THEDECO LO NIZER November 2015
From The Front Lines
The News Feed
How To's
On Violence
TABLEO FCO NTENTS What is THE DECOLONIZER?
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The News Feed
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From The Front Lines: # RiseUpOctober
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Decolonizing Culture
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How To's
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Brief Histories
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Straight, No Chaser
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A Normal Life
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On Violence
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Who Will Survive America
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Track The Movement
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How To's
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A Normal Life
Track The Movement
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On Violence
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From The Front Lines: #RiseUpOctober
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The Newsfeed
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Brief Histories
Straight, No Chaser
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Who Will Survive America?
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W hat IsTHEDECO LO NIZER? THE DECOLONIZER is not the one
THE DECOLONIZER is not is not to be played with
THE DECOLONIZER is not to be trolled at
THE DECOLONIZER is not to be trifled with
THE DECOLONIZER will strike back
THE DECOLONIZER cannot be infiltrated
THE DECOLONIZER cannot be white washed
THE DECOLONIZER cannot be colonized
THE DECOLONIZER refuses to be brutalized
THE DECOLONIZER refuses to cooperate
THE DECOLONIZER refuses to be dominated
THE DECOLONIZER refuses to be sexualized
THE DECOLONIZER refuses to be mis-gendered
THE DECOLONIZER refuses to die
THE DECOLONIZER does not negotiate with white supremacists
THE DECOLONIZER does not negotiate with patriarchy
THE DECOLONIZER does not turn the other cheek
THE DECOLONIZER will fight for freedom
THE DECOLONIZER is revolution
THE DECOLONIZER is the tipping point
THE DECOLONIZER is the last stand
THE DECOLONIZER is the back against the wall
THE DECOLONIZER is the fist in the air
THE DECOLONIZER is nothing less
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TheNewsfeed Rest InPower AmancayDianaSacayan 40 year old trans woman and prominent Argentinean LGBT rights activist Amancay Diana Sacayan was assassinated in her Buenos Aries apartment on October 13th. Sacayan was the Co-Leader of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Association (ILGA) and an outspoken champion of LGBT rights in Latin America. She was also the director of Argentina's Anti-Discrimination Liberation Movement (MAL). Well known and revered in Latin America, in 2012 Sacayan was personally presented with her corrected national identity card confirming the legal status of her name and gender by Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez. Sacayan is now the third trans woman Killed in Argentina within a two month period.
#AssaultAtSpringValley Video of a 16 year-old Black woman being violently assaulted by a police officer at Spring Valley High School in South Carolina went viral this October. The young Black woman, who is choosing to be identified as Shakara, was aggressively pulled out of her chair by officer Ben Fields and thrown to the floor after being asked to leave because she wouldn't put away her cellphone. She was promptly arrested along with 18 year-old Niya Kenny who attempting to help Shakara.Officer Fields has since been fired. Strangely, over a hundred students staged a walk-out at the school to protest the firing of officer fields, many of them students of color. The controversy has exposed much of the internalized white supremacist patriarchy held by students at the school. Black Lives Matter has issued an open letter to Shakara and Niya affirming their worth as Black woman and offering support. A GoFundMe account was also created to help support Shakara. You can donate to that account at https:/ / www.gofundme.com/ 7w7h7cvw
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ArsonContinuesAtHistoricallyBlack Churches At least seven historically Black churches were burned in St. Louis, MO this October, many of them not too far from Ferguson. White supremacist terror has recently resurfaced in the media since the shooting of the Charleston nine at Emanuel AME Church and the rash of church burnings that followed in late June. The first of the fires began October 8th at Bethel Non-Denominational Church, which was followed by burnings at New Northside Missionary Baptist Church, St. Augustine Catholic Church, and the New Testament Church of Christ. Very recently a Black male, 35 year-old David Lopez Jackson has been charged with setting two of the seven fires. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms has jumped on the possibility of Jackson being linked to all of the fires and has dismissed the attacks race-related. Yet the identification of Jackson as Black does not automatically mean that the attacks were not race-related when white supremacist racism can influence the actions of anyone.
ChoctawandChickasawNationswin Milliondollar Settlement The Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations of Oklahoma have finally won a long standing lawsuit against the United States government. The landmark case Choctaw Nation and Chickasaw Nation vs U.S Department of the Interior was filed in 2005. The suit charged the U.S with mismanaging 1.3 million acres of Choctaw and Chickasaw timberlands, violating the Administrative Procedure act and the Fifth Amendment. The suit has won 186 million dollars from the U.S Department of the Interior, which will be divided between the two tribes.
