Daily Archives: February 3, 2023

2023-02-03: News Headlines

Fight Back (2023-02-03). Black Lives Matter-LA protest calls for "No cops in traffic stops!" fightbacknews.org Venice, CA — On January 29, over 200 people gathered on the intersection of Venice and Lincoln Boulevards in an action led by Black Lives Matter-LA demanding justice for Keenan Anderson, Tyre Nichols and many others whose lives were taken by police during traffic stops. | This protest comes days after the Memphis Police Department released gruesome body camera footage of five now-former officers beating 29-year-old Nichols, which led to his death days later. Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of BLM and family members of Keenan Anderson were present and spoke about how much Keenan was loved and missed and demand…

Aaron Morrison, Adrian Sainz (2023-02-02). Demand echoes out from Tyre Nichols' funeral: Pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act! peoplesworld.org MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP)—Tyre Nichols' family and friends remembered him with songs of faith and heartfelt tributes Wednesday, blending a celebration of his life with outraged calls for passage of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act after the brutal beating he endured at the hands of Memphis police. Nichols' mother, RowVaughn Wells, fought back tears …

Mark Gruenberg (2023-02-03). VP Harris: Tyre Nichols was murdered by police charged with keeping him safe. peoplesworld.org MEMPHIS, Tenn.—Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old unarmed and unresisting Memphis Black man beaten, clubbed and kicked to death by Memphis cops, died in January by "an act of violence at the hands and the feet of people who had been charged with keeping them safe," Vice President Kamala Harris says. With those words at Nichols's Memphis …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-02). Memphis police unit disbanded after fierce protests against police murder of Tyre Nichols. peoplesdispatch.org The latest victim of this rampant racial police violence is Tyre Nichols, a Black man who was severely beaten up by police officers in Memphis, Tennessee.

Marc Steiner (2023-02-02). Shattering the myth of Rosa Parks reveals the civil rights movement's true history. therealnews.com Sanitized histories of the Civil Rights Movement have erased the long history of activism and struggle that defined the life of Rosa Parks long before she defied Jim Crow codes on a Montgomery bus. Yet Rosa Parks's dedication to the Black freedom struggle preceded the Montgomery Bus Boycott by decades. She joined the campaign to free the Scottsboro Boys in 1932, and was elected secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP in 1943. As an NAACP member, Parks investigated the gang-rape of Recy Taylor, a Black woman from Alabama, and helped organize the Committee for Equal Justice for Recy Taylor, which bro…

Editor (2023-02-03). New Advanced Placement African American Studies Course is Watered Down Version of Itself. scheerpost.com By Suneal Kolluri, University of California, Riverside / The Conversation On February 1, 2023— the first day of Black History Month — the College Board released the framework for its new Advanced Placement African American Studies course. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has criticized the pilot version of the African American studies course as lacking educational …

Abayomi Azikiwe (2023-02-02). African Americans and the United States Civil War. globalresearch.ca

Move to Amend (2023-02-02). Black/African American History includes Corporate Exploitation. globalresearch.ca Black/African American History observances this month will acknowledge people and events deserving to be remembered in the past and supported in the present in the quest for justice, and peace for all African Americans. | Observances should include how corporations and …

_____ (2023-02-03). 'So They Can See Us': Peru's National Protest Advances To Lima. popularresistance.org Deadly protests have gripped Peru since Congress expelled the country's first working-class president, Pedro Castillo. | Timeline of events since December 7, 2022: | Dec 7, 2022: The surprise winner of the July 2021 presidential election, Castillo comes under immediate attack from the right. On December 7 he attempts to dissolve Congress before it can debate a third impeachment motion against him and says he will form an emergency government and rule by decree. | Dec 7: Lawmakers vote overwhelmingly to remove him from office for "moral incapacity" to exercise power. | He is arrested for "rebellion". | Vice Presid…

ecns.cn (2023-02-03). Biden faces pressure on policing. ecns.cn When U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris was called to the pulpit at the funeral for Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old African American whose fatal beating by police shocked the nation and triggered urgent calls for reform, she said the White House would settle for nothing less than ambitious federal legislation to crack down on police brutality.

americanthinker (2023-02-02). 'Memphis is on fire': Police brutality? Yes! Police racism? No! americanthinker.com America does have a severe, systemic, and pervasive problem. But it's not racism.

