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Chalking Olympia Shitty Hall to End poLice Use of Force

09/24/2021 - 07:17 by Anonymous (not verified)
Original Author
Tiny
Original Body
p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanOn Monday, August 15, 2016, members of the community of Olympia, WA responded to POOR Magazine#39;s a href="http://www.poormagazine.org/node/5563"National Call for a State Of Emergency/Moratorium on all Use of Force by PoLice/a. nbsp;/span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanWe showed up as POOR Magazine Pacific NW at Olympia Shitty Hall and the adjoined downtown Olympia Kkkop shop from 1-3pm to chalk the sidewalks with the national demands of POOR Magazine, to bring love for those lost to police terror with focus on Pacific Northwest Loved Ones and to amplify the demands of Justice for Andreacute; Thompson and Bryson Chaplin. nbsp;/span/span/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanimg height="803" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/3y5-9pmItTYRjUnMb-O08ZUoLMmL9LmIIIFlPMIFTYOJYmNQYOQOBmJxTFWMjQTmi4wirq6dk7-ZvVHQLIP5yUwm3_l7pobwDu0ePv3rXMZDRQG5KQl0NcYVNuOhHiGTELot72JD" width="602" //span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"emspanspan[image description: olympia city (shitty) hall is on the corner of 4th Avenue E and Cherry Street. nbsp;We see a mostly blank canvas of sidewalk, and the first chalk of the day that says ldquo;Justice for Andre Brysonrdquo; with a heart around it. nbsp;Colorful chalk also says ldquo;drop the chargesrdquo; and ldquo;fire officer ryan donald.rdquo; nbsp;Therersquo;s a white van with a satellite dish on top of it parked out front. nbsp;The sky is clear and blue.]/span/span/em/p p dir="ltr"nbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanAndreacute; and Bryson are two young Black men, who are brothers, who survived a murder attempt by white Olympia police officer Ryan Donald on May 21, 2015. nbsp;There were no charges and no accountability for the excessive and violent Use of Force by racist police officer Donald; his actions were found ldquo;justified,rdquo; while Andreacute; and Bryson face bogus assault charges and a href="http://www.poormagazine.org/node/5550"possible prison time/a. /spanspan Andreacute; and Brysonrsquo;s trial is set to begin at the Thurston County kkkourthouse on October 3, 2016, and is expected to run four weeks. nbsp;/span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanAt 1pm at Shitty Hall, there was an unusual kkkorporate press presence. nbsp;Most of the local liars were there, with vans sporting expensive satellite dishes, and ldquo;reportersrdquo; filing into the building for some event that we were all unaware of. nbsp;The ldquo;media affiliatesrdquo; ignored those of us who had gathered outside with boxes of chalk. nbsp;/span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanA small group of us, grounded in love, gathered at the corner of 4th and Cherry to chalk the sidewalks, to demand an end to poLice Use of Force, and to mourn the dead and fight for the living. Young Black activist Lucas Ayenew /spanspanarrived early and began chalking the names of Indigenous Loved Ones who were killed by police, from a long list that he acknowledges is not complete. /span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanldquo;It feels important to do this today because I am leaving to the Dakota Access Pipeline Opposition at Standing Rock in North Dakota tomorrow,rdquo; said Lucas. nbsp;He continued, ldquo;I needed to feel the full weight and entanglement of our struggles, of all that Black and Native and other exploited Lives stand to gain together. nbsp;/span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanHe chalked the name of Puyallup Tribal Member Jackie Salyers who was killed by Tacoma police January 28, 2016. Other names of/spanspan Indigenous and First Nations Loved Ones chalked include Christina Tahhahwah, Misty Upham, Rexdale W. Henry, Loreal Tsingine, Amilcar Perez Lopez and John T. Williams. nbsp;nbsp;/span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanThe day was hot and sunny, and Crystal Chaplin, Andreacute; and Brysonrsquo;s mother, brought snacks and water to share. nbsp;Crystal is the leader of the the community group Justice for Andreacute; and Bryson, which recently held their first monthly community meeting in order to get more people involved. nbsp;(The next one will be held October 20, location TBD.) Crystal started in with chalking, writing ldquo;Read a href="http://sfbayview.com/2016/04/two-sons-shot-in-the-chest-by-police-a-mothers-cry-for-justice/"A Motherrsquo;s Cry for Justice/a in the Bayview National Black Press.rdquo; nbsp;/spanspanimg height="451" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/N5Us4L6hm6Lp0J2gx7_L6WT8pKuULJWgsD-d-wYAoi4y2QZoIIGmjsJKdolHU6bS1rc1RSPLD2mkyYzWrdopQjMsPTexpXVR-lkejcYKDhLIgH3i9a208GjSoFQKfnTvnQuCbjTM" width="602" //span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"emspan id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"span[image description: nbsp;Out front of olympia city hall, Lucas Ayenew and Crystal Chaplin, both with brown skin, are down on the ground chalking the sidewalk in bright colors. nbsp;Lucas is chalking Jackie Salyersrsquo; name in pink chalk. nbsp;Crystal is wearing an In Loving Memory of Jackie Salyers t-shirt. nbsp;Near to Crystal is the hashtag #POORmagazine and #fireryandonald. nbsp;Near to Lucas is a box of chalk and hearts with the names of Daniel Covarrubias, Cheacute; Taylor and Danny Spencer, all Loved Ones lost to police violence.] nbsp;/span/span/em/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanAmong us were members of Olympia Copwatch, encouraging folks to attend weekly meetings on Thursdays from 4-5 at Traditions Cafeacute; to report incidents of poLice misconduct. /spanspanAnother chalker was /spanspanBallentine, an activist with strong social justice roots in the Las Vegas area. Ballentine is an anti police-terror chalk artist with a lot of knowledge of Nevada and Pacific NW victims and cases of police terror. nbsp;She herself is a survivor of police terror. nbsp;nbsp;/span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanldquo;/spanspanI came out to chalk because I disagree with the policies of the State of Washington and the City of Olympia regarding use of deadly force by law enforcement. I disagree with the decision to charge Andreacute; and Bryson and I want to make it known,rdquo; said Ballentine. /span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanCrystal Chaplin had a lot to say about the officer who shot her boys. nbsp;ldquo;Ryan Donald has shown nothing but reckless behavior and is a threat to the community,rdquo; she said. ldquo;I am so afraid for my sons and my family. nbsp;What if we cross this officerrsquo;s path? nbsp;What would happen? nbsp;Would he again say he feared for his life and say we came after him and open fire on us? nbsp;This officer needs to be fired and held accountable for his actions.rdquo; /span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanInspired by her words, I dropped to the sidewalk with a piece of purple chalk and wrote the words ldquo;drop the charges! nbsp;Justice for Andreacute; Bryson!rdquo; nbsp;Because it is never too late to drop those charges! nbsp;/span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanldquo;Itrsquo;s never too late to drop the charges. nbsp;Just drop them,rdquo; I say. nbsp;Meanwhile, Ballentine chalked a number of names of Loved Ones lost to police violence, with a heart around each one. nbsp;She chalked the name of Joel Nelson who was killed by a Thurston County sheriff deputy on January 5, 2016 near the Olympia airport. nbsp;Joel was lost to poLice violence just four days after I moved to Olympia from San Francisco./span/span/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanimg height="803" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cZBliBZnDvBFRC415FLaDqAFoowMTLO_Z5CBpQaUbFJBcB64cPm407d3N7C_cWs2mpTSz6aVtx0IMnaMb-FSan1pL4E56oEosRoCI0YCw6CfjvM8cepeyUOPbT7-AJ9-YO6aSf4N" width="602" //span/span/p p dir="ltr"emspanspan[image description: nbsp;the blue and gray olympia poLice department building has chalk in front of itrsquo;s entrance on 4th avenue. nbsp;It says DROP THE CHARGES. nbsp;There is a pink heart with the words Justice for Andreacute; and Bryson inside the heart. nbsp;The chalk also says FIRE OFFICER RYAN DONALD. nbsp;There are at least 3 surveillance cameras visible on the kkkop shop building in this photo.]