#YearofResistance

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ONLINE ACTION

FRI DEC 31 - ALL DAY via Twitter

#MovementMoments2015

Join Ferguson Response for #MovementMoments2015 ALL DAY NEW YEAR’S EVE

Share your own selections & personal memories as we reflect on the #YearofResistance & celebrate the beauty of The Movement for Black Lives

Use #MovementMoments2015

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#BlackBrunch tonight at Oakland Art Murmur - #BlackSpring #YearOfResistance #BlackLivesMatter #MayDay #Oakland (at First Fridays Art Murmur)

[sfrosty]

Meeting of millennials. #YearOfResistance #PeerSupport @purpvarsity @whereisthe_beginning @brickcityvegan @kingcazzie @pv_phresh @alove2supreme (at Dahlak Paradise)

[djomowale]

#blmDENA at the Rose Bowl. #ShutItDown #YearOfResistance

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PRINCETON, NJ

SUN DEC 13 - 12:30 PM

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY - Carl A Fields Center 58 Prospect Avenue

#TheGenerationOfNow

The event will feature engaging activists discussing the imperative nature of racial justice. There will also be workshops for teenagers following the speaking portion in order for the speakers to teach the next generation how to mobilize to make a difference. We are confident that this event will have a profoundly positive effect in the Greater Princeton Area. 

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NEW YORK CITY

THU DEC 3 - 6:00 PM

MANHATTAN & STATEN ISLAND

#ChokeholdOnTheCity

Friends and family, join many New Yorkers as we take over NYC in response to justice STILL not being served in the murder of Eric Garner & so many others at the hands of law enforcement.

FOR UPDATES JOIN OUR CELLY LIVE TEXT APP BY TEXTING: @CHOKEHOLDONTHECITY to 23559

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COLUMBUS, OH

WED NOV 18 - 6:00 PM

UNIVERSITY HALL 230 N Oval Mall

OSU Coalition for Black Lives: Teach In

All out for Tamir Rice! Learn from the Past, Fight for the Present 6:00pm, Wednesday, November 18 University Hall Room 014 [basement] Join the new OSU Coalition For Black Lives in a teach-in with OSU activists and faculty. We're getting ready to travel to Cleveland on November 22 to take a stand for Tamir Rice on the anniversary of his murder by police. Speakers will talk about the details of the case, what we can learn from the Civil Rights Movement, and how you can get involved. Speakers include: * Sarah Mamo and Maryam Abidi, OSU Coalition for Black Lives * Leslie Alexander, Dept of African American and African Studies * Curtis Austin, Dept of African American and African Studies * Pranav Jani, Dept of English

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NATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCE CALL

TUE NOV 17 - 10:00 PM EST

REGISTER: http://bit.ly/blackoutcall

A follow up conference call to give updates, answer some more questions, and most importantly support and uplift each other before everyone's actions. 

We will also be having twitter forum using the hashtag #studentblackout, please participate. We want to get the word out about all of your actions and get people excited about the work we are all doing.

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SEATTLE, WA

FRI NOV 27 - 1:00 PM

WESTLAKE PARK 400 Pine Street

#BlackLivesMatterFriday 2.0: The Quest For Freedom

#BlackFriday Cheap Deals do NOT matter ---#BlackLivesMatter IF BLACK LIVES and your life matters More than #BlackFriday Cheap deals? --Then JOIN US and invite Everyone 

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CINCINNATI, OH

MON NOV 16 - 6:15 PM

MCMICKEN FREE SPACE 527 W McMicken Avenue

BLMC Education Committee Meeting

Come to the meeting ready to share your ideas. If you know of others who are interested, please invite them as well. We are really looking forward to building and working with everyone.

Meeting Agenda:

Introductions (10 min)

Education committee/sub-committee structure (3 min)

Reading mini-Discussion** (25 min) 

Cincy to Cleveland Action Update/Discussion (10 min)

Reading/Discussion Collective Debrief (10 min)

Guided Sub-Committee Breakout*** (20 min) 

Report Back/Share Assets (15 min)

Closing Remarks (10 min)

**We will be having a short discussion on points 1-3 of the Black Panther Party's Ten Point Program. You can find the reading here:

http://goo.gl/wFIUCd

. Please read and reflect ahead of time if you are able. .