Tamir Rice:NoJustice On October 10th Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty released two reports from the grand jury investigation concluding that Officer Timothy Loehmann was "reasonable" when he shot and killed 12 year-old Tamir Rice. A representative of McGinty explained that the reports were an attempt to keep the investigation as transparent as possible. Outraged family members and activists demand that a special prosecutor take over the case if McGinty fails to pursue an indictment himself. A grand jury has already begun hearing testimony in the case and family members fear that a case brought to a grand jury will result in a non-indictment.
NativeHawaianstoVoteFor Independence November 1st marked the beginning of a 30 day voting period open to over 100,000 Native Hawaiians who will elect delegates to attend the convention for self-governance in Honolulu this winter. The eight-week convention will be focused on drafting a document for the formation of a government by Native Hawaiians for Native Hawaiians. The Native Hawaiian community has suffered from exploitation homelessness, poverty, and the erasure of Native traditions at the hands of the United States government.
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O ntheFront lines:# RiseUpO ctober #W hatSideAreYouO n By Dubian Ade As I enter the confines of Washington Square Park I am met with busy people hunched over, chalk drawing liberation into the concrete floor. The massive stone arch towers over them, adjourn with colonial European faces that seem to shrink at the sight of the people gathering increasingly at its base. At any second it seemed the masses would rise up in fury to topple the stone landmark. A woman stationed at the edge hands me a copy of The Revolution newspaper. Another black woman yells "get you buttons! Black Lives Matter get your buttons." Another black woman follows along side her selling black liberation flags. The sound of drums waters the space in rhythms synced with the beautiful chaos of the people organizing at every direction. Filled with sounds, conversation, movement, smells, tastes swirl behind a backdrop of words ferociously spoken from a microphone.
But we are murdered every day. Just the other day Corey Jones was shot and killed by a plain clothes police officer. We march along the right lane of 6th avenue while police follow with metal barricades. Screaming until our lungs gave out we yell: "Sandra Bland, say her name, Maya Hall, say her name, Rekia Boyd, say her name" intentionally until the rest of us in line follow and repeat. We are intentional about foregrounding woman of color. Many of us pull from tradition: "No justice, no peace" "What do we want? Justice. When do we want it? Now! " "The people. United. Will never be defeated."Some of us invent: "Watch my back im under attack, who got my back? I got your back. I got your back, I got your back. I got your back! " The vibrancy of protest, the life giving energy of the people overtakes us. White women stand on the corner of the side walk clapping at a spectacle. But will never involve themselves in protest.
They are the families. Sandra Bland, Micheal Brown, Eric Gardner, Tamir Rice, the kind of testimonies that tear at the insides like swallowed rust nails. "Until you experience this you will never know my pain! " she rages as a loved one concerned, hurt written on his face reaches from behind the stage for her "No, no until they been through what I have experience you will never know! "
We finally reach Bryant Park. The bodies of the officers physically change, their shoulders tense up, their movements become robotic. NYPD closes in on us pushing the metal barricades toward the sidewalk. A Black woman is viciously arrested by three police officers and thrown into the cop car. The sent of danger wafts three feet away from us. A black man is pushed over the metal barricade.
The microphone drops. It is a thud felt in the pit of a collective stomach.
The crowd cannot get to these people. We have been isolated from them on the other side of the barricade. All we can do is heckle and report the names of the officers. One officer motions to pull her gun out of her holster. "Get on to the sidewalk or else."
Then Quinton Tarantino gets on the microphone. "I am here because I am a human being." Nobody cares if you are a human being. Nobody cares if you came here to pat yourself on the back. Nobody cares about what you have to say in support of BLM. You are doing no one any favors by being here. Your white supremacist patriarchy inspired you to get on stage and take up space. Get off the stage! The procession begins after the artists. The families lead the front of the march. With signs and banners we follow behind down Waverly Place. NYPD intercepts us at 6th avenue. Apparently, one of their own was killed very recently and there is tension.
We can easily transform into a mob. But we are steadily loosing people to the closing rally around the corner. We soon follow those people as some stay behind to help those targeted by police. At the rally we hear more stories from the families affected. Yet the only story that has been covered about this protest features a picture of Quinton Tarantino. The only controversy has been Tarantino's view of police. Fuck the police. And Fuck Quinton Tarantino.
