AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY

This space is dedicated to the proposition that we need to know the history of the struggles on the left and of earlier progressive movements here and world-wide. If we can learn from the mistakes made in the past (as well as what went right) we can move forward in the future to create a more just and equitable society. We will be reviewing books, CDs, and movies we believe everyone needs to read, hear and look at as well as making commentary from time to time. Greg Green, site manager

Friday, August 15, 2014

Hands Off The Ferguson, Missouri Protestors-Stop The Police Killings Of Black Youth-Stop The Harassment Of The Press- Free All Protestors Now!

Frank Jackman comment:

It has always been easy for the American imperialist capitalist government and their police to treat black youth, especially black males and increasing Latinos like they have treated the peoples of Southeast Asia in the past, and in Iraq and Afghanistan more recently as so much collateral damage when they pulled the hammer down. The black and Latino ghettos and barrios are not "free-fire zones," (as the photo below shows we are not far from a common Baghdad scene when U.S. troops were on the loose.)

Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and a myriad of others shot down over the years by the police and/or vigilantes cry out for justice in Ferguson, Missouri this day and will not accept another police whitewash.

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Thousands Rally in Times Square for Michael Brown, Unarmed Missouri Teen Killed by Police

By Ida Siegal

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Thousands of demonstrators flooded into Times Square Thursday evening in protest of the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed black 18-year-old shot and killed by a white police officer outside St. Louis. Ida Siegal reports

Friday, Aug 15, 2014 • Updated at 7:23 AM EDT

Thousands of demonstrators flooded Times Square Thursday evening to protest of the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old shot and killed by a police officer outside St. Louis, Missouri.

Demonstrators carried banners and marched down busy midtown streets yelling, "Hands up, don't shoot" -- the cry protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, have taken up in the days since Brown's fatal encounter with officers -- as they joined in with protesters in 100 other U.S. cities.

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The Times Square rally followed a smaller gathering in Union Square where demonstrators observed a moment of silence at 7:20 p.m. in unison with demonstrators in other cities. Part of the group in Times Square marched uptown from the Union Square vigil.

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Protesters said the rallies are a show of solidarity with Ferguson and a condemnation of they say is an epidemic of police brutality against black men, evidenced also in the deaths of Staten Islander Eric Garner in July and Sean Bell, who was shot 50 times by police in a confrontation in Queens in 2006.