“A riot is the language of the unheard” MLK 1968
Posted: 2015/04/30 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/Video0
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SpeakUpFL.org is taking donations! Help end the New Jim Crow in Central Florida
Posted: 2015/04/29 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/Video
Speak-Up-Florida is an organization of community activists and leaders who are concerned about the systematic practices which cause disempowerment in our communities which is the result of the “War on Drugs”.
Our Vision is to develop grassroots leadership within the most vulnerable and oppressed of our communities, so that they may spearhead the Movement to End the New Jim Crow (attitudes, practices, policies, and laws of oppression) in collaboration and alliance with the rest of members of society of all walks of life.
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“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground” (Fredrick Douglass, 1857)
Posted: 2015/04/29 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoTags: #BaltimoreUprising, Baltimore, justice, racism, violence
The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. . . . If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. . .. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. . . . If we ever get free from the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and if needs be, by our lives and the lives of others. (Frederick Douglass, 1857)
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On today’s show we’ll talk about the Baltimore Uprising in context #BaltimoreUprising
Posted: 2015/04/29 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoTags: Baltimore, justice, police brutality, racism
We will have several local grassroots activists in the studio including our regular Miguel Adams from Speak Up Florida-The Movement to End the New Jim Crow (more details will be posted with the podcast).
We’ll try to be pragmatic and realistic but we will NOT allow ourselves to fall into the disgusting white supremacist racist rhetoric of the majority of the mainstream press and politicians (including President Obama).
It’s going to get ugly >:/
Punkonomics (@DearBalak) 