/span/span/em/p p dir="ltr"nbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanWhile Ballentine chalked, she shared about her lifersquo;s work of making activism more accessible, describing her plans of nbsp;ldquo;a radical movie night, where documentary films are shown at no cost to people in the community.rdquo; She also shared about her work in Las Vegas, suggesting we continue this work in Olympia, coordinating a ldquo;Second Saturday chalkrdquo; at the same location every month, as a way of growing The Movement and consistently getting the anti police-terror message out, along with a zine for the purpose of outreach. nbsp;We agreed to do a second Saturday chalk-ins in October. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;/span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanWhile folks were chalking, Crystal started introducing herself and engaging the community as they passed by, sharing why we were there, demanding an end to poLice Use of Force and informing folks about her familyrsquo;s Justice struggle. nbsp;Raven Redbone of a href="https://m.soundcloud.com/makenobonesaboutit"Make No Bones About It/a radio show on KAOS 89.3/spanspan stopped by the action and greeted Crystal with a huge hug. nbsp;He shared about the local efforts being done to get Indigenous Elder Leonard Peltier freed from prison, stressing the urgency of Leonard needing a compassionate pardon. nbsp;He makes it clear that if Leonard Peltier is not released from prison during the Obama administration, that he will die in prison. nbsp;Raven invited Crystal to speak at the Peltier March for Clemency organized September 17, 2016, and Crystal accepted the invitation./span/span/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanimg height="451" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/KncNg2ztHatkb4IaQhvJcxH5KheRhQzmzY1SVtYGJGN5I0HCa-NkTPjeg6dwTPcPca8vAx5sHophMWxf16H67eCIsBw5adQS4vxhwdvD4veiAkvuHgmmxVV2-qoBxKzaqW7hv_jc" width="602" //span/span/p p dir="ltr"emspan id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"span[image description: nbsp;Lindy, Raven Redbone and Crystal Chaplin are talking in front of olympia city hall. nbsp;Lindy was passing by and joined in the conversation, she has light brown skin, has her hair up, and she is wearing a Pink Floyd t-shirt. nbsp;Raven has fair skin and is talking, he is wearing a t-shirt that says ldquo;they were here firstrdquo; with a bunch of animals on top of the earth pictured on it. nbsp;All three agree that there should be Justice for Andreacute; and Bryson.]/span/span/em/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanBy this time, the sidewalk in front of the building was covered in chalk, with many colorful hearts and the names of Pacific NW Loved Ones who have been murdered by poLice. nbsp;These names included Jeffrey McGaugh (Olympia, WA), Kendra James (Portland, OR), Danny Spencer (Olympia, WA), Tyrone Thomas (Spokane, WA), Bodhi Phelps (Gresham, OR), and Otto Zehm (Spokane, WA). nbsp;Also local Indigenous tribes were written in hearts - Squaxin, Nisqually and Puyallup - acknowledging the history of state violence on Native peoples. nbsp;The words ldquo;Loved Onerdquo; were written to acknowledge those not named here./span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanAmong the chalked hearts is a big green one, with the name of 19-year-old Christopher Kalonji. nbsp;Christopher was killed by kkkops of the Clackamas County sheriffrsquo;s office, sergeant Tony Killinger and deputy Lon Steinhauer, in Oak Grove, OR (near Portland) on January 28, 2016. nbsp;Christopher was in mental health crisis and needed help. nbsp;Instead of helping, police escalated the situation, and a SWAT team was called in to the Kalonji family home where they killed Christopher. nbsp;Crystal and I recently met Irene Kalonji in Portland at a monthly vigil for Keaton Otis. nbsp;Irene is the mother of Christopher, and our new friend, shersquo;s an immigrant to the US from Ukraine via Israel. nbsp;Irene and her family are devastated by the loss of her son. nbsp;/span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanIrene told me, ldquo;My big desire is to look in the eyes of my sonrsquo;s killers and ask them - how can they leave now? nbsp;How can they go to work, back to their family and eat dinner, laugh, teach children to do right things, and at the same time be bearing my sonrsquo;s blood on their hands?rdquo; nbsp;/span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanI learned from Irene that Christopher was a sweet kid who was targeted by police terror more than once because he is a Person of Color (he wore his hair in a natural afro) and because he knew his rights. nbsp;The Clackamas county coronerrsquo;s report, in support of the police narrative (because they are co-workers who work together), says both that Christopherrsquo;s death was caused by gunshots of police, and that his death was a ldquo;suicide.rsquo;rsquo; nbsp;Christopher did NOT kill himself. nbsp;He was MURDERED by poLice. /span/span/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanimg height="401" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/bLhHfmbzrIj4qUtdwwLPy8-s7AihuD-HYyCJi4qtmZMegN6TBmh0ErSFWRqPmTj0yunvRqfrSCz6N7oOQQ_Loum8NxNrQXJ-BpWUHJzF7frrJVF9RvvfE1F6Au0TMsUX2VcSgyHJ" width="602" //span/span/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"span[image description: nbsp;a wide angle photo taken out front of Olympia Shitty Hall and the sidewalk is beautifully covered in colorful chalk. nbsp;Among the many hearts with Loved Ones names lost to police terror are identities of those targeted by poLice Use of Force, each with a heart drawn around it. nbsp;The identities and People include Black, Houseless, First Nations People, Children, Trans, Poor, People of Color, Disabled, Elders, Migrants... nbsp;Next to Andreacute; and Brysonrsquo;s name (who SURVIVED) are the names of Loved Ones Jay Anderson and Phil Quinn, chalked at the request of Phil Quinnrsquo;s family. nbsp;Standing amidst the sea of chalk are an unnamed copwatcher and activist documenting the activities, who remains anonymous and livestreams almost 24/7 in protest of the police state. nbsp;nbsp;To that personrsquo;s left is Crystal Chaplin.] nbsp;nbsp;photo credit: Ricky Osbourne Photo, Olympia/span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanFrom out of the Olympia Shitty Hall building emerged Rhiannon Berg, a writer for the local kkkorporate press ldquo;The Olympian.rdquo; Rhiannon directed a question to Crystal, who was chalking. nbsp;ldquo;Were you a part of what happened last night?rdquo; asked Rhiannon. nbsp;Crystal looked to me, both of us confused./span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanldquo;What are you talking about? nbsp;What happened last night?rdquo; I asked./span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanldquo;The vandalism,rdquo; said Rhiannon./span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanNo, Rhiannon Berg, we werenrsquo;t a part of ldquo;the vandalismrdquo; last night. nbsp;/span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanWhat Crystal and I gathered from Rhiannon was that there was an action the night before, and it was being referred to as ldquo;vandalism.rdquo; nbsp;When I did some research later that evening, I learned that the action was called by a group of local