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<p>original article: <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/248115932/The-Results-Are-in-Open-Letter-11-24-14">http://www.scribd.com/doc/248115932/The-Results-Are-in-Open-Letter-11-24-14</a></p><p> <style type="text/css"> P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">For questions regarding this Open Letter, please contact <font color="#0000ff">@deray</font></font></font><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">.</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"> <style type="text/css"> P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">The Results Are In </font></font></strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">An Open Letter from Protestors On The Grand Jury Decision (11.24.14) </font></font></strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">In Ferguson, a wound bleeds.</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">For 108 days, we have been in a state of prolonged and protracted grief. In that time, we have found community with one another, bonding together as family around the simple notion that our love for our community compels us to fight for our community. We have had no choice but to cling together in hope, faith, love, and indomitable determination to capture that ever-escaping reality of justice.</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"> <style type="text/css"> P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">After 108 days, that bleeding wound has been reopened, salt poured in, insult added to the deepest of injury. On August 9th</font></font><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">, we found ourselves pushed into unknown territory, learning day by day, minute by minute, to lead and support a movement bigger than ourselves, the most important of our lifetime. We were indeed unprepared to begin with, and even in our maturation through these 108 days, we find ourselves reinjured, continually heartbroken, and robbed of even the remote possibility of judicial resolution. A life has been violently taken before it could barely begin. In this moment, we know, beyond any doubt, that no one will be held accountable within the confines of a system to which we were taught to pledge allegiance. The very hands with which we pledged that allegiance were not enough to save Mike in surrender.</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">Once again, in our community, in our country, that pledge has returned to us void. </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"> <style type="text/css"> P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">For 108 days, we have continuously been admonished that we should “let the system work,” and wait to see what the results are. </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">The results are in. </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">And we still don’t have justice.</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><!--break--></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"> <style type="text/css"> P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">This fight for the dignity of our people, for the importance of our lives, for the protection of our children, is one that did not begin Michael’s murder and will not end with this announcement. The ‘system’ you </font></font><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">have told us to rely on has kept us on the margins of society. This system has housed us in her worst homes, educated our children in her worst schools, locked up our men at disproportionate rates and shamed our women for receiving the support they need to be our mothers. This system you have admonished us to believe in has consistently, unfailingly, and unabashedly let us down and kicked us out, time and time again.</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">This same system in which you’ve told us to trust--this same system meant to serve and protect citizens-- has once again killed two more of our unarmed brothers: Walking up a staircase and shot down in cold blood, we fight for Akai Gurley; Playing with a toy after police had been warned that he held a bb gun and not a real gun at only </font></font><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">twelve </font></font><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">years old, we fight for Tamir Rice. </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">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? </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">We will continue to struggle because without struggle, there is no progress. </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"> <style type="text/css"> P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">We will continue to disrupt life, because without disruption we fear for our lives. </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"> <style type="text/css"> P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">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 suppor</font></font><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">t one another. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">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.</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"> <style type="text/css"> P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">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.</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"> <style type="text/css"> P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">Grief, even in its most righteous state, cannot last forever. No community can sustain itself this way. </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"> <style type="text/css"> P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">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.</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"> <style type="text/css"> P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">We march on with purpose. The work continues. This is not a moment but a movement. The movement lives. </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"> <style type="text/css"> P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">This letter was written and signed by numerous protestors and supporters, too many to list. Permission is granted in advance for reproduction by all outlets. </font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p><strong>Related:</strong> <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104290">Ferguson Revolutionary Community Organizers Speak!</a> <span class="a" style="left:1814px;top:561px">|</span><a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104274"> Huey Jakhi on the role of women in the movement</a> |<a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104273"> Huey Jakhi speaking on "a real dirty devil" in St Louis</a><strong> </strong>| <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104272">Huey Jakhi on life, liberation, and oppressive systems</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104263">Reign on white supremacy and police in St. Louis</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104261">Revolutionary community organizer Reign speaks!</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104253">The Injustice Freak Show</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104229">Black Lives Matter: Die-in at Delmar Loop in St. Louis</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104222">Ferguson organizers interviewed</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104213">"They think it's a game, they think it's a joke!" Ferguson organizers speak!</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"drupalimc_large","fid":"10509","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image"}}]]</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">(photo: Al Jazeera America)</p>