John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead (2023-02-02). The Deadly Toll of Warrior Policing on Steroids. dissidentvoice.org This is warrior policing on steroids. — Paul Butler, law professor That the police officers charged with the beating death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols are Black is a distraction. Don't be distracted. This latest instance of police brutality is not about racism in policing or black-on-black violence. The entire institution is corrupt. The old guard—made …

John Whitehead (2023-02-02). Police Brutality and the Raging Bulls in Blue: The Deadly Toll of Warrior Policing on Steroids. globalresearch.ca " That the police officers charged with the Don't be distracted. | This latest instance of police brutality is not …

teleSUR, DRL (2023-02-03). Exigen reforma policial en funeral de Tyre Nichols en Memphis. telesurtv.net Nichols fue golpeado después de que la policía lo detuviera por una supuesta infracción de tráfico el 7 de enero.

Fight Back (2023-02-03). Dallas demands justice for Tyre Nichols. fightbacknews.org Dallas, TX – On January 28, over 50 people gathered in Civic Garden Park in Downtown Dallas to protest the brutal murder of Tyre Nichols by police in Memphis, Tennessee. The rally was organized by the National Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression-Dallas. | Local activist Olinka Green led a chant of the names of victims, including Tyre Nichols, Sandra Bland, Atatiana Jefferson, Santos Rodriguez and DeeDee Hall, an African American trans woman who was killed by police in Dallas in 2022. | Sydney Loving, co-chair of NAARPR Dallas, demanded justice for Tyre Nichols and emphasized the importance and need…

Fight Back (2023-02-03). Tampa students demand justice for victims of police crimes. fightbacknews.org Tampa, FL – On the first day of Black History Month, February 1, students at the University of South Florida rallied in front of a statue of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to demand justice for Tyre Nichols, Manny Páez Terán, and Keenan Anderson. The event was organized by Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) as part of a National Day of Action Against Police Terror with SDS chapters across the country participating. | These actions were called in response to the violent police murders of three, all of which took place in the span of two weeks. On January 3, the Los Angeles Police Department tasered Keen…

A Guest Author (2023-02-02). Coast-to-coast protests call for justice for Tyre Nichols. workers.org Raleigh, North Carolina, Jan. 28, 2023. Ben Carroll Raleigh: Several hundred people marched through the streets of downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, on Jan. 28, to protest the police murders of Tyre Nichols and Darryl Williams. Williams was killed by the Raleigh Police Department on Jan. 17 after being shot multiple . . . |

In Defense of Liberation! (2023-02-02). Morning Commute 2/2/2023: Housing, Genocide in North America, Police violence and more! anchor.fm This morning on my way to work we discuss the recent murder of Tyre Nichols and the ongoing genocide of African peoples, Indigenous people, Asian, Latino, Chicano, and other folks on Turtle Island. We also discuss housing struggles and the intimate relations created through meeting someone in their home, and the organizing/assistance opportunities to come of it!

Lis Cox (2023-02-02). March and Rally in Oakland: Justice for Tyre Nichols. indybay.org APTP held a rally and march on Sunday, January 29 to stand in solidarity with the family of Tyre Nichols and to demand an end to police doing traffic enforcement in every US city.

WSWS (2023-02-02). Democrats use Tyre Nichols' funeral to push token police "reform" wsws.org While family and friends reflected warmly and consciously on the life of Nichols, and all victims of police violence, Democratic Party politicians and operatives sowed racial divisions and sought to channel mass anger at unending police murder towards legislative "reform."

Dan Williams (2023-02-02). Calling for action at Tyre Nichols' funeral. america.cgtn.com The funeral for Tyre Nichols has taken place in Memphis, Tennessee.

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