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Last summer, only a few months after the murder of George Floyd, police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, shot and paralyzed Jacob Blake, bringing about another wave of protests.

Blake, a Black father of three, was trying to break up a fight between two women on the street when the cops showed up. His children were in the backseat of his car.

A horrific video makes clear exactly what happened. Blake was walking to his car, surrounded by at least three police officers. As he opened the drivers-side door, Rusten Sheskey who was standing a few feet behind him opened fire, hitting him at least seven times in the back at point-blank range. His three children witnessed the shooting; his little boys were 3-, 5-, and 8-years-old at the time.

This cop shooting took less than eight seconds, and Blake was left paralyzed.

The video emerged in the midst of the Black Lives Matter mobilizations across the country, including in Kenosha, where protesters had directly confronted the cops and set fire to the Kenosha County Courthouse.

Despite protests, the cop who shot Blake was cleared of any state criminal offense. And last Friday, October 8, the Biden administrations Department of Justice announced Sheskey wont face a federal civil rights violation. As the Kenosha News reported, Officials said that the department made the decision because the evidence obtained was insufficient to prove that Sheskey willfully used excessive force.

Apparently, a video of a man shot in the back seven times at point-blank range is not enough evidence of excessive force.

The shooting of Blake in the middle of the Black Lives Matter movement showed clearly that the cops will not be deterred by the state and system they serve. They exist as a murderous force against the Black community, other communities of color, and the working class as a whole. This DOJ decision reinforces that the courts and entire justice system are on the side of the murderous police. The conviction of Derek Chauvin was an exception aimed at quelling the movement, not a shift to more justice in a system that essentially never charges police with murder and locks up tens of thousands of Black people every year.

Last year, Democrats in Congress wrapped themselves in Kente cloth and talked about supporting Black Lives Matter, promising to use their offices to tackle systemic racism. Clearly, that was just an electoral ploy. All those promises and every sidewalk and street painted with Black Lives Matter were just about getting votes while there was an uprising. They were an effort to co-opt the movement while making sure nothing fundamentally changed which was Bidens real promise.

Last summer, it was the Democrats who sent the National Guard to tear gas and spray rubber bullets on protesters. In Kenosha, it was Democratic Mayor John Antaramian who filled the streets with riot police and imposed a curfew. Now its Bidens justice department that says theres just not enough evidence that Sheskey willfully used excessive force when he shot Blake in the back seven times on video. This is what Biden promised: to defend, promote, and expand the murderous police and give them free reign to terrorize, paralyze, and murder people. Its the policy of the Democrats and Republicans alike.

The politicians serve the interests of the capitalist system of exploitation and oppression. The cops support and maintain that system. We cant rely on any of those politicians promises. We must continue to fight to abolish the police and the capitalist system they protect.

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Fox News host Mark Levin slammed members of the mainstream media, Democratic Party and collegiate academia on his radio show Thursday for their hypocrisy in condemning concerned parents at school board meetings, while they excused actual violence from Black Lives Matter protesters last summer.

On "The Mark Levin Show" on Westwood One, the host commented on recent events at his local municipality's school board meetings in Loudon County, Virginia. One event included a man who was arrested during a school board meeting, after alleging his daughter was assaulted by a transgender student.

Levin said Loudoun County used to be reliably Republican, but local offices swapped parties over the last decade as the Old Dominion trended Democratic.

The "Life, Liberty & Levin" host added that as a young man, he ran for and was elected to the school board in his Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, hometown while he was a law student and remarked that the people he is seeing leading school boards these days were not prevalent back then.

Levin played recent clips of political and media figures condemning parents in harsh terms, including one MSNBC guest who described them as "violent-looking, angry spewing."

In another MSNBC clip, host Alicia Menendez commented that some of the actions by parents "have become scary at these meetings."

Former FBI counterintelligence official Frank Figliuzzi told Menendez that the bureau is "tailor-made for this kind of national level coordination, who will become overwhelmed with overtime, intel-gathering and this becomes a security crisis in a sense for the nation."

