The Ferguson Public Library has been doing incredible things for the community. Here’s how you can support their ongoing work.
also, here is an interview with their only full-time librarian.
“Libraries, by default, usually are a safe space. Much of what we did was just continue to operate normally, staying open and offering services while letting the community know we were there for them.”
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“Tamir Rice, the young man shot”
No fucking way. He was 12. He was a god damn little boy and you will NOT try to take that fact away by referring to him as a “young man”.
Tamir Rice was a child. He was years away from adulthood.
Don’t try to protect the police who did this. They murdered a child, let it be known.
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Listen to Lesley McSpadden, the mother of Michael Brown, and remember her son for who he really was. Remember Michael Brown and remember all the other black lives lost to police brutality and an unjust system.
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A man has died during the Ferguson riots just yards from where Michael Brown was shot dead.
Residents on Canfield Drive said that DeAndre Joshua, 20, was shot whilst in his car though police at the scene refused to confirm any details. DeAndre’s grandmother Renita Towns said that ‘somebody killed him’ during the carnage.
DeAndre Joshua graduated from high school and worked at Walmart, he said. As police towed Joshua’s car, his grandmother Renita Towns said she had little hope that police would investigate and learn the cause of her grandson’s death. She said he wasn’t into drugs, she said. “Police don’t care — he’s black,” Towns said.
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Did the KKK show up to support Darren Wilson?
Asked by Anonymous
Yes, official members did show up. Some white people, who uphold the same ideals, showed up too, some wearing the costume, some did not wear the costume.
http://rt.com/usa/207487-kkk-ferguson-police-support/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/21/anonymous-video-warns-kkk_n_6198810.html
capitalism is inherently violent. it is not simply something being exploited. it is an entire system devoted towards artificially increasing one’s worth by withholding resources from the masses and dominating marginalized groups.
it is inherently evil. end of discussion. there can be no rich people without poor people.
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Oh yea the black people have it so rough.
You need to have some life experiences, read some books, listen to stories from people of color, or something. If you think black people have it easy then you are ignorant.
Maybe it’s time we stop letting racist criminals be tried by juries of their peers?
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People need to stop pointing out rioting as the reason why our people are being murdered and going largely ignored.
Businesses can be rebuilt.
Cars can be replaced.
Insurance covers that damage.
But Mike Brown is still buried and his parents were told on national television that his killer will walk free and paid and that there was nothing they could do about it.
Stop talking about rioting when you know that isn’t the reason this country is in the shitter.
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A white lady was shot down the street by the police.
White people are not targeted by the police; black people are targeted by the police. There is a difference between police brutality and hate crimes and murders committed by the police.
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On November 24th, 2014, the Ferguson Grand Jury found that there would be no indictment of Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson, who was accused of murdering Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old Black teenager, by shooting him 6+ times, including twice in the head. There have been multiple refutations of the Ferguson Police Department’s claims of Michael Brown having been armed/assaulting Darren Wilson/robbing a convenience store, but the Jury persists in justifying this murder. This verdict was unjustly decided, and justice must be achieved for the murder of Michael Brown. I ask you all to sign this petition, which demands that the ‘Ferguson Case’ be brought before the Missouri Supreme Court. This case must be brought before a higher level of court in order for a higher level of justice to be fought for.
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this is fucking heart breaking
This is it…this broke me I can’t
you’re not even safe at home baby black kids have been murdered in their beds.
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