Green Party Presidential and Vice Presidential Nominees Dr. Jill Stein and Dr. Butch Ware appeared together on a September 12 airing of the Breakfast Club. The radio show which is owned by IHeartMedia is a morning talk show that typically covers celebrity gossip, politics, and dating topics. Stein and Ware were joined by hosts DJ…
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In an act described by Venezuela’s administration as criminal piracy, US authorities have illegally seized an aircraft of the Venezuelan government fleet. In a press release issued by the US Justice department, US authorities claim that an aircraft, a Dassault Falcon 900EX with registration number T7-ESPERT, had been purchased from an American company by a…
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My name is Hassan Muhammad. Unlike any ordinary story, this story is to tell you about the man behind the passion, courage and heart. For me it started when I was younger, watching the world’s hatred and fascism. Experiencing it first hand through my community and still feeling the effects today at 26. I never…
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Three Black US Army reservists were killed in a drone attack at a US military base in Jordan on Jan. 28 . The three soldiers were identified as Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46, of Carrollton, Ga.; Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, of Waycross, Ga.; and Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23, of Savannah, Ga. In recent…
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Recently I attended a rally in Kingston Jamaica in support of the Palestinian people fighting the genocide being inflicted upon their people by Israel. At the heart of this war in the Middle East is an issue of land sovereignty. Land sovereignty, the ability of First Peoples to assert control over their ancestral lands. Without…
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In the past year we have had time to reflect on our successes, our failures, our goals, and our approach to attaining them.
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A multipolar world is one where developing countries can choose the alliances and partnerships that best suit the needs of their citizens, making themselves their own masters.
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Donald Barnet is a white man who uses the Garner Police Department as his way to terrorize and criminalize my family for living next door to him. His actions have proved to me that he would like to return to a time in history where Black women and children bow down to his existence or stance on anything. He is obsessed with criminalizing and overseeing me and the courts and police of North Carolina sanctions this.
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There are the obvious ways, a lack of ramps for people in wheelchairs. Books that don’t have electronic versions so people who use screen readers don’t have access. Ableist language that is passed off as accidental- or worse just used casually and without thought to the harm it causes. But ableism in political organizing runs much deeper than that.
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Racist harassment of the Thompson family by white Garner residents and the police continues. Last year a neighbor of the Thompson family, Don Barnett made repeated 911 calls to complain about the family listening to “loud Islamic Jihadist Preaching’s”. However, it was the Honorable Malcolm X that the family was actually listening to during the…
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America loves to count on the Black vote without offering substantial gains to Black voters. Issues such as police brutality and the murder of Black people at the hands of the police is rampant. While America continues its decline. The states’ complicit nature to overlook or victim blame when a cop kills Black women and men and children i.e. Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, Elonor Bumpers or Korryn Gains all four Black women were murdered by cops.
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There is a hyperfocus on how victims and survivors choose to handle their abusers both within society as a whole, and within the movement. Should a survivor or victim publicly account the abuse or harm they experienced, the focus and scrutiny is instantly placed on the accuser. We tell survivors to do everything besides confront…
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In May of 2019 the DA of Wake County offered me a plea deal. If I took the deal all of my belongings that were stolen from our family would be returned to us if I agreed that my “neighbor” could now be my “overseer” and could call in a warrant at any time on me if he heard “ANY AMPLIFIED SPEECH” from my home. Due to the fact that my mere presence alone brought the police out. I am again reminded that my living is my resistance.
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Three Wilmington, North Carolina cops, James Gilmore, Kevin Piner, and Corporal Jessie Moore, were fired Tuesday after their violent, racist remarks were caught on dash camera footage. During a June 4 audit of two hours worth of dash cam footage, Moore and Piner were both found on film saying the N-word multiple times. Gilmore was…
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“When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don’t speak out ain’t nobody going to speak out for you.” Fannie Lou Hamer. Today, a June 23, 2020, Mikisa Thompson was found not guilty by the Wake county courts of North Carolina. Her charge was a “violation of a noise ordinance.” On May 16, 2019,…
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Monday May 25, 2020, George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police after the police were called for an alleged forgery. The officer who killed Floyd did so by kneeling on his neck and back for almost 9 minutes. The entire incident was caught on camera by horrified onlookers. Shortly after the murder, video and news…
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RIOT received an anonymous statement from a Black woman about her experiences being sexually assaulted as a student and her experience after reporting the sexual violence to the school she attends. RIOT supports all survivors of sexual assault. Time and time again Black women fight to protect us all from the violent systems that threaten…
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There are no coincidences in what I uncovered while simply trying to pay my respects to a Black man lynched by police. I have discovered what I have known for sometime. “Racism is nothing that Black people seek out racism lingers even when the flames are extinguished. The rebellions’ flames are extinguished but the embers are red for now as they should be, ready to go.”
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Violence and pig like behavior came from the Raleigh Police Department when they shot tear gas into a crowd of people from a parking deck onto the street.