MAJORITY OF VIRGINIA PARENTS WANT A SAY IN THEIR KIDS' EDUCATION, FOX NEWS POLL FINDS

Levin also played a clip of Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe telling a local news affiliate that boards of education are intended to be the creator of curriculum, not parents while MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle voiced concern for the home life of children of the parents who speak out at school board meetings.

Concluding the montage, Levin slammed the media as "propagandists".

"[They're] trashing the parents-- they have no evidence of pattern of violence whatsoever we have plenty of it summer before last with Black Lives Matter and Antifa and most of these individuals defended Black Lives Matter and they do to this day," Levin said.

Princeton African-American studies Prof. Eddie Glaude Jr., said during MSNBC's "Morning Joe", that tensions at school board meetings were once "fringe elements" but that they have been "mainstreamed."

"In many ways, were in a cold Civil War. It turned hot on January 6th. It is turning hot in these local spaces," Glaude said.

Levin called out Glaude as a "clown," and blasted the academic as well as the MSNBC host, former Florida Rep. Joe Scarborough, as being indicative of the "reprobates and miscreants" who are offered a platform in the media.

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Levin wondered if Glaude was on the same "sanctimonious high horse" when BLM was rioting and looting in America's cities in 2020.

"He didn't talk about that arson, looting, no, no, mostly peaceful, its the parents,'" he said. "I just want you parents to understand. The media, the Democratic Party, these tenured professors, many of whom are Marxists this is the crap that's being fed to your kids."

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I want to bring you in, Judy, to talk about this, because you were working in the organization. Nonviolence was a cornerstone. Can you explain why that was so important?

Judy Richardson (JR): We knew that we did not have the guns. Our main thing was, how do you get Black people registered to vote without getting them killed? And we knew that the state government, the local government all controlled by white people and the federal government, they were not going to support us. And what we had to do was be able to organize at the grassroots, with the Mrs. Hamers and the Mrs. Blackwells, throughout the Deep South in the rural south. But if you reacted with guns, they would shoot you down. They would kill what you were doing and everybody who was around with you. And your larger responsibility was to the people that you were organizing with. At the same time, it was the rural south. So there were people who definitely defended themselves who were local.

I read some of the transcripts, Jennifer, about being in these spaces knowing that your life was on the line. How did that impact your life and what did that do to you as a young person? People died in this movement.

JL: Judy and I both know so many people who lost their lives because of their work in the civil rights movement. A very concrete way in which it changed, dramatically changed, my own life [is] I was a student at Tuskegee and planning to go on to become a doctor someday. And that all went away when one of my classmates, Sammy Younge Jr., was killed in January of 1966. We would go out into the community to help register people in rural Macon County [in Alabama] to vote and he was killed. And I thought to myself, Whats the value of my education if I cant even safely live in the state of Alabama? So I joined many other students at Tuskegee who then started marching, demonstrating, continuing our work on getting out the vote, and then some of us decided, No, well leave school and join SNCC and work full-time with SNCC in Mississippi and Alabama and Georgia to try to really change things. And its one of the proudest accomplishments of my life that the work that we did really did make a difference.

What do you think was the critical thing that helped shift the minds of the people in power to help make the change?

JL: Well, I wouldnt say that we were shifting the minds of people. For example, during this time. George Wallace, an avowed segregationist, was the governor of Alabama. We didnt put our emphasis on changing George Wallaces mind. Judy and I worked in Lowndes County. Where we went into Lowndes County, there were only four registered Black voters, because Black people had been so intimidated that they couldnt register to vote. When we left Lowndes County, people had not only registered to vote, they had created their own political party. The Lowndes County Freedom Organization had had as a symbol, the black panther, and that was the first Black Panther [Party] emerging in the movement. In that way, they werent trying to change the minds of the people who were in power. They were trying to become the people who were in power. So later, the man who started the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, he became the sheriff and served as sheriff there for about 20 years.

So basically, it showed people how to pick up the reins for themselves.

JL: Exactly, exactly. It was about empowering people.

