Sunday, June 14, 2020

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Trump stokes tensions over George Floyd protests before calling for calm

Ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin charged with murder in George Floyd case: The suspect's knee was on his neck for more than 8 1/2 minutes, including 2 1/2 minutes after he had passed out, according to a criminal complaint.

H.R.943 - Never Again Education Act: 05/19/2020 the bill was Presented to President for enactment and on 05/29/2020 the bill was signed by the President and enacted into law.

This Holocaust survivor escaped from a Ghetto to save her mother from a death camp | Full Disclosure

The Auschwitz doctor who couldn't 'do no harm'

On Blackness and belonging in America: Black people should not be robbed of spaces where we find joy and wonder — they are too rare in our lives.

Let's talk about the charging decision....

‘We know with precision where that officer was’: St. Paul police refute persistent claims that undercover officer smashed windows, sprayed graffiti to provoke rioting in Minneapolis

May 28 - Agent provocateur attacking autozone exposed: cop who shot and k1lled 2 people

BRADY JOINS OUTRAGE IN MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD, STATE-SPONSORED TERROR OF BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES

Brady United Against Gun Violence

Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire (Official Video)

Joe P - The Value of Life

George Floyd’s Brother Says Trump Was Dismissive On Condolence Call: “He didn’t give me the opportunity to even speak,” Philonise Floyd said.

Excessive Force Pandemic - A Critical Need for Change

Protest Outside White House 'Tense But Peaceful' | MSNBC

Far-Right Extremists Are Hoping to Turn the George Floyd Protests Into a New Civil War: Armed extremists are showing up to protests and urging a “boogaloo” — code for civil war — online.

Grief, Outrage Over George Floyd Spreads Further

White Woman Is Fired After Calling Police on Black Man in Central Park

In Some Cities, Police Officers Joined Protesters Marching Against Brutality

Philly Area Protests: Disaster Emergency Declared, 100+ Arrested.  More than a dozen police officers were injured and many were arrested as fires and looting hit Philadelphia, the KOP Mall, and elsewhere.

George Floyd Did Not Have a Pulse When Medics Placed Him in Ambulance, Minneapolis Fire Department Report Shows

George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper | The Daily Social Distancing Show

George Floyd Worked Security At The Same Nightclub As The Officer Who Killed Him: "They were working together at the same time."

Former President Barack Obama puts out guidelines to 'get to work' amid George Floyd protests: The former president wrote about how to use this moment to make "real change."

Mayor Walks Back Statement Saying Every Person Arrested In Minneapolis Protests Was From Out Of State

Killer Mike responds to protests over George Floyd's death

Trump tells "weak" governors they "have to dominate" as civil unrest divides the nation

'America Has Its Knee on People of Color.' Why George Floyd's Death Was a Breaking Point

Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Understood White Freedom Perfectly: They saw themselves as entitled to police the movements, motivations, and ultimately, the right to exist of a black stranger.

The Murder That Threatened to Divide the Two Harlems: After a Barnard student was stabbed to death in Morningside Park, long-timers and gentrifiers feared they’d find themselves at odds.

The Shock of Recognition: Cathy Park Hong’s personal history of Asian America.

Honky Cat Biden’s Ugly Truth

Iconic Black Jewish Writer Julius Lester Should Be on Every Parent’s Radar

Letters to the Editor: Don’t Diss Black Electorate, etc.

Louisville police chief fired in aftermath of fatal shooting

C-19 and Why Red, Black and Brown?

Virus Hits Native Americans Hard

Minnesota Officials Link Arrested Looters to ‘White Supremacist’ Groups

Donald Trump Is Trying to Start a Race War: And with the Insurrection Act, he has the statutory authority to do so

D.C. police response to George Floyd protests prompts alarm abroad: "The U.S. has stood for many ideals we dearly share," said analyst Ziya Meral. "Now we are witnessing an America spiraling down into chaos."

Twitter says fake "Antifa" account was run by white supremacists

Trump says he will deploy military if state officials can't contain protest violence: The president said he was an "ally of all peaceful protesters" as police and the National Guard forced protesters away from the White House.

