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Black Lives Matter Has Released An Official List Of Demands For The First Time
BI - AP ^ | 8-1-2016 | Errin Haines Whack

Posted on 08/01/2016 9:48:17 AM PDT by blam

Errin Haines Whack
August 1, 2016

Ahead of the second anniversary of the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, that touched off a wave of protests nationwide, a coalition of more than 60 organizations affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement has issued a list of demands calling for policing and criminal-justice reforms.

The agenda, titled "A Vision for Black Lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom and Justice," was released Monday by the Movement for Black Lives. The platform also comes after both the Republican and Democratic conventions, during which Black Lives Matter activists were noticeably absent from protest lines.

"We seek radical transformation, not reactionary reform," Michaela Brown, a spokeswoman for Baltimore Bloc, one of the group's partner organizations, said in a statement. "As the 2016 election continues, this platform provides us with a way to intervene with an agenda that resists state and corporate power, an opportunity to implement policies that truly value the safety and humanity of Black lives, and an overall means to hold elected leaders accountable."

The agenda outlines six demands and offers 40 recommendations on how to address them.

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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blm; cops; leo; race; racism
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1 posted on 08/01/2016 9:48:17 AM PDT by blam
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yeah yeah, we all know what it is anyways, kill whitey, hate whitey, make whitey pay, blah blah,


2 posted on 08/01/2016 9:51:03 AM PDT by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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To: blam

#1. Free stuff
#2. See #1


3 posted on 08/01/2016 9:52:01 AM PDT by Donglalinger
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To: blam

Would like to know what their demands are.
But am not clicking BI as it always freezes my browser.


4 posted on 08/01/2016 9:52:33 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: blam

Was “Free Grape Drink” in there?


5 posted on 08/01/2016 9:52:33 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: blam

Here it comes: Reparations
I called this two years ago and the final push for Obama Executive Order.
If Hillary gets in trouble, it will be her Race Card


6 posted on 08/01/2016 9:53:27 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: blam

No ponies?


7 posted on 08/01/2016 9:53:52 AM PDT by chrisser
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To: PGR88

lol


8 posted on 08/01/2016 9:54:04 AM PDT by Huck (This is my opinion. There are many like it but this one is mine.)
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To: blam

President Obama and Hillary Clinton will get right on it


9 posted on 08/01/2016 9:54:20 AM PDT by jokemoke
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To: PGR88

It’s spelled “drank”, you rayciss a-hole!

As in “It was a dark and stormy night, and I got my drank on”.


10 posted on 08/01/2016 9:54:27 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: blam

does anybody give a rat’s a.. da..
what a bunch of Soros-financed violent thugs “demand?”

isn’t it time for Soros to be prosecuted?


11 posted on 08/01/2016 9:54:39 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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Carbondale, Illinois officer shot, transported to St. Louis
WPSDLOCAL6.COM ^ | August 1, 2016 | By Krystle Callais

Posted on 8/1/2016, 6:34:53 AM by KeyLargo

CARBONDALE, IL -

A Carbondale police officer was last reported in serious condition after being shot late Sunday evening.

The Carbondale Police Department says around 11:38 p.m., officers were on patrol in the 700 block of North Robert A. Stalls Street when they determined gunshots were being fired.

While driving toward the source of the gunshots, they saw a tan four-door car driving away from the scene.

The officers started to pursue the tan car.

During the chase, a suspect fired several gunshots from the tan car.

The shots hit the police car and one of the officers inside.

The officer was taken to a local hospital and then transferred to a St.Louis area hospital.

He was last listed in serious condition.

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12 posted on 08/01/2016 9:56:05 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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Or else..............! But the “hole” organization(?) shouldn’t be judged as violent by the actions of a few uh, lone wolves is what I think they’re called these days. Now, if you happen to belong to GOA or NRA or JPFO or some other pro 2nd Amendment group, well, there are exceptions to judging entire organizations.


13 posted on 08/01/2016 9:56:31 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: blam; All

So, where is this “list?”


14 posted on 08/01/2016 9:57:11 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: blam

List of demands: Sounds like a terrorist group.


15 posted on 08/01/2016 9:59:01 AM PDT by Trumplican
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Odd the article didn’t list them all...means they must be pretty bad.

Here’s a link, if you care to give them a click:

https://policy.m4bl.org/

End the war on black people
Reparations
Invest-Divest
Economic Justice
Community Control
Political Power

The leftists are in a pickle now. They’ve race baited for 40 years, and now they reap what they sowed. Do they affirmatively support BLM’s demands...if they don’t, they risk losing the black vote...if they do, they lose the working man vote (including working blacks).


16 posted on 08/01/2016 9:59:05 AM PDT by lacrew
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To: Zathras

“We seek radical transformation, not reactionary reform”

I’ve posted several times as the ghetto violence was kicking up several notches that the scales have fallen from the hood-rats’ eyes; Obama’s presidency is drawing to a close and they are much worse off than before. They now realize if they got less than nothing from him they can expect no better when People That Matter are back in the White House and on their TV screens again. For them both Hillary and Trump spell four more years of irrelevance, illiteracy, and misery...


17 posted on 08/01/2016 10:02:39 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: lacrew
Just like in capitalism, this is a sales pitch.

We just need to counter offer with: "Here is $100,000.00 cash and a plane ticket to Liberia, or any sub-Saharan country of your choice. You'll be a king there. Entire villages in a lifetime don't have $100,000 USD. Just renounce your citizenship, turn in your passport, and sign here".
"Oh yeah, read the fine print. If you return, we feed you to the polar bears in Nome, AK".

18 posted on 08/01/2016 10:02:47 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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To: Cobra64

It is a verbal list; alphabets are so Euro-centric...


19 posted on 08/01/2016 10:03:59 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: blam
The agenda outlines six demands

NO.

Your move.

20 posted on 08/01/2016 10:04:24 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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