#Takiyah Thompson

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Video Shows Police Telling Black Woman It’s A ‘Crime’ To Play Malcolm X Speeches

Video Shows Police Telling Black Woman It’s A ‘Crime’ To Play Malcolm X Speeches

A neighbor said he didn’t want his family to hear “Islamic-Jihadist type messages.”

It has been more than 50 years since Malcolm Xtraveled around the globe to bring awareness to human rights violations being made against Black people in America. A quick glance at the world’s affairs suggests that not much has changed in society since then. Just days shy of the iconic activist’s 94th birthday on…

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Aware of the criticisms that have surfaced around the national Women's March, hundreds of participants in Raleigh crowded in the state’s legislative courtyard Saturday preaching a message of intersectional feminism and equality for minorities, immigrants, and the LGTBQ community.

But words can only go so far.

Activist Takiyah Thompson — a black woman who was arrested in 2017 after helping to topple a Confederate monument in downtown Durham — was singled out by police while marching with a sign held up by a stick.  Most everyone in the crowd around her also had one, but police pulled Thompson to the side and began interrogating her, she said.  Some, but not all, of the participants were asked to remove the sticks and other supports from their signs before entering the courtyard.

Encircled by police officers, Thompson began to chant “Freedom! Freedom! All these racist cops, we don’t need ’em.”  The white women around her kept walking.

“You could hear a rat piss on a cotton ball when I started that chant because everyone is afraid to affirm the rights of black women, of black people,” Thompson told the crowd.

Thompson was not arrested and was pulled on stage as the event’s first speaker.

Nationally, the Women’s March came under fire in December after some of its organizers were accused of anti-semitism and homophobia.  Raleigh organizers took those criticisms to heart in crafting a message focused on social justice and racial equality.  Wake County Commissioner Jessica Holmes referenced Martin Luther King Jr. in her speech, emphasizing that the movement cannot succeed unless all boats are lifted by the tide.

"We have not reached the mountaintop when we have glass ceilings that are yet to be broken,” she told a roaring crowd.  “There is but one way to reach the top of that mountain, and that is together.  We are only as strong as our weakest link.  We are only as strong as the sister some of us left behind today.  We can’t do that and make it to the top of the mountain.”

Wearing pink pussy hats and holding handmade signs demonizing President Trump and praising Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the diverse — but majority white — crowd listened to speakers from the Southern Coalition for Justice and the League of Women Voters for Wake County.

Madison Kimrey, a high school student, called on the crowd to support the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, which the Republican-controlled General Assembly has declined to do.

She had a message for those politicians.

“Your time is short.  Our time is long, and we fight from higher ground,” Kimrey said.

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Justice.

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John Parker for U.S. Senate: Vote for Revolutionary Change

By Lyn Neeley

John Parker, longtime socialist and member of Workers World Party, announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate during a May 4 press conference in Los Angeles. Parker, who is running on the Peace and Freedom ticket, is an anti-imperialist, anti-war activist. He wants to end capitalism and calls for a referendum to convert vital industry from private to public ownership.

Also speaking at the conference were Takiyah Thompson and Kil Sang Yoon of the American National Coordinating Council, who called on people to vote for Parker. Thompson is a freedom fighter and student at North Carolina Central University who climbed a Confederate statue in Durham, N.C., in 2017. She began the act of taking it down two days after white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., attacked anti-racist activists.

Thompson said, “The Parker campaign pushes questions that are relevant to the people. Diane Feinstein, a Democrat running against Parker, talks about gun violence. But as a Black woman, I’m more afraid of being gunned down by the police than by a mass shooter.”

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Showing how to be good comrades, hundreds of anti-racist protestors turn themselves in en mass to flood the system in solidarity with Takiyah Thompson who was arrested for assisting in the toppling of this confederate statue:

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BREAKING NEWS Takiyah Thompson, 22, has been taken into custody for the removal of the Durham Statue

Call the Durham County Commissioners and Sheriff’s office and demand Takiyah’s release and that NO ONE face any legal consequences and demand an END TO RAIDING the homes of Durham organizers!

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Please Donate to Help the 8 Arrested (so far) in Durham

8 now charged in toppling of Durham, N.C. Confederate statue

DURHAM, N.C. -- A total of eight people now face charges in connection with the toppling of a Confederate statue in front of the old Durham County courthouse Monday evening, reports CBS affiliate WNCN-TV. But many others lined up at the sheriff's office to turn themselves in as a kind of protest.