McConnell blocks resolution condemning Trump over treatment of protesters

George Floyd protests: UK opposition parties urge Boris Johnson to suspend export of arms and riot gear to Donald Trump's US.  Labour says UK should not sell arms to US 'at a time when Donald Trump is gearing up to use the US military to crush the legitimate protests taking place across America over the murder of black civilians'

AG Letitia James threatening legal action against President Trump if military deployed to quell protests

White women in Louisville line up to form human shield to protect Black protesters

Justin Trudeau SHOWS UP Trump when asked about his Bible photo-op

America Is Raging. Listen to What’s Being Said.  As cities boil over, pleas from sports figures to hear the voices in the streets

How to Change Policing in America

New legislation could make NYPD chokeholds illegal after George Floyd death

Anger as local police union chief calls George Floyd a 'violent criminal'

Bill Barr's Selective Blame Game

Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier: George Floyd ‘could be me’

Ferguson Just Elected Its First Black Mayor: Ella Jones will also be the Missouri city’s first female mayor. She got involved in city government after the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown.

What COVID-19 Prison Outbreaks Could Teach Us About Herd Immunity: Prisons turn out to be a key place to study how coronavirus spreads and how immunity to it works.

More than 1 in 6 black workers lost jobs between February and April

READ: Former President George W. Bush's statement on the death of George Floyd

6 Atlanta officers charged after students pulled from car

Omaha bar owner who shot a black protester will not be charged

Police Shove, Make AP Journalists Stop Covering New York Protest: Journalists have faced aggressive police and protesters during demonstrations across the U.S. over the killing of George Floyd.

Retired St. Louis Police Captain Killed Amid Unrest: Dorn, who was black, was found dead in front of his friend’s pawn shop that had been broken into.

Protesters feel joy after four former officers hit with new charges in George Floyd's death

Barr personally ordered removal of protesters near White House leading to use of force against a largely peaceful crowd

Warren Calls For DOJ Probe Amid Reports Attorney General Ordered Protesters Removed: “These attacks on peaceful American protesters steps from the White House were sickening and appalling,” the Mass. senator said.

Manuel Ellis: Tacoma Man Died In Police Custody, Saying He 'Can't Breathe'

Why is tear gas banned in war but not from peaceful protests?

Four Texas GOP county leaders share racist Facebook posts, including one juxtaposing an MLK quote with a banana: Gov. Greg Abbott called on two Republican county chairs to resign after they shared a racist conspiracy theory about George Floyd's death.

Lights Up For Floyd - June 9th 8:19pm - 8:27pm

Ahmaud Arbery was struck by vehicle before he was shot dead; suspect yelled racial slur: Investigator
The three suspects were ordered to stand trial for the Feb. 23 attack.

Growing Calls to Expel Penn State University Student Over Swastika Photo

How Can We Win

Trump Says Strong Economy Will Bring Racial Justice

Viewpoint: US must confront its Original Sin to move forward

Mississippi prosecutor says she hopes coronavirus ‘spreads in riots’

Al Sharpton Announces March On Washington In August: It’s intended to fall on the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech.

Black Lives Matter files Suit against 45 for the unprovoked attack against protestors at Lafayette Park for 45s photo op. This is the actual filing.

Trump Viciously Attacking DC Mayor Bowser, Who Allowed ‘Black Lives Matter’ to Be Painted on Street Outside WH

Detroit protests against police brutality turn violent

America's Citizens Will Not Be Silenced By Government Intimidation

Let's talk about how we've seen enough....

D.C. Mayor Bowser has 'Black Lives Matter' painted on street leading to White House: The act was intended to honor protesters who had peacefully assembled earlier this week.

Buffalo Cops Who Shoved Elderly Man Charged With Second-Degree Assault: A now-viral video showed 75-year-old peace activist Martin Gugino being shoved to the ground and left in a pool of blood.

Protests after Floyd’s death reach rural America: Growing minority communities are finding their voice in speaking up for social issues.

Wolff Responds: Looting

'Yes, I Will Name Names': AOC Leads Charge Against Empty Corporate Claims of #BlackLivesMatter.  "This moment calls for transformation," Ocasio-Cortez said. "Give people change."