JR: But I would also just like to add to that that when Jennifer mentions George Wallace, you know, he cuts back on his segregationist He vocally becomes less racist. But thats only because there are Black people registered to vote. And in Alabama, he has to worry about these folks who are going to come to the polls on Election Day. Now, there were always white allies. I mean, there were wonderful people who really supported us and provided funding and provided their bodies, and some were killed in the process. But the main thing was how do you get Black folks organized so that white people know that we are a power to be dealt with? Part of the reason that you use the vote is because we dont have Koch brothers money. But what we do have is our vote.

Yeah. And I want to fast forward to today, when you look at the movement, I mean, we saw the tragic murder of George Floyd. You know, we look at today, a lot is left undone.

JR : Yeah, we really do understand the importance of working with the young people, and its because we see ourselves in them. You know, as Jennifer said, we were the only youth-led civil rights organization working in the South back in the 60s. And what we saw was brilliance. Part of that is seeing that brilliance in these young people, and theyre looking to us and were looking to them.

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Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Movement.

CSUN leaders and keynote speaker Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Mattermovement welcomed the schools newest students on Sept. 30, acknowledging the unprecedented, pandemic-challenged path they took to become part of the Matador family, and encouraged them to keep pushing toward their goals.

Overcoming hurdles like no other demonstrates the resilience and determination necessary for lifelong success, CSUN President Erika D. Beck said, applauding those attending the annual New Student Convocation, which took place on Zoom.

Though the pandemic has transpired at the same time for all of us and it is most certainly not over we have experienced it in deeply personal ways, she said. For our freshmen, the conclusion of your high school experience was most certainly not as you had imagined it might be or as any of us wouldve hoped for you. But despite the challenges, your resilience prevailed and youre here. Gaining admission and enrolling in college is not easy, even in the best of times. You have achieved it, even while navigating truly extraordinary circumstances.

Like the students she addressed, keynote speaker Cullors knows all about challenges.The San Fernando Valley nativebegan the Black Lives Matter movement with a hashtag in 2013, in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida. The movement has expandedsinceinto a global foundation. Cullors also has led Los Angeles-based organizations such asDignity and Power Now,Justice LAandReform LA Jails.She was named one of Time Magazines 100 Most Influential People in 2020.

Cullors began by reading from the first chapter of her book,When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir,which is CSUNs Freshmen Common Reading selection for 2021-22.Her intent was to set the stage for what led her to become an activist, artist and abolitionist a background many CSUN students would find familiar,she said. She described the hardships of her childhood during the height of the nations wars on drugs and gangs in the80s and90s, growing up poor in public housing designed for transients.

Her father was in and out of their home, in and out of their days, she said. By the time Cullors was 6, he had left for good. As she got older, she witnessed her brothers and their friends harassed by police for doing absolutely nothing but talking, whilea known white drug-dealer, the brother of one of her good friends, managed to operate and not be criminalized in nearby, affluent Sherman Oaks.

While many people will read this book and think, The first thing that Patrisse is going to talk about is Black Lives Matter, we decided that actually, the first thing I needed to talk about is how someone gets raised in the community and how they would start something like Black Lives Matter, Cullors said.

So much of the system we live in right now and what were witnessing with policing and violence comes from the last 30 years of being trained as a community that punishment and revenge is actually how we should be centering peoples lives.

She challenged the students, as they read her book, to ask themselves questions about their own upbringing and how they see themselves or do not see themselves in the book.

I wanted to change what was happening in my community and my neighborhood, Cullors said. I want to urge every one of you to step into your power. This is the time to rise into your power. This is the time where you get to make decisions about how youre not just going to change yourself, but how youre going to change the world.

Each fall, the convocation brings together freshmen and transfer students as they begin their collegiate careers on the CSUN campus. Its a chance for university leaders including Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of StudentsWilliam Watkins andVice Provost Matthew Cahn to provide a healthy dose of encouragement, tout opportunities for academic and extracurricular involvement, and, perhaps most important, express how the university is focused on helping them succeed in the classroom and in life.

