#StrikeForBlackLives

I commend the players on the @Bucks for standing up for what they believe in, coaches like @DocRivers, and the @NBA and @WNBA for setting an example. It’s going to take all our institutions to stand up for our values. pic.twitter.com/rUGETgAt7P

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 27, 2020

NBA players are courageously on strike (withholding labor), NOT boycotting (withholding their $ /purchase). The diff is important bc it shows their power as *workers.*

The courage this takes is profound. WNBA organizing in this moment MUST be recognized too. #StrikeForBlackLives https://t.co/QfsJAHLVLx

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 27, 2020

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Why do the police decide that some threats must be extinguished, while other threats get defused? We know the answer. pic.twitter.com/3GpyT8zEhf

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) August 27, 2020

Ariel Atkins delivers a message for the @WashMystics players. pic.twitter.com/tz5ojpo30A

— WNBA (@WNBA) August 27, 2020

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.@E_Williams_1 of the @AtlantaDream reads a statement as a representative for all WNBA players. pic.twitter.com/Gb0fhYM8T9

— WNBA (@WNBA) August 27, 2020

.@Nnemkadi30 discusses the unity within the league and looking ahead. pic.twitter.com/eeYqWDrzLy

— WNBA (@WNBA) August 27, 2020

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United. pic.twitter.com/wRgXRHVUsA

— WNBA (@WNBA) August 27, 2020

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— NaomiOsaka大坂なおみ (@naomiosaka) August 27, 2020

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Inter Miami and Atlanta United stand together in solidarity as they boycott their match tonight. pic.twitter.com/AuJDSbNvQ1

— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) August 27, 2020

The Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers have voted to boycott the rest of the playoffs and were the first two teams to exit the meeting, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.

— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) August 27, 2020

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“It is the young people leading the way and I applaud them.” @realchriswebber delivers a powerful message in support of the NBA players. pic.twitter.com/KVCUINw8Vx

— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) August 26, 2020

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Today’s boycotts, anniversary of Kaepernick’s protest and it all hovering around the 15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is just some really, really, really heavy perspective. Injustice takes on so many forms with so many Black women and men fighting to tackle America’s sins.

— Justin Tinsley (@JustinTinsley) August 26, 2020

On August 26, 2020, games and matches in four leagues were boycotted or postponed.

NBA
WNBA
MLB
MLS

An unprecedented day in sports history.

— ESPN (@espn) August 27, 2020

Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop

This is the 44th consecutive day of #BlackLivesMatter protests.

And today Stephen Jackson is helping lead a Black Lives Matter march in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

The push for justice won’t stop.

https://t.co/OkOBsWsl1t

— Stop Cop City (@JoshuaPHilll) July 11, 2020

Stunning #BlackLivesMatter bike protest going through South Brooklyn right now.

The same part of Brooklyn where racists held a Blue Lives Matter protest earlier and assaulted counter-protesters.

🎥: @mallory_jacque

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— Stop Cop City (@JoshuaPHilll) July 12, 2020

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The steps of the Minnesota State Capitol today.

They haven’t stopped demanding justice for George Floyd.

Let’s not stop supporting them.

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— Stop Cop City (@JoshuaPHilll) July 12, 2020

Massive Black Lives Matter protest today in Brighton, England.

The movement simply refuses to stop.#BlackLivesMatterUK

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— Stop Cop City (@JoshuaPHilll) July 11, 2020

Let’s Get To Work

I wrote out some thoughts on how to make this moment a real turning point to bring about real change––and pulled together some resources to help young activists sustain the momentum by channeling their energy into concrete action. https://t.co/jEczrOeFdv

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 1, 2020

Protect Black Lives

https://twitter.com/christinanthony/status/1265729270891995136

“I Know You Know That Black Lives Matter”

"George Floyd's life mattered and Breonna Taylor's life mattered and Philando Castile's life mattered and Tamir Rice's life mattered."

Duchess Meghan has shared a powerful video with @IHPandas Immaculate Heart High School’s class of 2020 for their graduation.#BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/BzUmfnKICb

— Omid Scobie (@scobie) June 4, 2020

👏"The. Only. Wrong. Thing. To. Say. Is. To. Say. Nothing"

Brilliant & powerful speech by Meghan Markle. I love how raw & open she is about her speech being picked apart but put others before her fear. My respect for Duchess of Sussex has gone up another notch #BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/6Ik0UGn5kx

— Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu (@SholaMos1) June 4, 2020

A Word From Martin Luther King Jr

Here is a gift to white people who insist they know what Martin Luther King Jr. would have said.

