Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
In the Internet age, crises have a way of turning completely ordinary, unremarkable tools into tremendously powerful instruments for organizing. Think of the way Hong Kong’s democracy protesters used FireChat to message one another in spite of the area’s overloaded cellular networks, or how Syrian rebels turned to Skype as a way to plan their opposition….
cxenseparse_start PROTESTORS MARCH IN DOWNTOWN PHOENIX AFTER POLICE SHOOTINGSPolice Chief and Jarrett Maupin argue over protestor’s path | 0:32 Police Chief Joseph Yahner and protest organizer Jarrett Maupin argue over the safety and routes of a protest in downtown Phoenix Friday night. 1 of 5 PROTESTORS MARCH IN DOWNTOWN PHOENIX AFTER POLICE SHOOTINGSPolice shoot pepper…
Police arrested 74 people at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Rochester, New York, on Friday amid nationwide protests against police shootings of black citizens. The Rochester demonstration was one of many held in the wake of deadly police shootings in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and suburban St. Paul, Minnesota, and came after the sniper attack…
rend image 12 News Officers deploy pepper spray on protesters in downtown Phoenix on July 8, 2016. Officers deploy pepper spray on protesters in downtown Phoenix on July 8, 2016. less PHOENIX – Police continued trying to disperse protesters gathered in downtown Phoenix hours after a planned rally got underway. Officers deployed tear gas to…
Warning: Pokemon GO is a Death Sentence if you are a Black Man. This week has been a catastrophe for Blackness…and it’s only Thursday. Two men, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, were killed by police officers within 24 hours of each other. Neither had committed a crime that was punishable by death nor did they…
Left: Daniel Holtzclaw, half Japanese American, convicted of raping and assaulting 13 black women on the job; Right: Peter Liang, Chinese-American, convicted of fatally shooting an unarmed, innocent black man As my black and brown friends on Facebook express grief and horror at the recorded murders of #AltonSterling and #PhilandoCastile, the majority of my Asian/Asian-American…
Let me say this right off the bat: I don’t at all condone any shooting of police officers or attacking them in any way. I hope that the people responsible are caught and punished to the fullest extent of the law – which, given that the attacks appear to have been premeditated and directed at…
We all have the power to channel our anger and frustration into action. We must use our voices to contact the politicians and legislators in our districts and demand social and judicial changes. To contact your Congressman or woman click here. To voice protest for Alton Sterling, click here. To voice protest for Philando Castile,…
On Wednesday night’s episode of Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show, host Larry Wilmore devoted a segment to talking about the death of Alton Sterling, a man police shot to death in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this week. “Thank God for fucking cellphones,” Wilmore said. “Because we would never even hear about incidents like this this otherwise. In…
OVER the past several years, we have borne witness to grainy videos of what “protect and serve” looks like for black lives — Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Eric Garner, Kajieme Powell, to name a few. I don’t think any of us could have imagined how tiny cameras would allow us to see, time and again,…