Jonathan Hay, Associated Students president and a senior, also addressed the newcomers, encouraging them to be open to new things and make themselves vulnerable.

Youll learn more outside the classroom than you will in it, he said. College isnt easy. Youll experience hardship and pain, but you can overcome anything. The will of a Matador is strong.

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PULLMAN - The rocky effort for a City of Pullman public art project that began with a request for a Black Lives Matter mural has been tabled.

Pullman City Council halted the work during a recent meeting. The proposed project began in the Summer of last year when the local Black Lives Matter group asked the city to paint a BLM mural on Main Street downtown. That prompted council to direct the citys arts commission to come back with an End Racism Now mural. At the time some Pullman City Councilmembers voiced concerns with the national leadership of BLM.

The City of Pullmans Arts Commission tackled the project in the Fall of last year with little direction from council. The group received 7 submissions for an End Racism Now mural from 3 artists. Two of the submissions were removed from consideration at the request of the artists. The controversy continued with public concerns about the arts commissions social media polling about a possible final design.

Pullman City Council eventually rejected the arts commissions mural recommendation. Three commissioners had resigned from the volunteer board by last Winter after sending their plan to council.

In March city council revamped the project and created a subcommittee to restart the effort. The committee of councilmembers wanted to hire an artist, survey the public and create a downtown mural by June 19th to celebrate the end of slavery in the U.S.

An artist wasnt hired and a survey was never issued and Pullman City Council came back to the issue during a meeting last month. Councilman Dan Records who chaired the subcommittee said the project should be tabled since the project would involve the citys arts commission which is now down to two members.

While the city was wrangling with a public End Racism Now mural a private nonprofit organization painted a Black Lives Matter mural in downtown Pullman. The Pullman Arts Foundation raised money for the mural which is above the old Mimosa building on Main Street.

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Dashing into the street in front of City Hall, Black Lives Matter demonstrators quickly unfolded a template and opened buckets of yellow paint one year ago today.

A pair of police cars, lights flashing, appeared almost immediately. But by the time uniformed officers were ordering demonstrators out of the street, or you will be arrested, the paint was down and the template was being pulled up.

The letters BLM remained. City workers, however, power washed the pavement less than two hours later, trying to erase the letters after demonstrators had left the area.

The Black Lives Matter rally had begun at the so-called Center of the Universe, a landmark pedestrian bridge in downtown Tulsa, where about 50 demonstrators gathered late Saturday morning.

Speakers condemned the city for removing a Black Lives Matter mural from the pavement on Greenwood Avenue, put there without a permit just days before President Donald Trumps June 20 rally at the BOK Center.

Systemic racism is real, said Alicia Andrews, chairwoman of the Oklahoma Democratic Party, during Saturdays rally. Its part of everything we do.

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There are times in American history when the pervading power dynamic is largely taken for granted. Now is not one of those times.

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The crises of recent years, along with the spread of new technologies, have disrupted the status quo and brought power struggles of all sorts into the open. Those denied power whether because of their race, their gender or their immigration status are staking a claim to it. These struggles are shaping politics at all levels in a very real way and touching American lives on an individual basis.

For this weeks episode of the Crosscut Talks podcast, Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza discusses how she and others are pushing to rebalance power in this country, especially when it comes to Black Americans. In conversation with The 19ths Erinn Haines, Garza discusses the role that activists have played in the shifting of power and the forces that are working to stop or even reverse that shift.

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A Dover, New Hampshire woman has been hit with a civil rights complaint following accusations of a racially motivated threat against a nine-year-old Black child after she allegedly called him a n****r and told him she would kneel on his neck" in a park over a broken toy.

The suspect, Kristina Graper, 51, reportedly made the menacing and insensitive remarks after the nine-year-old boy, referred to as D.H. in court documents, accidentally broke a foam toy belonging to Grapers son, the Concord Monitor reported.

Her actions violated the states Civil Rights Act by making a threat to use physical force that was motivated by the childs race, New Hampshire Attorney General John M. Formella said.

