Lest We Forget

July 17th, 2015 marks the one-year anniversary of Eric Garner’s death after an NYPD chokehold. As of now, not a single person has been held responsible. On Saturday, July 18th, join the NYCLU and other civil rights groups to demand accountability and justice for Eric Garner’s family and all the other New Yorkers who have suffered from police abuse.

Brooklyn Stand Up!

Photograph by Jason DeCrow

Breathless

"Get away [garbled] for what? Every time you see me, you want to mess with me. I'm tired of it. It stops today. Why would you...? Everyone standing here will tell you I didn't do nothing. I did not sell nothing. Because everytime you see me, you want to harass me. You want to stop me [garbled]. Selling cigarettes. I'm minding my business, officer, I'm minding my business. Please just leave me alone. I told you the last time, please just leave me alone. Please please, don't touch me. Do not touch me. [garbled] I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe..." -Eric Garner's final words

Solidarity In Our Collective Pain

"The law is meant to be my servant and not my master, still less my torturer and my murderer."

AP Photograph of Michael Brown Sr. (center) at his son''s funeral

Quote from James Baldwin's A Report From Occupied Territory, 1966

It Stops Today!

Eric "Big E" Garner

Rest In Peace

When The Ship Comes In

"We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate facilities are inherently unequal." -SCOTUS ruling, May 17th, 1954

Action Is The Only Remedy

"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe." -Elie Wiesel

Quote excerpted from Wiesel's 1986 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech

Days Of Decision

Photograph from Freedom Now! Forgotten Photographs Of

The Civil Rights Struggle (University of California Press, 2014).

Encoding/Decoding

Stuart Hall
1932 - 2014

"This is no time for simple retreat. What is required is a renewed sense of being on the side of the future, not stuck in the dugouts of the past. We must admit that the old forms of the welfare state proved insufficient. But we must stubbornly defend the principles on which it was founded – redistribution, egalitarianism, collective provision, democratic accountability and participation, the right to education and healthcare – and find new ways in which they can be institutionalised and expressed... All of us who oppose the current direction, whether from inside or outside party politics or other organisations, must invent. We must set about disrupting the current common sense, challenging the assumptions that organise our 21st-century political discourse."

The 'R' Word

Change The Mascot is a national campaign launched by the Oneida Indian Nation to end the use of the racial slur "redskins" as the mascot and name of the NFL team in Washington, DC... The campaign calls upon the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell to do the right thing.