The Portland Alliance: August 2015… Speaking Truth to Power
Much More in the August 2015 Portland Alliance:
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Cops Refuse to Stop Chase: Multiple Children Killed during Pursuit
“[The police] were right on their rear, the police car bumped their tail a little bit, and the car flew up in the air,” the friend said. “There was no need for the police to be that close. I yelled ‘WATCH OUT’ but it was too late. When the car hit them, both of them just looked at me. They screamed. It just keeps re-playing in my head. … I ran down there, I yelled out their names, but they were gone. Makiah’s eyes were wide open, they died on impact.”
Black Lives Matter…
“Race doesn’t really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don’t have that choice.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
Listen to Sandra Bland!
“…How many more young people are going to be killed for walking in the street, failing to signal a lane shift, looking a police officer in the eye, or playing with a toy gun? How many more names of Black men, women and young people will join the list of those whose deaths have sparked widespread protests: Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Freddie Gray, Renisha McBride, Aiyana Jones and Sakia Gunn, among many others – and now, Sandra Bland. “
We CAN make a difference.
“The Republicans have spent billions to convince you not to vote. And the Democrats have spent billions trying to convince you they are different from the Republicans. But this IS NOT A TWO PARTY SYSTEM! Do not drink the Kool-Aid. We can shine with Stein!”
The July 2015 Portland Alliance!
Vol. XXXV, Number 7 July 2015
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2015/July Speaking Truth to Power Since 1981
Hillary and Bernie support Gaza murders and avoidable American wars
Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and a dozen other pro-war cons won’t work.
Racism
I swear to the Lord
I still can’t see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me.
~Langston Hughes
Jacobin Magazine: Supreme Court may not be on our side
“The only “reasonable consensus” that the Supreme Court can produce is inherently anti-democratic.”
“Everybody has been Trumped, tricked, trickled-on and lied to.”
“We, the public, are told the peace officers we hired to protect and serve are so afraid, cowardly and terrified that we must let them shoot first and ask questions later. I don’t buy it. We deserve better. And we should continue to take it to the streets until we can safely occupy our communities and live in peace.”
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