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Archive for May 4th, 2015
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May
15
My Brother’s Keeper
2:35 EDT: President Obama Speaks at an Event at Lehman College Launching the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance
04
May
15
This Is Why They Protest
Racism doesn't usually look like someone shouting slurs, it's looks like people eagerly looking for a reason why a black kid deserved to die
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Lou Schumaker (@LouSchu) December 24, 2014I March beacuse I'm EXHAUSTED! #BlackLivesMatter #WhyIMarch http://t.co/iAHH3vCtvV
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Kiri Laurelle Davis (@KiriLaurelle) April 30, 2015****
What separates the police from burglars, murderers, etc., who do innocent citizens harm? At this point, they are one and the same
Watch the @BaltimorePolice assault this peaceful protestor last night. He left on a stretcher. #BaltimoreUprising http://t.co/6bWgSpIaGS
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deray mckesson (@deray) May 03, 2015If you think this is an appropriate response to breaking curfew, you might be a fascist. Video via @deray: http://t.co/i2Qh1skLL1
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Keegan Stephan (@KeeganNYC) May 03, 2015****
Violent actions by the police sent a Black protester to the hospital but the white protesters breaking curfew get pleaded with. Welcome to America
Y'all, listen to this. You must. This is the 3rd warning. An additional 5 minutes. #BaltimoreUprising http://t.co/LeAstcU9In
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deray mckesson (@deray) May 03, 2015Police literally beat black protestors last night requiring one to leave on a stretcher & pleaded with white protestors. #BaltimoreUprising
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deray mckesson (@deray) May 03, 2015****
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John Perry Barlow (@JPBarlow) May 02, 2015
Mya Hall
Rekia Boyd
Tanisha Anderson
Yvette Smith
Miriam Carey
Shelly Fry
Darnisha Harris
Malissa Williams twitter.com/derrickwestt/s…
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Race Jones (@Shugnice) May 01, 2015****
For those saying “technically, it could happen.” Because you know, Black people are supermen and superwomen who can break our spines in two places, crush our larynx, break our leg, and cause a brain bleed all while handcuffed (arms behind our backs) and lying face down in a van. Miss me with that BS
Freddie Gray, while handcuffed, managed to inflict injuries that no human being can inflict on themselves.
BREAKING: All Credibility.
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(@hubbit) April 30, 2015Think #FreddieGray self-inflicted his injuries?
Try crushing your own larynx and get back to me.
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5'7 Black Male (@absurdistwords) April 30, 2015****
If Freddie Gray lived, he would've likely been placed in jail for a crime he didn't commit vox.com/e/8306896?utm_… http://t.co/zCUXvaDmO2
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Vox (@voxdotcom) May 04, 2015NYPD paid over $428 million in settlements over five years j.mp/1E5vWnb http://t.co/a5NKnNvHDE
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(@MuckRock) May 03, 2015****
To protect and serve? Yeah, right
Black Youth: "Why so many of y'all out here?"
Cop: "To make sure u are safe"
Youth: *Laughs*
#Texas2Baltimore http://t.co/PeU76mpHI5
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Brother Jesse (@BrotherJesse) May 02, 2015There was clear racial bias applied in the curfew. The city should be sued for violating the First Amendment. twitter.com/deray/status/5…
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George Aumoithe (@gaumwhat) May 03, 2015****
A curfew can’t even be applied as intended…*Sigh*
So... the #Baltimore curfew was lifted the day after white allies started getting arrested, huh? What a coincidence. 😒 #BaltimoreUprising
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April (@ReignOfApril) May 03, 2015After the racially disparate application of the curfew is exposed, @MayorSRB ends it immediately. #BaltimoreUprising http://t.co/IXmcDGp7rS
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deray mckesson (@deray) May 03, 2015****
This is pretty telling. #BaltimoreUprising http://t.co/NYEWvsAxZC
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R.O.N.A. (@CallMeCharizma) May 03, 2015After glaringly obvious racial disparity in execution of Baltimore curfew was made public, mayor ends curfew. twitter.com/justin_fenton/…
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Sarah Reese Jones (@srjones66) May 03, 2015****
"cops find it entertaining to see black men suffer" Where's @FOP3 gene? http://t.co/Mmg5qjE9LL” @MayorSRB
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Thurston (@SAThurstonDC) May 03, 2015WATCH: Unprovoked cop pepper sprays passive protester wearing ‘F*ck the police’ t-shirt bit.ly/1GSE0Ph @deray http://t.co/GxY6RLYo4U
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John Byrne (@johnbyrnester) May 03, 2015****
Baltimore Sun reports video camera in Freddie Gray police van was broken. In several of my excessive force cases cameras have been "broken."
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Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) May 03, 2015Curious if any of conservatives who generally attack teachers unions are attacking police union for defending #FreddieGray cops
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Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) May 01, 2015****
Chuck Todd is a scumbag
Chuck Todd: "The biggest worry is that CVS won't rebuild that store" (not that the police will kill you in a van)
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CANNONBALL ADDERALL (@Charles_Aaron) May 03, 2015White People Started. #BaltimoreUprising http://t.co/EGx5OayxOF
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deray mckesson (@deray) May 03, 2015****
City Life newyorker.com/magazine/2015/… http://t.co/NzjgjAsn0D
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Stacey E. Singleton (@staceyNYCDC) May 03, 2015How Western media would cover Baltimore if it happened elsewhere wpo.st/ZTFF0 #mustread
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Alex Medina (@mrmedina) May 01, 2015****
.@TIME's iconic new cover features work of 26-year-old #Baltimore photographer @byDVNLLN. buff.ly/1JUAdOU http://t.co/UA0eC4Uf8x
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The Root (@TheRoot) April 30, 2015Buck always been real. http://t.co/jt9keTFS5w
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Mr. Lucas (@Alyricz) May 01, 2015****
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Obae (@It_Me_Obed) April 30, 2015
Baltimore was built to be a segregated city and we are watching the inevitable fallout from that. slate.com/articles/news_…
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Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) April 30, 2015****
The police are not burdened by the need to make sense. Black folks are so demonized, racists will, literally, believe anything.