Oregon Police Caught On Video Collaborating With Armed White Extremists

'Another Blow to the Black Community': Trump Waives Environmental Law That Gives Public a Voice in Infrastructure Projects

Cuomo wants state lawmakers to pass ‘Amy Cooper’ 911 false accusation bill

George Floyd Protest In Center City Draws Thousands As Philadelphia Under Curfew For Eighth Straight Night

Dallas police chief says ‘we’re asking  cops to do too much in this country’

How We Fight

How to Survive an Apocalypse and Keep Dreaming: As Native people, we have inherited an audacious vision.

Black Women’s Livelihoods Will Be Yet Another Coronavirus Casualty: For many reasons, Black women are particularly hurt by the virus’s economic toll.

The Language of Extinction: When wildfires destroy habitats, more than species are lost.

Graduates, don’t ever ever let anyone tell you that you’re too angry

Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay's examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country's history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America.

Blacklash: COVID-19 is taking a deadly toll on African Americans.

Our Schools Were Racist Before COVID-19. Here’s How They Could Get Worse: After the pandemic, can we finally come to grips with the truth that America’s public education system harms black children?

Police: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Let's talk about if cops are effective....

Alt-Right Trolls Are Trying to Sabotage Black Lives Matter Chatrooms

The Time to Reform Policing Practices and Policies is Now.

One Weird Trick to Slash Your City’s Police Budget Right Now: Los Angeles just announced the city is massively cutting its police budget. There has literally never been an easier—or better—time for other cities to follow suit.

Bills Would Ban Sale of Military Weapons to Police, Bar Deployment of Troops to Protests

A U-turn, an angry president and a fateful walk to a church

Ex-Joint Chiefs chair: Deploying military domestically would negatively affect relationship with American people

Voices grow in condemnation of Trump's military response to protests

Pentagon outlines withdrawal of troops from nation’s capital after Trump’s announcement: President Trump said Sunday he had ordered the National Guard to start the process of withdrawing from Washington, D.C., “now that everything is under perfect control,” as tens of thousands of people descended on the city for a weekend of protests over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.

Esper orders all remaining active-duty troops home from D.C. area: The active-duty troops are heading out and will be gone by Saturday, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said.

Trump was ‘on the brink’ of firing defense secretary for contradicting him on troop deployment: report

How Mattis reached his breaking point — and decided to speak out against Trump: For former defense secretary Jim Mattis, it was the last straw: the sight of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, walking the streets of downtown Washington in battle-ready camouflage amid a show of brute federal force.

Milley, America’s top general, walks into a political battle: The military that Gen. Mark A. Milley represents is facing what could be the worst schism with the American public since the fractious Vietnam War years.

Guardsman removed from DC mission after FBI said troop ‘expressed white supremacist ideology’ online

Republican candidate attacks George Floyd’s niece after she asks ‘when has America ever been great?’

‘It was a shocking thing to say’: Republicans aren’t even trying to defend Trump’s Buffalo tweet

White Academia: Do Better.  Higher education has a problem. It’s called White supremacy.

NFL apologizes for 'not listening' to players about racism as Colin Kaepernick remains unsigned
"We, the National Football League, admit we were wrong," Roger Goodell said.

Biden delivers address at George Floyd's funeral in Houston: 'We can't turn away'

5 takeaways from John Oliver’s outstanding ‘Last Week Tonight’ episode on defunding the police: Sunday’s ‘Last Week Tonight’ was devoted to the civil unrest brewing around the country and demystified what has emerged as a prominent potential solution.

Man who allegedly ran over protesters is an admitted leader of the Ku Klux Klan, Virginia officials say

'Racial Justice Is Climate Justice': Why The Climate Movement Needs To Be Anti-Racist

Racism Is Killing the Planet: The ideology of white supremacy leads the way toward disposable people and a disposable natural world

Man bitten by police dog plans to sue

Minnesota Cops Admit To Slashing Protesters' Tires: State Patrol troopers "strategically deflated tires," said a spokesman for the Department of Doublespeak/Public Safety.

Charles Barkley gets real on race in America in new series

American Race: White Privilege In America [CLIP] | TNT

Let's talk about a march in a small southern town....