According to the complaint filed on Thursday in Strafford County Superior Court, D.H. and Grapers son were playing in a neighborhood park on May 10 when the defendant's child shoved D.H. during playtime, causing him to break his foam missile or foam bullet." Grapers child then ran home and told his mother what happened.

Afraid, D.H. ran away, but the defendant was able to catch up to him, the complaint states. The defendant threatened D.H. that she would kneel on his neck.

At this point, a bystander allegedly heard Graper threaten D.H. and called out Graper over her unnecessary behavior. However, Graper reportedly responded by yelling at the concerned individual, according to Law and Crime.

Meanwhile, she would continue to hurl abusive language against the child, screaming the word "n****r at him, the legal paperwork further contends.

The alleged victim's mother proceeded to approach Dover Police Department and lodged a report against the 51-year-old mother, whose race was not disclosed in the complaint.

When police met with the defendant on June 1, 2021, the defendant initially could not recall the incident but then recounted how D.H. broke her childs toy, the document reads, noting the woman also denied telling the child that she would kneel on his neck.

"[I]nstead, she recalled stating words to the effect you wonder why you guys get fucking kneeled on. She also denied calling D.H. a n****r but later stated it was because they do not know how to shut their n****r pie holes.

The attorney generals office said that since the May 10 encounter with the woman, the child wanted to be surrounded by other children to help keep him safe because he understood the threat to be a reference to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the Foster's Daily Democrat noted.

The state is seeking a judgment of up to $5,000 from the suspect on top of a temporary restraining order barring her from further civil rights violations effective for the next three years.

According to the complaint filed on Thursday in Strafford County Superior Court, D.H. and Grapers son were playing in a neighborhood park on May 10 when the defendant's child shoved D.H. during playtime, causing him to break his foam missile or foam bullet." Grapers child then ran home and told his mother what happened. This is a representational image. Pixabay

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Woman Hurled N-Word At 9-Year-Old Black Child, Threatened To Kneel On Boy's Neck Mocking Black Lives Matter - Latin Times

Last month, The New Yorker published The Matter of Black Lives, an anthology of the magazines writings on race and the Black American experience. Drawing from decades of reporting, cultural criticism, profiles, and memoir, the collection ranges widely, spanning vivid dispatches from the civil-rights movement, detailed portraits of pivotal artists and thinkers, and powerful reflections on the troubled past and turbulent present. The contributors comprise a pantheon, including James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Stanley Crouch, Calvin Trillin, Elizabeth Alexander, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more.

On Sunday, three of the writers featured in the bookJelani Cobb, Jamaica Kincaid, and Charlayne Hunter-Gaultwill gather virtually at The New Yorker Festival, the magazines weeklong celebration of politics and culture, to consider the state of race now and in the future. Cobb, a staff writer who wrote the foreword to The Matter of Black Lives and co-edited the volume with David Remnick, the magazines editor, will moderate the discussion. A professor at Columbia Journalism School, Cobb will share insights from his extensive reporting and commentary on Black life in America, which has included an analysis of the killing of George Floyd, a profile of Stacey Abrams, and a consideration of Africa as portrayed in the movie Black Panther. (In addition to his foreword, three of Cobbs pieces for the magazine are featured in The Matter of Black Lives.)

Kincaid, a novelist and professor of African and African American studies at Harvard, has contributed to The New Yorker since 1974, beginning with a piece, co-written by George W. S. Trow, about the West Indian American Day Carnival, in Brooklyn, which traces its origins to the era of slavery in Trinidad. A prolific contributor of fiction and Talk of the Town pieces in particular, Kincaid appears in The Matter of Black Lives with a recollection of a formative period of her youth spent in New York.

Hunter-Gault published her first piece in The New Yorker in 1967, and in the intervening decades has written for the magazine about racial politics in South Africa and at home, including her meeting in Atlanta, as a young reporter, with Martin Luther King, Jr. Her contribution to The Matter of Black Lives recounts Columbia Universitys belated recognition of Langston Hughes, who produced many of his poetic masterpieces in Harlem, just blocks from the school.

