In Bakersfield, California, more than 100 residents and family members gathered for a candlelight vigil Tuesday night for Francisco Serna, a 73-year-old man who was shot seven times by police just after midnight on Monday as he was taking a walk in his neighborhood. Read more ⟶
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There is a fence around that flag. I believe that fences are put up to keep people out, and what we need to be doing in South Carolina is building bridges and tearing down those fences.
Gary Clary, South Carolina state representative. Clary has come out in support of calls to remove the Confederate flag from South Carolina’s capitol grounds. Watch his interview on Democracy Now! today.
The Confederate flag went up to fight policies, and if we are going bring it down we are also going to have to change policies — particularly those that create disparate impact on black, brown and poor white people.
Rev. WiIliam Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP and Moral Monday leader. Watch his interview on Democracy Now! today.
The sleeping giant has been awoken. Folks who have been enduring police terror in state sanctioned violence for decades are now standing up to say, ‘enough is enough.’
Alicia Garza, co-creator of “Black Lives Matter”, speaks on Democracy Now! about protests around the nation for Michael Brown. She was one of the 14 people arrested for shutting down the BART transportation system on Friday in Oakland, California.