Calling Chauvin a “Bad Apple” Denies Systemic Nature of Racist Police Violence
"Even the best training in the world cannot teach police, who are licensed to kill and deployed to enforce a racist system, not to be racist."
The Unspeakable Horrors of Police Brutality
MLK: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
Behind the Doodle: Audre Lorde’s 87th Birthday and Angela Davis on Audre Lorde
"...and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid, So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive." "A Litany for Survival," Audre Lorde
Communities United Against Police Brutality, Peacestock Peace Plaza
"Our overriding goal is to create a climate of resistance to abuse of authority by police organizations and to empower local people with a structure that can take on police brutality and actually bring it to an end."
A Very Intentional First Day of the Year, by Michael Bayly
"Following are images from my time at the George Floyd Memorial Site and the Prayer Tree on the afternoon of Friday, January 1, 2021. I experienced my time at both of these places as holy, grounding, and renewing."
Chris Hedges, On Contact: Cornel West on America’s Existential Crisis
ON THE RT SHOW THIS WEEK, CHRIS HEDGES TALKS TO MORAL PHILOSOPHER, DR. CORNEL WEST, ABOUT WHAT WE CAN LEARN ABOUT AMERICA’S EXISTENTIAL CRISIS AFTER WITNESSING ENRAGED SUPPORTERS OF DONALD TRUMP STORMING THE CAPITOL
Midwest Dispatch: How Past Economic Policies Influenced Racism of Today, by Sara Lahm
"While hedonism was running rampant among young, white, urban professionals, George Floyd and his family and friends were caught up in another hallmark of the 1980s: the war on drugs."
Do Americans really care about war crimes? by Jared Keller
"So do war crimes matter to the average American? In the short term, it appears that war crimes and their related pardons are simply new battlegrounds in the ever-expansive culture war between left and right, liberals and conservatives, that seems to have enveloped modern politics rather than becoming matters of human dignity in their own right. And that’s a damn shame."
Sara Thomsen: Freedom Song
Oh, blowing wind Where do we begin? Have you any answers now? Can you tell us how? https://youtu.be/biBHk6N8KLU Freedom Song Sara Thomsen Lyrics Oh, blade of grass Can I ask you Where is the road to peace? Tell me, please. Oh, singing bird What are the words To the freedom songs you sing? Oh, More
Sweet Honey in the Rock: Ella’s Song
To me young people come first They have the courage where we fail
An Assault on Human Dignity, the Rule of Law, and the Institutions That Would Uphold Them
"The plight of Djamel Ameziane is a real-world example of the self-serving approach to human rights practiced by the United States."
Stevie Ray Vaughan: Caught in the Crossfire
"Save the strong, lose the weak Trust nobody, don't be no fool Whatever happened to the golden rule We got stranded..."