Anarchists, who took to the streets of Olympia ldquo;/spanspanin solidarity with rioters and rebels in Milwaukeerdquo; with outrage for the poLice lynching of Sylville Smith. nbsp;/spanspanI learned this from the article /spanspana href="https://itsgoingdown.org/olympia-wa-march-solidarity-milwaukee-uprising/"OLYMPIA, WA: MARCH IN SOLIDARITY WITH MILWAUKEE UPRISING/a /spanspanwhich is a first hand account about that action from a writer who was there. nbsp;/span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanBy talking with Rhiannon and other members of ldquo;the pressrdquo; coming out of the building, we found out that the Olympia poLice department had just held a press conference held inside while we were chalking. nbsp;The ldquo;press conferencerdquo; was a propaganda spreading opportunity for the Olympia poLice to respond to, and put their spin on, that very action that took place the night before. nbsp;Thatrsquo;s why Rhiannon and all the kkkorporate press had come to Shitty Hall. nbsp;/span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanThe poLice press release and press conference referred to that action as being a ldquo;Black Lives Matterrdquo; action, which is not true. nbsp;The only thing true about that sentence, is that, yes, Black Lives indeed DO MATTER. nbsp;Say it like you mean it, City of Olympia. nbsp;Keep saying it. nbsp;Keep saying it until the poLice stop profiling and targeting Black folks. nbsp;BLACK LIVES MATTER! nbsp;nbsp;/span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanHowever, it was local Anarchists that organized and participated in the August 14th action, not an identified Black Lives Matter group. nbsp;The police narrative of that action made no mention of Loved One Sylville Smith or police terror against Black folks, which is what that action was about. nbsp;/span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanldquo;You are reporting about the wrong stuff,rdquo; I told Rhiannon Berg, while we were surrounded by chalked names of Loved Ones lost to police violence. nbsp;Rhiannon asked me if we put out a press release for this this chalk action in support of the moratorium. nbsp;ldquo;No we didnrsquo;t,rdquo; I say. nbsp;ldquo;Good point.rdquo;/span/span/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanimg height="451" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/6nGn_8FIwnIcakAX-v02NveRpfefM55VqSaU20X5LonN1gaopYg5-47B0zoHEzb-K11ymO27R1b5L18714cfdocr9cK0w5vVRCrTf6x_wmOYlNbaFpBSxZqKo1C9D8Nn_MuzExza" width="602" //span/span/p p dir="ltr"emspanspan[image description: nbsp;a blue heart with the name of Disabled Loved One Jeffrey McGaugh inside it, with the words ldquo;mysterious in custody death Olympia 2016rdquo; written beneath the heart in light blue. nbsp;Officer Ryan Donald was one of the officers involved in the death of Jeffrey McGaugh, Loved One lost to police violence on February 29th, 2016, just a couple blocks from olympia city hall where this chalk is. nbsp;Ryan Donald is a police terror repeat offender.]/span/span/em/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanOn August 16 2016, the very next day, the mainstream press put out the police narrative, the propaganda about ldquo;Black Lives Matter vandalizing Olympia.rdquo; nbsp;/span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanLater that night, a white supremacist named Daniel Rowe attacked an inter-racial couple in downtown Olympia, stabbing a Black man (who thankfully survived). nbsp;Daniel Rowe told police he was ldquo;lashing out at the Black Lives Matter protestors.rdquo; nbsp;He was arrested and is reportedly being held on a $500,000 bail at Thurston County Jail./span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanTwo days after our chalk, Black Loved One, Omer Ismail Ali was violently killed by police in Kelso, WA./span/span/p pnbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanPlease contact the white house to ask for the compassionate release, for clemency, to free Leonard Peltier, so he does not die in prison. nbsp;(202) 456-1111/span/span/p pnbsp;/p pnbsp;/p p nbsp;/p p dir="ltr"span id="docs-internal-guid-595f7cd8-4bae-8475-b24b-4fc93aef9ddf"spanLisa Ganser is a white genderqueer artist living in Olympia, WA on colonized Squaxin and Nisqually land. nbsp;They are a copwatcher, a sidewalk chalker, and the daughter of a momma named Sam./span/span/p
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Black Disabled South African College Student, Kanyisa Ntombini, Talks About Student Protests On Campuses Moore!

09/24/2021 - 07:17 by Anonymous (not verified)
Original Author
PNNscholar1
Original Body
p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; min-height: 12px;"span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"(Leroy Moorersquo;s Note:nbsp; As you know Krip-Hop Nation have been connecting with musicians/activists with disabilities around the world for years especially in Africa and Krip-Hop Nation will be touring South Africa in November-December 10th.nbsp; Leroy has been following the protests on college campuses in South Africa especially at University of Cape Town with disabled activist, Kanyisa Ntombini who have been organizing Black disabled poor students around disability justice issue on that campus.nbsp; Kanyisa recorded an update for Krip-Hop Nation Poor Magazine.nbsp; Below is the transription of that audio update)/span/p p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; min-height: 12px;"nbsp;/p p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"Hello, my name is Kanyisa Ntombini. I am 22 years old. I currently live in Cape Town. Here, I#39;m studying at the University of Cape Town, and I#39;m doing Electrical Engineering. I#39;m originally from the Eastern Cape, in an area called Transkei. So Transkei is a former apartheid homeland. Apartheid was the white, colonial rule that we had in South Africa before we got our liberation in 1994. So the area that I live in was designated for Black people. It#39;s a very small area, and it was chosen specifically by the white South Africans because it didn#39;t have, it was very, very dry, not much vegetation, very much useless piece of land. And this homeland, this apartheid homeland didn#39;t have any access to health care, education, transport, just very much poverty-stricken. So when the new government came in, which was a Black majority government, nothing really changed. During the transition between the white government and the Black government, the Black government, which was led by the African National Congress at the time, agreed to a lot of political and economic deals that put Black South Africans at a disadvantage./span/p p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"So even though we have a majority Black rule, the majority of the land still is owned by the white people, which form a very small minority of the population. And about 70% of the economy is owned by white people. So right now, I grew up in this little homeland with barely any access to health care and education, and it was very difficult for me growing up in that environment and trying to get an education. When I moved to Cape Town, it was hard in the university because none of the lecturers, tutors, and heads of departments in my field wanted to help me. Instead, I got an email at the beginning of the year saying that I had been excluded from the academic program in the University of Cape Town because I had failed too many courses. Meanwhile, the previous year, I had emailed my tutors, my heads of departments, basically everyone and sent maybe more than 50 emails asking for help, asking for things like note takers because I can#39;t see well on the board, for the lectures to be recorded, just access to mental health care as well, since I have Generalized Anxiety Disorder. No one had been willing to help me. Instead, I was just sent an email saying I need to go, leave campus./span/p p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"I