Let's talk Trump's tweet about Buffalo....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdPgX8ssNA4

Retired general issues dire warning after Trump's threat

A Moment of National Shame and Peril—and Hope: We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of American democracy, but there is still a way to stop the descent.

Full Episode: Where Do We Go From Here? (Part 1) | OWN Spotlight | Oprah Winfrey Network

Full Episode: Where Do We Go From Here? (Part 2) | OWN Spotlight | Oprah Winfrey Network

Swastikas drawn on street in front of New Orleans Jewish cemetery

Funeral of George Floyd held in Houston - as it happened

Hundreds of Thousands Sign Petitions Urging the U.S. Government to Declare KKK a Terrorist Group

Washington Police Chief Dumped for Terrible George Floyd Take—and He’s Not the Only One: From New York to Oregon, officials have been punished for pushing conspiracies, physically fighting with protesters and attempting to infiltrate demonstrations.

Journalists Targeted While Covering Protests: 328 Press Freedom Violations And Counting

SAT-SUN, June 20-21, 2020 – SAT at 10 AM and 6 PM EDT and SUN at 6 PM EDT - Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.  Digital March on Washington, DC, with REV. DR. WILLIAM J. BARBER II. 

Demands on Systemic Racism and Police Violence

Confront the interlocking evils of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism.

Let's talk about Trump renaming Army forts....

Let's talk about NASCAR, flags, and heritage....

Gen. Charles Brown Jr. confirmed as first black military service chief

Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020

I'LL STAND BY YOU (Lyrics) - THE PRETENDERS

“The Most Effective Way to Stop Police Terror Is Action at the Point of Production”: Longshore workers on the East and West Coast are stopping work today to demand an end to racist police murders. We spoke with one of the protest organizers about the action — and why labor must take the lead in the fight against police violence.

Did a Florida Judge Give Vastly Different Sentences to Two Men, Whose Only Difference Was Their Race?  A viral meme, based on a piece of investigative journalism, left out some important context in the cases of Chase Legleitner and Lamar Lloyd.

HOW TO GET STARTED ON ROLLING BACK POLICE MILITARIZATION

The Legendary Black Surfer Who Challenged Stereotypes: In his short 24 years, Nick Gabaldón made an impact on California surfing culture that is still felt today.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/who-is-nick-gabaldon-surfer?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e27cd5a1b5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_06_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-e27cd5a1b5-68849085&mc_cid=e27cd5a1b5&mc_eid=12cd70fff7

New York City’s History of Resistance, in One Riotous Map: New Yorkers rebelled dozens of times between 1712 and 2013.

Ugly Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue: Nashville, Tennessee, One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject. 

Grave in the Road in Hearne, Texas: This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

Meet the Hidden Architect Behind America's Racist Economics

Nina Simone: Revolution

Joseph ‘JoJo’ Clarke, Bri’Anna Harper Sing Songs of Hope | The View

Police brutality to U.S national anthem

LEARN ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST ONLINE: Digital resources for students, teachers, and the public.

Gold and the Indian Removal Act

Philadelphia's Vanishing Jewish Restaurants: Bernie Uhr's Story.

Let's talk about the fruit of freedom....

Let's talk about Juneteenth and myths....

The Time David Bowie Called Out MTV for Ignoring Black Artists

9 ‘Facts’ About Slavery They Don’t Want You to Know: A widely circulated list of historical "facts" about slavery dwells on the participation of non-whites as owners and traders of slaves in America.

THE FORGOTTEN RACIAL MASSACRE IN AMERICA’S HEARTLAND

The Hidden History of African-American Burial Sites in the Antebellum South: Enslaved people used codes to mark graves on plantation grounds.

Protesters return to Franklinville; Center City Philly streets closed for rally

ULM Fires Professors Caught Posting Racist Comments

What does firing a tenured professor look like at the University of Louisiana Monroe?

America Wasn't a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One

American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation

VVA: Silence Is Not an Option!

Liberal Redneck - Minnesota Burning

Black Panthers White Lies | Curtis Austin | TEDxOhioStateUniversity

Denver Police Seized Assault Rifles from Anti-Government Gun Activists at Friday Night Protest

That Could Have Been Me

8:46 Dave Chappelle

Police killed 1,098 people in 2019.

The fire this time

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