#Black Lives Matter Protest

[ceevee5]

[our-trans-punk-experience]

IF YOU ARE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN THE US 2024 GENERAL ELECTION - VOTE.

i know it's not the anarchist thing to do

i know you might object to voting democrat

i know that resistance doesn't begin or end at the ballot box

but sometimes you have to park your ideological purity in order to have a tangible effect. They are not the same. when you take to the streets it is better you have a government that will ignore you at worst then a government that will shoot you.

And remember: they might agree on some points but they disagree on many more. Your defiance is compliance if you abstain from voting on a single issue.

ALSO: don't get pissy with democrats for not doing something if the thing in question was blocked by the house. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IS ALSO UP FOR ELECTION AND A REPUBLICAN MAJORITY IS ALMOST AS BAD AS TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT

FINALLY: yes this applies if you live in a red state. nothing is certain in life, and even less so in politics. besides, don't give anyone the excuse to say that x group isn't interested in politics so why bother voting.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Ian Millhiser at Vox:

The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will not hear Mckesson v. Doe. The decision not to hear Mckesson leaves in place a lower court decision that effectively eliminated the right to organize a mass protest in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. Under that lower court decision, a protest organizer faces potentially ruinous financial consequences if a single attendee at a mass protest commits an illegal act.

It is possible that this outcome will be temporary. The Court did not embrace the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s decision attacking the First Amendment right to protest, but it did not reverse it either. That means that, at least for now, the Fifth Circuit’s decision is the law in much of the American South. For the past several years, the Fifth Circuit has engaged in a crusade against DeRay Mckesson, a prominent figure within the Black Lives Matter movement who organized a protest near a Baton Rouge police station in 2016. The facts of the Mckesson case are, unfortunately, quite tragic. Mckesson helped organize the Baton Rouge protest following the fatal police shooting of Alton Sterling. During that protest, an unknown individual threw a rock or similar object at a police officer, the plaintiff in the Mckesson case who is identified only as “Officer John Doe.” Sadly, the officer was struck in the face and, according to one court, suffered “injuries to his teeth, jaw, brain, and head.”

Everyone agrees that this rock was not thrown by Mckesson, however. And the Supreme Court held in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware (1982) that protest leaders cannot be held liable for the violent actions of a protest participant, absent unusual circumstances that are not present in the Mckesson case — such as if Mckesson had “authorized, directed, or ratified” the decision to throw the rock. Indeed, as Justice Sonia Sotomayor points out in a brief opinion accompanying the Court’s decision not to hear Mckesson, the Court recently reaffirmed the strong First Amendment protections enjoyed by people like Mckesson in Counterman v. Colorado (2023). That decision held that the First Amendment “precludes punishment” for inciting violent action “unless the speaker’s words were ‘intended’ (not just likely) to produce imminent disorder.”

The reason Claiborne protects protest organizers should be obvious. No one who organizes a mass event attended by thousands of people can possibly control the actions of all those attendees, regardless of whether the event is a political protest, a music concert, or the Super Bowl. So, if protest organizers can be sanctioned for the illegal action of any protest attendee, no one in their right mind would ever organize a political protest again. Indeed, as Fifth Circuit Judge Don Willett, who dissented from his court’s Mckesson decision, warned in one of his dissents, his court’s decision would make protest organizers liable for “the unlawful acts of counter-protesters and agitators.” So, under the Fifth Circuit’s rule, a Ku Klux Klansman could sabotage the Black Lives Matter movement simply by showing up at its protests and throwing stones.

The Fifth Circuit’s Mckesson decision is obviously wrong

Like Mckesson, Claiborne involved a racial justice protest that included some violent participants. In the mid-1960s, the NAACP launched a boycott of white merchants in Claiborne County, Mississippi. At least according to the state supreme court, some participants in this boycott “engaged in acts of physical force and violence against the persons and property of certain customers and prospective customers” of these white businesses. Indeed, one of the organizers of this boycott did far more to encourage violence than Mckesson is accused of in his case. Charles Evers, a local NAACP leader, allegedly said in a speech to boycott supporters that “if we catch any of you going in any of them racist stores, we’re gonna break your damn neck.”

With SCOTUS refusing to take up McKesson v. Doe, the 5th Circuit's insane anti-1st Amendment ruling that effectively bans mass protests remains in force for the 3 states covered in the 5th: Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

[digglesgiggles]

Sonya Massey, a black woman was shot three times, one being a fatal headshot in her own home for holding a pot of hot water, when she had called in the police for a prowler outside of her house.

she was shot. in. her. house. for saying "i rebuke you in the name of jesus". that's all. it took less than five seconds for Sean Grayson to whip out his pistol. said attackers partner offered first aid but he refused it because "it's a headshot, she's dead".

because no one can testify against you if they're dead.

the cops name is Sean Grayson, and he should never be able to leave prison.

this was not an "incident". this was a murder. do NOT let people forget her name.

