With the endracism. The mayor condemned the nooses and allowanced the police would launch a hate Crime Investigation. The mayor said even though there were claims the nooses were used for exercise equipment, that does not excuse them. When officers searched the lake, they found five ropes attached to multiple trees. We spoke to one africanamerican man who shared this video of people using the ropes as swings. He tells us theyve been up for months and the purpose was to have fun, not to instill fear. Maybe that big, just enough to put a harness on it so you can swing yourself. We have to start with the assumption that these are hate crimes. We cannot take these actions lightly. We have to take them seriously. Reporter and the mayor says the findings from opds hate Crime Investigation will be turned over to the fbi. And she was pretty adamant about this, that these symbols of hate crime, regardless of the intention, they will not be tolerated in oakland, especially if a public place. Tha
To kind of challenge the ways thathat in much of our public conversation today there is a kind of dangerous i think distinction being made between whats being treated as the good old Civil Rights Movement and the sort of movements for Racial Justice and black lives matter today. These are very dangerous distinctions and i think really looking at the history of rosa parks and particularly look at the history of rosa parks through criminal justice, really challenges these distinctions that some commentators are making today. And so i think a real look at rosa parks remind us from scottsboro to emmett till and jeremiah reeds distorted campaigns for justice for black women who were raped to the kind of criminalization of organizing that we see with Highlander Folk School and the bus buck offs to all of the Defense Committees she served on to all the antiPolice Brutality work she did sitting on the peoples tribunal after the 1967 detroit uprising and on and on. I think seeing that scope giv
It is not a secret an injustice has been done. Now, Governor Perdue has an opportunity to right the wrong. We cannot go back to 1980. This is 2012. The North Carolina governor is being urged to pardon a group of civil rights activists were falsely convicted and imprisoned 40 years ago for the firebombing of a white owned Grocery Store. The conviction wic overturned in 1980, but the state has never pardon them. We will speak with one of the wilmington 10 who served eight years behind bars and it became head of the naacp. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama is set to meet with congressional leaders at the white house just three days before a year in deadline to avoid the socalled fiscal cliff. Some 600 billion in automatic spending cuts and tax increases will take effect if no agreement is reached. Obama and the rest of republicans remain of the impasse over the republican refusal to allow ta
It is not a secret an injustice has been done. Now, Governor Perdue has an opportunity to right the wrong. We cannot go back to 1980. This is 2012. The North Carolina governor is being urged to pardon a group of civil rights activists were falsely convicted and imprisoned 40 years ago for the firebombing of a white owned Grocery Store. The conviction was overturned in 1980, but the state has never pardon them. We will speak with one of the wilmington 10 who served eight years behind bars and it became head of the naacp. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama is set to meet with congressional leaders at the white house just three days before a year in deadline to avoid the socalled fiscal cliff. Some 600 billion in automatic spending cuts and tax increases will take effect if no agreement is reached. Obama and the rest of republicans remain of the impasse over the republican refusal to allow ta
Domestic surveillance program. Then, will the government of nerve North Carolina pardon the wilmington 10 . It is not a secret an injustice has been done. Now, Governor Perdue has an opportunity to right the wrong. We cannot go back to 1980. This is 2012. The North Carolina governor is being urged to pardon a group of civil rights activists were falsely convicted and imprisoned 40 years ago for the firebombing of a white owned Grocery Store. The conviction was overturned in 1980, but the state has never pardon them. We will speak with one of the wilmington 10 who served eight years behind bars and it became head of the naacp. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama is set to meet with congressional leaders at the white house just three days before a year in deadline to avoid the socalled fiscal cliff. Some 600 billion in automatic spending cuts and tax increases will take effect if no agreement