Posted on 01/06/2015 6:53:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It has gotten out of hand.
I think I’da ordered Chicken and Waffles for breakfast.
No Justice, No Quiche!
I wonder when they will show up at my local feed store, but then again the nearest Popeye’s is miles away so they may not like the commute.
http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/10/black-brunch-organizers-put-protest-on-the-menu
Black Brunch Organizers Put Protest on the Menu
Wazi Maret Davis, Zachary Murray and Wild Tigers created Black Brunch in Oakland.
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/wazi-maret-davis/9a/b20/63b
Wazi Maret Davis
Violence Prevention Educator at Youth ALIVE!
Oakland, CaliforniaPublic Policy
Previous
The Greenlining Institute, San Francisco State University, Conferences & Visitor Services
Education
San Francisco State University
Summary
Originally from Hyattsville, Maryland and the Washington, DC area, Wazi moved to Oakland, California in 2013 to pursue higher education while building and investing in the rich history and Oakland community. They hold a BA in Communication and a Major Certificate in LGBT studies from the University of Maryland, College Park and are currently enrolled in the MA program in Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University. At SFSU, Wazi began working part-time as a graduate research assistant with the Beyond Bullying Project—a digital storytelling project about LGBTQ sexuality in high schools.
They have also volunteered and interned with organizations such as the Mautner Project:
National Lesbian Health Organization, Bois of Baltimore, Inc., MarylandCAN (Campaign for
Achievement Now), and the National Black Justice Coalition, and recently the Black Youth Project all of which also organize differently across intersections to address issues of social and political inequity. Wazi has experience working both on the ground and in public sector organizations and currently works for The Greenlining Institute carrying out public policy and advocacy work.
Wazi identifies as an organizer, activist, and artist invested in youth, education and racial and economic justice. They are especially dedicated to working for and with other under-served, working class LGBTQ communities and communities of color and is currently looking for opportunities with both paid & non-paid youth development, health, and/or public policy work.
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https://www.linkedin.com/pub/zachary-murray/3b/225/65
Zachary Murray
Knowledge and Advocacy Coordinator at Larkin Street Youth Services
Oakland, CaliforniaPublic Policy
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Center for American Progress, Congressional Hunger Center
Education
Cornell University
Experience
Larkin Street Youth Services
Knowledge and Advocacy Coordinator
Larkin Street Youth Services
October 2013 Present (1 year 4 months)
Center for American Progress
Fellow
Center for American Progress
March 2013 July 2013 (5 months)
Congressional Hunger Center
Emerson National Hunger Fellow
Congressional Hunger Center
August 2012 July 2013 (1 year)
Education
Cornell University
Cornell University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Sciences (B.S.), Africana Studies and City and Regional Planning
2012
http://www.hungercenter.org/fellow/zachary-murray/
Policy Placement: Center for American Progress (Washington, DC)
Zachs work at the Center for American Progress focused on building bridges between CAPs Poverty to Prosperity and Progress 2050 teams. Through contributions to each teams research and analysis, Zach worked to unify Poverty and Progress 2050s commitment to create economic opportunity for all, close racial and ethnic disparities, and seize on diversity as an opportunity for growth and prosperity.
https://www.facebook.com/zachary.x.murray
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Wild Tigers (Alette Kendrick)
https://www.facebook.com/alettric
http://www.calstate.edu/pa/clips2007/june/7june/ucsc.shtml
UCSC cuts student activist's suspension
Santa Cruz Sentinel 6/7/07
By Roger Sideman
Alette Kendrick, the UC Santa Cruz student who faced the harshest penalty for her actions during a protest of the UC Board of Regents, struck a deal Friday with campus officials, who reduced her suspension from three years to two academic quarters in exchange for a written apology and 100 hours of community service.
On Oct. 18, demonstrators blocked the three exits of a campus lecture hall, preventing the regents from leaving. The protesters were met by police who used pepper spray and batons to clear the way. Kendrick, 21, was arrested by campus police on three felony counts of battering a police officer. But the charges were reduced and last month Kendrick pleaded no contest to two misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest and disturbing a lawful public assembly. She issued a public apology before the court.
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/news-media-ignores-black-protests/Content?oid=4145294
Organizers of Saturday's Millions March in Oakland made sure white protesters didn't take over the event.
"I'm of the belief that there is most definitely a place for property destruction for raging and all that," said Wild Tigers, another Black Brunch organizer, graduate student, and longtime activist, "but the reality is that, as black people, it's very different for us to be out there on the streets smashing windows at Starbucks. Because, if I do that, I could get a bullet. For white people out there, doing that is a privilege."
I am suprised to hear that the ‘protesters’ are awake and moving by brunch...
Mr. Mercat and I go to brunch early, timing it before the Protestants get out of church but given the venues in this story I’m guessing most of the customers don’t go to any church.
It might be worth the 30 days in jail and a fine to whip the crap out of one of those smug sons-of-@#%ches...
For black racists, its about getting their racism acknowledged by the mainstream.
We should just turn our backs to them like the New York cops turned their backs to de Blasio.
We don’t need to give racist ilk our respectful attention.
Oakland is a write off...
“I’m of the belief that there is most definitely a place for property destruction”
Can’t imagine why folks would want to put some distance between themselves and this person. /s
They become compliant/complicit hostages when they stay and pay.
This will lead to further steps being taken. They will soon start spilling your coffee or spiting in your food. They want a confrontation.
What Oakland Apple Store? Apple has stores in Emeryville and Berkeley but not in Oakland.
They aren’t doing it at my local diner.
Their bravery extends to the boundaries of tolerance and no further.
‘The point is to confront non-black people with realities that black people are confronted with every day’
So black people cannot go to brunch??? Follow the money.......who is funding these people? And smashing windows at Starbucks is a ‘privilege’ for whites? Big Media gives these activists credibility by not questioning statements that are absolute nonsense. But in Bizarro America, truth is unimportant.
Lame on parade gets 15 minutes.
As long as they target liberals, fine by me.
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