A thread

— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) June 1, 2020

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— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) June 1, 2020

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— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) June 1, 2020

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— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) June 1, 2020

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— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) June 1, 2020

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— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) June 1, 2020

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— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) June 1, 2020

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— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) June 1, 2020

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— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) June 1, 2020

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The Cops Have Always Been The Violent Ones

This boy had his hands up when an NYPD ofcr pulled his mask down and pepper sprayed him. ⁦@NYPDShea⁩? Mayor ⁦@BilldeBlasio⁩? pic.twitter.com/YtXDOoVckA

— Sherrilyn Ifill (@SIfill_) May 31, 2020

Share widely: National guard and MPD sweeping our residential street. Shooting paint canisters at us on our own front porch. Yelling “light em up” #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #JusticeForGeorge #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/bW48imyt55

— Tanya Kerssen (@tkerssen) May 31, 2020

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https://twitter.com/IssaRae/status/1266775661739302912

This is the moment Minneapolis Police fired on our CBS News crew with rubber bullets. As you can see, no protesters anywhere near us- we all were wearing credentials and had cameras out. Our sound engineer was hit in the arm. #cbsnews pic.twitter.com/UAy7HYhGnL

— Michael George (@MikeGeorgeCBS) May 31, 2020

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I cannot believe what I just witnessed. They pulled up onto the square with a police siren on and did this. #Louisville pic.twitter.com/65o2lgZCJh

— Natalie Neysa Alund (@nataliealund) May 30, 2020

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Property Is Not More Valuable Than Black Lives

Spike Lee said that when Do The Right Thing came out, a lot of critics thought it irresponsible to show Mookie throw a trash can through the window of Sal's pizzeria bc it would encourage riots...but they had far less to say about the cops choking Radio Raheem to death 🤷🏿‍♂️

— The LeBron James of Pig Feet. (@GeeDee215) May 28, 2020

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This is Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer talking about the history of racial terror lynchings of Black people and how some Black people responded, specifically protesting, looting, and rioting. This is from a documentary, “Heritage Of Slavery” (1968). pic.twitter.com/xelste3pPW

— The Funky Educator (@MrKinetik) May 28, 2020

They. Know. What. They've. Done. To. Us. https://t.co/MF87kbTeLN

— king crissle (@crissles) May 29, 2020

Exhausting

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You deserved your breath, your dignity, your life. Not to die in the street, murdered by a white cop’s knee on your neck. You deserve our tears, our prayers, our rage, our action. We must act - for you - and for all of those were no cameras are present. We must. #GeorgeFloyd pic.twitter.com/JeMNUtkXv6

— Ava DuVernay (@ava) May 27, 2020

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I know we’re sharing pics and vids of Christian Cooper and I just want us to be really careful not to fall into the “perfect victim” narrative when it comes to Black folx confronted with racism. What Amy Cooper did was WRONG - it doesn’t matter what he looks or sounds like.

— Rebecca Theodore-Vachon 🇭🇹 🇩🇴 🇺🇸 (@FilmFatale_NYC) May 26, 2020

I bring this up remembering how folx treated Rachel Jeantel, Trayvon Martin’s friend who testified at George Zimmerman’s trial and was described as “ghetto trash” - I think about this young woman often. She didn’t deserve that. https://t.co/9OY0aqxPe4

— Rebecca Theodore-Vachon 🇭🇹 🇩🇴 🇺🇸 (@FilmFatale_NYC) May 26, 2020

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“He didn’t deserve what happened to him,” says Tera Brown, cousin of George Floyd, who said he couldn’t breathe as a police officer used a knee to hold him down by the neck. Brown said the four Minneapolis police officers involved in Floyd’s death should be “charged with murder.” pic.twitter.com/XKzn8Lwxzz

— CNN Tonight (@CNNTonight) May 27, 2020

Your Actions Speak Louder

White folks: instead of lather, rinse & repeat your tweets for #GeorgeFloyd or about #AmyCooper, here are things you can *actually do* to interrupt that stems from which you benefit.

Compiled by white people who made the effort: https://t.co/z8rydxjNlkhttps://t.co/PJkFBM7dNm

— brittany packnett cunningham. (@MsPackyetti) May 26, 2020

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Ok I am nonbinary. But socially I am read as a woman. A white woman. And from that standpoint I wanna address white women/people socially read as white women because this is important:

we are weapons of white supremacy; in fact, we are THE weapon of white supremacy

— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020

Our supposed "purity" is the justification behind acts of racial violence and murder. Lynchings were so often committed because a black man was accused of assaulting/touching/looking at! a white woman. The specter of black men coming after white women was major racist propaganda

— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020

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And we were not innocent in this of course. This is pretty basic history. Think of "To Kill A Mockingbird," an entire book based on a white woman using the fear of black men's desire to hide her own shame and her father's guilt.

That isn't made up. That happened.

— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020

Emmett Till was murdered because of a white woman who lied. A white woman who has lived her life free from the consequences of her actions, a white woman who caused a child's violent lynching and got away with it.

White women we know of what we are capable

— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020

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And white women, when we call the police on a black person we are knowingly committing a modern-day lynching.#amycooper could very have killed that man, just as Carolyn Bryant Donham killed Emmett Till

— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020

This is a difficult truth to face, I know. White women, sometimes we (and those of us socially read as women) feel like we aren't as bad as white men because we're, you know, women.

But when it comes to racism in general and anti-blackness in particular, the dynamic shifts

— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020

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and white women we have social power--enough social power to get people killed.

So we cannot be passive here. We cannot assume we are doing enough. We have to be very clear that we will not tolerate racism done in our name

— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020

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