Forwarded from Kentucky RUST
NG and large lines of riot police are gathering in 1 place. Take note that these police tactics leave other portions of the city unprotected. So police are more likely to use a show of force in the form of crowd control weapons for more range and coverage than they can use on their own when they decide to respond. Note that the geneva convention strictly prohibits the use of tear gas on militarized forces which a militia technically is. So if the officers decide to use crowd control means on NFAC or other armed groups, they would be breaking international law on a higher level than just using it on civilian demonstrators. Kentucky LRAD is on location according to folks on the ground.
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OTG: folks on stream are talking about how Louisville Police Department has their own livestream analysis team now. Well so do we. Their purpose is to identify folks to arrest, ours is to identify police, and fascists abusing folks on the ground. Interested in helping us on the ground or remotely? Contact @BLMProtestsbot
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45 minutes until race time!
From a streamer in #Rochester : "We out here. It's just crazy like, they police don't even know what to do." 😊💯🔥
#Portland about 25 minutes ago - molotovs and fireworks for night 100
https://twitter.com/_WhatRiot/status/1302461736755163136
https://twitter.com/_WhatRiot/status/1302461736755163136
Be prepared America. It's Seattle's 100th night of continual protests tomorrow.
We won't rest.
Solidarity ❤️
We won't rest.
Solidarity ❤️
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From @younglongislandforjustice SUFFOLK COUNTY POLICE SHOVE MAN IN WHEELCHAIR & RANDOMLY GRAB AND ARREST OTHER PEACEFUL PROTESTERS • • • • • • Last month in Ronkonkoma, Shannon Palmer crashed into two little Black boys on their bikes, 12-year-old Toriano Jamison and 9-year old Troy Russell, with her car and drove off, critically injuring them and leaving them for dead. There was a rally on her block yesterday demanding that the charges against her be increased. Suffolk County Police @scpdhq showed up and began randomly grabbing and arresting protesters without letting them know what they were under arrest for. Suffolk Police even shoved a protesters in a wheelchair multiple times until he fell over. We demand that Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone @countyexecbellone and Suffolk County District Attorney Tim Sini investigate this matter immediately. • • • • • • Here is an account from a peaceful protester that was there yesterday and recorded video: #Repost @mellipede. Thank you also to @oau_li & @conduit4justice for the videos. “We were peacefully protesting in Hauppauge and without warning police officers formed a line and began grabbing people from the crowd. At one point an officer even pushes someone in a wheelchair (last 30 seconds). I am so shocked and appalled by this. Four people from our protest were taken to the 4th Precinct in Smithtown. We ended our protest there, and waited until they were all out safely (which happened HOURS later).” #WeDontPayYouForTheseActions #PoliceRefusedToIdentifyHimself #HeKnowinglyPushedHimMultipleTimes #3rdTimeWheelchairRollsBackAndTiltsOnItsSide #divestfrompolice
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RT @ElChicano90: Please consider donating to the solidarity fund to help with bails for our comrades facing charges for bullshit and for legal representation
https://t.co/sU86V20Dqg
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RT @ElChicano90: Please consider donating to the solidarity fund to help with bails for our comrades facing charges for bullshit and for legal representation
https://t.co/sU86V20Dqg
source
"Consider Johnson & Johnson. Internal company documents have revealed that the company knew since at least 1957 that its talc-based powders could be contaminated with asbestos, a possible carcinogen, for which there is no known safe level of exposure. Despite these concerns, the company pushed these products in the United States and beyond, specifically targeting Black and Brown women. The company’s marketing plans included a race-based distribution model, moving baby powder samples through churches and beauty salons in African American and Latino neighborhoods, and seeking marketing agencies specializing in promotions to “ethnic consumers.”"
https://truthout.org/articles/decoding-corporate-spin-of-black-lives-matter/
https://truthout.org/articles/decoding-corporate-spin-of-black-lives-matter/
Truthout
Corporations Must Reckon With Their Spin of Black Lives Matter
If companies are really committed to Black lives, their statements should include a reckoning with their own products.
" While King never viewed rioting as the most effective form of political protest — disciplined, mass resistance was clearly superior, in his eyes — he also never denounced riots as immoral or engaged in the kind of law-and-order rhetoric Biden is now deploying.
Let’s start with the quote that King’s son tweeted out: “a riot is the language of the unheard.” King made the comment in a 1966 interview with Mike Wallace. He continued: “And, what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the economic plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years.
In his view, riots were “the rumblings of discontent from the ‘have nots’ within the midst of an affluent society.” They were expressions of the despair that afflicts people when they see no other way out of their economic dilemma, expressions of doubt about the willingness of the white community and the black middle class to change the situation. Before anyone rioted in Watts, King noted, the state of California had nixed a fair housing bill. The “have nots” had been deserted in their struggle for justice and felt they must resort to the methods that gained the most attention."
"What was needed, King argued, was “a revolution against that injustice, not against the lives of the persons who are their fellow citizens, but against the structures through which the society is refusing to take means which have been called for, and which are at hand, to lift the load of poverty.”"
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/09/martin-luther-king-riots-looting-biden/
Let’s start with the quote that King’s son tweeted out: “a riot is the language of the unheard.” King made the comment in a 1966 interview with Mike Wallace. He continued: “And, what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the economic plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years.
In his view, riots were “the rumblings of discontent from the ‘have nots’ within the midst of an affluent society.” They were expressions of the despair that afflicts people when they see no other way out of their economic dilemma, expressions of doubt about the willingness of the white community and the black middle class to change the situation. Before anyone rioted in Watts, King noted, the state of California had nixed a fair housing bill. The “have nots” had been deserted in their struggle for justice and felt they must resort to the methods that gained the most attention."
"What was needed, King argued, was “a revolution against that injustice, not against the lives of the persons who are their fellow citizens, but against the structures through which the society is refusing to take means which have been called for, and which are at hand, to lift the load of poverty.”"
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/09/martin-luther-king-riots-looting-biden/
Jacobinmag
What Martin Luther King Jr Really Thought About Riots
Joe Biden is trying to use Martin Luther King’s legacy to make the case for a law-and-order crackdown on protests. But King drew a distinction between violence against people and violence against property — and he viewed riots as the product of an unjust…