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<p>original article: <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/248115932/The-Results-Are-in-Open-Letter-11-24-14">http://www.scribd.com/doc/248115932/The-Results-Are-in-Open-Letter-11-24-14</a></p> <p><style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">For questions regarding this Open Letter, please contact <font color="#0000ff">@deray</font></font></font><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">The Results Are In </font></font></strong></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">An Open Letter from Protestors On The Grand Jury Decision (11.24.14) </font></font></strong></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">In Ferguson, a wound bleeds.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">For 108 days, we have been in a state of prolonged and protracted grief. In that time, we have found community with one another, bonding together as family around the simple notion that our love for our community compels us to fight for our community. We have had no choice but to cling together in hope, faith, love, and indomitable determination to capture that ever-escaping reality of justice.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">After 108 days, that bleeding wound has been reopened, salt poured in, insult added to the deepest of injury. On August 9th</font></font><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">, we found ourselves pushed into unknown territory, learning day by day, minute by minute, to lead and support a movement bigger than ourselves, the most important of our lifetime. We were indeed unprepared to begin with, and even in our maturation through these 108 days, we find ourselves reinjured, continually heartbroken, and robbed of even the remote possibility of judicial resolution. A life has been violently taken before it could barely begin. In this moment, we know, beyond any doubt, that no one will be held accountable within the confines of a system to which we were taught to pledge allegiance. The very hands with which we pledged that allegiance were not enough to save Mike in surrender.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">Once again, in our community, in our country, that pledge has returned to us void. </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">For 108 days, we have continuously been admonished that we should “let the system work,” and wait to see what the results are. </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">The results are in. </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">And we still don’t have justice.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <!--break--><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">This fight for the dignity of our people, for the importance of our lives, for the protection of our children, is one that did not begin Michael’s murder and will not end with this announcement. The ‘system’ you </font></font><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">have told us to rely on has kept us on the margins of society. This system has housed us in her worst homes, educated our children in her worst schools, locked up our men at disproportionate rates and shamed our women for receiving the support they need to be our mothers. This system you have admonished us to believe in has consistently, unfailingly, and unabashedly let us down and kicked us out, time and time again.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">This same system in which you’ve told us to trust--this same system meant to serve and protect citizens-- has once again killed two more of our unarmed brothers: Walking up a staircase and shot down in cold blood, we fight for Akai Gurley; Playing with a toy after police had been warned that he held a bb gun and not a real gun at only </font></font><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">twelve </font></font><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">years old, we fight for Tamir Rice. </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">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? </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">We will continue to struggle because without struggle, there is no progress. </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">We will continue to disrupt life, because without disruption we fear for our lives. </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">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 suppor</font></font><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">t one another. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">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.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">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.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">Grief, even in its most righteous state, cannot last forever. No community can sustain itself this way. </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">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.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">We march on with purpose. The work continues. This is not a moment but a movement. The movement lives. </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">This letter was written and signed by numerous protestors and supporters, too many to list. Permission is granted in advance for reproduction by all outlets. </font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p> <p><strong>Related:</strong> <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104290">Ferguson Revolutionary Community Organizers Speak!</a> <span class="a" style="left:1814px;top:561px">|</span><a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104274"> Huey Jakhi on the role of women in the movement</a> |<a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104273"> Huey Jakhi speaking on "a real dirty devil" in St Louis</a><strong> </strong>| <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104272">Huey Jakhi on life, liberation, and oppressive systems</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104263">Reign on white supremacy and police in St. Louis</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104261">Revolutionary community organizer Reign speaks!</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104253">The Injustice Freak Show</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104229">Black Lives Matter: Die-in at Delmar Loop in St. Louis</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104222">Ferguson organizers interviewed</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104213">"They think it's a game, they think it's a joke!" Ferguson organizers speak!</a></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><div class="media media-element-container media-drupalimc_large"><div id="file-10509" class="file file-image file-image-jpeg"> <h2 class="element-invisible"><a href="/file/10509">ferguson_black_power american al jazeera.jpg</a></h2> <div class="content"> <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/feature-images/ferguson_black_power%20american%20al%20jazeera.jpg?width=500&height=500" class="colorbox-load" alt=""><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/styles/drupalimc_large/public/feature-images/ferguson_black_power%20american%20al%20jazeera.jpg?itok=djae316m" alt="" title="" /></a> </div> </div> </div></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">(photo: Al Jazeera America)</p>
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A system that protects the rights of some and does not guard the rights of all.</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"> <style type="text/css"> P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">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.</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"> <style type="text/css"> P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">Grief, even in its most righteous state, cannot last forever. No community can sustain itself this way. </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"> <style type="text/css"> P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">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.</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"> <style type="text/css"> P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">We march on with purpose. The work continues. This is not a moment but a movement. The movement lives. </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"> <style type="text/css"> P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">This letter was written and signed by numerous protestors and supporters, too many to list. Permission is granted in advance for reproduction by all outlets. </font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p><strong>Related:</strong> <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104290">Ferguson Revolutionary Community Organizers Speak!