It's been 10 months since the start of the genocide of Palestinians...It's been 10 years since Mike Brown was killed by police. The issues are deeply intertwined.| like black butterflies
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This week marks exactly 100 years since the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. A massacre that devastated a thriving Black community, that stripped people of their wealth and their futures, and that serv…| like black butterflies
WITNESS and Berkeley Copwatch are excited to announce the release of a new set of tools and guidance to support community-based police accountability groups in collecting, organizing and storing documentation of police encounters. The post The People’s Database for Police Accountability appeared first on WITNESS Archiving.| WITNESS Archiving
Our project investigates how video and open source data gathered and preserved by local groups can help corroborate incidents of abuse and help communities tell their own stories. The post WITNESS and El Grito Launch “Profiling the Police” appeared first on WITNESS Archiving.| WITNESS Archiving
Archivist Yvonne Ng discusses new initiatives out of Ferguson, Baltimore and Cleveland to collect and preserve records of police abuse and protest movements. The post Community-Based Approaches to Archives From the Black Lives Matter Movement appeared first on WITNESS Archiving.| WITNESS Archiving
Sheriff Wayne Ivey, a Republican, echoed Trump's recent comments about Los Angeles protesters: "If they spit, we will hit.”| TheGrio
That fascists would want to insert their hateful, transphobic, and homophobic message directly into the LGBTQIA+ community is predictable. But the absolutely shameful fact is that Seattle Parks officials recommended that this anti-LGBTQ+ group hold their rally at Cal Anderson Park—they hadn’t even originally planned to hold it there... There is a war being waged on LGBTQIA+ people—by the state and by the raising forces of fascism it is enabling.| I AM AN EDUCATOR
The case of Rodney Hinton Jr. is a stark reminder that trauma, especially racial trauma, is cumulative. It builds, silently, beneath the surface until it explodes.| NewsOne
State repression of peaceful protesters in Africa has prompted activists to find creative solutions to defend their right to record abuses. The post The Right to Record: Safeguarding Truth in Protests in Africa appeared first on WITNESS Blog.| WITNESS Blog
The 10th anniversary of Michael Brown's police killing spotlights the need for Black communities to develop ways to cope with such violence.| NewsOne
Isaiah 61:1–4, 8–10; Psalm 133; 2 Corinthians 2:14–16; Mark 14:3–9 A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church In the name of the One who waded in the waters of Miryam’s womb, walked the way of suffering as one of the woman-born, and woke from the grasp of death in the deep darkness of the...| The Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D. | Womanists Wading in the Word™
“I rebuke you in the name of Jesus.” ~ *the last words of Sonya Massey Every person raised in a certain kind of black church knows the power and gravity of those words. Those are the words to be said when facing the evil that has walked in your door and will soon take your...| The Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D. | Womanists Wading in the Word™
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My last post was called “How the media misleads on police violence Part 1,” and it regarded ways the media (and government) effectively prevent people of this country from having a clear idea about police violence. Its summary statement was, “the first way the mainstream news media fails to inform the public about the true scope of deadly police violence is that they underestimate deaths by 18 percent, and they fragment the data so a normal person can’t piece it together.”| Fatal Encounters
This blog post talks about the value in protecting the freedom to film, particularly, the right to record during protests.| WITNESS Blog
One of the most frequent questions we get from people is "What should I do after filming a video of police violence?" One strategy is to share your video with a journalist, but it's not always clear how to do that. We spoke with journalist Nick Pinto, who writes about police misconduct, to get tips on what journalists look for in eyewitness videos and how to safely and effectively collaborate with media.| WITNESS Media Lab