had also noticed that other Black, disabled students had also experienced the same thing. They were also failing, and they had been asking for help, and no one was giving them help. So I decided to bring those disabled students together at the beginning of the year and to have a sit-in outside the main administration building at the University of Cape Town where we speak about experiences on campus and to tell university management what kind of access we want on campus. We also had a memorandum of demands asking for certain accessibility changes on campus./span/p p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"UCT management was there. They received the memorandum. They took pictures of us because there was a lot of news agencies there, and they put them up on their website. They never talked to us afterwards, and they never did any of the things that we had asked. A few months later, we had another sit-in at the disability unit with the same document. UCT management came in, sat with us, listened to us, but did not engage with us. At the same time as this activism had been happening, there was a national right protest in the country by students in their universities saying that they want free, decolonized education in South Africa. So basically, wanted first not to pay any fees, and also for the curriculum to change so that it#39;s not racist, transphobic, ableist, queerphobic. And for also the curriculum to focus more on African issues rather than international issues that are not really relevant to our daily lives here in South Africa./span/p p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"The response from the South African government has been of heavy brutality. There#39;s just been a lot of police on our campuses, basically acting violent towards protestors. There#39;s also been a lot of private security as well on campus. And it#39;s just made the environment at the university extremely unstable. At the moment, we#39;re not having classes because of all this violence. The police on one university campus called the University of KwaZulu-Natal also raped a student. They were actually going into their residences and looking for protestors and just causing havoc and a lot of trauma to people. In the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, there has been a report of a worker that died because of clashes with the police. In some campuses, the police have also been using live ammunition on students that are not armed./span/p p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"So as Black and Black disabled activists, we have found that we are extremely scared because that#39;s why we haven#39;t been able to do more activism because we#39;re scared that if we protest against the ableism on campus, then the police will come in and attack us. We#39;re also scared that certain of our leaders will be picked off and become excluded, which has been what has been happening in the other campuses. In each of the university campuses, they#39;ve just been choosing the main leaders and expelling them from campus just to make people scared. So that has really affected us a lot, and we haven#39;t been able to do any activism. The climate right now is just tense. Black people, Black students are very scared at the moment. At the same time, we also want our campuses to change, but the violence that we#39;re facing is just inhumane. We#39;ve been treated as animals and not as people who are trying to get an education so that they can make their country better. They#39;re calling us hooligans and just as if we are just a bunch of students trying to destabilize the country when we#39;re actually trying to improve the country by calling upon for a free education./span/p p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"So yeah, the mood in South Africa#39;s really depressing. I won#39;t lie. The lives of disabled people in South Africa--well, disabled Black people--is really, really hard. As I mentioned before, because of the way that apartheid--which was the former white government--used to work is that most of the economy is controlled by the white people. So the majority of Black South Africans live in villages that are very much under-resourced and poverty-stricken, with high rates of HIV and unemployment, and also townships. So townships are sort of like an apartheid structure where, in the main town, all the white people live. And then outside the town, the majority of Black people will be put into these small housing projects where there#39;s a huge amount of overcrowding, issues with water and sanitation, high levels of crime, poverty, just horrible things. So the majority of disabled people live in those conditions where they don#39;t have access to health care. The education system in South Africa is very bad, especially in high school. It#39;s bad for able-bodied students, but it#39;s a disaster for disabled students. And also, South Africa is a huge mining country, and most of the mines in South Africa, because of the economy, they are still owned by companies outside South Africa, in the West. So you#39;ll find that there are terrible working conditions where miners are exposed to a lot of dangerous health situations where they end up getting sick. As soon as a miner is sick, they get sent home. So there a lot of miners with Silicosis and also tough health issues who are sent home to die with no compensation, no health care, sent into these poverty-stricken areas for Black people. So there#39;s also that element as well with disability issues in South Africa./span/p p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"So yeah, the only thing I can say is the situation in South Africa is terrible. The government puts out this image as if something is going forward, when the lives of Black, disabled people are very horrible in this country. So we would like international organizations to just put pressure on our government to change their policies. I think the most important thing at the moment is for fees to fall. Fees Must Fall has to happen. Free education to all South Africans. The education needs to be anti-racist, anti-ableism, anti-transphobia, anti-queerphobia. That#39;s the kind of education where I want it to be centered on African problems and providing African solutions and for them to stop militarizing our campuses. We want to be able to walk around freely on our campuses and not to have police and private security on our campus. So that#39;s the main thing that we would like:nbsp; International organizations to support us. Yeah./span/p p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"But yeah, I#39;m genuinely excited that Krip-Hop is coming to South Africa because the only Black disability activism that ever happens in South Africa is usually very much focusing on, centered on poverty porn, and it#39;s never showing disabled Black people in a position of strength and in a position of power. So a lot of Black--myself included--Black disabled people are very excited for Krip-Hop Nation to come to South Africa and also just to start having the conversations around the lives of Black disabled people in South Africa and to just highlight the conditions that Black disabled people live under. So I#39;m very excited to meet Leroy Moore and just the rest of the team and to just engage with disability activists around the world./span/p p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"nbsp;/p p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"PIC Kanyi Disability Justice with a mic and paper in their hands outside of the UCT Bremner Building at University of Cape Town, South Africa/p p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"nbsp;/p p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"Transcibe by Chery Green/p
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Black Disabled South African College Student, Kanyisa Ntombini, Talks About Student Protests On Campuses Moore!

