Posted on 08/21/2014 2:30:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On Tuesday, Mikki Kendall was in her Chicago home, watching live streams on her laptop as protesters and the police played out a 10th straight day of confrontation in the streets of Ferguson, Mo. On Wednesday, she was on the road, headed 300 miles to offer demonstrators her services as a former Army medic.
“I don’t want to take up space or be in the way,” she said. “It’s about making sure people have a steady supply of what they need. I can’t watch this happen night after night and not want to help.”
Ms. Kendall, 37, a writer, a blogger and an activist, is one of the less visible participants in what could be the transformation of a purely local protest into a center of national activism. Driven in part by posts on Twitter and other social media outlets, a phalanx of protesters from across the nation has descended on Ferguson, from rap and hip-hop stars to veterans of the Occupy Wall Street movement to more ordinary people like Ms. Kendall.
They bring food and medical supplies and toys to entertain babies while their parents march in the streets. They make up a significant portion of those protesters who confront the police aggressively enough to be arrested: Of the 103 people taken into custody during overnight protests on Monday and Tuesday, 23 were out-of-staters, from Alabama, California, the District of Columbia and Texas, among other places, according to the St. Louis County Police Department. One demonstrator from Austin, Tex., has been arrested three times, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol...
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And to think, all this hoopla could have been avoided if the gentle giant had not robbed a convenience store of a few blunts and assaulted the store owner.
An activist is someone who doesn’t have a job and probably doesn’t want one.
Rent-a-mob.
Obviously did not learn much in the military.......
Now he is a role model for the kids in the hood!
Stupid will never end!!!
Activism.
Thugs all over our formerly great country are planning for that new TV, Nikes, and cases of booze.
OK, now everyone knows what is going on.
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