Community demands end to police brutality and racial inequities affecting Black and brown Minnesotans Police Meet Peaceful Protesters in Full Riot Gear Protesters fill the rotunda of the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota Saturday, December 20. (Photo courtesy of Black Lives Matter - Minneapolis) By Black Lives Matter Minneapolis, www.facebook.com December 21st, 2014 Minneapolis, MN More
[youtube=http://youtu.be/maqNGA6axc8] Sarah Steingraber says that the people getting arrested for Seneca Lake are young mothers and elders where a corporation is trying to store methane gas from fracking in hollowed out salt deposits in the lake. And the young people protesting Ferguson. Even as I write this, in NYC, in Oakland, in Ferguson, Mall of More
“There are so many people out protesting police violence who are then met with police violence,” Nelson said. “If they didn’t understand how a Mike Brown or an Eric Garner could happen, they understand after a night of protest how a police interaction can become very violent and even deadly.” Dani McClain TheNation.com December 16, More
[youtube=http://youtu.be/8avSGnZlnaY] Rise Up Times dedicates this song to Veterans for Peace, Chapter 27, Minneapolis, Minnesota Published on Jan 10, 2013 Sarah Jarosz's acoustic performance of "Ring Them Bells" for Vanguard and Sugar Hill Record's The Americana Sessions recorded and taped at Minutia Studios in Nashville, TN. Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! More
It’s one thing to read about the shameful racism and discrimination of the U.S. criminal justice system. It’s quite another to sit next to a woman who is facing ten or more years in prison, isolated from children she has not held in years, and to learn from her about the circumstances that led to More
Corporations have captured every major institution, including the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government, and deformed them to exclusively serve the demands of the market. By Chris Hedges truthdig.com December 7, 2014 Protesters conduct a “die-in” Dec. 6 at Grand Central Station in New York City as police watch. The demonstration opposed a More
The question of violent versus nonviolent protest has bedeviled movements for decades. By Steven Rosenfeld AlterNet December 10, 2014 Editor's Introduction: From the article: “The pattern that emerges from these pages shows that heavily funded municipal, county, state and federal ‘counter-terrorism’ agencies (often acting in concert through state/regional 'fusion centers') view citizens engaged in More
Video by Bill Sorem, text by Bill Sorem and Michael McIntee December 5, 2014 To view the Vimeo video below click the blue rectangle with white lettering that says Watch on Vimeo. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/113761567] Above: video of the reading of the names and the start of the march to the interstate. Below: videos of the More
Problems with previous videos. Links now direct to Comedy Central, hoping they work.
DIRECT FROM COMEDY CENTRAL Link here. And the Eric Garner verdict: Link here. Jon Stewart returned from break tonight to tackle the response to Ferguson, and dwelled not on the grand jury decision itself, but on the reaction to the decision, especially on Fox News. Stewart thought non-violence protesters were just “speaking out against systemic More
Mary Beaudoin, Editor Winter I 2014 One of the trains called La Bestia for the huge risks it involves on the long journey north, undertaken to escape gangs, drug cartels, and other dangers threatening the lives of the young More
[youtube=http://youtu.be/knlRWm9137A] Editor's Note: This is an amazing panel. It draws together what Zunes calls “messianic militarism” in our times and looking back in history to worldwide colonialism/imperialism (and to the Doctrine of Discovery and native rights in this country although they are not mentioned directly) and the “settler states” that withdrew from the Durban conference More
