Women will bring peace to the world (if men don’t destroy it first) and they shall do it through understanding and listening to each other. Listen to the power of their words. “Ten black mothers sat on the stage in an auditorium and looked into a diverse crowd of
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – John Legend: Featuring Common
There is so much anger and frustration over the racism that seethes in the United States. Flash points like Ferguson, Missouri are about communities rising up in the face of injustice and demanding a better place to live in. Their stories, their feelings, the keen edge of their Weltschmerz is
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: #BlackLivesMatter Responds To Murder Of Two NYPD Officers
“An eye for an eye is not our vision of justice,” says #BlackLivesMatter in response to last week’s execution-style killing of two NYPD officers. The post #BlackLivesMatter Responds To Murder Of Two NYPD Officers appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingLeft Over: Penalty and Entitlement….
Bill Cosby’s pound cake, Ferguson and the dubious politics of personal responsibility The cases are unrelated, but there are parallels. The power of the accused is set against the credibility of the victim Gary Younge The Guardian, Monday 1 December 201 Still another comparison is the penalty for the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Failure To Indict: Things Become Clearer
Lay not that flattering unction to your soulThat not your trespass but my madness speaks.It will but skin and film the ulcerous placeWhilst rank corruption, mining all within,Infects unseen. Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4 Like an unlanced boil with the potential to infect the entire bloodstream, the Ferguson grand jury
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Respect, Fear, and Loathing
If we are completely honest, many of us will admit to a deeply ambivalent relationship with the police. On the one had we look to them for protection against the less ordered elements of society, but on the other hand, in the deeeper recesses of our psyche, we also fear
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: #BlackLivesMatter: Ottawa Vigil For Michael Brown, Against Police Violence
Hundreds of activists are expected at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa this evening for a vigil for slain African American teenager Michael Brown. The post #BlackLivesMatter: Ottawa Vigil For Michael Brown, Against Police Violence appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Ferguson?
If there’s anything you can learn from Ferguson this morning, it’s that we need to check our race- and class-based social, political and economic entitlements. It’s the least we can do this morning. "If racism is something you're sick of hearing about, imagine how exhausting it must be living it
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Racism – Jon Stewart
Racism is not going away. Discrimination is not going away. Ignoring this problem does not make it better. If you see racism in your friends or family, call them on it if it is safe to do so, the change must start with you. Filed under: Racism Tagged:
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Protecting the Public Trust? – Intersectional Analysis of Police Behaviour
Two very interesting articles about police conduct came out this week, particularly interesting if you juxtapose them. Ferguson and the cult of compliance In cases that seem very different, separated by factors such as age, race, gender, sexuality, geography, class and ability, police explain away their actions by citing noncompliance.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Police Violence Rages in Ferguson, MO
The out-of-control police response to protests against the killing of Michael Brown in a St. Louis, MO suburb, continues. Our reporter @rdevro was shot with rubber bullets/beanbags by police last night, spent night in jail. Is due to be released w/o charge soon.— The Intercept (@the_intercept) August 19, 2014 Yesterday
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Posse Comitatus and Crossing America’s Rubicon
In 49 B.C., then general Julius Caesar staked his life on a huge gamble and led his legions across the Rubicon into Rome. Caesar knew that any general bringing his army into Rome faced execution but he went on to seize control of the Roman republic. In 1879 the U.S.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Michael Brown – Ferguson, Missouri – The War on Drugs
What does America’s War on Drugs have to do with the execution/killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and the riots it spawned? The New Republic‘s John McWhorter believes they’re inextricably linked and contends that the way to avoid future Ferguson riots is to end the War on Drugs. We don’t
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Ferguson Is The Symptom, Not The Disease
Events in Ferguson, MO this past week have been deeply disturbing, if not downright distressing. I don’t particularly need to recount them in any detail. Precisely what happened, and who thought what is no longer even relevant. In the public perception, a white police officer has gunned down an unarmed
Continue readingbastard.logic: White Suspects > Black Victims
This makes the hashtag #IfTheyGunnedMeDown so powerful. It's sad that some people have taken it to another level. http://t.co/oZnLDRRDhN — Sammie. ™ (@LordSWVP) August 11, 2014 ‘WELP: WHITE SUSPECT That’s how the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal chose to present the story of Amy Bishop, a former college professor who eventually pleaded guilty
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Is Missouri America’s New Mississippi?
Damn but this sounds like the south in the turbulent 50s and 60s. The governor of Missouri has ordered St. Louis County police out of the community of Ferguson, the site of the recent killing of a young black man, Michael Brown. “The governor [Jay Nixon] just called me and
Continue readingbastard.logic: Just Another Quiet, Peaceful Night In Sleepy Ferguson, Missouri
Via Charles Johnson: Cops in paramilitary gear are now pointing sniper rifles at peaceful black protesters in Ferguson, MO. NBD. Filed under: law enforcement Tagged: #michaelbrown, #mikebrown, Ferguson, Michael Brown, racism
Continue readingbastard.logic: “You can’t win a person’s heart and mind when you are pointing a rifle at his or her chest”
Afghanistan War veteran Paul Szoldra: In Afghanistan, we patrolled in big, armored trucks. We wore uniforms that conveyed the message, “We are a military force, and we are in control right now.” Many Afghans saw us as occupiers. And now we see some of our police officers in this same
Continue readingbastard.logic: The Murder of #MichaelBrown And Why ‘Black Rage’ Is Entirely Justified
MSNBC, quoting Dorian Johnson, eyewitness to the shooting by Ferguson, MO police of Michael Brown: “There are two crowds. An older crowd that wants justice but there’s anger. Then it’s the younger crowd that wants revenge but there’s anger there, too… . What do you expect when something is steadily occurring
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