2014-12-05 US: Protest continues - ‪#‎ShutItDown‬

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2014-12-05 US: Protest continues - ‪#‎ShutItDown‬
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[via Occupy Wall St.]
Last night.

Reverend Billy And The Stop Shopping Gospel Choir

REFLECTION ON OUR RAGE. Racist cops murder African Americans. The revulsion brings us together in transcendent scenes like last night on the bridge. Three years ago we had Occupy and three years before that the mortgage fraud scandal and world-wide recession began. Meanwhile, American drones slaughtered so many families. And climate change killed the poor every day.

This keeps happening and each time the issue is life and death. A starkly violent issue comes to the center stage and suddenly a large number of us respond. Now we have this present moment, where racist police and court systems have exposed the government and corporate elite; this evil unbroken since slavery, this collusion of fear-mongering and profiteering. We must not forget this, as we so often have with these historic justice events. We can’t rotate this issue away, enroute to the next one. We can’t default back into conveniences, entertainment and on-line dating.
These murders are a symbol of abuse of our loved ones and neighbors and of systematic violence against the powerless, and it is done by racist bullets and by climate change and economic strangulation. Soon, with time running out, we will have to stop rotating issues and establish unforgettable ones... This is the place to start. This issue can’t be put in the past by putting a few cops in jail and changing some rules. This injustice helps keep the focus on all injustice. Time is running out. We can create the uprising that overthrows this oppression.
Brooklyn Bridge last night in New York ‪#‎ShutItDown‬ ‪#‎EricGarner‬ ‪#‎MichaelBrown‬ ‪#‎BlackLivesMatter‬