Race/Racism

On the 24th of April, School of the America's Watch activists culimnated several days of lobbying with a direct action protest inside Sen Marco Rubio's office, calling him out for failing to oppose the failed "war on drugs" that has caused spiraling violence violence in Mexico and elsewhere.

On the 14th of April, #ShutDownA14 protests took place in many cities demanding an end to mass incarceration and the ongoing wave of extrajudicial executions by police. In New York City, police turned violent after protesters blockaded the Brooklyn Bridge. Two serious injuries were reported, and police rolled out orange nets to arrest everyone in target areas just like durng the RNC or when Occupy Wall St blocked the exact same bridge.

Youtube video-NYPD assaults, arrests protesters on Brooklyn Bridge as motorists watch

by Orlando de Guzman and Tim Pool
More than six months after Michael Brown was killed by Officer Darren Wilson, the youth-led protests in Ferguson continue to fuel a national movement against police brutality.

“Part of the struggle for us in Ferguson is to break a four-hundred-year belief that black people are not human,” says St. Louis native and activist Rev. Osagyefo Sekou.
http://fusion.net/video/108471/ferguson-a-report-from-occupied-territory/

On the 10th of March, DC Ferguson activists packed a DC Council Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on MPD. They were there to demand nothing less than a complete end to "jump-out" police tactics that terrorize communities of color in DC. Former cops testified that their training justified any and all police shootings, and someone named Trayvon White said cops are even conducting cavity searches during those jump-outs. A jump-out is when cops swarm out of unmarked cars with the intent of initimidating someone into consent to a search.