Ferguson

“Days of Grace” Sets Unified Pace for Southern Resistance

Over 800 gathered in the city of Charleston, S.C., September 5-6 for the Days of Grace Mass March and Strategy Conference against racism and for economic justice. Activists, organizers and attendees traveled from all over the United States. Guest speaker, Clarence Thomas, of the International Longshore Workers Union Local 10, came in from Oakland, Calif.

Meet the Ferguson court clerk who says she feels like she's been raped by being fired for sending those insanely vile racist e-mails

See and hear Mary Ann Twitty talk about the clean-cut fun she had swapping those hilarious e-mails with other Ferguson law-enforcement folks, and how she felt like she'd been raped by being fired for it, visit this KMOV Web page.by KenYou remember Mary Ann Twitty, right?

Ferguson City Manager Resigns amid Racism Scandal

teleSUR | March 11, 2015 At a meeting Tuesday, Ferguson City Council voted unanimously to accept the resignation of City Manager John Shaw, effective immediately. Shaw offered his resignation after a scathing report by the U.S. Justice Department found the city administration was guilty of a range of systemic racially-biased practices. Shaw, who was among […]

See Through Black Eyes-- Guest Post By Leonce Gaiter

We know that when Darren Wilson and many of his defenders see a black man, they see someone who “looks like a demon,” and someone who has the extra/sub-human ability to “bulk up to run through” bullets.We know this image of black men from an entire history of racist stereotypes. The image that Darren Wilson successfully invoked before the Missouri grand jury was the same image of monstrous black bucks lusting for white blood that propelled D.W.

A World Without Police

Learning from Ferguson By PETER GELDERLOOS | CounterPunch | December 29, 2014 In two previous essay, I discussed the role of the Left in protecting the police through cautious reformism, and the effectiveness of a pacified, falsified—in a word disarmed—history of the Civil Rights movement to prevent us from learning from previous struggles and achieving […]

Looks Like We Have A Police Problem-- Ask Frank Serpico... Or Jello Biafra

A few days ago we took a look back on the 1992 war between the police and Body Count. They were hardly the only punk rock band to decry police racism and violence-- just the band that the police felt most threatened by. MDC never managed to sell the millions of records that Ice-T sold. Their music, which you can hear in the video above, was less accessible... and those initials stood, at least for a time when they moved from their native Austin to San Francisco, for Millions of Dead Cops.