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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRECAP: From #BlackLivesMatter to #RiseUpOctober, a Day of Protest
https://www.colorlines.com/articles/recap-blacklivesmatter-riseupoctober-day-protestOn Saturday, October 24, thousands of people united under the #RiseUpOctober banner and marched through the streets of Manhattan demanding an end to police violence against citizens. Organized by the Stop Mass Incarceration Network and lead by Cornel West and Carl Dix (spokesperson for the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA), the march was the culmination of three days of activity, which included a rally and march in Brooklyn on Thursday to mark the date as the 20th Annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Murder, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation and time to say the names of victims held in Times Square on the same day; and an hour-long shut down of business outside New Yorks Rikers Island jail facility on the 23rd.
Among Saturdays marchers were dozens of family members of people who have died at the hands of the police, including Kadiatou, the mother of Amadou Diallo, who was killed by the NYPD in 1999.
Other speakers included professor West, Oscar Grants Uncle Bobby, Vagina Monlogues playwright Eve Ensler and Django Unchained director Quentin Tarantino. The New York Daily News reports that NYPD union the Patrolmens Benevolent Association is asking New Yorkers to boycott Tarantinos movies in response to his speech. Im a human being with a conscience, he said, per the Associated Press. And if you believe theres murder going on, then you need to rise up and stand up against it. Im here to say Im on the side of the murdered.
The rally began at Washington Square North, then participants marched up Sixth Avenue and rallied again near Bryant Park. And a group of about 200 continued on to Times Square after the conclusion of the official event. Eleven people were arrested, including a man whose crime was standing on a bench. He had a 2-year-old child on his shoulders at the time of his arrest.
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RECAP: From #BlackLivesMatter to #RiseUpOctober, a Day of Protest (Original Post)
luvspeas
Oct 2015
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MerryBlooms
(11,761 posts)1. rec & kick
Sad to admit this is the first I've heard of this event. I can't remember the last time I watched national news, and I didn't see this covered on morning WGN (Chicago)... but I admit to being tuned-out during a lot of their broadcast.
My love and support to the brave souls participating and striving to make a difference.
luvspeas
(1,883 posts)2. I particularly like this one...