A Beautiful Rising Up in the Face of
Terrible Crimes in Ferguson
Protesting in
Times Square against police murder in solidarity with
Ferguson.
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In response to the police killing of 18 year old Mike Brown on August 9,
people in Ferguson, Missouri have righteously protested while being subjected to
tear gas, rubber bullets, sound cannons, curfews and declarations of states of
emergency. Protests including many thousands have broken out across the country
as people say "Hands Up! Don't Shoot!"
In Ferguson, hundreds of people,
including journalists — and even politicians — have been arrested and
pepper-sprayed by police for trying to show the truth about what's happening.
The powers that be have gone to great lengths to try to quiet things down and
are slandering the protesters, calling those from out of town "outside
agitators" and trying to distract people from the real subject — why is
Darren Wilson (the cop that shot Mike Brown) STILL not arrested?
Carl
Dix, targeted for arrest in Ferguson, refuted charges that the protesters are "criminals:"
“I came to Ferguson to stand with people who had
poured into the streets after the murder of Michael Brown, and were demanding
justice and refusing to silently suffer this abuse any longer. We want the cop
who shot Michael indicted, Police Chief Jackson fired, and the authorities to
stop hiding the information about Michael's murder. Because people defiantly
refused to be stopped by curfews, National Guard deployment, and states of
emergency, the whole world now knows about the unjust murder of Michael
Brown.”
Students at
Howard University took this photo during new student orientation — the "hands
up" pose has become a recognized symbol of protest, as Mike Brown had his hands
up when he was shot and killed.
Phillip B. Agnew of the Dream Defenders pointed out on MSNBC
that the only outside agitators are the police and the National Guard coming
into Ferguson to suppress and inflame the people. He said, “Here in we’ve seen humanity at its best.”
Watch the interview.
Dennis Loo writes in The Execution of Michael Brown:
“Immediately upon seeing the footage of the
highly militarized St. Louis police (and other agencies’) violent crackdown on
the people’s protests, Palestinians and others in the Middle East and
particularly in Gaza and the West Bank, recognized the face of oppressors’
repression and sent messages of solidarity, including advice about how to handle
tear gas.”
All people of conscience, who care about injustice in the U.S. and all over
the world, must stand for justice in Ferguson. Veterans for Peace, Amnesty
International, the National Lawyers Guild, the National Association of Black
Lawyers, Dream Defenders, and the Stop Mass Incarceration Network have all sent
people to Ferguson to join the protest.
We encourage you to follow World
Can't Wait's twitter feed and Facebook page for frequent updates.
Above, protesting
in Ferguson
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In case you missed it:
Watch the emergency event to
Stop Israel’s Ongoing War Crimes Against the People of Gaza
On August 5, World Can't Wait put out a call
to Stop Israel's War Crimes &
Crimes Against Humanity on the People of Gaza.
The mission was to bring the reality of what
Operation "Protective Edge" did to the people of Gaza, and why this rose to the
level of "war crimes;" to expose the role of the United States in fully backing
Israel politically and militarily; and to challenge all watching to bring forth
resistance to stop these crimes that is much more broad, diverse, and
determined.
Above: Fida Qishta
and Anees Mansour
On August 14, about 400 people gathered in
New York, and many others watched online as speakers from the U.S. and around
the world made great efforts to contribute, and powerfully amplify the
call.
Share these rich stories with everyone you know; spread this
understanding of what the “conflict” in Gaza is really about, and why we, living
in this country, must act to stop the war on the people of Gaza.
Watch and share segments on YouTube
Download audio of the speakers
Cheers to
protesters in Oakland!On
Saturday August 16, several thousand protesters marched into the Port of Oakland
toward the berth where a weekly Israeli cargo ship docks to offload its
goods.
Continue reading...
Above, the route
that the ship took as it made several attempts to dock for unloading during the
protests.
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