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DeclonizingCulture Bookof themonth:
Artist of themonth:
The Dar ker Nations
Emor y Douglas
Spanning every continent of the global South, Vijay Prashad?s fascinating narrative takes us from the birth of postcolonial nations after World War II to the downfall and corruption of nationalist regimes. A breakthrough book of cutting-edge scholarship, it includes vivid portraits of Third World giants like India's Nehru, Egypt's Nasser, and Indonesia's Sukarno? as well as scores of extraordinary but now-forgotten intellectuals, artists, and freedom fighters. The Darker Nations restores to memory the vibrant though flawed idea of the Third World, whose demise, Prashad ultimately argues, has produced a much impoverished international political arena.
Emory Douglas was the minister of culture for the Black Panther Party beginning in 1967 until the group dissolved in the 1980s. His artwork was featured consistently in The Black Panther newspaper and he was the art director, designer, and main illustrator for the publication. His iconic images represented the struggle of the Panthers as whole. His posters and flyers brought the revolution to people and allowed them to visualize resistance. A comprehensive collection of his work can be seen in the book Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas.
Filmof themonth:
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The Black Power M ixtape
Neocolonialism
A treasure trove of footage that spans the length of the Black Power movement including film interviews with Angela Davis, Stokley Carmichael, and other leaders is found in the basement of a Swedish television company. Director Gรถran Olsson and co-producer Danny Glover bring this footage to life, bridging the voices of struggle from the 60s and 70s with contemporary artists and activists. The Black Power Mixtape takes a crucial look at the development of the Black Power Movement.
This months word of the month is neocolonialism. Neocolonialism (noun): The continuation of racist, patriarchal, and colonial relationships of domination that remain after an imperial power leaves a colonized area. Neocolonialism is only an adjustment of the former colonial system. Instead of officially governing the area, the colonizing power now exerts control with capitalism or through a puppet government of native politicians. The formerly colonized country is usually still economically and politically dependent. The class structure of the former colony is always kept in tact. The exploitation of resources continues and the economy is hopelessly dependent on foreign imports and exports. Neocolonialism is also the infiltration of a former colonized country by foreign corporations and humanitarian aid groups. Neocolonialism in a sentence: When we speak of globalization in Africa, when we speak of a McDonald's in Nigeria, we are speaking of neocolonialism.
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HowTo's HowToMakeARadical NewsPaper Newspapers are very important tools for building movements. They can be used to distribute information, provide first hand reporting, offer an alternative to mainstream news coverage, and be a platform for voicing the concerns of the movement. The best newspapers can also mobilize the people around particular issues, challenge mainstream news coverage of the movement, educate, and be a space where the marginalized are centered and have a voice. News papers can also be a source of income for the movement. For example, the Black Panther Party For Self-Defense used sales from The Black Panther to fund bail money for members that were in jail and covered legal expenses. Newspapers are the best way to keep the people up to date with the movement, mobilize support, and most importantly, politicize the people.
Step 1: What Are Your Politics? What do you stand for? What does the movement stand for? What is the movement fighting for? The answer to these questions will determine the politics of your newspaper and the lens that you are working with. Say your newspaper is explicitly feminist. Then the content and the issues addressed in the newspaper will have a feminist lean. The politics of your newspaper will influence every other aspect of your publication.
Step 2: Identify Your Audience Who is your audience? Poor people of color? Or upper-middle class white people? Academic scholars or militant activists? The target audience of your newspaper affects everything from content, layout, to even word choice. The best newspapers should be made as accessible as possible to oppressed people of color, woman, and LBGTQ people of color. As a rule of thumb, your target audience should always be the oppressed.
Step 3: Outline Your Newspaper You may start out with a basic list of what sections you would want in your newspaper. A front cover, table of contents, an introductory page, an acknowledgements page and a back cover page are bare bones necessities. After this, you can experiment with what sections would appear regularly. Maybe every issue there is a current events page, a comics section, or an art and culture page. Maybe there is history section or a politics section. You should also think about regular writers columns. Revolutionary art is a must that enhances any newspaper. Once a basic skeleton is made you can start adding articles.
Step 4: Design And Publishing There are many online programs you can use to design your publication. Lucid Press is a great online resource for designing your newspaper and offers very useful design templates. Issuu.com is a great place to publish your newspaper and allows for you to convert your publication into an embed that you can put on your website.
