2020 Protests megathread

[Badger]

‘Strike for Black Lives’ to highlight racism

national coalition of labor unions, along with racial and social justice organizations, will stage a mass walkout from work this month, as part of an ongoing reckoning on systemic racism and police brutality in the U.S.

Dubbed the “Strike for Black Lives,” tens of thousands of fast food, ride-share, nursing home and airport workers in more than 25 cities are expected to walk off the job July 20 for a full day strike. Those who can’t strike for a full day will walk out for about eight minutes — the amount of time prosecutors say a white Minneapolis police officer held his knee on George Floyd’s neck — in remembrance of Black men and women who died recently at the hands of police.

The national strike will also include worker-led marches through participating cities, organizers said Wednesday.

According to details shared exclusively with The Associated Press, organizers are demanding sweeping action by corporations and government to confront systemic racism in an economy that chokes off economic mobility and career opportunities for many Black and Hispanic workers, who make up a disproportionate number of those earning less than a living wage. They also stress the need for guaranteed sick pay, affordable health care coverage and better safety measures for low-wage workers who never had the option of working from home during the coronavirus pandemic.

Now the unions are involved?!? Why, that sounds like....MAAAAAAARXISMMMM!!!

[HillGoose]

do u guys remember back in summer 2012 when Obama tanked the economy, didn't give a sh**t about Russia putting bounties on American soldiers, threatened to turn the military on the American people, and erected barricades around the White House making everybody feel like we live in Nicaragua or the Congo or some sh**t?

Me either.

[Frodo]

[New York] Attorney General calls for NYPD shake-up in wake of police protest response
"Too many New Yorkers no longer trust the police to do their jobs effectively and fairly," the report states.

New York Attorney General Letitia James released a preliminary report regarding her office’s ongoing investigation into the NYPD’s response to last month’s protests, highlighting disparities between its treatment of White people and communities of color, and calling for a change-up of the department’s command structure, more diversity among leadership and the “redesign” of police’s role in society.

https://twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/status/1280944097734397954
James released her office’s “Preliminary Report in Ongoing Investigation into NYPD Response to Recent Protests,” in a tweet on Wednesday afternoon, writing, “it is impossible to deny that many New Yorkers have lost faith in law enforcement.”

The report states that the office’s investigation is still ongoing, but "it is clear that too many New Yorkers no longer trust the police to do their jobs effectively and fairly."

In the 57-page document, the office calls for the creation of an "entirely new accountability structure" guided in part by a commission of public and elected officials, including the mayor, members of the City Council and the city comptroller.

[It’s so Joever]

Wasn’t the military used in 1992 by HW

But it is bad when other countries do it because...