![]() presidential election, nor to unfounded criticisms of the movement as “rudderless” or merely a hashtag. “A Vision for Black Lives” was not a response to the U.S. Black Lives Matter founders Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi are veteran organizers with a distinguished record of fighting for economic justice, immigrant rights, gender equity, and ending mass incarceration. ![]() ![]() But anyone following Black Lives Matter from its inception in the killingtrayvonsaftermath of the George Zimmerman verdict should not be surprised by the document’s broad scope. The few mainstream reporters and pundits who considered the full M4BL document either reduced it to a laundry list of demands or positioned it as an alternative to the platform of the Democratic Party-or else focused on their own benighted astonishment that the movement has an agenda beyond curbing police violence. The renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, for example, wrote of the war on Gaza in 2014 as “incremental genocide.” That Israel’s actions in Gaza correspond with the UN definition of genocide to “destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group” by causing “serious bodily or mental harm” to group members is a legitimate argument to make. (The 1965 International Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the 1975 International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid define it as “inhuman acts committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them.”) Nor is M4BL the first group to use the term “genocide” to describe the plight of Palestinians under occupation and settlement. ![]() Of course, M4BL is not the first to argue that Israeli policies meet the UN definitions of apartheid. Dozens of publications and media outlets devoted extensive coverage to the controversy around this single aspect of the platform, including The Guardian, the Washington Post, The Times of Israel, Haaretz, and the St. Backing the demands are forty separate proposals and thirty-four policy briefs, replete with data, context, and legislative recommendations.īut the document quickly came under attack for its statement on Palestine, which calls Israel an apartheid state and characterizes the ongoing war in Gaza and the West Bank as genocide. © 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc.On August 1 the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), a coalition of over sixty organizations, rolled out “A Vision for Black Lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom & Justice,” an ambitious document described by the press as the first signs of what young black activists “really want.” It lays out six demands aimed at ending all forms of violence and injustice endured by black people redirecting resources from prisons and the military to education, health, and safety creating a just, democratically controlled economy and securing black political power within a genuinely inclusive democracy. The off-duty officers jumped on the suspect after she pulled out a lighter and attempted to light it. The suspected arsonist was quickly detained by two off-duty NYPD officers who had been visiting the historical landmark and held her until Atlanta police arrived. One witness recalled the suspect began to grow irritated after she was having trouble spreading the fuel around the property, according to FOX 5 Atlanta. Two tourists from Utah viewing the home were able to intervene to stop the suspect, police said. Video from the brazen attempt shows a woman dressed in all black freely pouring gasoline on the home’s front porch, windows and bushes around 5:45 p.m., WSB-TV reported. King would be proud of America’s progressĪ woman attempted to burn down Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth home, arriving with a gas canister and dousing the historic property in fuel Thursday. Trump prosecutor’s father was top Black Panther who called cops ‘enemy’ Rioting for Palestine? The left keeps displaying its utter ignorance Suspect in attempted arson of MLK Jr’s birth home ID’d as decorated Navy vet
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