BLACK LIVES MATTER!

tw below for gunfire. the death however is off camera and not visible.

[longliveblackness]

October 2nd 1800 - Nat Turner was born in the Tidewater region of Virginia.

He was an anti-slavery revolutioniary, an insurrectionist and started one of the deadliest slave revolt in the U.S.

Around early 1828, he was convinced that he "was ordained for some great purpose in the hands of the Almighty". A solar eclipse and an unusual atmospheric event and is what inspired Nat Turner to start his insurrection, which began on August 21, 1831.

Nat Turner believed God was showing him a sign by putting a black man hand over the sun. It’s been known for thousands of years solar eclipse give off energy.

On August 21, he began the rebellion with a few trusted fellow enslaved men. The rebels traveled from house to house, freeing enslaved people and killing their white owners.

Turner's rebellion was suppressed within two days and he was captured October 30. On November 5, he was convicted and sentenced to death and was hanged November 11, 1831.

The state executed 56 other black men suspected of being involved in the uprising and another 200 Black people, most of whom had nothing to do with the uprising, were beaten, tortured, and murdered by angry white mobs.

The Virginia General Assembly passed new laws making it unlawful to teach enslaved or free black or mulatto (mixed) people to read or write and restricting black people from holding religious meetings without the presence of a licensed white minister.

•••

El 2 de octubre del año 1,800 nace Nat Turner en Tidewater, región perteneciente a Virginia.

Fue un revolucionario antiesclavista, un insurreccionista y comenzó una de las revueltas de esclavos más fatales de los Estados Unidos.

A principios de 1828, estaba convencido de que "había sido ordenado para algún gran propósito en manos del Todopoderoso". Un eclipse solar y un evento atmosférico inusual es lo que inspiró a Nat Turner a iniciar la revuelta, la cual comenzó el 21 de agosto de 1831.

Nat Turner creía que Dios le estaba dando una señal al poner la mano de un hombre negro frente al sol. Se sabe desde hace miles de años que los eclipses solares emiten energía.

El 21 de agosto, comenzó la rebelión con algunos compañeros esclavizados de su confianza. Los rebeldes viajaron de casa en casa, liberando a los esclavos y matando a sus dueños blancos.

La rebelión de Turner fue suprimida en dos días y fue capturado el 30 de octubre. El 5 de noviembre, fue declarado culpable y sentenciado a muerte. Fue ahorcado el 11 de noviembre de 1831.

El Estado ejecutó a otros cincuenta y seis hombres negros sospechosos de estar involucrados en la protesta y otros doscientos negros, los cuales en su mayoría no tenían nada que ver con la protesta, fueron golpeados, torturados y asesinados por multitudes blancas que se encontraban enojadas.

La Asamblea General de Virginia aprobó nuevas leyes que hacían que fuese ilegal enseñarle a leer o escribir a personas negras o mulatas (mezclados) esclavizadas o libres y le restringeron a los negros la celebración de reuniones religiosas sin la presencia de un ministro blanco autorizado.

[autumnsprophecy]

I implore you to protest. Protest for Palestine. Protest for abortion rights. Protest for #MeToo. Protest for Black Lives Matter. Protest for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. Protest against Book Bans. Protest against bans on protests. If you lie down and make yourself quiet they will tread on your back and laugh over your cries.

[demonic-shadowlucifer]

"protesting is gonna be made illegal under trump so what's the point of protesting and rioting" Multiple people were arrested during the Stonewall riots. Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat. Martin Luther King Jr himself was jailed at some point. A lot of people were arrested in 2020 during the Black Lives Matter protests. Heck, people were arrested last year and this year during the Pro-Palestinian protests.

What's your excuse?

[al3ro]

1st of August 2024 - EndBadGovernance protests in Nigeria ( 📸 : @ifebusola_s)

[sadderbutwisergirrl]

I cried then I got mad. Let’s go.

[anarchotahdigism]

y'all do not post or rb videos of people being arrested or doing cool leftist shit that would result in such talk about it, describe it in detail, but don't say precisely where or when or who unless specifically asked by those involved the US government will absolutely find those graphic pieces of evidence much more easily if you do. If you don't post it, they do not have it.

make sure to obscure faces in anything you do post or boost you can say you support something without having to document every single incident that the state will want to investigate---which it will people are still catching charges from 2020 because of stuff people posted then and now Read about the Ferguson Six.

[wakandan-goddess]

Here we go again with the “I wish Americans protested like the French” shit again.

I don’t know if some of y’all have memory loss but we did protest “like the French” in 2020 (George Floyd Protests) and got shit on and called thugs by the public,the media and politicians. People were seriously injured by police and other random people who wanted to be violent. We were told that peoples property was worth more than justice for a wrongfully taken like. So don’t bring that shit over here. Y’all just like the idea and look of protest but let it inconvenience or the message calls you out then then it’s not the right way to protest.

Just say what you really mean with your chest.