Caro || Issue 2: Supplemental
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Caro Issue 2: Supplemental
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<strong>Caro</strong> <strong>Issue</strong> 2: <strong>Supplemental</strong>
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EVERYTHING IN THIS ZINE WAS CREATED BY MARIE<br />
ANNETOINETTE, UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED<br />
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THIS ISSUE IS FULL OF THINGS I READ AND DO<br />
WHEN I’M FEELING AT MY WIT’S END AND OTHER RAMBLINGS<br />
THAT DIDN’T FIT INTO THE ORIGINAL ISSUE 2<br />
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*** RESOURCES ***<br />
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#FERGUSON: TWITTER COVERAGE AUGUST 9-11<br />
https://storify.com/deray/ferguson-beginning<br />
REPORTING BY SHAUN KING ON DAILY KOS<br />
http://www.dailykos.com/blog/Shaun%20King/<br />
DOCUMENTS THE WEEKEND OF RESISTANCE<br />
http://fergusonoctober.com<br />
ARTICLES, QUOTES, VIDEOS, RESOURCES, AND WAYS TO GET INVOLVED ARE HIGHLIGHTED HERE.<br />
http://thisisthemovement.launchrock.com/<br />
FREE TEXT ALERTS REGARDING THE DARREN WILSON GRAND JURY ANNOUNCEMENT<br />
http://t.co/dslwVKA6YH<br />
PLANNING FOR THE GRAND JURY DECISION ON THE INDICTMENT OF DARREN WILSON<br />
http://noindictment.org/<br />
DONATE TO SUPPORT THE MOVEMENT<br />
http://t.co/AXerV2KRW2
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Letter From the Editor:<br />
I USED TO ARGUE WITH PEOPLE ON<br />
FACEBOOK, BUT THEN IT CAME TO THE POINT WHERE IT<br />
WAS POINTLESS.
*Correction: the older homeless man, named James Anderson, was run over repeatedly by a white teens in<br />
a truck, not dragged to death behind one.<br />
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That’s a different racist killing.<br />
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It is emotionally exhausting to have your humanity<br />
constantly questioned, to have to convince so-called<br />
“Brothers” and “Sisters” that you have human rights and<br />
they deserve to be protected.<br />
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I AM SICK TO DEATH OF HEARING THE WORDS “FERGUSON RIOTS”<br />
AND “VIOLENT PROTESTS”<br />
ANYONE USING THE TERMINOLOGY IS SO OBVIOUSLY MISINFORMED ABOUT WHAT’S BEEN<br />
HAPPENING THAT IT MAKES ME SICK<br />
IT MAKES ME MORE SICK THAT MAINSTREAM MEDIA HAS PERPETUATED CONTINUALLY<br />
LINKED VIOLENCE TO THOSE PROTESTING THE MURDER OF MICHAEL BROWN AND NOT<br />
TO ACTUAL VIOLENT OFFENDERS, BOTH LOOTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS.<br />
PROTESTERS WERE THE ONES CHASING OFF LOOTERS, CLEANING UP BUSINESSES AND<br />
DEALING WITH ANYONE WHO LOOKED LIKE THEY WERE GOING TO CAUSE TROUBLE,<br />
NOT POLICE.<br />
THE POLICE HAVE BEEN THE MAIN ONES COMMITING ACTS OF VIOLENCE.<br />
IT’S MORE THAN BEEN THREE MONTHS.
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IN WHAT WORLD DOES NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION = RIOTING?<br />
IN WHAT WORLD DOES POLICE<br />
TEAR-GASSING ENTIRE STREETS =/= VIOLENCE?<br />
IN WHAT WORLD DOES POLICE SHOOTING RUBBER BULLETS<br />
AT PEACEFUL PROTESTERS =/= VIOLENCE?<br />
1 - 2 - 3 - 4<br />
5 - 6 - 7 - 8<br />
WHAT THE FUCK?<br />
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?