***The sub-committees are as follows: Research and Literature, Reading Series, Youth Education, and Large Event Planning

Both the library branch and meeting room are ADA accessible.

blacklivesmattercincy.wordpress.com

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CHICAGO, IL

SAT NOV 14 - 2:00 PM

THOMPSON CENTER 100 West Randolph Street

CHICAGO: EMERGENCY ACTION - Solidarity with #Mizzou & #Yale

At little over five days ago University of Missouri (Mizzou) students including about 30 football players protested, refused to play and at one student staged a hunger strike. The students demanded the resignation of the school president in responseto rising racial tension, racist slurs and other slights directed towards the university's maginalized student population, articularly its Black students. Students all across the nation especially in Chicago know that what happened at Mizzou is not a isolated incident, it is the status quo at many Universities and colleges. Join the Black Youth Project100 Chicago Chapter, Loyola Black Voices, Loyola Students for Justice in Palestine, Young Chicago Authors, TheInternational Socialist Organization, Amnesty International Depaul University, Depaul Socialists, Depaul MOVE (Men Of Vision and Empowerment, and many more student and community organizations TOMORROW at 2PM at The Thompson Center to rally in solidarity with Mizzou, Yale, and Chicago students. We will voice our concerns about the institutioanl racism that exists in every facet of institutions of higher learning, and present demands of the university and College adminstrations. #ChiStudentsForMizzou #FeesMustFall #BlackLivesMatter Endorsors: UofC Graduate Students United (GSU), UofC Socioeconomic Diversity Alliance (SDA), Organization of Black Students (OBS), Assata's Daughters, Chicago Student Union.

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NEW YORK CITY

THU NOV 12 - 7:00 PM

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Sundial

#StudentBlackout

We stand in solidarity with the students in Mizzou, Yale, South Africa, and every other institution across the world where BLACK people are marginalized and threatened. We will not stand by as countless institutions and administrations fail to act in the face of gross injustice. We refuse to be your silent, respectable markers of diversity Today we will join BLACK people across the country as we wear ALL BLACK, ALL DAY. At 7:00PM Columbia students will gather at the Sundial in the middle of campus to heal, express ourselves, support each other, and most importantly celebrate the courage and resolve of our brothers, sisters, and siblings around the world. To those at other campuses and other institutions around the world, please join us in solidarity by organizing your own actions and spaces. This is a movement, not a moment. Spread the word.

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HOUSTON, TX

FRI NOV 13 - 4:00 PM

1111 Bagby Street

McGraw-Hill Geography Textbook Recall Protest

After news went out regarding Texas Geography Textbooks rewriting history by describing slavery as "workers" migrating from Africa to the U.S., a coalition of students, teachers, and concerned residents of Houston has decided to work against this and ask for the recall of all 9th grade Geography Textbooks in which history is incorrectly written. Come join us at McGraw-Hill's Houston Head Quarters as we protest and demand the recall of these textbooks. Feel free to bring your own signs, however, we will have some available to you.

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TRENTON, NJ

MON NOV 16 - 11:00 AM

New Jersey State House 125 W State Street

State House Rally For Justice

Join us at the State House Rally for Justice. New Jersey State Legislators must protect citizens and pass reasonable laws that ensure fairness and equality for Black constituents and all New Jersey residents.#StateHouseJustice #BlackLivesMatter

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BROOKLYN, NY

SAT NOV 7 - 11:00 AM

85 South Oxford

Bed-Stuy Resistance & Resilience Bike Tour

Gather at ALP BK at 11am for coffee, juice, breakfast snacks, and water. We'll ride into Bed-Stuy together from there! If you want to participate in the bike tour, but don't have a bike, you can borrow one! You can pick up the bike at the ALP Brooklyn office at 11am, day-of. Please contact sos@alp.org to borrow a bike. If you're white and have a bike and helmet a person of color can borrow for this bike tour, please contact sos@alp.org. Or, if you're a person of color, and have a bike and helmet but can't make it to the bike tour, please consider loaning your bike to a person of color for the ride. If you don't ride a bike, but would like to run or skate the route, join us! We'll have a contingent of skaters and runners! If you want to be a part of the tour, but don't run, skate, or bike, we're working to time and map the route so that folks can take the bus or train to meet us at sites. To participate, please RSVP to sos@alp.org, and let us know how many folks you're bringing and their preferred mode of transportation. Also, please let us know if you need to borrow bikes, and if so, how many. This event is for LGBTSTGNC POC & our POC Allies. We're so excited that so many folks can lend us bikes, and that so many folks can use them! Email us at sos@alp.org if you have a bike to lend or need a bike to borrow. Please let us know your height, so we can match you to a bike or your bike to a person.