“Hi. I’m a real lawyer and here’s some free advice if you’re going to any of the various protests, marches, etc. this week.

- Do not engage in illegal activity, even if it is harmless or unrelated to the event. Don’t smoke pot, don’t obstruct traffic, don’t kick a sign post. DO NOT GIVE THE POLICE A REASON TO ARREST YOU. Comply with all lawful orders made by police. If you do any of this, be prepared to be arrested. Civil disobedience, while admirable, sometimes requires sacrifice; you will be charged even if your cause is righteous.

- It will be cold. Dress in layers. Wear comfortable clothing that you won’t mind wearing for a very long time. Wear shoes that don’t have laces, if possible. Wear clothing that does not require a belt. If you are arrested, your laces and belts will likely be confiscated.

- Google the phone number for the National Lawyers Guild and write it in Sharpie on one or both of your forearms. If you are arrested, you will want to call them.

- Disable the fingerprint ID on your phone and enable the passcode function. Police can force you to place your fingerprint on your phone but they cannot force you to enter in the passcode. Refuse all requests/demands to open your phone unless you are presented with a warrant.

- Bring a valid government issued photo ID that has your name., address, and date of birth on it. This will make things go more smoothly for you

- You are not required to answer any questions from police unless you are being detained. If an officer asks you a question, ask him/her if you are being detained. If you are being detained you have the right to know why you’re being detained. If he/she says no, walk away.

- Police are not required to read you your Miranda rights when you are arrested. This is a persistent myth. Police must inform you of your Miranda rights if they are interrogating you. Interrogation does not include asking you your name, address, date of birth, etc. You must answer these questions. Anything after answering basic identification questions, you have the right to have an attorney present.

- Police will not just give you an attorney. You have to ask for one. In some states, asking the first time requires the police to stop interrogation. In other states, you may have to ask more than once. They may try to goad you into answering questions after you ask for an attorney. Once you request an attorney, do not answer any more questions no matter what. Do not answer any questions past basic ID questions until you have an attorney present.

Please feel free to share.”

Memorize this.

18 players THIS WEEK next week 100s

Log Out Day FAQs

So if you haven’t seen the post on my other blog (@dontletthemcallyouskinny) yet, Log Out Day is going to be  a day where we log out In protest of Tumblr not acknowledging Black History Month. On the day before the 1 year anniversary of the Blackout we’re logging out for 24 hours. Then on Blackout day we’ll log back in and show how them much we matter! 

People have been asking lots of question about Log Out Day so I wanted to answer some of them in order to make log out day as effective as possible. 

What time are we logging out?

It has been suggested that we log out 12 pm GMT time on March 4th so that everyone is logged out at least 24 hours and it’s noticeable right before Blackout. 

Do we have to log out or just not post?

I think we should log out but if you’re afraid you’re not going to remember your password just not posting should suffice. If you want to participate but you have things in queue please stop it

Can I participate if I’m white?

Of course. A few white people have said they’ll be participating and are looking at it as a way to celebrate Blackout Day without appropriating. There’s always strength in numbers so the more people the better. 

What is this going to accomplish?

To be honest, I’m not quite sure. I hoping that we’ll be able to send a message though. I just want us channel our frustrations constructively. To just complain about the staff while continuing to use the website isn’t productive. We’ve been doing that for a while now with no results. So let’s try a protest. I know a lot of people are wondering what’s the point if we’re just going to log back in the next day. Think of it as a virtual walk out. The students that participate in walk outs have to go back to school eventually but they get their point across and that’s what this is about, making a point. If it accomplishes nothing then it’s up to you to decided wether or not you want to continue to use a website that obviously isn’t here for you. 

I’m going to be bored what am I going to do that day?

We can use a hashtag on other social media sites like twitter, instagram, even facebook if you guys want and that’ll keep us connected that day just not on tumblr. You can us #LogOutDay or #BlackOutDay to get BlackOut Day trending before it starts since it usually takes a little while anyway. 

Boost this please so that everybody who wants to participate can all be on the same page!

Reblog and spread the word guys!

I’m so doing this.. 💪🏽

This just in:

Feminists protesting in Ferguson believe that not injuring people is equivalent to racism and misogyny.