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An Open Letter From Ferguson Protestors and Allies<br />
(10.17.14)<br />
*Permission is granted to reprint. For inquiries regarding this letter, please contact @deray.<br />
We are living an American Horror Story.<br />
The unlawful slaughter of black bodies by the hands of power has continued day after day,<br />
year after year, century after century, life by precious life, since before the first chain was<br />
slipped around black wrists.<br />
Black youth, brimming with untapped potential, but seen as worthless and unimportant. Black<br />
activists, stalwart in pursuit of liberation, but perceived as perpetual threats to order and comfort.<br />
Black men, truly and earnestly clinging to our dignity, written off as the ravenous, insatiable<br />
black savage. Black women, always unflinchingly running toward our freedom, dismissed<br />
as bitter and angry after long denial and suffering.<br />
Not one group of us has been spared from the bullet or the beating, too many armed only<br />
with our Blackness, left to live this American Horror Story.<br />
The story has come alive once again in Ferguson.<br />
Ours were the bodies, the strange fruit that swung from the poplar trees. Ours were the<br />
bodies, the motionless forms stretched out in the street for 4.5 hours. Ours were the bodies,<br />
left to be seen to rot as warnings against being too uppity, too confident, too bold, too<br />
free. Ours were the bodies, served up as notice to remain humbly and quietly in our place,<br />
never to awaken America’s fear of Blackness.
It was Emmett’s body in Mississippi. Little Aiyana’s body in Michigan. Amadou’s body in<br />
New York City. Travyon in a Sanford gated community. Jordan in a Florida gas station.<br />
Jonathan’s body on a North <strong>Caro</strong>lina road. Renisha’s body on a Detroit front porch. John<br />
in an Ohio Walmart. Ezell on a Los Angeles sidewalk. Eric’s body on a New York corner.<br />
Mike’s body on a Ferguson street. It was names and bodies that we will never know in cities<br />
and towns across this land.<br />
In every main street and dark corner of this nation, Black people are unsafe to breathe, walk,<br />
speak, lead, move, grow, learn and be without the distinct possibility that our blackness will<br />
be seen as enough weapon to justify the taking of our lives. Our education doesn’t save us,<br />
for Mike was on his way to college. Our respectability doesn’t spare us, for men and women<br />
were lynched in three-piece suits and Sunday dresses. Our innocence doesn’t protect us,<br />
for little Aiyana was only seven years old when the officer’s bullet struck her down.<br />
We are living an American Horror story.<br />
From every corner of life we have assembled, time and time again, to demand we turn the<br />
page. Time and again we were met with militarized forces that unlawfully tamped down on<br />
peaceful action and peaceful people. That we must keep emphasizing the civil nature of our<br />
disobedience and highly organized struggle is but another moment in the myth of the so-called<br />
Black savage our country seems determined to pen on us. We are despised for our struggle<br />
for freedom, despite learning it from those patriots at the Boston Harbor who cried “give me<br />
liberty, or give me death” and those Black freedom fighters whose likeness and admonitions<br />
are now emblazoned in our Nation’s Capital.<br />
In Ferguson, police met our protesting of police brutality with the disgusting irony of greater<br />
brutality, the likes of which Americans had never seen on our own soil. In this American<br />
town, officers tapped their batons, pointed guns in our faces, kneed our women’s heads,<br />
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threw our pregnant mothers to the ground, jailed our peaceful clergy and academics, and tear<br />
gassed our children.<br />
We are living an American Horror Story.<br />
But it is significantly past time for the story to end. Never to be told again.<br />
The onus to close this book falls directly on our leadership. Our elected leaders bear direct<br />
responsibility to ensure the safety of every one of its citizens at the hands of its agents, and<br />
to capture justice for every life taken. In this, the land of the free, you are responsible for<br />
securing and preserving that freedom for all of your citizens, irrespective of – or perhaps, especially<br />
because of – our skin. In a story in which we have been overwhelmingly targeted,<br />
unduly struck down by threat of our blackness, we require explicit attention, protection and<br />