Step 5: Distribution You are finally ready to distribute your newspaper. Printing can be costly so always shop around for the best rates. Local printing options are always best. Email is another way you can get your newspaper out to people. You can make a sign-up form at mailchimp.com. You should also build an email list for your newspaper.
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BRIEFHISTO RIES:THeNewJEW ELMovement (G renada) By Dubian Ade The New Joint Endeavor for Welfare, Education, and Liberation group (NEW JEWEL) was established in March of 1973 in response to the deplorable economic conditions under Eric Gairy's neocolonial administration and Gairy's increasing corruption within the government. Gairy had been pushing an agenda for Grenadian independence and began talks with the British Crown as early as 1970. Gairy had intentionally excluded the Grenadian people from the negotiations. Gairy had first come to prominence as the founder of the Grenada United Labour Party (GULP). Under the GULP ticket, Gairy had won the election of 1951 and was elected to leader of the Grenadian assembly. Gairy had become the first Black Grenadian to hold that office. Gairy's tenure as leader of the assembly was marked with serious corruption. So much so that in 1962 the British colonial administration intervened in Grenada to schedule new elections. Gairy was defeated by Hurbert Blaize but was reelected to leader of the assembly in 1967 after economic conditions failed to improve. Grenada was granted its independence on February 7th 1974 after more than two centuries of British rule. Gairy had become the country's first prime minister. The new neocolonial administration had only exacerbated the already wide spread poverty in Grenada. Politicians were generously stuffing themselves at the expense of the people. Unemployment was sky high, health care was nonexistent, and the great masses of the people remained severely uneducated, with less then15%of Grenadians continuing to high school. The New JEWEL Movement was made up of a new generation of Caribbean activists and intellectuals who were profoundly influenced by the Black Power movement and the Third World Liberation movements of the fifties, sixties, and seventies.
New JEWEL was primarily concerned with the well being of the Grenadian people and had interests in improving health care, education, and standard of living in Grenada. Maurice Bishop was a prominent and outspoken leader of the movement. Born in Aruba in 1944 and raise in Grenada, Bishop was educated in London. He was profoundly influenced by Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Kwame Nkrumah and Walter Rodney. On his return to Grenada in 1970, Bishop formed the Movement for Assemblies of the People (MAP) which opposed corruption in the Grenadian government. In 1973 MAP joined forces with the Joint Endeavor for the Welfare, Education, and Liberation of the People (JEWEL), to form New JEWEL (NJM). The NJM began staging massive anti- Gairy protests. In 1974 six NJM members including Bishop were arrested and Bishop's father Rupert Bishop was killed during a police attack on protesters. New JEWEL ran Bishop in the 1976 national election. Gairy and the GULP narrowly defeated Bishop in what was believed to be a rigged election. Bishop was made into the Grenadian minority leader.
On March 13th, 1979 while Gairy was out of the country, Maurice Bishop and the NJM launched a bloodless coup to take the Grenadian government. The Peoples Revolutionary Government (PRG) was installed with Bishop as the new prime Minister of Grenada. The PRG immediately made close ties with Fidel Castro and the revolutionary government in Cuba. Bishop and the The PRG enjoyed widespread popular support from the Grenadian people and especially from impoverished workers. United States imperialist and anti- communist foreign policy imposed aggressive sections on trade with Grenada and crippled the economy further. A power struggle between Bishop and Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard resulted in Bishops house arrest on October 13th, 1983. Six days later on October 19th a mass of over four thousand protesters freed Bishop and the other ministers imprisoned. Bishop and protesters marched to Fort Rumpert. While at Fort Rumpert gunshots were fired at protesters with many killed. In the carnage Bishop and other leaders were recaptured and executed. On October 25th the United States military invaded Grenada and took control of the country.
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Straight,NoChaser I doubt not God is good, well- meaning, kind, And did He stoop to quibble could tell why The little buried mole continues blind, Why flesh that mirrors Him must someday die, Make plain the reason tortured Tantalus Is baited by the fickle fruit, declare If merely brute caprice dooms Sisyphus To struggle up a never- ending stair. Inscrutable His ways are, and immune To catechism by a mind too strewn With petty cares to slightly understand What awful brain compels His awful hand. Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing!
