Garner, my heart is bleeding for you… i'm sorry. this shit is killing me.
and to all the young black men… from Stapleton Projects in Staten Island, all the way to Compton in Los Angeles… STAY STRONG.
Sandra Bernhard
#ericgarner #thisstopstoday the racism the mistrust the fear think about it change it today http://www.whosay.com/l/Njz9M8I
Russell Simmons
i am deeply disappointed in the non-indictment of the police officer who killed Eric Garner. The Dept. of Justice must step in now.
Entrepreneur Mark Suster
Spent my entire day offline. Am just reading about #EricGarner non-indictment. I am shocked. Dismayed. Disappointed. In disbelief. #NotRight
John Stewart, during his opening of The Daily Show on Wednesday said:
"I honestly don't know what to say. If comedy is tragedy plus time, I need more f*cking time ... but I would really settle for less f*cking tragedy, to be honest with you...We are definitely not living in a post-racial society, and I can imagine there are a lot of people out there wondering how much of a society we're living in at all."
Chris Rock
Come on man. We can't continue to have an entire group of Americans who can be killed without consequence or justice. #EricGarner
John Legend
I am stunned by the failure to indict Eric Garner's killer.
Actor Jesse Williams
Grand Jury says guy choking person to death in front of all of us, is not worth looking into. http://bit.ly/1vMAxuG
Non-white human beings are human beings. Human beings you don't happen to like, are human beings. Human beings incidentally, have rights.
Actor Ellen Pompeo
#ericgarner #icantbreathe #enoughisenough #wethepeople ARE FED UP http://www.whosay.com/l/FgJ9LOI
Piers Morgan
How can you NOT indict a policeman for choking to death an unarmed man who screams 'I can't breathe' 8 times? #EricGarner
Writer Randa Jarrar
They can't choke this mobilization, this movement, this furiousness over the injustice of years of impunity. #BlackLivesMatter
ICE T
This Eric Garner shit is making me sick to my stomach.. We all watched a SNUFF FILM! No indictment!?? Really!?? pic.twitter.com/O7vHNT5dOv
Spike Lee
Somebody's Eyes Are http://Lying.BLACK LIVES MATTER. WE NEED THE FEDS FOR JUSTICE. These Grand Juries In… http://instagram.com/p/wKKXSdSqnH/
Mia Farrow
How is this possible!!!!!!??: NO INDICTMENT!? http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=j1ka4oKu1jo&sns=em … #EricGardner
Star Jones
Homicide: deliberate & unlawful killing of one person by another. Explain #EricGarner please. http://bit.ly/1zjH7Z2
Actor Dulé Hill
Trayvon Martin. Unarmed. Mike Brown. Unarmed. Eric Garner. Unarmed. Is there anything left to say?
Civil rights attorney Lisa Bloom
Eric Garner choked on videotape. His hands up before taken down. Not threatening anyone. Did prosecutors forget how to prosecute once again?
Former NFL player, Shaun King
Not hyperbole. The ONLY way the murder of Eric Garner is justified is because he is not truly valued as fully human.
Dancer, Taylour Paige
Set your clocks back 300 years. #Icantbreathe
Typical Black Chick
This country is littered with our blood. We've died for it and by it. #EricGarner #BlackLivesMatter #TamirRice
Big Boi
So much for body cameras #EricGarner
#EricGarner RT @TherealTaraji: I CAN'T BREATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#EricGarner RT @BSolomonsHood: @BigBoi so maybe we didn't really see what we thought we saw according to the grand jury.
MC HAMMER
Deep Hurt. We're Men. Human. We feel pain. There will be one collective cry added to these tears.Then the birth of a New Anger. #EricGarner
Taraji P. Henson
I CAN'T BREATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Author, Sophia A. Nelson
My stomach hurts as I see the divide in terms of RACE on what should be common sense, judeo christian beliefs on right & wrong. #EricGarner
Malcom Jamal-Warner
Bodycams on police officers. Snuff films made legal. How about showing what justice looks like? #GarnerRiceBrown
Actress Anika Noni Rose
Dear United States, it's spirit numbing, shameful, and sickly redundant. #EricGarner
Jeffrey Wright
An individual or institution can’t kill Eric Garner in that fashion & not be held accountable. #ChokedWhilePoor New America’s not having it.
Actor Penn Badgley
Ok so we know the man who filmed #EricGarner is being punished & the man who KILLED HIM is not. New York better get ready to f*cking quake.” He went on, “The entire thing is on camera. Daniel Pantaleo murdering Eric Garner. Somehow, that’s not proof. Does democracy exist?
Actress Tracie Thoms
Police chokeholds are banned. #EricGarner's death was ruled a homicide. A cop put him in a banned chokehold & killed him. It's on TAPE....
Tracee Ellis Ross
I just found out about #EricGarner.... I am in disbelief. #nojustice #thisisnotok
Mae (Natural Chica)
Kill a dog= jail time, Police kills black man on camera= no indictment #ICantBreathe #BlackLivesMatter
Omar Epps
No indictment. Wake up, there's also no more conspiracy. The plan in motion is right there on video for all eyes to see. #EricGarner
Writer Jill Filipovic
A cop killed a man ON VIDEO using a banned chokehold method and a grand jury STILL doesn't indict him? #BlackLivesMatter #EricGarner
Siobhan Thompson
If I was strangled in the street by a cop in broad daylight you can be damn sure that there'd be a trial #EricGarner #BlackLivesMatter
Gabrielle Union
I have no words left... just angry tears thru gritted teeth. #RIPEricGarner #RIPHumanity #RIPCompassion May the Lord have mercy...
Comedian Baratunde
so basically, the founding fathers got it right. we're not fully human in the eyes of the law. #america #blacklivesmatter
Comedian The Tyler Richardson
So, what IS an indictable offense? #BlackLivesMatter
Record producer Andre Perry
Saddened by the fact that I have a son that I can't fully protect from the authorities. Hell, I can't protect myself. #BlackLivesMatter
Attorney Cornell Brooks
The breaking news of no indictment in Eric Garner's death is yet another tragic reason we must prevail in the Journey for Justice.
Tavis Smiley
Illegal chokehold, caught on tape, and still no indictment? Black life has little value. #EricGarner
Benjamin Crump, Esq.
My prayers are with the family of #EricGarner during this most difficult time. #TheSystemIsBroken
Occupy Wall Street
Apparently the penalty for selling untaxed cigarettes in NY is death. #ShutItDown #BlackLivesMatter
TV and radio journalist Luke Russert
Sen. Gillibrand "I’m shocked by this grand jury decision, and will be calling on the Department of Justice to investigate.” #EricGarner
David Joachim, NYT
Maybe if a ham sandwich had killed Eric Garner, things would have turned out differently.
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