Open Letter From The Ferguson Protestors:

[Ken Burch]

http://mic.com/articles/105040/we-still-don-t-have-justice-protesters-release-open-letter-after-grand-jury-decision

(here are the closing words of the letter)

So you will likely ask yourself, now that the announcement has been made, why we will still take to the streets?

Why we will still raise our voices to protect our community?

Why will still cry tears of heartbreak and sing songs of determination?
We will continue to struggle because without struggle, there is no progress. We will continue to disrupt life, because without disruption we fear for our lives.

We will continue because Assata reminds us daily that “it is our duty to fight for freedom. It is our duty
to win. We must love and support one another. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

Those chains have bound us-all of us- up for too long. And do not be mistaken- if one of us is bound, we all are. We are, altogether, bound up in a system that continues to treat some men better than others. A system that preserves some and disregards others. A system that protects the rights of some and does not guard the rights of all. And until this system is dismantled, until the status quo that deems us less valuable than others is no longer acceptable or profitable, we will struggle. We will fight. We will protest.

Grief, even in its most righteous state, cannot last forever. No community can sustain itself this way.
So we still continue to stand for progress, and stand alongside anyone who will make a personal investment in ending our grief and will take a personal stake in achieving justice. We march on with purpose. The work continues.
This is not a moment but a movement.

The movement lives.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. compare this beautiful and eloquent letter to the rambling of the DA last night

[Ken Burch]

2. I'm instantly repurposing a Phil Ochs line to do just that:

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"And the prosecutor's statement is the ravings of a clown".

[bravenak]

4. He sounded like an idiot.

He was very defensive like he knew he was in the wrong.

[99Forever]

3. This is not the end.

It is only the beginning.

The corporate authoritarian police state shall fall.

[azmom]

5. We have to stand together

In this fight. Si se puede!

[medeak]

6. am I the only liberal dem that feels the kid was a punk?

and the cop really felt in danger? go ahead and slam me..... Understand black men are targets...but this was the wrong person to demonstrate over imo

[Ken Burch]

7. yes, you are.

Contrary to what the prosecutor SAID the witnesses testified to before the grand jury, the kid was not charging the cop...hadn't stolen anything...the cop had no reason to have stopped the kid...and even if the cop felt he was "in danger&quot all cops ALWAYS feel they are "in danger", even when they are armed and the black kid they are scared of isn't)that doesn't justify shooting anybody TWELVE times.

Did you think Trayvon had it coming, too?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

8. No, you're not n/t

[YarnAddict]

9. They should tell that to Natalie Dubose

http://weaselzippers.us/206269-is-this-justice-natalie-duboses-cake-store-is-attacked-in-ferguson-along-with-many-other-businesses/

I'm not sure she would think it's worth it.

Protesting is one thing, but what the rioters did to Natalie's store is unjustifiable.

[Ken Burch]

10. You can't assume that the ones who wrote the letter

are the ones who trasked Ms. Dubose's bakery.

[YarnAddict]

11. Very true. n/t