Those viewing the conversation live will be invited to submit questions, and a recording will be accessible for streaming until November 10th. Tickets are available to all, and discounted for those who subscribe.

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Chanelle Helm| Opinion Contributor

Louisville is in a crisis of trauma and extreme stigmatization of Black and brown communities. We are in this place, not for the first time. We experienced an ideological battle between calls to defund police in favor of community safety systemsand calls to increase policing. Meanwhile, our police dont listen to community advocates, but look to federal agencies such as the local FBI office. All this hides the problems that cause violence.

Gun violence occurs everywhere. But when it happens in white communities, its usually understood that more police isnot the answer. Calls for more policing in Black Louisville distract citizens from the real problem: people do not have homes, basic sustenanceor access to health care. People are forced to live disconnected from their families by conditions akin to slavery. They are overworked just to survive. Meanwhile, police budgets go up and up. What do our tax dollars buy? Police cannot solve the crisis before us.

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Metro District 4 Councilman Jecorey Arthur says, ... We wont end physical violence until we end political violence. In marginalized communities where people struggle for mere existence, love and trust are often an afterthought. Restorative justice is a path to healing of hurt and harm. Our communities are under-resourced to navigate and benefit from underfunded restorative processes. Preventative measures that do not involve profiling, surveillance and evermore incarceration are needed without delay. If we want change, we must fund robust restorative justice in JCPS and the community at large.

Black Lives Matter Louisville and Carebears believe we have a collective responsibility to keep each other safe, and that the persons most affected by community violence should have the biggest say in how to respond. We will hold the work needed until all of us are free. Holding the work means educating the community on how to create a system, one step at a time, that actually keeps us safe. Right now, that looks like educational series about gun ownership and safety and our legal rights in interactions with law enforcement. In and around our collective, community safety might also look like training in wound care, the provision of post-incarceration supportand mental health advocacy and service referrals.

Powerbuilding, not demands for safety from outside, keep the community safe.

We cannot continue to move at the speed of crisis. To build, we move at the speed of trust. Trust is foreign to many of us experiencing harm in the damage of our city. So when we set our demands, we name what must change immediately. We detail what we want to happen for us and how we want that done.

Communities impacted by systemic and historical racism have the answers. But when resources are stolen from the community, despair can turn inwards. Fighting outwards takes resources. Change at the structural level is exhaustive, but necessary. This need is evident in the movements that center around the least of us, those of us most vulnerable at the margins.

We recently lost a child waiting at a bus stop to go to school. By all accounts he was everything we ask a young man to be, and yet he was taken from us. His mother was engaged in his life, and she carefully built a home for her family. He was still taken from us. Our Chief of Police Ericka Shields opines from this that we require a police force in our schools. Why is this shameless opportunism even countenanced? Violent policing of Black people is all that we know.

Where are you? Where do you sit? These are our communities. We live here. Our children, elders, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, cousinsand neighbors live here. We love them.

Again from Councilman Arthurwe must turn anger into advocacy. We must demand what we once requestedin budget hearings and letters to the mayor and other elected officials. Advocacy is dead without action and tactics to support our desired outcomes of liberated and healthy community members.

Poet Nikki Giovanni wrote, there are those who testified that the problem wasnt the conditions/ but the people talking about them/ they took away band so the boys started scratching they took away/ gym so the boys started break dancing the boys started rapping/ cause they gave them the guns and the drugs, but not the schools and/ libraries… Our children cry out for basic resources to counteract guns and drugs, resources taken for granted in more privileged communities.

We all reside here in Louisvillelets fix it. We got us.

By bridging the divides and building relationships with one another, we can dedicate ourselves to strategic, smart investmentsmeaning resources directed toward our stability and well-being, like health care and housing, education and living-wage jobs. This is where real safety begins, Zach Norris, Defund Fear.

Chanelle Helm is co-organizerofBlack Lives Matter Louisville

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