#breenewsome

#wepost20 from @sammytexeira
#hero #heroine #heroic #courage #confederateflag #breenewsome #freebree

#wepost from @embracingblackculture
Well Bree Newsome couldn’t wait any longer. So, she took matters into her own hands, literally. She stood up for what she believed in (even if the plight seemed miniscule to others) and took down the flag. She ended up getting arrested, but was clearly proud of her actions, as are we. Doesn’t sound much different from someone else we know #RosaParks Everyone please take note, this is history happening right in front of us. Welcome to the history books Bree, you have joined the ranks of the many Black women who have fought and sacrificed for our rights, and we stand with you sister. #FreeBree #BreeNewsome #SouthCarolina #confederate #confederateflag #TheFlagIsDown #CivilRights #civilrightsmovement #civilrightsactivist #blackwomenhistory #blackwomen #Black 

I’m right here in n Columbus and didn’t even know. #Hero
#wepost20 from @selfiequeen_143
Stand for something!… Then climb if you have to!❤
#FREEBREE
#BreeNewsome 

(Y) #BreeNewsome: In Her Own Words
Now is the time for true courage.
I realized that now is the time for true courage the morning after the #CharlestonMassacre shook me to the core of my being. I couldn’t sleep. I sat awake in the dead of night. All the ghosts of the past seemed to be rising.Not long ago, I had watched the beginning of #Selma, the reenactment of the #16thStreetBaptistChurch bombing and had shuddered at the horrors of history.But this was neither a scene from a movie nor was it the past. A white man had just entered a black church and massacred people as they prayed. He had assassinated a civil rights leader. This was not a page in a textbook I was reading nor an inscription on a monument I was visiting.This was now.
This was real.
This was - this is - #stillhappening.
I began my activism by participating in the Moral Monday movement, fighting to restore voting rights in North Carolina after the Supreme Court struck down key protections of the #1965VotingRightsAct.I traveled down to Florida where the #DreamDefenders were demanding justice for #TrayvonMartin, who reminded me of a modern-day #EmmettTill.I marched with the #OhioStudentsAssociation as they demanded justice for victims of police brutality.I watched in horror as black Americans were tear-gassed in their own neighborhoods in #Ferguson, MO. “Reminds me of the Klan,” my grandmother said as we watched the news together. As a young black girl in South Carolina, she had witnessed the Klan drag her neighbor from his house and brutally beat him because he was a black physician who had treated a white woman.I visited with black residents of West #Baltimore, MD who, under curfew, had to present work papers to police to enter and exit their own neighborhood. “These are my freedom papers to show the slave catchers,” my friend said with a wry smile.And now, in the past 6 days, I’ve seen arson attacks against 5 black churches in the South, including in Charlotte, NC where I organize alongside other community members striving to create greater self-sufficiency and political empowerment in low-income neighborhoods.

Read more at

http://colorofchange.org/InHerWords-full-statement/

#BreeNewsome was released from jail yesterday and the state is throwing the book at her. She and Jimmy Tyson, the white ally supporting her from the ground, were both charged with “defacing monuments on state capitol grounds” and face up to 3 years in prison and up to a $5,000 fine. This follows a growing trend of prosecutors from Oakland to Baltimore and across the country overcharging people who take non-violent direct action in defense of Black lives.
Bree’s next court appearance is scheduled for the end of July. Very soon, we’ll be in touch with more specific ways you can take action to support Bree and help force South Carolina prosecutors to drop the charges. In the meantime, it is incredibly important that we share her story widely and add more voices to the nearly 75,000 ColorOfChange members like you who have already called for the charges to be dropped. #LinkInBio
#TakeDownTheFlag #TakeItDownSC
#wepost from @heh_heru2

This is a leader. Not those silly coons and prayers you see on the TEL-A-LIE-VISION.