“… we hate oppression.” Booby Seale. via Power!
Original Rainbow Coalition. A movement coalesced in 1966, still resonates.
More resonance. A kind of resonance.
Category: politics
Police
We need better and more open statistics, in order to improve the police. This story underlines the gap.
After Ferguson, it became apparent that the official government count of the number of people killed by police was low; it was off by about 50 percent. So journalists started counting. The Washington Post counted 990 people shot dead last year, a quarter of them black. This year is on about the same pace. But Klinger says we need more details about every instance of deadly force, even when no one dies.
The Washington Post : 2015 database – 990 people shot dead by police. 2016 database – 707, so far. Methodology. On Github.
Black Lives Matter calls to defund (which does not mean to eliminate) and to prioritize the use of police departments.
UNIA in California
UNIA Division 156 of Los Angeles was part of a general spread of Garveyism between 1920 and 1921. According to UNIA parent body records recently uncovered in New York City, by 1926 there were sixteen divisions and chapters of the UNIA in California.
Source: Emory Tolbert, The UNIA and Black Los Angeles: Ideology and Community in the American Garvey Movement (Los Angeles, 1980), pp. 57-58, 53.
Via Dr. Taylor.
Michelle Obama at Democratic National Convention 2016 in Philadelphia
our motto is, when they go low, we go high.
I want a leader who is worthy of that truth, a leader who is worthy of my girls’ promise and all our kids’ promise, a leader who will be guided every day by the love and hope and impossibly big dreams that we all have for our children.
Brexit is on
Leave – 52% Remain – 48%
NoBillNoBreak
Democrats in The United States House of Representatives sit-in.
NPR. Guardian.
The well of the House is packed with Democrats seated on House floor.
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) June 23, 2016
C-SPAN has no control over the U.S. House TV cameras.
— CSPAN (@cspan) June 22, 2016
The well of the House is packed with Democrats seated on House floor.
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) June 23, 2016
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Congratulations!
Future
What is at Stake in the Future? | Alex Williams & Nick Srnicek
May 16th, 2016. via DIS
#ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics
by Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek • 14 May 2013
Accelerationism pushes towards a future that is more modern, an alternative modernity that neoliberalism is inherently unable to generate.
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams. Verso Books.