</a> <span class="a" style="left:1814px;top:561px">|</span><a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104274"> Huey Jakhi on the role of women in the movement</a> |<a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104273"> Huey Jakhi speaking on "a real dirty devil" in St Louis</a><strong> </strong>| <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104272">Huey Jakhi on life, liberation, and oppressive systems</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104263">Reign on white supremacy and police in St. Louis</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104261">Revolutionary community organizer Reign speaks!</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104253">The Injustice Freak Show</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104229">Black Lives Matter: Die-in at Delmar Loop in St. Louis</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104222">Ferguson organizers interviewed</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104213">"They think it's a game, they think it's a joke!" Ferguson organizers speak!</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"drupalimc_large","fid":"10509","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image"}}]]</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">(photo: Al Jazeera America)</p>
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<p>original article: <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/248115932/The-Results-Are-in-Open-Letter-11-24-14">http://www.scribd.com/doc/248115932/The-Results-Are-in-Open-Letter-11-24-14</a></p> <p><style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">For questions regarding this Open Letter, please contact <font color="#0000ff">@deray</font></font></font><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">The Results Are In </font></font></strong></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">An Open Letter from Protestors On The Grand Jury Decision (11.24.14) </font></font></strong></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">In Ferguson, a wound bleeds.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">For 108 days, we have been in a state of prolonged and protracted grief. In that time, we have found community with one another, bonding together as family around the simple notion that our love for our community compels us to fight for our community. We have had no choice but to cling together in hope, faith, love, and indomitable determination to capture that ever-escaping reality of justice.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">After 108 days, that bleeding wound has been reopened, salt poured in, insult added to the deepest of injury. On August 9th</font></font><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">, we found ourselves pushed into unknown territory, learning day by day, minute by minute, to lead and support a movement bigger than ourselves, the most important of our lifetime. We were indeed unprepared to begin with, and even in our maturation through these 108 days, we find ourselves reinjured, continually heartbroken, and robbed of even the remote possibility of judicial resolution. A life has been violently taken before it could barely begin. In this moment, we know, beyond any doubt, that no one will be held accountable within the confines of a system to which we were taught to pledge allegiance. The very hands with which we pledged that allegiance were not enough to save Mike in surrender.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">Once again, in our community, in our country, that pledge has returned to us void. </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">For 108 days, we have continuously been admonished that we should “let the system work,” and wait to see what the results are. </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">The results are in. </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">And we still don’t have justice.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <!--break--><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">This fight for the dignity of our people, for the importance of our lives, for the protection of our children, is one that did not begin Michael’s murder and will not end with this announcement. The ‘system’ you </font></font><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">have told us to rely on has kept us on the margins of society. This system has housed us in her worst homes, educated our children in her worst schools, locked up our men at disproportionate rates and shamed our women for receiving the support they need to be our mothers. This system you have admonished us to believe in has consistently, unfailingly, and unabashedly let us down and kicked us out, time and time again.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">This same system in which you’ve told us to trust--this same system meant to serve and protect citizens-- has once again killed two more of our unarmed brothers: Walking up a staircase and shot down in cold blood, we fight for Akai Gurley; Playing with a toy after police had been warned that he held a bb gun and not a real gun at only </font></font><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">twelve </font></font><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">years old, we fight for Tamir Rice. </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">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? </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">We will continue to struggle because without struggle, there is no progress. </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">We will continue to disrupt life, because without disruption we fear for our lives. </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">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 suppor</font></font><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">t one another. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">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.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">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.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">Grief, even in its most righteous state, cannot last forever. No community can sustain itself this way. </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">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.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">We march on with purpose. The work continues. This is not a moment but a movement. The movement lives. </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">This letter was written and signed by numerous protestors and supporters, too many to list. Permission is granted in advance for reproduction by all outlets. </font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p> <p><strong>Related:</strong> <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104290">Ferguson Revolutionary Community Organizers Speak!</a> <span class="a" style="left:1814px;top:561px">|</span><a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104274"> Huey Jakhi on the role of women in the movement</a> |<a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104273"> Huey Jakhi speaking on "a real dirty devil" in St Louis</a><strong> </strong>| <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104272">Huey Jakhi on life, liberation, and oppressive systems</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104263">Reign on white supremacy and police in St. Louis</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104261">Revolutionary community organizer Reign speaks!</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104253">The Injustice Freak Show</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104229">Black Lives Matter: Die-in at Delmar Loop in St. Louis</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104222">Ferguson organizers interviewed</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104213">"They think it's a game, they think it's a joke!" Ferguson organizers speak!</a></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><div class="media media-element-container media-drupalimc_large"><div id="file-10509" class="file file-image file-image-jpeg"> <h2 class="element-invisible"><a href="/file/10509">ferguson_black_power american al jazeera.jpg</a></h2> <div class="content"> <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/feature-images/ferguson_black_power%20american%20al%20jazeera.jpg?width=500&height=500" class="colorbox-load" alt=""><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/styles/drupalimc_large/public/feature-images/ferguson_black_power%20american%20al%20jazeera.jpg?itok=djae316m" alt="" title="" /></a> </div> </div> </div></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">(photo: Al Jazeera America)</p>