"Yet I Do Marvel" by Countee Cullen (1925)
Th e Cruci bl e Of Bl ack Li v es M atter By Patrice Lockert Anthony The Black Lives Matter movement has met with a number of assaults. None of which is more curious to me, or more pernicious by nature, than the ?go to? charge of ?all lives matter? as a counter response. The ?all lives matter? movement, within the context of its response to the ?Black Lives Matter? movement is a subversive counterpoint to the inconvenience of truth telling. It is inconvenient to spend time, money, thought, energy, et cetera on the meanings and truths behind the egregious loss of black lives in a nation that refuses to hold itself accountable at individual, organizational, or societal levels. This is what?s at the heart of Countee Cullen?s poem, ?Yet I Do Marvel.? To be pressed at the level of faith/ belief in something that you?ve fought for, died for, celebrated, defended, and then to be left to wonder how that thing which you so honor could set you up for such unconscionable, unbearable pain of heart wrenching, soul destroying bias. It is a conundrum, to be sure, to live in a country which makes such full use of your sweat, imagination, and brilliance, only to turn around and beat you up, and down, with a foot on necks while refusing to acknowledge self- evident truths.
It is homeric logic (I?m speaking here of Homer Simpson, not Epic Literature), to sandwich ?all lives matter? in between doh(s). Most sentient human beings are on board with believing that all lives matter. Indeed, saying it in response to hearing ?black lives matter? is disingenuous. As if by saying, ?Black Lives Matter? we are dismissing the relevance of all other lives. The true ?doh? moment is not being willing or able to connect the two. Black Lives Matter because all lives matter. If all lives matter, than Black Lives Matter. If you feel the need to respond to the statement, ?Black Lives Matter? by saying that all lives matter, than it is you who are suffering from the disconnect, not those who pursue justice for those killed, in large part, because of the color of their skin.
Until this nation of individuals, organizations, and laws, can say ?all lives matter? and define it by the inclusion of ?black lives? as lives of consequence, then we are a nation running away from itself. And since it is intellectually, physically, and spiritually impossible to run from one?s self; we are doomed. Make that change in how you perceive self and other now. Accept the Buberian (see Martin Buber) challenge. Black Lives Matter.
In faith~
While some who answer with ?all lives matter? may be suffering from a gargantuan case of naivety, most, I believe suffer from laziness, privilege, and condoned stupidity. It is easy to play at philosophy, and cleverness that is as crippled as rheumatoid joints. It takes work to get to the root of why someone would feel it needs saying that Black Lives Matter. White people, in particular, who would deny the validity of the need to belabor the point that Black Lives Matter are trying to escape the inescapable. They are part of a culture that validates, and even rewards (george zimmerman) the unnecessary, and sometimes planned, taking of black lives. Blacks lives in so many ways, some unimaginable, are constantly, and persistently, dismissed, disrespected, and snuffed out. There must be consequences for the perpetrators whether they are officers of the law, or private citizens.
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ANormal Life This poem was originally published in a print anthology of the 9th World Poetry Festival in Kolkata, India. By Sophia Terazawa
For a woman to write history is an old way of telling time, yet she is not ancient but a girl who stares into the barrel of a gun.
I do not imagine myself in a tunnel. I do not imagine a helicopter, even I do not imagine the diary of Ho Chi Minh, for then I must imagine myself inside a jail cell, and for a woman to be in a jail cell when her body is already a prison, I ask the historian to imagine the impossibility of writing time through her black, infinite eyes.
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O nViolence By Dubian Ade We have lived barely. Our naked bodies clothed with thinning patience. Kept warm between chapped hands rubbed together, pealed at the cuticle smell of deferred dreams in Chicago it gets so cold. In New York it gets so cold. It takes the cold to realize that maybe these buildings could make a good bonfire. We watched in front of the TV screen the night Baltimore made a name for its self. Broadcast to the colonized the possibility of exploding cars, molotov bottles, state troopers who had soiled their uniforms and will hang them up on cloths pins to dry tomorrow. I curl up underneath my rage to keep warm and live out my vengeance through the TV screen, my aggression vicarious, extended outward. My blood boils. Bubbling underneath the skin like Fanon's Leukemia. It is the possibility of the thing. To be beaten in the streets and not roll over to die. To respond with anything lying within reach. A plank, a bat, a machete. To be resurrected from police custody. Freddie Gray's ghost poring gasoline onto garbage cans. Sandra Bland throwing hands with lieutenants. Water for the martyr lamented. Some of us are too young to remember Watts. Killing us with white fragility we forgot the possibility. Of the people giving birth each second they destroy. You misunderstand us. So we speak in the language of now and borrowed tongue. A violent system can only understand violence. There is nothing reasonable about occupation. There is nothing reasonable about racism. There is nothing reasonable about rape. You misunderstand us. So come, let me show you: There are revolts beneath my tongue and under my eyelids. I did not put them there. Who put them there?
