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“The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” - Malcolm X
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What an honor to have the opportunity to be apart of something so monumental! Hearing all the speakers and @real_sharpton give their messages and their demands for change was such an inspiring feeling. Listening to the families speak about their loved ones who’s lives were taken at the hands of those officers really makes you think about the changes we need to see in America.
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The end of my newest spoken word piece “Being Brown (For Mike Brown)”. Performing this very soon, somewhere. #spokenwordartist #spokenword #poetry #creativewriting #spilledink #blackpoetry #blackpoets #MikeBrown
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“The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” - Malcolm X
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The Audre Lorde Project in Solidarity With Ferguson
The Audre Lorde Project is in solidarity with Michael Brown’s family and all of the families and communities of people affected by racist state violence.
We are in solidarity with the Black and allied organizers who continue to rise up against the countless number of Black people stolen from us by white supremacist state violence. We recognize that a system that refuses to indict Darren Wilson is not a broken system; it is a system that is working precisely as it was designed to. It is a system that manifests as the continuation of colonialism and slavery.
We join our communities in the streets not because we believe Darren Wilson should be placed into jail, but because we demaand transformative systems of justice, reparations, and self-determination and self defense for our communities. We join our communities in the streets not only because of a ruling by a court, but because we know that this moment is part of a historical movement for racial and economic justice. We join our communities in the streets because we know that power belongs to the people!
We know that the assault on Black dignity is not just about Michael Brown and Ferguson. It’s about Akai Kareem Gurley who was shot in Brooklyn by the police this past weekend. It’s about Eric Garner who was choked to death by NYPD in Staten Island a few months ago. It’s about Islan Nettles a Black trans woman who was attacked and left dying in front of a police station last year. It’s about Marissa Alexander and the many Black women who are criminalized for defending their families and lives. It’s about militarized policing domestically and internationally from Ferguson to Palestine to Mexico. When we say that #BlackLivesMatter we include queer people, trans and gender non-conforming people, women, people with mental and physical disabilities, people engaged in the sex trades, sex workers, undocumented peoples, migrants, indigenous people, incarcerated people, people without stable housing, people living with HIV/AIDS, and other marginalized peoples. As Audre Lorde reminds us, “There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
We refuse to accept a single issue struggle that positions our struggles as somehow contradictory. We commit ourselves to a truly intersectional vision of social justice that uplifts the collective power, safety and well being of all our communities. We understand the routine surveillance, criminalization, and incarceration of communities of color in this country as not only a crisis of racial profiling, but also gender policing. We affirm the experiences and leadership of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, two spirit, and gender non-conforming people of color who are often erased from the telling of our movement histories even as we are often and consistently at the front lines.
We demand and work for our collective freedom and dignity. Despite these shameful acts of violence and attempted genocide of our communities, we incite a movement of transformation, love, and liberation.
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FIERCE is a membership-based organization building the leadership and power of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth of color in New York City.
What is justice in the United States of America? Who does the justice system serve and work to protect? FIERCE, people across the United States, and the world are asking these questions after Monday’s announcement of the grand jury’s decision not to indict white Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson in the murder of Michael Brown.
This verdict sent a loud and very clear message about the value placed on the lives of black people. It says, that black lives mean nothing. It says, that it is okay to kill black people just because of the color of their skin. It says, Jim Crow laws and culture are not an era of atrocity in history but a present vicious subversive reality used to continue to imprison, beat, and kill black bodies with no accountability for the anti-black genocide that is being committed in this country.
As LGBTQ youth organizers fighting against police brutality since 2000, we see this as an issue for not only black people but for queer people of color. We are often forced to choose between our Queer identities and our identities as people of color. FIERCE for the past 15 years has been working to bring all our experiences and identities to the table in which to organize from and for. Our complexity and our intersections are the foundation from which we dream and work towards freedom for ourselves, one another and the communities we stand in solidarity with. We took to the streets the past two nights as Queer people of color, as Queer & Trans youth of color to stand in solidarity with the people of Ferguson, Missouri to call an end to the anti-black genocide being committed by those who wear blue and a badge.
We stand strong with Michael Brown’s family, the people of Furgerson, black people, black, women, queer people, trans women, and our allies because we can no longer be silent. Enough is enough! Not one more Black life lost! We are calling on our community and allies to stand strong. We call on you to continue to stand in solidarity to show that black lives matter. Our lives matter! We call on you to demand justice for Mia Henderson, Aniya Parker, Tiffany Edwards, Yaz’min Shancez, Brittany-Nicole Kidd-Stergis, Alejandra Leos, Kandy Hall and all Trans women of color who were murdered this past year and whose lives were treated with complete disregard demonstrated by the lack of justice delivered. As Queer & Trans people of color, we often see and hear stories of black Trans women being brutalized and killed by police. These stories are almost never covered by mainstream media.
For black lives lost from police brutality, we call on you to demand justice for Yvette Smith, Eleanor Bumpurs, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Tarika Wilson, and all other black women who lost their lives to police brutality. We call on you to demand justice for Eric Garner, Ramarley Graham and for Akai Gurley. We call on you to demand Justice for Mike Brown and to sign the online petitiononcolorofchange.orgcalling for President Obama and Attorney General Holder to bring federal charges against Officer Wilson for the murder of 18 year old, Michael Brown.
FIERCE will continue our critical work of organizing Queer and Trans youth of color led campaigns that work to decriminalize and empower our communities by holding the NYPD accountable for unlawful, abusive and discriminatory policing. As we demand an end to broken windows policing, we demand justice for Mike Brown and all victims of police violence. No Justice! No Peace!