Freedom Fighter Bond Fund: http://durhamsolidaritycenter.org/bondfund/

The Freedom Fighter Bond Fund of the Carolinas is a project of Durham Solidarity Center, whose fiscal sponsor is Action for Community in Raleigh, a 501(c)(3) organization.

To comply with applicable IRS regulations, any funds we solicit are not earmarked for any specific person’s bail or legal costs—but rather for the Freedom Fighter Fund in general, which is dedicated in its mission to oppose state repression and support those who act in good conscience to advance the cause of justice and equity.

The Rapid Response Team cannot commit to pay funds in excess of the balance of the Fund.

OVERSIGHT & GOVERNANCE The Freedom Fighter Fund is governed by a Rapid Response Team composed of a 5-8 people who are representative of the people and communities organizing in support of racial, social, gender, economic, and environmental justice. The composition of the Rapid Response Team will be majority of people of color and majority women and/or gender non-conforming persons. The Rapid Response Team can designate a trusted person to coordinate the bond/jail solidarity.

GUIDELINES Guidelines for Offering Funds for Bail & Legal Costs:

In the case of arrestees with bail set at $1000 or less, if funding permits, we will post the full bail amount. For arrestees with bail set at over $1000, we will use a bail bond agent.

We will use the following guidelines in assessing decisions about whether to extend bail funds or legal costs

o Priority for those who have not accessed funds within the last 30 days o Priority for those with low financial resources

Recipients will be asked to help raise money for the Freedom Fighter Fund by helping with ongoing fundraising campaigns or events

PRINCIPLES OF UNITY

Recipients of funds will be asked to abide by following PRINCIPLES OF UNIITY:

o We think of solidarity as a verb

o We value the voices and leadership of those most impacted by injustice

o Our solidarity is based on respect for a diversity of tactics; our actions and tactics will be organized to maintain separation of time and space

o We come when called: we believe in building long-term relationships based on broad solidarity and putting goals of the movement first, above any organization, conflict, or personality.

o Any debates or criticism will stay internal to the movement avoiding any public or media denunciations of fellow activists and events

o We oppose any state repression of dissent, including surveillance, infiltration, disruption, and violence. We agree not to assist law enforcement actions against activists and others.

Financial information about this organization and a copy of its license are available from the State Solicitation. Licensing Branch at 919-807-2214 or 888-830-4989 for NC Residents.

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A friend sent this to me. I live in Durham, the city that Takiyah Thompson was arrested in for toppling the confederate statue. This line of people were waiting to turn themselves in for toppling the statue as an act of solidarity towards Takiyah. Apparently the line wrapped around 2 city blocks.

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Takiyah Thompson and Catherine Pugh are national treasures.

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“Deleting my Twitter soon, but before I dip, when are we gonna pull up? And what we got to do to get my new hero Takiyah Thompson free?”

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The Nazi, White Supremacist hatred and violence we saw in #Charlottesville this past weekend is not new. Racism, Capitalism, and Straight/White/Male Privilege woven together are the backbone of this country, and are at the root of the systemic violence inflicted on African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, and Native American communities since Columbus arrived. There is no pride in that; Confederate statues can never represent anything but this. To all the White Supremacists who feel threatened and fearful that their history is being erased–your sense of pride and love requires the death and erasure of anyone who doesn’t look like you. You fail to see the humanity of the groups you generalize and hate so deeply. You operate on fear and greed; we operate on love and understanding. You and your leader 45 spread your White Nationalist/Racist/AltRight mission with fear as your fuel. We are not afraid. We see you.

Borrowing words from the art activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh,

“America is Black

It is native

It wears a hijab

It is a spanish speaking tongue

It is migrant

It is queer

It is a woman

It is here

Has been here

And it’s not going anywhere.”

[thejournalista]

Activists in Durham, N.C. Unite, Turn Themselves In Over Statue Toppling

Activists in Durham, N.C. Unite, Turn Themselves In Over Statue Toppling

Photo Credit: Katrina Parker On Monday evening during an anti-white supremacy rally, demonstrators in Durham, N.C., toppled a Confederate statue that had been standing in front of the old courthouse in the city’s downtown area. On Tuesday morning, Takiyah Thompson, the black woman who tied the noose around the statue’s neck so it could be pulled down was one of the first to be arrested for her…

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