“Is statist” coming from one of the biggest fucking supporters of the state on the planet.

Nonviolence is racist… I guess Dr Martin Luther King Jr never got that memo? 

I’m sure he got the memo when y’all shot him in the face so what’s your point.

shots. fired.

I’m only sharing tweets for those who are not on twitter and can’t see how passionate and outraged journalists are as they tweet from #Ferguson.

If you are on Twitter, here’s a good roster of people to follow if you want to keep updated.

The Indigenous Nationhood Movement Stands in Solidarity with Ferguson and All Our Relatives Fighting for Freedom from a Broken System.

#BlackLivesMatter #IndictTheSystem 

More than 2,250 Walmart stores on strike on Black Friday November 28, 2014

OurWalmart explains the reason for the strike:

Income inequality is the highest it’s been since 1928. Corporate profits are at an all-time high. Meanwhile, wages are at the lowest point since 1948 – even as productivity increases.

No one family is driving this trend quite like Walmart’s owners, the Waltons. The Walton family is the richest family in America with nearly $150 billion in wealth and as much money as 43% of American families combined. And yet, most Walmart workers make less than just $25,000 a year. That’s why community members are joining their calls for increased wages and access to hours. Stand with us and join us on Black Friday if the Waltons fail to respond.

While Rob, Alice and the rest of the Waltons are by far the richest family in America, many of the Walmart workers who helped to build that fortune are struggling just to get by. Workers at Walmart are looking for fair shot, but the silver-spooned Walton family is robbing them of a decent living.

To find a protest near you visit: http://www.blackfridayprotests.org/

Source

WE ASK THE WORLD TO KEEP AN EYE ON US TODAY. On September 26, 2014, 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. According to official reports, they had travelled to Iguala that day to hold a protest for what they considered discriminatory hiring and funding practices by the government. During the journey the local police intercepted them and a confrontation ensued. Details of what happened during and after the clash remain unclear, but the official investigation concluded that once the students were in custody, they were handed over to the Guerreros Unidos crime syndicate and presumably killed.

Mexican authorities believe that Iguala mayor José Luis Abarca Velázquez and his wife María de los Ángeles Pineda Villa were the probable masterminds of the abduction. Both of them became fugitives after the incident along with the town’s police chief Felipe Flores Velásquez. The couple was arrested about a month later in Mexico City. The mass kidnapping of the students quickly snowballed into the biggest political and public security scandal Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto had faced in his administration. It led to massive protests all across Mexico, particularly in the state of Guerrero and Mexico City, and condemnations at a global scale.

A mass grave, initially believed to contain the charred bodies of 28 of the students, was discovered near Iguala on October 5, 2014. They had been tortured and, according to reports, burned alive, three gang members confessed to loading them on to trucks, murdering them at a landfill, burning their bodies and dumping their remains in a river. “The detainees pointed out that in this area they took the lives of the survivors and then they put them under the rubbish dump where they burnt the bodies.”They took shifts so that the fire lasted hours, using diesel, petrol, tires, plastic.” Subsequent reports raised the estimate of the number of found bodies to 34. On October 14, police announced that forensic tests had shown that none of the 28 bodies from the first mass grave corresponded to the missing students, but the same day four additional graves, with an unknown number of bodies, were discovered.

Many protesters in Mexico City carried handmade banners with the words Ya me cansé (“I’ve Had Enough” or “I’m Tired”), in reference to a comment made by Mexico’s attorney general, Jesús Murillo, at the end of the press conference on Friday. The phrase has been turned on its head to express public exhaustion with both the violence that has taken hold in many parts of Mexico, where organised criminal activity is protected by corrupt authorities, as well as the federal government’s failure to act against it, which many believe underpins the events in Iguala. Protesters also chanted: “It was the state”, in an effort to push home the message that the federal authorities have yet to accept the depth of the institutional crisis exposed by the apparent massacre.

Please

don’t believe when they say that the 43 missing students of Ayotzinapa were brutally murdered. The government has not presented any physical proofs. The parents of the missing boys have not accepted the government’s explanation, arguing that it is merely a strategy to shut them down. They demand the truth, the Mexican state is a criminal state, and it will do anything to shake this case off.

