Frazzled wrote:


You're in the humanities section of a UC school. Of course it is. Whats funny is that crowd wouldn't be caught dead in East LA because, well you would be dead if you went to East LA.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Not in the humanities but things like the tunnel of oppression in the dining hall, comparing both martin and brown to emit till.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Not in the humanities but things like the tunnel of oppression in the dining hall, comparing both martin and brown to emit till.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Not in the humanities but things like the tunnel of oppression in the dining hall, comparing both martin and brown to emit till.

 cincydooley wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Not in the humanities but things like the tunnel of oppression in the dining hall, comparing both martin and brown to emit till.

What in the hot feth is the "tunnel of oppression?"

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Not in the humanities but things like the tunnel of oppression in the dining hall, comparing both martin and brown to emit till.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
To make all the privileged white people feel bad. Itso full of stuff like how bad the word queer is and so on

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
To make all the privileged white people feel bad. Itso full of stuff like how bad the word queer is and so on

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
To make all the privileged white people feel bad. Itso full of stuff like how bad the word queer is and so on

 cincydooley wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
To make all the privileged white people feel bad. Itso full of stuff like how bad the word queer is and so on

So wait, this is actual thing? Like, a real, tangible, physical thing?

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

yes, I'm lookino at it now. It's a black tunnel in the dining hall labeled tunnel of oppression. Imagine the museum of tolerance from south park

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

 cincydooley wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
To make all the privileged white people feel bad. Itso full of stuff like how bad the word queer is and so on

So wait, this is actual thing? Like, a real, tangible, physical thing?

yes, I'm lookino at it now. It's a black tunnel in the dining hall labeled tunnel of oppression. Imagine the museum of tolerance from south park

 cincydooley wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

yes, I'm lookino at it now. It's a black tunnel in the dining hall labeled tunnel of oppression. Imagine the museum of tolerance from south park

Holy crap.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
No, it's on the stage.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
No, it's on the stage.

 Frazzled wrote:
Can you add things to the wall of oppression?

 Easy E wrote:


Meat is murder. Dairy is rape. Free the seed! - University Vegetarians or something.

Michael Brown's family call for peace in Ferguson as grand jury decision nears

The family of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager fatally shot by a police officer in August, called on police and protesters to act peacefully as an announcement nears of a grand jury decision on whether to charge the officer who killed him.

“The Brown family has a passionate plea this morning to law enforcement and those who support justice for Mike Brown Jr, to allow cooler heads to prevail in times of adversity,” said the family’s attorney Anthony Gray at a news conference on Thursday.

Intense protests rocked Brown’s home of Ferguson, Missouri, in the days following the shooting. Police responded with rubber bullets, armored vehicles and pepper spray, leading to criticism from local leaders and civil rights organizations.

Gray encouraged protesters to remain “peaceful, calm and dignified” now and after the decision on whether to charge Wilson is announced, and encouraged law enforcement agencies to do the same.

“We also feel that it is equally important to implore law enforcement to exercise reasonable restraints when dealing with demonstrators,” said Gray. “There have been too many reports of excessive behavior and agitation by police officers which have resulted in the outbursts of the kind the governor described by otherwise peaceful demonstrators.”

On Tuesday, Missouri governor Jay Nixon said the national guard was on standby to deal with the fallout from the grand jury’s decision. A day earlier, Ferguson mayor James Knowles said authorities would “prepare for the worst”.

“To the law enforcement officers who will be patrolling the streets, we would like to thank you in advance for not having a repeat of horrific encounters that took place in August,” said Benjamin Crump, an attorney for the Brown family.

St Louis County prosecuting attorney Bob McCulloch said he expects a decision to be announced in “mid-to-late November”. Jurors have been hearing evidence for nearly three months. Dr Michael Baden, who conducted a private autopsy on Brown’s body on the behalf of his family, is testifying on Thursday.

Crump said the family and its attorneys did not feel it was “appropriate” to get into the substance of Baden’s testimony. He did say that Baden wanted people to know that he was able to confirm an additional entry wound into Brown’s chest. In his preliminary autopsy, Baden had not been able to determine the shots to the chest whether they were re-entry wounds or entry wounds.

The US Department of Justice and FBI are also investigating the shooting of Brown to determine whether it amounted to a civil rights violation.

 d-usa wrote:

And of course there are these fine citizens:

Protestors are making plans to shut down Clayton while they await the grand jury decision in the police shooting of Michael Brown. They want to hurt Clayton economically. The information was released Thursday night at one of their meetings in south St. Louis. Organizers said they’re hoping for hundreds if not thousands of people to show up in Clayton the first workday after the grand jury reaches a decision.

If the decision comes down Friday they plan to turn out in force Monday. They will meet in public green spaces and then they may spread out in small groups possibly taking part in civil disobedience like shutting down roads. There was talk that if they tried to stop trials in courtrooms they could get be put in jail for a longer time than just for blocking traffic.

Don’t Shoot Coalition Co-Chair Michael McPhearson wants people in the St. Louis area to know they are not encouraging violence. McPhearson said, “We want the people to know these meetings are about non- violence direct action. Some of it will be people talking people expressing themselves. There’s nothing we’re doing to try to create violence. We don’t want to diminish tension without there being change.”

Clayton police did not return our call for a comment. A spokesman for St. Louis County Police said they will support Clayton officers in any way that is needed.