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W hoW ill SurviveAmerica? ZellaZiona Zella Ziona was a 21 year-old trans Black woman who was killed on October 15th in Gaithersburg, Maryland. She was approached by four or five teenagers in an alley way. After a dispute with 20 year old Rico Hector Leblond, Ziona was shot in the head. Leblond has been charged with first degree murder. She is at least the twenty-first trans woman killed in the United States this year.
CoreyJones Corey Jones was a 31 year-old cist Black male who was shot and killed by a plainclothes police officer on October 18th in Palms Beach Gardens, Florida. Jones was on his way home when car troubles forced him to pull over on the road side of interstate 95. Officer Nouman Raja, an on-duty plainclothes officer in an unmarked car pulled up to investigate, believing that Jones' car was abandoned. Raja confronted Jones believing he had a gun and opened fire.
AmonderezG reen Amonderez Green was a 18 year-old cist Black male who was shot and killed during a confrontation with police on October 28th in Normandy, Missouri only two miles away from Ferguson. Ferguson police officers have admitted to being on the scene and eyewitnesses say that Ferguson police officers shot Green in the face. The statement released by the St. Louis County Police Department claims that Green was suicidal, shot at police multiple times with a silver revolver, and then shot himself in the face. However, a video released on twitter shows a woman out of frame screaming "don't shot my baby" and a male voice shouting "don't kill me, oh god."
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TRACKTHE MO VEMENT November,2015 #NoKXL
# Bethlehem
On November 6th the Obama administration publicly rejected the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The proposed pipeline Stretching from Canada to Texas would cut through key indigenous territory protected by treaty. Indigenous peoples have been organizing protest and meeting with commissions for years. Yet, indigenous interest were largely omitted by Obama as a factor in the decision. Credit for the effort has been largely attributed to white environmentalist when indigenous organizing work was essential in putting pressure to halt the pipeline.
Israeli troops reach new lows in Bethlehem early this November. On November 6th Israeli agents disguised as Palestinian stone throwers jumped on Palestinian protesters at gun point while plain-clothes Israeli soldiers shot at the crowd with tear gas canisters and rubber bullets . Other protesters were hit with live fire. Tactics such as using undercover Israeli agents have become routine in Bethlehem. At least twenty-six Palestinian protesters were killed in demonstrations last month.
# ConcernedStudent1950
# POC@IC
University of Missouri President Timothy W. Wolfe resigned from his position November 9th at an emergency Board of Curators meeting after weeks of student protesting. Wolfe has been under fire for his failure to address racially charged issues on campus and his dismissal of student activist at the university's homecoming parade. UM students have righteously resisted at every level to push these issues to the national level. One UM student has staged a hunger strike, alumni had called for a walk-out, and UM football players have also vowed to strike.
A massive walk-out was staged by Ithaca College students on October 27th. Numerous racially charged incidents on campus including repeated racial surrs directed towards an alumni panelist at the college's "Blue Skies" event and a racially themed white supremacist fraternity party have sparked an up-roar of campus resistance. # POC@IC has since lead numerous rallies, protest, and walk-outs against Ithaca College president Tom Rochon and the current administration.
# FeesMustFall # BerkeleyKKK Hundreds of students from Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California walked out November 5th after the discovery of racist threats found on a school computer. The slurs include "KKK forever public lynching December 9th 2015" and "I hung a n***** by his neck in my back yard." It is estimated that over 700 marchers walked from the high school towards Berkeley City Hall.
Cape Town students from over three Universities stormed the South African Parliament November 9th demanding that they speak to South African President Jacob Zuma. South African students have waged the largest protest in the country's history since Apartheid ended in 1994. The protests come after the announcement by many universities that tuition fees would be raised to over 10% , drastically affecting impoverished Black South African students who cannot afford the increase. The protest has since spread to over 10 campuses # FeesMustFall protesters are now determined to decolonize higher education in South Africa.
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Special thankstoour contributing writers Sophia E. Terazawa Patrice Lockert Anthony
THE DECOLONIZER gives a special thanks to @DecolonizingMedia for their continued coverage on issues regarding # indigenousliberation and for their righteous use of images. Their work continues to influence THE DECOLONIZER. Check out their work at http:/ / decolonizingmedia.tumblr.com/
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