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Panich52

(5,829 posts)
Tue Aug 25, 2015, 11:43 AM Aug 2015

A #BlackLivesMatter goal achieved (small steps...)

A #BLACKLIVESMATTER GOAL ACHIEVED

Courts serving Ferguson, Mo., wipe out past warrants, court fees.

Al Jazeera America: “A new municipal judge in Ferguson, Missouri, on Monday ordered sweeping changes to court practices in response to a scathing Justice Department report following the police shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown a year ago. … The changes come five months after the U.S. Department of Justice strongly criticized city leaders in its report, saying the police force and court worked together to exploit people in order to raise revenue.”

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/8/24/judge-overhauls-troubled-ferguson-missouri-court.html

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A #BlackLivesMatter goal achieved (small steps...) (Original Post) Panich52 Aug 2015 OP
We have been ecstatic in this forum. #BLM is kicking SO MUCH ASS Number23 Aug 2015 #1
HELL YES randys1 Aug 2015 #4
Awesome! Thanks for putting that in your sig, Randy Number23 Aug 2015 #5
+1. nt seabeyond Aug 2015 #10
The warrants HassleCat Aug 2015 #2
Keep filming! Keep reporting! Keep protesting! GitRDun Aug 2015 #3
I'm surprised this wasn't bigger news. It's frickin' huge. Starry Messenger Aug 2015 #6
The principals of the movement were on Lawrence's show tonight DAMANgoldberg Aug 2015 #7
Great news. lovemydog Aug 2015 #8
Thank you DOJ under AG Holder for this! Mahalo for this, Panich~ Cha Aug 2015 #9
this is why one speaks out. it is said nothing is accomplished. bull... we have seabeyond Aug 2015 #11
Next I want to see acknowledgment that the ONLY reason the DOJ couldnt charge the murdering randys1 Aug 2015 #12
Excellent news. qwlauren35 Aug 2015 #13

Number23

(24,544 posts)
1. We have been ecstatic in this forum. #BLM is kicking SO MUCH ASS
Tue Aug 25, 2015, 11:50 AM
Aug 2015

They are incredibly inspiring and the amount that they've achieved this year alone has been amazing.

Folks should go to the Campaign Zero web site to see how all of the current candidates are shaping up on the goals of #BLM.

http://www.joincampaignzero.org/#campaign

randys1

(16,286 posts)
4. HELL YES
Tue Aug 25, 2015, 12:36 PM
Aug 2015

link goes in my sig this instant

If you want to be president of the USA, you will deal with BLM or you will suffer the political consequences.

PERIOD

 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
2. The warrants
Tue Aug 25, 2015, 11:54 AM
Aug 2015

Cancelling all those warrants was a major, major thing. It goes beyond merely admitting the police and courts were shaking down citizens, disproportionately black citizens. It's corrective action, something we don't see very often.

GitRDun

(1,846 posts)
3. Keep filming! Keep reporting! Keep protesting!
Tue Aug 25, 2015, 11:56 AM
Aug 2015

I believe people are basically good. It's very easy for us to slip into the daily business of our lives.

BLM has done an incredible job of keeping the issue of racial inequality in our faces....we need that!

Good people will change things, sometimes we just need someone to shake us....and that's what BLM does.

Tip of the cap...

Starry Messenger

(32,342 posts)
6. I'm surprised this wasn't bigger news. It's frickin' huge.
Tue Aug 25, 2015, 07:49 PM
Aug 2015

#BlackLivesMatter is kicking ass and taking names!

DAMANgoldberg

(1,278 posts)
7. The principals of the movement were on Lawrence's show tonight
Tue Aug 25, 2015, 11:51 PM
Aug 2015
Brittany Packnett and Deray McKeeson brought attention to their Campaign Zero imitative, and Lawrence actually showed the graphic most associated with it.
 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
11. this is why one speaks out. it is said nothing is accomplished. bull... we have
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 09:28 AM
Aug 2015

evidence why we speak out. between blm, the protestors, doj and obamas conversations, this is what can be done.

if one puts these wedge issues on the back burner, then.... nothing is accomplished.

this is the time



randys1

(16,286 posts)
12. Next I want to see acknowledgment that the ONLY reason the DOJ couldnt charge the murdering
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 01:50 PM
Aug 2015

white cop in Ferguson was because they could not prove he wasnt in fear for his life.

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