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r. (@Are0h) April 30, 2015No, Freddie Gray did not have a "pre-existing spinal and neck injury." gaw.kr/l4puS5s
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(@Gawker) April 30, 2015****
This is very important. #BaltimoreUprising http://t.co/AXWQpOKrM6
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gaia ✨ (@astraeanixie) April 30, 2015Privilege allows you to define your own riots as "tea parties" in the history books! #BaltimoreUprising http://t.co/ysdHQgXhQN
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Benjamin J. Hall (@MrBJHall) April 29, 2015****
Police Shoot Two Unarmed Men 377 Times, In Car That Had Already Crashed countercurrentnews.com/2014/05/police…
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jesseWilliams. (@iJesseWilliams) April 28, 2015Yes, let's talk about looting... http://t.co/CV5tpv9OtQ
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Nessa. (@curlyheadRED) April 28, 2015****
How black social-media activists built the nation’s first 21st-century civil rights movement: nytimes.com/2015/05/10/mag… http://t.co/I0zhRQk7Ul
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Mark S. Luckie (@marksluckie) May 04, 2015"What does it do to a child to grow up knowing that you cannot simply be a child?" - @ClintSmithIII t.ted.com/WjMqgb6 #BlackLivesMatter
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TED Talks (@TEDTalks) May 01, 2015****
Nancy LeTourneau: What Can We Do?
Leonard Pitts is going to start writing a series of columns to answer the question posed to him by a 55 year-old white woman from Austin, TX who said she was heartsick about the police violence against unarmed African Americans and wanted to know what she could do. Today he reports what Rev. Tony Lee said in response. “Protests,” Lee told me in a telephone interview, “are one way that pushes people’s feet to the fire. Whatever the issue is, it’s brought to the forefront. But…there’s still need for people to do legislative advocacy, dealing with policy, whether it’s from the national to the local, showing people how to be engaged and [affecting] the policies that have such direct impact.”
More here
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All over the world – police brutality against minorities stays consistent
DEVELOPING: Water cannons and stun grenades used on protesters in Tel Aviv on.msnbc.com/1E7sAAa http://t.co/osJ0aor6TY
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(@msnbc) May 03, 2015Ethiopian-Israelis protest in Tel Aviv over police treatment nyti.ms/1I8grlD http://t.co/tU9KmcqYzQ
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The New York Times (@nytimes) May 03, 2015****
Striking photos from Tel Aviv rally to protest police violence against Ethiopian Israelis htz.li/2jR http://t.co/EnDZ7Z2cPR
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Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) May 03, 2015Tel Aviv rush hour brought to standstill by Ethiopian Israelis protesting racism, police discrimination. http://t.co/maXZ1mM2r4
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(@joshmitnick) May 03, 2015****
Central Tel Aviv looks like a war zone; it is a watershed day in relations with Ethiopian Israelis
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Chemi Shalev (@ChemiShalev) May 03, 2015Israeli police have rarely used such force against TA demonstrators; now for the debate on whether this has anything to do with their color
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Chemi Shalev (@ChemiShalev) May 03, 2015****
Ethiopian Israelis Protest Racism And Police Brutality In Tel Aviv buzzfeed.com/claudiakoerner… Hmm....so familiar http://t.co/z0bv7Yt8az
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(@GoBrooklyn) May 03, 2015Police fire stun grenades at Tel Aviv rally by Ethiopian Israelis u.afp.com/txc
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Agence France-Presse (@AFP) May 03, 2015****
Strongest images I took tonight at the protest in #TelAviv where #EthiopianIsraelis took to the streets in thousands. http://t.co/QFekZLQ9DY
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Anna Ahronheim (@AAhronheim) May 03, 2015Why we took to the streets: Ethiopian Israelis who refuse to stay silent dlvr.it/9fcnLC http://t.co/nrlOHYYtOe
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Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) May 03, 2015****
Ethiopian-Israelis' protest against police violence is met with police violence bit.ly/1I5u2sk http://t.co/o8PGQAPsv7
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+972 Magazine (@972mag) May 03, 2015Israelis, Many Of Ethiopian Descent, Stage Mass Protest In Tel Aviv Demanding Equality For All huff.to/1catxSm
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Margie (@paeznyc) May 03, 201504
May
15
Early Bird Rise and Shine
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Today (all times Eastern)
10:45: The President departs White House
12:0: Arrives New York
1:30: Participates in a discussion on the “My Brother’s Keeper Alliance;” Lehman College, New York
2:35: Delivers remarks; Lehman College, New York
4:20: Tapes an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman; Sullivan Theater, New York
6:15: Attends a DNC fundraiser; private residence, New York
8:15: Attends a DNC fundraiser; private residence, New York
10:0: Departs New York
11:15: Arrives White House
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MoooOOOooorning!
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