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<p>original article: <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/248115932/The-Results-Are-in-Open-Letter-11-24-14">http://www.scribd.com/doc/248115932/The-Results-Are-in-Open-Letter-11-24-14</a></p> <p><style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">For questions regarding this Open Letter, please contact <font color="#0000ff">@deray</font></font></font><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">The Results Are In </font></font></strong></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">An Open Letter from Protestors On The Grand Jury Decision (11.24.14) </font></font></strong></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">In Ferguson, a wound bleeds.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">For 108 days, we have been in a state of prolonged and protracted grief. In that time, we have found community with one another, bonding together as family around the simple notion that our love for our community compels us to fight for our community. We have had no choice but to cling together in hope, faith, love, and indomitable determination to capture that ever-escaping reality of justice.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">After 108 days, that bleeding wound has been reopened, salt poured in, insult added to the deepest of injury. On August 9th</font></font><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">, we found ourselves pushed into unknown territory, learning day by day, minute by minute, to lead and support a movement bigger than ourselves, the most important of our lifetime. We were indeed unprepared to begin with, and even in our maturation through these 108 days, we find ourselves reinjured, continually heartbroken, and robbed of even the remote possibility of judicial resolution. A life has been violently taken before it could barely begin. In this moment, we know, beyond any doubt, that no one will be held accountable within the confines of a system to which we were taught to pledge allegiance. The very hands with which we pledged that allegiance were not enough to save Mike in surrender.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">Once again, in our community, in our country, that pledge has returned to us void. </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">For 108 days, we have continuously been admonished that we should “let the system work,” and wait to see what the results are. </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">The results are in. </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">And we still don’t have justice.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <!--break--><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">This fight for the dignity of our people, for the importance of our lives, for the protection of our children, is one that did not begin Michael’s murder and will not end with this announcement. The ‘system’ you </font></font><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">have told us to rely on has kept us on the margins of society. This system has housed us in her worst homes, educated our children in her worst schools, locked up our men at disproportionate rates and shamed our women for receiving the support they need to be our mothers. This system you have admonished us to believe in has consistently, unfailingly, and unabashedly let us down and kicked us out, time and time again.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">This same system in which you’ve told us to trust--this same system meant to serve and protect citizens-- has once again killed two more of our unarmed brothers: Walking up a staircase and shot down in cold blood, we fight for Akai Gurley; Playing with a toy after police had been warned that he held a bb gun and not a real gun at only </font></font><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">twelve </font></font><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">years old, we fight for Tamir Rice. </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">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? </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">We will continue to struggle because without struggle, there is no progress. </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">We will continue to disrupt life, because without disruption we fear for our lives. </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">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 suppor</font></font><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">t one another. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">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.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">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.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">Grief, even in its most righteous state, cannot last forever. No community can sustain itself this way. </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">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.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">We march on with purpose. The work continues. This is not a moment but a movement. The movement lives. </font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p> <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } /*--><!]]>*/ </style><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4">This letter was written and signed by numerous protestors and supporters, too many to list. Permission is granted in advance for reproduction by all outlets. </font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p> <p><strong>Related:</strong> <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104290">Ferguson Revolutionary Community Organizers Speak!</a> <span class="a" style="left:1814px;top:561px">|</span><a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104274"> Huey Jakhi on the role of women in the movement</a> |<a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104273"> Huey Jakhi speaking on "a real dirty devil" in St Louis</a><strong> </strong>| <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104272">Huey Jakhi on life, liberation, and oppressive systems</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104263">Reign on white supremacy and police in St. Louis</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104261">Revolutionary community organizer Reign speaks!</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104253">The Injustice Freak Show</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104229">Black Lives Matter: Die-in at Delmar Loop in St. Louis</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104222">Ferguson organizers interviewed</a> | <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/104213">"They think it's a game, they think it's a joke!" Ferguson organizers speak!</a></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><font face="Times, serif"><font size="4"><div class="media media-element-container media-drupalimc_large"><div id="file-10509" class="file file-image file-image-jpeg"> <h2 class="element-invisible"><a href="/file/10509">ferguson_black_power american al jazeera.jpg</a></h2> <div class="content"> <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/feature-images/ferguson_black_power%20american%20al%20jazeera.jpg?width=500&height=500" class="colorbox-load" alt=""><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/styles/drupalimc_large/public/feature-images/ferguson_black_power%20american%20al%20jazeera.jpg?itok=djae316m" alt="" title="" /></a> </div> </div> </div></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">(photo: Al Jazeera America)</p>
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