09/24/2021 - 07:17 by Anonymous (not verified)
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pspan(Leroy Moorersquo;s Note:nbsp; As you know Krip-Hop Nation have been connecting with musicians/activists with disabilities around the world for years especially in Africa and Krip-Hop Nation will be touring South Africa in November-December 10th.nbsp; Leroy has been following the protests on college campuses in South Africa especially at University of Cape Town with disabled activist, Kanyisa Ntombini who have been organizing Black disabled poor students around disability justice issue on that campus.nbsp; Kanyisa recorded an update for Krip-Hop Nation Poor Magazine.nbsp; Below is the transription of that audio update)/span/p pnbsp;/p pspanHello, my name is Kanyisa Ntombini. I am 22 years old. I currently live in Cape Town. Here, I#39;m studying at the University of Cape Town, and I#39;m doing Electrical Engineering. I#39;m originally from the Eastern Cape, in an area called Transkei. So Transkei is a former apartheid homeland. Apartheid was the white, colonial rule that we had in South Africa before we got our liberation in 1994. So the area that I live in was designated for Black people. It#39;s a very small area, and it was chosen specifically by the white South Africans because it didn#39;t have, it was very, very dry, not much vegetation, very much useless piece of land. And this homeland, this apartheid homeland didn#39;t have any access to health care, education, transport, just very much poverty-stricken. So when the new government came in, which was a Black majority government, nothing really changed. During the transition between the white government and the Black government, the Black government, which was led by the African National Congress at the time, agreed to a lot of political and economic deals that put Black South Africans at a disadvantage. So even though we have a majority Black rule, the majority of the land still is owned by the white people, which form a very small minority of the population. And about 70% of the economy is owned by white people. So right now, I grew up in this little homeland with barely any access to health care and education, and it was very difficult for me growing up in that environment and trying to get an education. When I moved to Cape Town, it was hard in the university because none of the lecturers, tutors, and heads of departments in my field wanted to help me. Instead, I got an email at the beginning of the year saying that I had been excluded from the academic program in the University of Cape Town because I had failed too many courses. Meanwhile, the previous year, I had emailed my tutors, my heads of departments, basically everyone and sent maybe more than 50 emails asking for help, asking for things like note takers because I can#39;t see well on the board, for the lectures to be recorded, just access to mental health care as well, since I have Generalized Anxiety Disorder. No one had been willing to help me. Instead, I was just sent an email saying I need to go, leave campus./span/p pspanI had also noticed that other Black, disabled students had also experienced the same thing. They were also failing, and they had been asking for help, and no one was giving them help. So I decided to bring those disabled students together at the beginning of the year and to have a sit-in outside the main administration building at the University of Cape Town where we speak about experiences on campus and to tell university management what kind of access we want on campus. We also had a memorandum of demands asking for certain accessibility changes on campus./span/p pspanUCT management was there. They received the memorandum. They took pictures of us because there was a lot of news agencies there, and they put them up on their website. They never talked to us afterwards, and they never did any of the things that we had asked. A few months later, we had another sit-in at the disability unit with the same document. UCT management came in, sat with us, listened to us, but did not engage with us. At the same time as this activism had been happening, there was a national right protest in the country by students in their universities saying that they want free, decolonized education in South Africa. So basically, wanted first not to pay any fees, and also for the curriculum to change so that it#39;s not racist, transphobic, ableist, queerphobic. And for also the curriculum to focus more on African issues rather than international issues that are not really relevant to our daily lives here in South Africa./span/p pspanThe response from the South African government has been of heavy brutality. There#39;s just been a lot of police on our campuses, basically acting violent towards protestors. There#39;s also been a lot of private security as well on campus. And it#39;s just made the environment at the university extremely unstable. At the moment, we#39;re not having classes because of all this violence. The police on one university campus called the University of KwaZulu-Natal also raped a student. They were actually going into their residences and looking for protestors and just causing havoc and a lot of trauma to people. In the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, there has been a report of a worker that died because of clashes with the police. In some campuses, the police have also been using live ammunition on students that are not armed./span/p pspanSo as Black and Black disabled activists, we have found that we are extremely scared because that#39;s why we haven#39;t been able to do more activism because we#39;re scared that if we protest against the ableism on campus, then the police will come in and attack us. We#39;re also scared that certain of our leaders will be picked off and become excluded, which has been what has been happening in the other campuses. In each of the university campuses, they#39;ve just been choosing the main leaders and expelling them from campus just to make people scared. So that has really affected us a lot, and we haven#39;t been able to do any activism. The climate right now is just tense. Black people, Black students are very scared at the moment. At the same time, we also want our campuses to change, but the violence that we#39;re facing is just inhumane. We#39;ve been treated as animals and not as people who are trying to get an education so that they can make their country better. They#39;re calling us hooligans and just as if we are just a bunch of students trying to destabilize the country when we#39;re actually trying to improve the country by calling upon for a free education./span/p pspanSo yeah, the mood in South Africa#39;s really depressing. I won#39;t lie. The lives of disabled people in South Africa--well, disabled Black people--is really, really hard. As I mentioned before, because of the way that apartheid--which was the former white government--used to work is that most of the economy is controlled by the white people. So the majority of Black South Africans live in villages that are very much under-resourced and poverty-stricken, with high rates of HIV and unemployment, and also townships. So townships are sort of like an apartheid structure where, in the main town, all the white people live. And then outside the town, the majority of Black people will be put into these small housing projects where there#39;s a huge amount of overcrowding, issues with water and sanitation, high levels of crime, poverty, just horrible things. So the majority of disabled people live in those conditions where they don#39;t have access to health care. The education system in South Africa is very bad, especially in high school. It#39;s bad for able-bodied students, but it#39;s a disaster for disabled students. And also, South Africa is a huge mining country, and most of the mines in South Africa, because of the economy, they are still owned by companies outside South Africa, in the West. So you#39;ll find that there are terrible working conditions where miners are exposed to a lot of dangerous health situations where they end up getting sick. As soon as a miner is sick, they get sent home. So there a lot of miners with Silicosis and also tough health issues who are sent home to die with no compensation, no health care, sent into these poverty-stricken areas for Black people. So there#39;s also that element as well with disability issues in South Africa./span/p pspanSo yeah, the only thing I can say is the situation in South Africa is terrible. The government puts out this image as if something is going forward, when the lives of Black, disabled people are very horrible in this country. So we would like international organizations to just put pressure on our government to change their policies. I think the most important thing at the moment is for fees to fall. Fees Must Fall has to happen. Free education to all South Africans. The education needs to be anti-racist, anti-ableism, anti-transphobia, anti-queerphobia. That#39;s the kind of education where I want it to be centered on African problems and providing African solutions and for them to stop militarizing our campuses. We want to be able to walk around freely on our campuses and not to have police and private security on our campus. So that#39;s the main thing that we would like:nbsp; International organizations to support us. Yeah./span/p pspanBut yeah, I#39;m genuinely excited that Krip-Hop is coming to South Africa because the only Black disability activism that ever happens in South Africa is usually very much focusing on, centered on poverty porn, and it#39;s never showing disabled Black people in a position of strength and in a position of power. So a lot of Black--myself included--Black disabled people are very excited for Krip-Hop Nation to come to South Africa and also just to start having the conversations around the lives of Black disabled people in South Africa and to just highlight the conditions that Black disabled people live under. So I#39;m very excited to meet Leroy Moore and just the rest of the team and to just engage with disability activists around the world./span/p pnbsp;/p pPic:nbsp;PIC Kanyi Disability Justice with a mic and paper in their hands outside of the UCT Bremner Building at University of Cape Town, South Africa/p