value. We require freedom, and will hold everyone accountable to preserving our inalienable<br />
right.<br />
We will no longer live this American Horror Story.<br />
Nonviolent direct action is a necessary, vital, and wholly American tool in forcing meaningful,<br />
permanent, transformative action from our leaders and fellow citizens.<br />
Today, the 70th day of this nightmare, some may wonder why we have yet to stop – to<br />
stop chanting, stop marching, stop occupying . But we have not yet found peace because<br />
we do not yet know justice. Therefore we, together with our allies, will continue to occupy<br />
the streets and the American consciousness until the book is closed.<br />
Even in facing this terror, we have not met those who mean us harm with the same. Even<br />
in the face of this terror, we will continue to force the readers and writers of this, a most<br />
American of horror stories, to face the blackness that they fear, the blackness they have<br />
spent this entire story trying to erase, trying to soften, trying to co-opt, trying to escape.<br />
We will no longer allow you to escape this story and pretend that the epidemic of black lives
dying by white hands is merely a figment of an active Black imagination. You must come<br />
face to face with the horror that we live daily. You must come to know and profess the<br />
truth of this story, and be determined to end it.<br />
We are not concerned if this inconveniences you. Dead children are more than an inconvenience.<br />
We are not concerned if this disturbs your comfort. Freedom outweighs that privilege.<br />
We are not concerned if this upsets order. Your calm is built on our terror.<br />
We are not concerned if this disrupts normalcy. We will disrupt life until we can live.<br />
This is an American Horror Story. Together, we are writing the final chapter.<br />
We sign:<br />
@2LiveUnchained<br />
@AbernM<br />
@akacharleswade<br />
@alaurice<br />
@ampstlouis<br />
@barbd_wyre<br />
@bdoulaoblongata<br />
@BeutfulStranger<br />
@blackstarjus<br />
@BrownBlaze<br />
@dejuanh<br />
@deray<br />
@dlatchison011<br />
@dreamhampton<br />
@Felonius_munk<br />
@geauxAWAYheaux<br />
@Haiku_RS<br />
@iam_MzCaram3l<br />
@ittynitty1992<br />
@jadorekennedy<br />
@JamilahLemieux<br />
@JustAlandria<br />
@justinbaragona<br />
@JustRod<br />
@Kaephoria<br />
@Kenya_D<br />
@kfen73<br />
@kidnoble<br />
@missleighcarter<br />
@Misterbiceps<br />
@Mocha_Skyy<br />
@mollyrosestl<br />
@MsPackyetti<br />
@NakedDiary<br />
@nettaaaaaaaa<br />
@nina_badasz<br />
@OwlAsylum<br />
@Patricialicious<br />
@princebraden<br />
@RE_invent_ED<br />
@realbodean<br />
@rikrik__<br />
@Salute_DeezNutz<br />
@Search4Swag<br />
@shear_beauty<br />
@StaceDiva<br />
@TammieHolland<br />
@tdubbohmygod<br />
@teemichelle<br />
@thediva1975<br />
@tristantaylor88<br />
@vcmitchelljr<br />
@WesKnuckle<br />
@WyzeChef<br />
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“Nonviolent resistance (NVR or nonviolent action) is the practice of<br />
achieving goals through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic<br />
or political noncooperation,satyagraha, or other methods,<br />
without using violence. It is largely but wrongly taken as synonymous<br />
with civil resistance. Each of these terms ("nonviolent resistance" and<br />
"civil resistance")has its distinct merits and also quite different<br />
connotations and commitments, which are briefly explored in the entry<br />
on civil resistance.<br />
The modern form of non-violent resistance was popularized (sic) and<br />
proven to be effective by the Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi in his<br />
efforts to gain independence from the British.”<br />
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_resistance
ALL RECOGNITION HAVE TO BE GIVEN TO THOSE IN FERGUSON<br />
WHO HAVE BEEN ENDURING GRIEF AND TRAUMA TO STAND UP<br />
AGAINST THE UNJUST MURDER OF MICHAEL BROWN. YOU HAVE<br />
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RESPARKED A FIRE AND BEGUN TO CARRY A TORCH PASSED DOWN<br />
FROM OUR ANCESTORS.<br />
MY CONDOLENCES GO TO THE BROWN FAMILY. I PRAY THAT JUS-<br />
TICE IS SERVED AND THAT OTHER FAMILIES WILL NOT HAVE TO GO<br />
THROUGH WHAT YOU HAVE GONE THROUGH (THOUGH WE KNOW<br />
THEY ALREADY HAVE: EZELL FORD, DANTE PARKER, VONDERRIT<br />
MYERS, DARRIEN HUNT…). PLEASE KNOW THAT ALL OVER THE<br />
COUNTRY AND EVEN THE WORLD, PEOPLE SUPPORT YOU EMOTION-<br />
ALLY, SPIRITUALLY, MONETARILY, AND PHYSICALLY.<br />
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BLACK LIVES MATTER<br />
NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE<br />
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