Second American Revolution, Day 1 from Mike Flugennock on Vimeo.
Ten thousand in DC in solidarity with Ferguson, they were saying last night. No matter what, it was still a healthy, enthusiastic crowd — not violent at any stretch, but they sure as hell weren’t “peaceful”.
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So, the Ferguson grand jury let that murdering pig walk. Disgusting, but not surprising.
Now the people’s rage is spilling into the streets, and the corporate media — and their Liberal flunkies — are trying to divide the people’s movements against each other with that tired old bullshit about “good protesters” and “bad protesters” — with “bad protesters”, in this case, being anyone who actually does something to disrupt the status quo to bring about real change instead of just standing around with a sign singing “We Shall Overcome”.
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As far back as I can remember — the late ’60s or so — after every outbreak of police violence, government officials and media droids would try to blow it off with some hand-waving bullshit about “a few bad apples”.
I didn’t buy it back then, and I’m not buying it now.
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You’d have to be living in a cave to not see the clear parallels between the Israeli treatment of Palestinians — and Gazans in particular — and the police abuse and brutalization of poor black neighborhoods in the US. Poor black neighborhoods are occupied by militarized police who murder with impunity, collectively punish, threaten, harass and humiliate residents with tactics learned from the Israeli military. Tear gas, concussion grenades and other weapons used by police in towns like Ferguson, Missouri are manufactured by the same corporations which arm the Israeli military. It’s no surprise that during the Ferguson Rebellion, Palestinians in Gaza provided residents of Ferguson with tips on street fighting and proper techniques for the handling of tear-gas grenades.
This cartoon is in honor of dissident Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali — who was assassinated in 1987 — and his iconic Handala character, and is a call for solidarity between victims of US police brutality and Palestinians enduring the same kind of oppression at the hands of Israel.
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