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Yesterday, the Iranian oil tanker Fortune arrived at Venezuela’s El Palito refinery in Puerto Cabello, defying U.S. Sanctions. Fortune is the first of five ships travelling from Iran to Venezuela altogether carrying an estimated 1.5 million barrels of oil. Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza congratulated the show of solidarity saying, “Today we see the fruits…
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RIOT started a miniature farm at our family home. We have been gardening for a few years for ourselves and would like to expand it to feed other people living in poverty like us in our area. Poor Black people in poverty have a lot in common living in war zones like fresh food shortages…
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Below is the audio of two 911 calls that resulted in Javier Torres being shot in the stomach by RPD. You will hear as the caller stalks Javier as he goes about his business in the shopping center. On the third call to the police the same caller from Sopranos Grill feigns fright as he alleges that he was threatened by a Black man and needed help.
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Joe Biden has continuously voted against our interest while he was in the senate. A shining example of his treachery was the 1990 FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE Act which sent millions in aid to police forces across the country to help crack down on communities that practiced survival crimes such as the sale of drugs, as if those communities are responsible for transporting millions of pounds of drugs into America.
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Garner had already started on the mercy killings of her three other children she intended to kill them all, and then herself. However, the federal marshals bombarded the house to enforce the legal fact that she was not a mother or a wife, but the property of the man who owned her.
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Today is the Chinese New Year 2020 – Year of the Rat. In honor of the new year we honor Chairman Mao. Comrade Mao Tse-tung was a Chinese revolutionary and founding father of the People’s Republic of China. Mao lived from December 26, 1983 to September 9, 1976 but he lives forever in the hearts…
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People think we don’t like the song pledge of allegiance, and that is true! It doesn’t match up with most Black people’s lives in America, where Black children and adults young or elderly are shot down by police who act as judge and jury on behalf of the system of racism and the thin blue line.
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This discussion will be on opportunity to learn about the vibrant history of Black resistance in the United States as well an opportunity to meet the Black radicals of today. Mainstream celebrations of Black history month tend to declaw and sanitize the radicalism of Black freedom movements; we want to counter that narrative.
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Walking into the courtroom on this morning, Monday, December 9th, 2019, for the trial for my mother’s case brought no other feeling but dismay. The make-up of the courtroom was mostly Black, and if they were not Black then the rest of the majority were people of color. This was not surprising, to say the…
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I listened intently as Mikisa Thompson, an organizer and activist, told me her story and it soon became clear that the news reports I’d read had left much unexplored about her experiences in Garner, North Carolina.
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Say her name: Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer. Born October 6, 1917, and died March 14, 1977. Say her name: Mrs. Recy Taylor. Born Dec. 31, 1919, and died Dec. 28, 2017. Say her name: Erica Garner. Born May 29, 1990, and died Dec. 30, 2017. The Black women listed above experienced the plight of being…
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Comrade Fred Hampton was assassinated by the fyi and police on this day December 4, 1969. He was murdered because he was incredibly effective at uniting poor whites in Chicago with the Black Panther Party to fight #racism and #capitalism. No to negro imperialism ✊🏾 no to #imperialism Comrade Fred Hampton was assassinated by the…
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Life of a revolutionary leader Fred Hampton.
DetailsStanley Williams aka Tookie youth coucelor and leader and co-founder of the Crips. Below is a piece of Tookie immortalized he was a victim of state sanctioned extreme poverty which breeds the ripe conditions to produce an extraordinary person like Tookie. Stan Williams III was convicted of murder and served a large portion of time…
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by Brown Gurl Jamaican Patois is not a language. Patois in general is a type of tongue that is spoken in the Caribbean. More specifically, Jamaican Patois is spoken in Jamaica, a small country located in the West Indies. This is a form of English that is considered ‘broken’. Scholars have researched and covered the…
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by Till Chills As a young Black man in amerikkka, I already know that it will be hard for me to go about my day without facing any form of negative treatment because of the color of my skin. It became such a pattern that I began to accept it as just a part of…
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Colonizers created the racial caste system when they stole my people from their homes in Africa during the Transatlantic Slave Trade; our personhood was and continues to be stripped away through white supremacist tactics, e.g., racial profiling, which is intended to demean any group that isn’t white. Racial profiling is described as using stereotypes to…
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What is an impeachment? An impeachment is essentially an indictment; a formal charge or accusation of a crime. Articles of impeachment must first be passed in the House of Representatives, only then can a trial be held in the Senate. Ultimately the Senate decides whether or not an impeached official keeps their job or not. …
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Mikisa Thompson will face trial for a alleged “violation of a noise ordinance” on October 22, 2019 at 2pm on the 2nd floor of the wake county “justice” center. Mikisa Thompson is a target of garnerpd and the over zealous deputized racist in the department. October 22, 2019 is also un-ironically the National Day of…
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