#DefendDurham

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Durham, NC: Urgent Action - Housing is a Right!

Friday, June 8 - 4:00 pm

605 W. Chapel Hill Street, Durham, NC

Hosted by Defend Durham

Urgent! Defend the tent encampment at Chapel Hill St and I-147 in #Durham. We need bodies here ASAP to stop the evictions. Cops likely to come to evict residents. Housing is a right! #DefendDurham Come out for a press conference and a rally to hear from residents at the encampment themselves. Call and email NC DOT Secretary James Trogdon, tell him don’t evict the Durham tent encampment! jhtrogdon@ncdot.gov 919-707-2800

STATEMENT FROM THE UNITED RESIDENTS OF THE CHAPEL HILL STREET TENT ENCAMPMENT

This is our home. We live here. The state is not using this land. All of us have lived here between 4 months and a year. We have a trusting, strong community of residents. We all support each other in various ways in feeding ourselves and staying safe.

Last Friday, on June 1, we received a letter from Captain Reitz notifying us that we would all be evicted within 7 days. We have nowhere to go. The shelters are full and all have waiting lists. Many of us do not feel safe staying in a shelter. We feel safe living in our tents and wish to remain here until we find more permanent free housing.

There is already a housing and eviction crisis in Durham. Do not add us to that tragic list.

We are demanding the following of the state Department of Transportation and the City of Durham:

1. Do not evict us until we have found permanent, free housing.

2. Do not cut down the trees in our encampment. The trees keep us shaded from the elements, especially the hot sun during the summer, plus they provide us an important environmental buffer from the highway.

3. Provide us with a few trash receptacles and provide us weekly collection service, like all other residencies in Durham, so that we can keep our encampment clean.

4. Transition the old Durham Police headquarters, just across the street from our encampment, into affordable housing and provide us all free housing in the building.

June 8, 2018

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BABES ON BIKES 💜. Photo taken from @kgcoxy: "these cuties stage some revolutionary fun atop these punk ass limebike capitalist BS. #doitlikedurham #defenddurham #pocpower

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Stay hydrated and continue to TEAR DOWN white supremacy! #doitlikedurham #defenddurham

[kayprism]

Account from #defenddurham #durham @dorothyknows homestate #northcarolina from #civilrights #activist #katinaparker #staywoke

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activist mom. #defenddurham (at Durham, North Carolina)

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Ty flips off Dump every day for 4 years #resist #MAGA #bannonout #durham #defenddurham #firegorka #firemiller #altright #godblesstheusa #whitenationalist #whiteterrorism #republiklan #disarmhate #gunskillfreedom #blacklivesmatter #charlottsville #donthecon #fudt #foxnews #fakenews #impeachtrump #censure #nazis #notnormal #obama #potus #patriot #pence #russia #trump #treason #fridayfeeling

[mikeltod]

#Repost @imastringbean with @get_repost ・・・ Happy #DoItLikeDurham day! August 14 we united to topple the Confederate statue. #smashwhitesupremacy #DefendDurham see y’all at the conference Aug 25-26! — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2vGFxqE

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How the power of social media fueled counterprotest to false report ... - Durham Herald Sun

Durham Herald Sun

How the power of social media fueled counterprotest to false report ... Durham Herald Sun Friday's demonstration against a rumored Ku Klux Klan march in downtown Durham had its origins in a series of social media posts. Two Twitter hashtags, #KKKAlert and #DefendDurham, indicated that the Ku Klux Klan planned to march in Durham at noon ...

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Victory rally !!! 3 #Durham Defendants have their charges dropped !!! #DefendDurham #ibelievethatwewillwin

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Raleigh-Durham, NC: Marx at 200 - A birthday celebration & political discussion

Saturday, May 5 - 6:00 pm

Lion’s Park,  516 Dennis Ave, Raleigh, North Carolina 27604

Hosted by Workers World Party Durham Branch

“The chief thing in the doctrine of Marx is that it brings out the historic role of the proletariat as the builder of socialist society. Has the course of events all over the world confirmed this doctrine since it was expounded by Marx?” (Lenin) This May 5 marks the 200th birthday of Karl Marx, the German philosopher and revolutionary socialist whose ideas laid the groundwork for revolutions and liberation movements around the world. Join Workers World Party Durham Branch as we celebrate Marx and learn more about the impact of his legacy on social movements today. Our celebration of Marx is a celebration of countless uprisings here in the U.S. such as Chicago, Oakland, Charlotte, and revolutions and movements from the Soviet Union to Cuba, Venezuela to Viet Nam, South Africa to the Philippines.

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Struggle Against White Supremacy Claims Victory: CHARGES DROPPED in #DefendDurham case!

On February 20, Durham District Attorney Roger Echols announced that all charges had been dropped against the eight anti-racist freedom fighters stemming from the righteous people’s toppling of the Confederate monument in Durham, N.C., on Aug. 14. This includes not only the five who were to return to court on April 2 – Takiyah Thompson, Elena Everett, Jess Jude, Q Wideman, and Joe Karlik –  but additionally overturns Loan Tran’s earlier plea. On February 19, Raul Jimenez was found not guilty on all charges, and the cases against Dante Strobino and Peter Gilbert were dismissed.

This victory is the result of one thing and one thing alone: the conviction and determination of a mighty movement against white supremacy and the racist system that it upholds

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Tennessee: Murfreesboro rally canceled as counter-protesters outnumber white supremacists

Downtown Murfreesboro was desolate late Saturday afternoon after hours of chanting and protests that had rippled through the city.

White nationalists were overwhelmingly outnumbered by counterprotesters in Murfreesboro.

About 800 to 1,000 counterprotesters gathered in Murfreesboro to oppose the rally, chanting "Murfreesboro loves," "refugees are welcome here" and "this is what democracy looks like." About 30 white nationalists showed up at the rally in the square in downtown Murfreesboro.

By 3:15 p.m., the League of the South, the group that got the permit for the Murfreesboro event, had decided not to participate.

White nationalists led a rally in Shelbyville earlier Saturday, and while crowds there were antagonistic there was no reported violence.

5:22 p.m. Murfreesboro: The City of Murfreesboro has updated the number of counterprotesters on scene Saturday, saying 800 to 1000 counterprotesters were screened for prohibited items before entering the square.

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Boston: Workers’ Solidarity - Tear Down White Supremacy with Takiyah Thompson, January 27, 2018.

A vibrant discussion sponsored by Workers World Party of the many fronts in the struggle to abolish white supremacy, from tearing down confederate statues in Durham, NC, to sinking the Columbus myth and replacing monuments to racism and genocide with tributes and holidays that uplift Black and Indigenous peoples’ struggles for justice and reparations. 

Speakers included Takiyah Thompson, on trial Feb. 19th in Durham; Mahtowin Munro of Indigenous Peoples Day MA; Andre François, President of USW Local 8751, Boston & Randolph school bus drivers; Christine Reneé of Stonewall Warriors; Kristin Turgeon, musical tribute to revolutionary women.

Photos by Stevan Kirschbaum

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Raleigh, North Carolina: Moral March of Raleigh - Historic Thousands on Jones Street (HKonJ), February 20, 2018.

Photos by Dante Strobino

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Roanoke, Virginia: Black Liberation Month event featuring freedom fighter Takiyah Thompson, February 24, 2018.

“Union Jobs, Not Jim Crow white supremacy! Solidarity Forever!”

Photo by Bryan G. Pfeifer