Black Lives Matter Across 8 Mile

1-5 P.M., Eight Mile and Dequindre

The purpose of this event is to build unity across Detroit and the suburbs around 8 mile to oppose racism and police brutality.

Join the Black Lives Matter Across 8 Mile Rally, March and Cultural Event

We will be marching from 8 mile and Dequindre to 8 mile and Woodward.

We will not be silent. We will be loud and they will hear us!!

We demand that all police departments change their policies to hold racist cops accountable. We demand the police stop profiling Black people up and down 8 mile.

The incidents of racial profiling must end now in the cities of Warren, Centerline, Ferndale, Hazel Park and Harper Woods. Our goal is to have thousands in the streets making change. Also we are starting a petition for new laws to be put in place.

We will also be with Mother Demand Justice for a successful event.

Mothers Demand Justice!

All mothers were summoned when George Floyd said “Momma. Momma, I’m through,” before he passed.

In response, mothers and families from metro Detroit have called for a March for Justice along 8 Mile Rd. and urge all concerned people to join. 8 Mile Road has been known historically as a line separating the majority Black people of Detroit from the historically white suburbs to the north. Numerous instances of police violence and terror directed towards Black and Brown people have occurred in the Detroit suburbs.

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This Tuesday, June 23, the destroyer USS Nitze (DDG 94), belonging to the United States, sailed 12 nautical miles from the Venezuelan sea, a ship that owns Harpoon missiles with a 280 kilometers reach.

According to the US Navy, the ship was doing a “freedom of navigation operation” contesting “an excessive maritime claim” by Venezuela. Without providing any details about such an allegation and in a clear and blatant act of military harassment as part of the US failed regime change operation designed to oust President Nicolas Maduro.

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“The U.S. Navy routinely conducts freedom of navigation operations around the world to preserve the maritime navigation and access rights guaranteed to all nations and vital to the global mobility of U.S. forces,” said Admiral Craig Faller, commander of the Southern Command of the United States.

According to international law the territorial waters of a country extent for 12 miles from the baseline (usually the mean low-water mark) of a coastal state, plus the “contiguous zone” representing 12 additional miles from the same baseline. Additionally, international conventions recognize the concept of “exclusive economic zone” extending from the same baseline up to 200 miles.

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Venezuela is a country signatory of the Geneva Convention on Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone of 1958 but Venezuela rejected the 1982 signing of the Montego Bay Convention or United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea due to territorial disputes with Colombia. In this sense Southcom’s comments can not be understood as a mere manipulation but also as a psyop to heat the already heated tension between Venezuela and the United States.

Featured image: Official U.S. Navy file photo of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Nitze departs Safaga, Egypt after a port visit in this July 2019 photo. On June 23, 2020, while peacefully operating in the Caribbean Sea, USS Nitze conducted a freedom of navigation operation off the coast of Venezuela. Photo by Will Hardy/U.S. Navy

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Venezuelan official map. You can see clearly here the extension of Venezuelan territorial waters including the exclusive economic zone. Legal to a level that it served to negotiate with the US, due to their occupation of Puerto Rico, a border agreement signed in 1978.

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Voces de la Frontera

#Justice4Joel

Milwaukee June 24, 2020 / Photo: MTEA

The People’s Mic

Wee Chalk Your Walk: Back to Washington Heights!

3-5 P.M., Wick Field, Milwaukee, WI

In continued solidarity with the local protests and the Black Lives Matter at School movement we are organizing another #WeeChalkYourWalk . We are going back to Mayor Barrett’s neighborhood. We will start at the MTEA and march over to Washington Blvd. and chalk the streets and sidewalks between 49th and 55th street with Black Lives Matter solidarity messages. We will end in front of the Mayor’s house with intentional gathering, where we will lay out our demands for Mayor Barrett. We hope he joins us this time. This is a Family Friendly event!

Four Demands of the National Black Lives Matter at School Movement
*Recruit and retain Black educators
*Fully Resourced Restorative Practices
*Black History and Ethnic Studies in all schools
*Fund Counselors, Not cops

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