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Kayla Cooking Their Final Meal For the Community (Poem for Kayla Moore)

09/24/2021 - 07:17 by Anonymous (not verified)
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pnbsp;/p div p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"You smell that/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"But itrsquo;s not ready/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"The table is not set/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"So in the meantime let me tell you a story/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"I am black but/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"nbsp;/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Kalyla could be my sister/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Not because we have th same last name, MOORE/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Forget the police Inbsp; want moore/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"frrom my community/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Stop over looking Kaylarsquo;s full identity/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"nbsp;/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Yes say the correct gender, name disability/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Like me, Kayla was a poet/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"IQ off the scale Kaylarsquo;s words will live on you know it/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Not the same answer over over over/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"No more police crisis intervention training that shit is over/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"nbsp;/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Berkeley, disability meca/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Same place where Disability profiling/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Happens over over over and over/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"especially if you are a person of color/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Police I donrsquo;t want to talk to ya/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"nbsp;/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Courtroom justice is one thing/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Community justice is on going/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Poor magazine says no police calls ever/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Today I have a fever/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Flipping the same coin over and over Democracte or Republican/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"nbsp;/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"nbsp;/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Policy goes in, watered down teeth pulled out/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Here we go again/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Real support came from family Kaylarsquo;s community/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Those are the ones who should have been called/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"All the funds go to the popo the system is flawed/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"nbsp;/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Before we go into the courtroom/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"sweep sweep pull out the broom/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"no all White Jurry/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"They will look like Kayla Moore/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Kayla still in the kitchen/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"A tasty aroma like a thick curry/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"nbsp;/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"The first last supper/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"That will have younbsp; drooling/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"beyond Jurry, lawyer and judge/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"It will be a community fest/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Kayla will feed after we will finally let Kayla rest in peace/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"nbsp;/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"By Leroy F. Moore Jr. 9/16/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"nbsp;/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"nbsp;/p div style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" Pic\drawing: nbsp;Artist Nomy Lamm/div div style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" [Image description: The graphic shows a drawing of Kayla Moore, a large black trans woman. She has shoulder-length brown hair, and she is smiling and flashing a peace sign. Her shirt is purple and black with a blue heart, and the words ldquo;Justice for Kaylardquo; appear in orange on her shoulder and neckline. Above her face are the words, ldquo;We remember Kayla Moorerdquo; in a purple and teal banner. Below the banner, the text reads, ldquo;4-17-71 to 2-13-13. Poet, singer, sister, daughter, genius, friend, black trans woman with a mental health diagnosis killed by Berkeley Police in her own home. They tried to blame her death on lsquo;obesityrsquo;!!! Shame on BPD!rdquo; Drawing copyright Nomy Lamm.]/div /div
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Kkkapitalism Killed Everything- Even Our Courage-Lessons from the 1st how to NOT call the kkkops EVER workshop

09/24/2021 - 07:17 by Anonymous (not verified)
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Tiny
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div div div div div Due to the multitude of lies and stereotypes that permeate our capitalist society about poor people and people of color we all have collectively bought into the idea that we need to call 911 to be safe, said Jeremy Miller, organizer and revolutionary family member of POOR Magazine, and Idriss Stelley Foundation and co-organizer of the first strongHow to Not Call the PoLice EVER workshop /strongin September 2016.br / nbsp;/div p The first of this series of revolutionary healing and liberation workshops led by us post-kolonized gentrified, displaced, disabled, incarcerated, indigenous and unhoused peoples at a href="http://www.poormagazine.org"POOR Magazine/a/a href="http://www.poormagazine.org/homefulness"Homefulness/a and Krip Hop Nation was a powerFULL mix of scholarship, prayer, art and poor and indigenous peoples theory like we live and walk at POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE. One of the many liberation ahhh haaaa#39;s that emerged from this day was Jeremy#39;s comments which then made us unpack even deeper the impact of colonization and its subsequent invention of stolen land and stolen people protectors known as police on something as essential as our thinking, our spirits and ultimately, even our courage.br / nbsp;/p/div p How, thanks to this false post-colonial, wite-supremacist notion of safety the corporate notion of cleanliness (which equates into the complete absence of humans in our racist, classist clean cities landscape) and the cult of independence which separates us from our elders, our communities, our cultures and languages, we are all alone, living with strangers, outside of elder circles, outside of our own bodies and even our cultural ways of protecting ourselves and our communities. This is yet another unnatural, bizarre and dangerous aspect of colonization. What happened to our collective ability to hold each other, to be there for each other to stand up for ourselves and our fellow community members when they or we face danger. how is it that we have given away our own instinctual knowledge.br / nbsp;/p/div div And this is not just a white people problem or the tendencies of white people. As a matter of fact this is a multi-cultural epidemic with white supremacist, capitalist domination as the root cause and all of us as the victims.br / nbsp;/div div The immediate response to call 911 is exacerbated by racism and classism. White peoples and light-skinned POC#39;s will more likely be afraid based on their racist biases against peoples of color and therefore call 911 or the kkkops over kkkrimes that are completely racist and classist, aka the scary homeless peoples being in their neighborhoods (even though we are doing nothing but being in our cars, sidewalks, parks etc) or other kkkrimes like shopping, sitting in our cars, walking, sleeping, like so many, if not all, of the recent and historical victims of poLice murder.nbsp;br / nbsp;/div div But then its also us. Disemboweled by colonization. Stripped of our courage, our ability to stop and stand up , speak up, stand by or even handle an issue. So quick to call the paid killers in to handle it. This is a mistake not just made of lack of courage but of the lack of us giving up our love and care-giving tendencies to industries.nbsp; We have built elder ghettos to take care of our parents, elders and disabled peoples. Age-grade institutional schools to take care of our children. Therapy industries to take care of our problems and on and on. In the end we are not only unable to take care of things we have come to believe are scary but also we can#39;t take care of things that take too much work hassle. In essence not only has the lie of civilization swallowed our creativity, ethics and spirit, it has made us collectively too lazy to even be human.nbsp;/div div nbsp;/div div Ina href="http://www.poormagazine.org/node/5600" 10, 11 or 15 things you can do to NOT call the PoLice ever/a list we talk about building up a community circle. This takes a while. You can#39;t trust people overnight that you just met. But it is an essential part of decolonizing our lives, our bodies and our communities and our families.br / nbsp;/div pI work in a local middle school and I am considered a mandated reporter so if i don#39;t report when i suspect child abuse I could get in trouble, said a participant in the workshop. In addition to critiquing the white supremacist lies of poLice calls as the option