Forwarded from The Black Lives Revolution (BLM)
"Perhaps here we find the true work of abolitionists. To create little paths outside the sight of local authorities. Leading to the local cooperative. The local night meeting. To ensure they are never able to find where our paths are located. These clusters of paths are available to us only by starlight. We emerge at night in spite of complaints from the state. From a far distance. We risk punishment by ganging up. Within this risk of punishment, we have fun anyhow. This is an abolitionist sensibility."
https://mnartists.walkerart.org/daunte-wright-a-billion-clusters-of-rebellion-and-starlight
https://mnartists.walkerart.org/daunte-wright-a-billion-clusters-of-rebellion-and-starlight
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Daunte Wright: A Billion Clusters of Rebellion and Starlight โ Mn Artists
On abolition, constellations, and imagination after curfew
Forwarded from Knox
CW: Police shooting, death
On Monday April 12th Knoxville Police Department (KPD) shot and unjustifiably killed a 17 year old boy at a school. The country was painted a picture. They were told the boy was a school shooter and how heroic cops saved everyone. They werenโt paying attention once the news announced โthe shooterโ was dead and didn't get the full story.
Knowing things were amiss the community demanded the DA release the footage, they refused. But after pressure was applied we finally got to see the body cam footage.
We didnโt see a school shooter in them, he had no intentions to use the gun in school. We saw a scared boy sitting on the toilet. One who got up on his own and calmly walked towards the cops. No fighting or running. When he stepped out they started grabbing him and wrestling with him without knowing what was in his pockets. He kept screaming for them to wait... Like he knew this was a bad idea and the gun could go off. They couldnโt test the gun for fingerprints because too many hands were on it. It went off. Shot a trash can. Then the cops let off rounds wildly, hitting Anthony Thompson Jr in the chest and another cop in the leg.
They didn't ask him to put his hands on his head nor ask him to stand against the wall. He wasnโt resisting. They weren't supposed to be near him. They needlessly escalated.
Then, after Anthony fell to the ground, an officer handcuffed him and sat on him for over 4 minutes as his friend begged and cried for them to help him. โHeโs bleeding! Please! Please! Help him!โ as they did nothing. They claimed that they were unaware that he was hit, yet in the video you see an officer turn him over, get blood on his hands, and wash it off in the sink. Still, then, they didn't administer first aid.
It was negligent homicide. That negligence resulted in the death of a child. Our DA calls it justified. The city is refusing to hold them accountable.
No one is saying Anthony was right to have a gun in school. Weโre saying he didnโt deserve to die and he didnโt have to die. If KPD had exercised patience and followed the usual standard procedure, heโd still be alive today. Their negligence caused this. And that's why we're demanding justice.
It is negligent homicide.
Anthony Thompson Jr
Say his name...
On Monday April 12th Knoxville Police Department (KPD) shot and unjustifiably killed a 17 year old boy at a school. The country was painted a picture. They were told the boy was a school shooter and how heroic cops saved everyone. They werenโt paying attention once the news announced โthe shooterโ was dead and didn't get the full story.
Knowing things were amiss the community demanded the DA release the footage, they refused. But after pressure was applied we finally got to see the body cam footage.
We didnโt see a school shooter in them, he had no intentions to use the gun in school. We saw a scared boy sitting on the toilet. One who got up on his own and calmly walked towards the cops. No fighting or running. When he stepped out they started grabbing him and wrestling with him without knowing what was in his pockets. He kept screaming for them to wait... Like he knew this was a bad idea and the gun could go off. They couldnโt test the gun for fingerprints because too many hands were on it. It went off. Shot a trash can. Then the cops let off rounds wildly, hitting Anthony Thompson Jr in the chest and another cop in the leg.
They didn't ask him to put his hands on his head nor ask him to stand against the wall. He wasnโt resisting. They weren't supposed to be near him. They needlessly escalated.
Then, after Anthony fell to the ground, an officer handcuffed him and sat on him for over 4 minutes as his friend begged and cried for them to help him. โHeโs bleeding! Please! Please! Help him!โ as they did nothing. They claimed that they were unaware that he was hit, yet in the video you see an officer turn him over, get blood on his hands, and wash it off in the sink. Still, then, they didn't administer first aid.
It was negligent homicide. That negligence resulted in the death of a child. Our DA calls it justified. The city is refusing to hold them accountable.
No one is saying Anthony was right to have a gun in school. Weโre saying he didnโt deserve to die and he didnโt have to die. If KPD had exercised patience and followed the usual standard procedure, heโd still be alive today. Their negligence caused this. And that's why we're demanding justice.
It is negligent homicide.
Anthony Thompson Jr
Say his name...
Forwarded from Deleted Account
Anyway, new posters! A4 Printer Paper and 1000x1000 pxl size, space at the bottom for links, use however you want. Designed this to be normieish
Forwarded from NYC Protest Chat + Comms
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๐ข SAT, 4/25 12pm NYC๐ข Join us for a day of action in solidarity w all Asian communities! We'll be marching thru Washington Heights, Harlem, and E. Harlem to demand an end to white supremacy, imperialism, and misogynyโwhich we know to be the root causes ofโฆ
NYC Protest Chat + Comms
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*Sunday, like the flier says.