We demand that the truth about Mexico has to be told, our media is partial to our corrupt government, but we have social media and we have our streets, we will march, we will protest, we will not remain silent.

These 43 students are not the first ones and we know they won’t be the last ones. We are tired of a repressor, murderer and corrupt government that kills its own people. DON’T LEAVE US ALONE. WE COULD CHANGE. WE COULD SAVE LIVES, WE NEED EACH OTHER.

PLEASE SHARE OUR INFORMATION, OUR VIDEOS, OUR PLIGHT.

"WE WERE SEARCHING FOR 43 BUT WE FOUND HUNDRED, THOUSANDS, WITHOUT A FACE, WITHOUT AN IDENTITY."

#AccionGlobalporAyotzinapa #JusticeForAyotzinapa #YaMeCanse

THIS IS URGENT, PLEASE SPREAD THIS. Jalisco, November 26th

Elements of the Fuerza Única, Jalisco, detained students of the Escuela Normal Rural de Atequiza as they headed towards the town of La Barca, Jalisco. Right now they are surrounded by nine patrols and they’re demanding them to get off the bus.

"This is getting bad, they already drew their weapons and there is an element that is very aggressive. One of the students asked them if they were like the cops of Iguala, who disappear students, and the police responded, ‘Yes, we are like that’, and that is a direct threat,” says one of the students through his phone.

The normalista, who requested anonymity, said they were going from Atequiza to La Barca to pick up some comrades who had participated in a demonstration with farmers (a protest to put pressure on the goverment for the recent events regarding Ayotzinapa, and the way they neglect resources to their rural schools), but before reaching Ocotlán, a van blocked their way in the highroad.

"They stopped us, got us off the truck and a police started pushing us, threatening us, all while swearing at us. We asked him why they were detaining us if we did nothing illegal." He further added that they have them surrounded while pointing at them with guns and flashlights.

During the call you can hear how the police elements yell at students and try to take their phones to prevent being recorded.

Source [x]

A friend of mine told me they already took 8 girls with them, and that there’s already a bunch of riot elements surrounding the school AND the manifestants of La Barca.

It is worth mentioning that the students of Atequiza belong to the same Student Federation as the missing students from Ayotzinapa. Also, the Fuerza Única Police are elements that just love hiding their badges and getting involved in corruption cases.

This is real, and this is happening right now. The goverment is going after every single rural school and won’t stop until they shut them down, like they’ve been doing since the last century. Around the 30’s, there were 36 Escuelas Rurales Normales, nowadays, there’s only 16.

Remember.

his life was totally in danger.

^^^^

True story; this officer (John Pike) got a settlement of $38,000 because he said he got depressed after pepper spraying these kids. Oh, the depression wasn’t for feeling remorseful for pepper spraying a bunch of college kids peacefully protesting. He got depressed because he said since the media kept playing the video of him pepper spraying peaceful kids without cause, he got threats and didn’t feel safe. He didn’t feel safe. I’m not making that up. This motherfucker collected nearly 40 grand on worker’s comp after assaulting a bunch of college kids.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/23/pepper-spray-cop-settlement_n_4152147.html

This is beyond a fucking joke. Destroy the police.

Change the police. Make the police accountable. Hold the “balance of power” in check. Change policies. Educate civilians. Expose the truth. Make change. 

no destroy the police

you can’t change this you can’t fix this

cleanse the earth

Hedy Epstein, a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor, has been taken into custody by police in Ferguson over her protesting and blocking an entrance to the Nixon building. 

a Holocaust survivor spent more time in jail than Darren Wilson

think about that

Stop FucKKKing Killing Us

From #DCFerguson Protests (Nov. 24-25)

More pics: HERE

Photos by: Mikael Owunna (owning-my-truth)

KEEP FERGUSON WARM

THERE HAS BEEN AN AMAZING RESPONSE TO THE SUGGESTION OF A KNITTING AND DONATION DRIVE FOR FERGUSON. I THINK IT WOULD BE GREAT TO GET STARTED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. INFO AND GUIDELINES FOR WHAT TO SEND AND HOW UNDER THE CUT!

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