for help, the relationship between poverty, racism and poLice calls, care-giving, poLice and the non-profit industrial complex we tackled the the extremely difficult issue of protecting and caring for children above all else.nbsp;/p pWe spoke together on how the protection of children is not solved with a hashtag, a website, a poverty pimped grant or a face-crak post. It takes loong wraparound, indigenous care-giving, it takes love and a different way of operating in the world. Words and moves by sister Samsarah Morgan and other decolonized, peoples of color birthing movements. It takes revolutionary street social workers and community care-givers and co-mamaz like Mama Jewnbug,Mama Laure McElroy andnbsp; Vivi-T from POOR Magazine mama teachers like Mama Blue, Mama Tracey Bell-Borden and Mama Sue Ferrer and me and the school circle of mamaz we create at Deecolonize Academy who refuse to EVER call CPS or APS but do constantly call each other and our fellow grandmothers and aunties to help and council and love and support children and their prarents in struggle/p /div pWe also spoke on other decolonized solutions rooted in poor and indigenous people-led theorynbsp; and self-determination, movements like the Auto-Defensas in Mexico and Barrio 23 de Jenero in Caracas Venezuela both of whom they kicked the poLice out of their town- and because in both cases like this stolen land, violent crime went down./p pOrganizer Sylvia Ronen pointed out that we can call the fire department directly instead of the kkkops when waht we are really asking for is medical emergency help./p pThe day was packed with more prayer, spirit, lessons and ideas than could ever be translated to a mere written document, but suffice it to say the conversation to move our colonized and confused minds away from the 911 call was deep and healing and in one afternoon brought us closer to a collective understanding and overstanding of our own communities power, strength and ultimately non-poLice engaged autonomy./p /div
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10, (11, 12 or 13) things You Can Do Instead of the Calling the Kkkops

09/24/2021 - 07:17 by Anonymous (not verified)
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Tiny
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p10, (11 or 12) Things you can do to Not ever call the PoLice , CPS and APS - (the beginning of a life-long list created by POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE/Homefulness family./p p strong1. DegentriFUK (degentrify) Yournbsp; Individuated Life/strong-If your family of origin is safe and has space go home. Explanation- If you have bought into the Away-Nation - cult of Independence as we call it at POOR Magazine- so rigorously drummed into your head from the time you leave the womb in kkkapitalist amerikkklan- and systems telling you to move away from your language, parents, community of origin, even if it is a safe and loving place- begin the long process to resist this capitalist notion of individalism and separation- (POOR Magazine offers a href="http://www.racepovertymediajustice.org"PEopleSkool /aseminar in Decolonization and DegentriFUkation to help you with this). Ifnbsp; your home, community / town of origin is not a safe place work long and hard ( and its VERY hard to build your circle of support with your chosen family/p pstrong2. Launch, Create, Work toward a creating a Circle of Support/strong- complete with a text/phone tree of phone numbers of friends, supporters, family members who agree to be called by each other in a case of an emergency- expand on this to include community elders, spirit and prayer-bringers, advocates, lawyers, therapists and healers./p p strong3. De-Racialize/ De-kkkapitalize your world-view /strong- Shake ALL as much of the wite-supremacy notions of ldquo;cleanrdquo; spaces defined by kkkorporate world-views of cleanlinessrdquo; out of the deep recesses of yo mind - in other words if you see an unhoused person sitting on the sidewalk - on your street- please realize this isnrsquo;t something to automatically pathologize, be scared of, consider to be dangerous. Look into your heart and subconscious and think back when you got that message. Similarily, if you are a non-black person of color, or white person deconstruct your own tendencies to feel ldquo;unsaferdquo; at the site of a Black or melanin -rich person./p p strong4. Begin repeating a mantra - Calling 911 doesnrsquo;t mean help,/strong support or safety and replace it with 911 means possible death and create a phone tree/ phone text listnbsp; with your support networks ofnbsp; chosen family, friends, care-givers, peoples you trust who are willing/able to come thru/p p strong5. Research,/strong strongbecome involved /strongin groups like Critical Resistance, ATPT and resources like Concern (mental hellth crisis) and other anti-police terror work/p p strong6. kkkop-Watch ANYTIME you can/strong- - stand by and watch, report and call in as many people as possible whenever you see anyone being stopped, frisked, questioned, harassed by the paid murderers/p p strong7. Teach your families, elders, communities about the myth of 911,/strong de-racialization and decolonizationnbsp; and the ideas you learned here today/p p strong8. Un-fund Adult Protection Services/Stop calling APS/strongnbsp; except when elder abuse by Eviction is happening- Take care of your elders and your community even if it takes time - capitalism and death and criminalization takes time -/p p strong9. Un-Fund Child Protection Services /stop calling CPS - /strong- Cuz it attacks poor families of color- and educate yourself in the Transubstative error of cross-cultural differences- stop pathologizing poverty , houselessness and cultural differences - if you are a teacher, educator or counselor - work with restoration models instead of separation models-/p p strong10. Read How to Not Call the kkkops EVER a href="http://www.poormagazine.org/node/5464"article/a, come to next training offerred by POOR Magazine on july 15th 2018 or invite us to your town, city, school or barrio (email us at a href="mailto:poormag@gmail.com"poormag@gmail.com/a for more information/strong- and stay tuned to the upcoming release of emPOVERTY scholarship - A PeoplesTextBook - poor people-led theory, art, words and tears across mama earth/em/p p strong11./strong strongSupport POOR, indigenous and POC led movements /stronglike Sogorea Te Land Trust, Community Ready Corps, Homefulness, Idirss Stelly Foundation and education and support models outside of non-profit industrial complex models of ldquo;safety./p p strong12. Support/ become involved in mediation clinics/strong like Berkeleyrsquo;s SEEDS and/or get trained in mediator skills -/p p strong13 Learn about Community Reparations, African Peoples and Indigenous Peoples Land reclamation and Reparation Movements/strong and become an active reparations,nbsp; land and hoarded resources redistribution (more about this from movements like Zapatistas in Chiapas, Shackdwellers Union in South Africa and Homefulness) nbsp;/p pstrong14. Call the Fire Department directly-/strong they have their own phone numbers in every city in the US if you are looking for parmedic or other emergency services./p p15. strongCall MHFirst- a powerFULL grassroots movement to support people PoLice free without EVER calling the kkkops-/strong reach them at 510-999- 9MH1 or MH1Oak on facebook, Instagram and Twitternbsp;br / strongResources/strong/p pa href="http://strategycampsite.org/"strongStrategic Institute for Intersectional Policy/strong/abr / Black Disability Youth Coalition in Chicagobr / Critical Resistancebr / AntiPoLice Terror Projectbr / Community Ready Corpsbr / Peoples Community Medics/p pstrongPoor Peoples Security Team at POOR Magazine/strong (ww.poormagazine.org) @Poormagazine on IG, Fb Twitternbsp;/p p nbsp;/p
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Reactions From Ugandans on The Police Murder of Alfred Olango

09/24/2021 - 07:17 by Anonymous (not verified)
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PNNscholar1
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pspan style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Krip-Hop Member/Journalist, nbsp;/spanRonald Muwanga of Uganda shares what Ugandans feel about the police killing of Alfred Olango innbsp;span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"El Cajon, CA. USA./span/p pnbsp;/p pspan style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Following the death of Ocen,a Ugandan male disabled person from Acholi region in Northern Uganda but was based in USA who was murdered by Police in California late last month, a lot of Ugandans wrote on social media to have their voices heard./spanbr style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /br / br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /br / span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Below are some of the extractions./spanbr style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /br / br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /br / span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Emmanuel Mwaka Lutukumoi, the Resident District Commissioner for Lira District have to this to say on 29th September at 12:15 bull;/span/p pbr style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /br / span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Unacceptable! Alfred Olango killed in cold blood by a cop in El Cajon California...even after begging to be spared....no...Ugandan must ask for explanation and condem this racism act from America..Ongeto iya..Bila pa awobi! Bila pa Olango okok kwaa ping lakonye pe..wod Luo....wod gang...to oneko me nyeko...Wod Acholi..wod Laliiya...Bungatira.../spanbr style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /br / nbsp;/p pspan style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Patrick Olobo shared Hudson Apunyo#39;s post./spanbr style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /br / br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /br / br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /br / span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Pat Larubi a Journalist wrote;/spanbr style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /br / span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"I INTERACTED WITH HIM MANY TIMES.HE NEVER LIKED THOSE WHO SYMPATHISED WITH HIM AT ALL. MAY GOD BLESS HIS FAMILY./spanbr style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /br / br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /br / span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"TEARS OF GULU PROTEST: Alfred Olango has been killed by US police, black Americans are on protest for the killing of the said Ugandan./spanbr style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /br / br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /br / span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"For the people of Gulu and Acholi land, peaceful demonstration to the US Embassy in Kampala is underway./spanbr style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /br / br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /br / span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"We stand against such violence and inhuman treatment. Human right activist are all silent because it does not concern them but Olango is one of us our very own blood from Gulu./spanbr style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /br / br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /br / span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"We condemn such acts and call upon all citizens to follow suites. We want to build borders of peace not wars and why are we bieng subjected to death by guns? Is this the best we can be offered? Voice of America - VOA this is from the unheard voices in Gulu and over to you the U.S. Embassy Kampala we are on our way expect some guest anytime......./spanbr style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /br / br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /br / span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"An Acholi business man killed in the US/span/p pPic: Ronald in a Black shirt and red and white baseball cap on pointing a microphone to a Black woman with a white shirt and gray jacket and gray skirt outside. nbsp;In the backgroundwhit and blue tents./p
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Standing Up for Standing Rock on Indigenous Peoples Day

09/24/2021 - 07:17 by Anonymous (not verified)
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Tiny
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pa href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1il_rqBf2c"nbsp;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: nowrap; background-color: transparent;"PNN-TV-Standing Up For Standing Rock#1nbsp;/span/a/p
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Youth Skolaz Say Don't Evict 100 year Old Black Elder from her home of 50 years -Iris Canada

09/24/2021 - 07:17 by Anonymous (not verified)
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Tiny
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pConscious Youth Skolaz from a href="http://www.racepovertymediajustice.org/academy"Deecolonize Academy/a Say Don#39;t Evict 100 Year Old Black Elder From her Home of 50 Years./p pSee their Video Pleas on PNN-TV:/p pa href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpmWmK3Q5c0"spanPNN-TV-Dont Evict 100 yr old Black elder #2nbsp;/span/a/p pa href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJAogcQlCkI"spanPNN-TV-Dont Evict Iris Canada from her home #5nbsp;/span/a/p pa href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feJiPHoZviw"spanPNN-TV: Don#39;t Evict 100 yr old Black resident Iris /span/a/p pa href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feJiPHoZviw"spanCanada from her homenbsp;/spanbutton aria-label="Edit" class="yt-uix-button yt-uix-button-size-default yt-uix-button-default yt-uix-button-empty yt-uix-button-has-icon watch-pencil-icon yt-uix-tooltip" title="Edit" type="button"/button/a/p pa href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feJiPHoZviw"spanPNN-TV-Dont Evict Iris Canada-Youth Skolanbsp;/span/a/p pa href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDkT3AaSX-g"spanPNN-TV-Dont Evict 100 yr old Grandmothernbsp;/span/a/p
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From Katwe to Shotwell- PNN Reviews4theReVolution Review of the Queen of Katwe

09/24/2021 - 07:17 by Anonymous (not verified)
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Tiny
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div div div div div div div Alot of things are said about Global South Poverty- mostly by Global North akademiks, Peace-Corp types and like my Mama Dee used to say, peoples who have never missed a meal, about how that is where the real poverty is. These questions rushed into my mind when i tiptoed into the new movie Queen of Katwe-directed by director Mira Nair, and produced by the kkkorporate monolith Disney. As i sat in the dark waiting for idiotic previews to end, i wondered nervously if Mira had souled out or if Disney had been infiltrated by a little bit of truth.br / nbsp;/div p You have your mama#39;s strength, spansays Robert Katende ( played with so much love by David Oyelowo), to burgeoning chess champion/spanspan10-year-old Phiona (newcomer and powerful actress Madina Nalwanga) in one of many very lushly filmed scenes that shows Phiona beginning to drink the coolaid of success and turn her back on her fierce and in struggle mama (played with the subtle but heart-breaking sorrow of all of our collective mamas by /spanspaniLupita Nyongrsquo;o)/i, which her teacher/coach Robert advises her strongly against, one of many moments that sold me on this beautiful movie. /spanbr / nbsp;/p/div p spanThis movie is many things, but at its most Western digestible, its a story of a child and her family coming out of extreme poverty aka a slum known as Katwe, built along an open sewer, with no running water, causing Phiona to show up the first day at chess practice, smelling like the sewer, in a global south country (Uganda) and making it through mastering chess. This is a story told often and for the gain of the korporate capitalist system. Promoting what i call the away nation ( leaving your family and land of origin to attain so-called success), the cult of success itself and the concept that the acquisition of blood stained dollars, or Euros or any colonizer currency bringsnbsp; ultimate happiness to billions of poor children across Mama Earth, without ever questioning the deep and intentional ways that poverty is kept in place, who gains from it and how it continues so strongly even thought it is so violent and deadly ./span/p p spanDisney created a shiny preview package that sold the movie in those digestible chunks as though it was that simple. But what threw me was it was not. Herein lies the infiltration by Mira Nair. Not that it was anything large or any deep investigation into these issues, but the subtle questions of education for the elite class only, the self-determination of a small group of poor peoples and the embracing not awaying of indigenous family were really at the core of this movie./span/p/div /div p spanThe terror of a mama not being able to feed her child because of poverty is the same terror no matter where in the world you are, said my Mama dee many times as we discussed global versus local poverty. Throughout the movie i was reduced to convulsive tears as i watched a mama try to navigate an underground, street-based economy of vendingnbsp; to feed her 3 young children, a money based hellthcare and housing system that had her dragging her sun out of the hospital when he was barely able to walk and getting evicted from her tiny shack because she had to spend the money from the chess earnings for the ride to the hospital and ultimately end up homeless./span/p p These viscious circles are so real and any of my fellow poverty skolaz, welfareQUEEN, mamas or daddys will relate. In our case, me and mama were vendors in a street based economy, we began this business when i was 11 years old, and my mama was laid off from her job and became disabled, it was necessary i drop out of the mans skoo to work full-time to support us. We had no hellthcare, except a thin version of medical and had to lie all the time to get dental and medical treatment and was constantly being evicted for inability to pay the rent, causing us to be in and out of homelessness throughout my childhood.br / nbsp;/p/div p spanThe lure of an easier life was constantly looming for Phiona because of her prowess at chess, but because of the poverty scholarship of the Coach Robert , who himself had lost his mama and struggled to get through the cult of scholarships to achieve an education, refused to let her fall into that trap, lifting up the whole family and holding them all in a vision of self-determination and collective success./spanbr / nbsp;/p/div p spanIn the end, the vision of success wasn#39;t that Phiona made it, but that they all made it, which is always the ways of our indigenous peoples working and living interdependently - not independently, the answer of one person achieving the notion of individual sucess, is a false one that only perpetuates the pimping and destroying of one persons soul and in the end leaves them used and confused and alone. /spanbr / nbsp;/p/div div spanMy only critique of the narrative, is the idea that education, which also was shown as as elitist because poor people couldnt afford the tuition or the uniforms required to go, being seen as the only way to success. I get it that because the colonizer defines education and rules everything, it is in many ways the only way to make it, but what is so beautiful, is this movie also showed that even with education, the class and corrupt patronage system still ruled where and how you could get employment. And that in the end the real education also came from the streets, from mama and from the strategies of the game of life and the game of chess /span/div p spanI would highly recommend this movie to all people, but specifically for mothers and daughters, mothers and suns in struggle, struggling with the lie that s perpetuated so massively in a capitalist system and the deep revolution of poor and indigenous peoples love for each other in communities forced into poverty from Compton to Katwe./span/p
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