"We have one goal and that is to speak to Governor Scott and have a special session convene," Dream Defender Melanie Andrade told WCTV. "So if he says no, we're going to have to stay here. I mean, we're not going to leave."
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I doubt these protests or so called “marches” this weekend will end peacefully. I will throw my life savings on that comment that’s how sure I am there will be violence.
We also know that Occupy leadership coordinated their efforts with UNITE HERE and UNITE HERE's partners in Change to Win.
All donations to Occupy were deposited with Amalgamated Bank, which is owned by UNITE HERE.
These are seasoned professional protestors.
They make no secret of it. The MSM is just too lazy to Google the names of the people they are interviewing.
‘Professional’ uhhh,,
No,,
The ‘Paid Political AgitProptators’ aka mob on the leftist dole.
The PPA
Very Interesting
Is this group approved through the IRS? If so, how can they be approved and not a Tea Party group?
I did notice a bunch of unwashed holding signs with the revcom.us url on them.
So, I went there.
Revolutionary Communist Party of the U.S.
Damn commies!
All these techniques would be very familiar to Mao and Lenin.
Wonder which Czar is in charge of it.
do you think maybe . . . wait for it . . . Cass Sunstine - husband to Samantha Powers Ranger?
George Zimmerman is going to need an army of process servers.
Southern Poverty Law Center
"We have one goal and that is to speak to Governor Scott and have a special session convene," Dream Defender Melanie Andrade told WCTV. "So if he says no, we're going to have to stay here. I mean, we're not going to leave."
No doubt the radicals are behind the protests.
http://www.cpusa.org/communist-party-justice-for-trayvon-martin/
http://www.dsausa.org/justice_for_trayvon_denied
http://www.pslweb.org/liberationnews/events/la-rally-716-justice-for-trayvon.html
http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/774/17111/17-07-2013/usa-zimmerman-trayvon-and-racism
http://www.workers.org/2013/07/17/no-justice-for-trayvon-martin-no-peace-for-capitalist-system/
http://socialistparty-california.org/2013/07/14/statement-on-the-george-zimmerman-acquittal/
http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/churches-denouncing-zimmerman-exposed/
Melanie Andrade (center-right), outreach director for FAMU's Dream Defenders chapter, gets a hug after reading on the Capitol steps.
Melanie Andrade, a second-year English student and Dream Defender from Poinciana, discovered the school-to-prison pipeline, following the passing of SB (Senate Bill) 2112. According to a summary from the Florida Senate, the bill allows counties “to operate their own detention facility if they cover the financial cost of detention care for pre-adjudicated juveniles” and provides that a county is exempt from the provisions of sections of Florida Statutes “if they are in compliance with specific provisions.”
Andrade said the law allows juveniles to be housed in adult facilities.
“That’s an atrocity,” she said. “Besides repealing that law, this town hall meeting will shed light on the issues surrounding the school-to-prison pipeline.”
The Dream Defenders oppose the school-to-prison pipeline. The organization believes the pipeline targets at-risk children by throwing them in the juvenile and criminal system.
Elijah Armstrong, a fourth-year political science student from Lakeland and president of The Dream Defenders, said minority children are targeted.
“It is simply the direct funneling of young people, predominantly people of color, into the prison systems from schools,” Armstrong said. “With policies like the zero tolerance policy, kids are criminalized at a young age. In Polk County’s case, children as young as 8 are incarcerated.”
The Dream Defenders received statewide coverage after 15 members were arrested, following an organized blockage of the intersection of Yamato Road and Military Trail in Boca Raton to raise awareness of the criminalization of young black and brown children.
Dream Defenders
Hello,
I am Elijah Armstrong a field organizer for Dream Defenders. I recently graduated from the world’s greatest HBCU, Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University!!! Rattler Nation Stand Up. Lol. I have the honor of serving as this year’s National Student Power Convergence HBCU Outreach Coordinator.
Here is our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/studentpower2013
In Tallahassee Tuesday, a student group known as the Dream Defenders, held a rally at the Florida Capitol.
Called a statewide “Day of Action”, the group dedicated to social change through non-violent civil disobedience, is asking Gov. Rick Scott to call a special session of the legislature to review the Stand Your Ground law, among others.
The students began a sit-in at Gov. Scott’s office and said they would stay until they get to speak with the governor. However, Scott was in New York and planned to go later in the day to New Jersey for an television appearance.
On its website, the group posted, “Dream Defenders demand that Governor Rick Scott call a special session of the Florida legislature to address the issues at the center of the Trayvon Martin tragedy: stand your ground vigilantism, racial profiling and a war on youth that paints us as criminals and funnels us out of schools and into jails.”
The group says many state laws disproportionately affect minority youth.
The website states, ”We are here to honor the memory of Trayvon Martin and pay respects to his family. This tragedy serves as a vivid reminder of the pain felt by our communities, in which we are profiled, criminalized and targeted. Unless we take action nothing will change. Saturday’s verdict showed the world that Florida has no value for the life of its children. This is an opportunity for Governor Rick Scott and the Florida legislature to prove their commitment to the next generation of Floridians.”
“Together we are united in ensuring Trayvon’s unjust death was not for nothing. Our anger in the face of gross injustice has led us to take action but it is the love of our people and our community that pushes us forward. We are here because Trayvon can’t be.”
The controversial “Stand Your Ground” law gives a person immunity from prosecution for using deadly force if the person reasonably believes he or she is in danger.
George Zimmerman did not use the Stand Your Ground law defense at his trial, he used self-defense.
Zimmerman was cleared of all charges in the case, and went free on Saturday. His whereabouts are unknown.