Black Lives Matter’s National Week Of Action
Actions and events October 20,2014 - October 26, 2014
Tag: Ferguson
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Ferguson: A Report From Occupied Territory
Michael Brown was killed by Officer Darren Wilson on August 9, 2014. The youth-led protests in Ferguson continue to fuel a national movement against police brutality. The Fusion documentary Ferguson:...
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Ferguson October: A Movement Goes On Offense
By Jelani Cobb | October 15, 2014 ....The marchers intended to fill Ferguson’s jails as a gesture of solidarity and a statement of noncompliance with a police department that they deemed morally compromised. Addressing a rally the night before the demonstration, Cornel West, the writer and academic, remarked that he “did not come here to give speeches.” He came there, he said, to be arrested.
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Freedom Ride To Ferguson
Over Labor Day weekend, Akiba Solomon took a 21-hour bus ride to Michael Brown's town with a group of black activists traveling under the name Black Life Matters. Here's some of what happened during the jam-packed days.