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Tuesday, June 9, 2020

June 9, 2020: "The Wishing Well and the Battlefield"
















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List taken from this video's description:

"Trump COWERS In Bunker As America Rises." The Damage Report, Youtube. [9:04] Trump cowers in an underground bunker as America rises during national protests. John Iadarola and Francesca Fiorentini break it down on The Damage Report. "As protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers continued outside the White House, President Donald Trump was reportedly taken into an underground bunker by the Secret Service for about an hour Friday evening. The New York Times first reported that the president was rushed to a bunker on Friday. CNN senior national correspondent Alex Marquardt confirmed that reporting in an appearance live from Washington, D.C. during a program hosted by Don Lemon. Marquardt discussed the protests that had occurred in D.C. and many other cities across America over the past few nights. Like several other cities, D.C. has imposed a curfew, effective at 11:00 pm local time. Marquardt noted that the protest had been peaceful during the day, but expected that it would start to get “violent” and “unruly” as the sun was setting. The National Guard has been deployed in D.C. to help keep order and was continuing to assist D.C. police and federal park service officers specifically in attempting to maintain distance between the protesters and the White House." June 1, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf313kBIYNg












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FreedomWalker's Sources, Citations, Credits, and Links




COFFEE & GREEN TEA COMBO



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THE SPRUCE


  • Thespruce.com
  • www.ilo.org - International Labour Organization - Covid 19: Protect children from child labour, now more than ever.
  • www.cnn.com - CNN Business,  June 5th, 2020




MINDFUL MUSEUM



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beetle's Sources, Citations, Credits, and Links


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The revolution continues and builds, and YOUR META is HERE FOR EVERY MINUTE OF IT with historical and modern quotes, resources, research and data, multimedia, articles and essays, and more. Updated several times daily for the foreseeable future.    Are you FED-UP?  Then RISE UP.













Sources for Meta on the Meta: "Say THEIR NAMES, Too" and Editorial: "Killin' 'Em Softly With His Words":


Multimedia


  1. “They are lucky that what black people are looking for is equality and not revenge.” Yashar Ali, Twitter.com. [1:22] https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1268933041864364032
  2. "Tamika Mallory on George Floyd Protests | NowThis." NowThis News, Youtube.  [3:54] ‘Don’t talk to us about looting. Y’all are the looters. America has been looting Black people!’ — Activist and Women’s March leader Tamika Mallory shut down any arguments against the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests and explained what the uprising is really about. June 2, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkGC1jdEtKc
  3. "How Dave Chappelle Schooled White Woman On 'Police Brutality' - CH News."  Comedy Hype, Youtube. [6:30] https://comedyhype.com/ - In a viral tweet shared by a local New York comedian, users on Twitter would learn about the time Dave Chappelle corrected a white woman after heckling him on police brutality. CH's @Mr.DominicSmith would share excerpts of comedian Kenny DeForrest's reveal. Instagram: @ComedyHype & Twitter: @ComedyHype_. June 4, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG4bRTXVcDw
  4. [Referenced / resourced, but not aired in segment] "How Can We Win." David Jones Media, Youtube. [6:46] June 1, 2020. On Saturday May 30th filmmaker and photographer David Jones of David Jones Media felt compelled to go out and serve the community in some way. He decided to use his art to try and explain the events that were currently impacting our lives. On day two, Sunday the 31st, he activated his dear friend author Kimberly Jones to tag along and conduct interviews. During a moment of downtime he captured these powerful words from her and felt the world couldn’t wait for the full length documentary, they needed to hear them now. https://youtu.be/sb9_qGOa9Go
  5. [Referenced / resourced, but not aired in segment] "Minneapolis City Council Vows to Dismantle Police Dept. After Mass Protests & Grassroots Organizing." Democracy Now!, Youtube. [13:52] After nearly two weeks of historic protests, the Minneapolis City Council has announced it will move to dismantle the city’s police department in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd. “We’ve got to create a system of public safety that works for everybody,” says Councilmember Jeremiah Ellison. June 8, 2020. https://youtu.be/1oc3TxJWq34
  6. [Referenced / resourced, but not aired in segment] "Defund the Police: Linda Sarsour & Mychal Denzel Smith on What Meaningful Change Would Look Like." Democracy Now!, Youtube. [17:07] Amid growing calls in New York City for police accountability, Mayor Bill de Blasio has pledged to shift some of the city’s funding for police and reallocate it to social services. We get response from Linda Sarsour, longtime Palestinian American Muslim organizer and co-founder of Until Freedom, which along with others has led the push to institute meaningful change. We also speak with author Mychal Denzel Smith, who notes that “one thing that’s come of this global pandemic of COVID-19 is an understanding of what constitutes essential, what do we actually need. And police have shown that they are inessential.” June 8, 2020. https://youtu.be/__pp_ywjn9A
  7. [Referenced / resourced, but not aired in segment] "Exonerated 'Central Park Five' Survivor Dr. Yusef Salaam on Black Trauma | NowThis." NowThis News, Youtube. [6:06] Dr. Yusef Salaam was imprisoned as a member of the Central Park Five, a group of Black and Hispanic teenagers who were falsely charged and convicted of an attack on a jogger in Central Park.   Though much of the public called for their execution, including future President Donald Trump, the Central Park 5 were eventually exonerated and have shared their experience as a warning against systemic police racism and police brutality, as seen in the documentary series When They See Us.  As the Black Lives Matter comes to the forefront in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, protests throughout the world are waking us up to the shared experience of Black trauma in a society that is unfairly biased against them. The Black experience shared by many African Americans is wrought with the collective trauma of centuries of injustice, and as the Black Lives Matter protests and George Floyd protests continue to grow, we must not lose sight of the tragedies that led us to this moment. June 7, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgYPqqHNPG4
  8. [Referenced / resourced, but not aired in segment] "Top U.S. & World Headlines — June 8, 2020." Democracy Now!, Youtube. [14:59] Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on nearly 1,400 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: https://democracynow.org. June 8, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pwvEfk5xYY






Articles, Bibliographies, Resources & Websites


  1. [Referenced / resourced, but not read in segment] "The 14-Year-Old African-American That Was Tortured in an Electric Chair." Andrei Tapalaga, Medium.com. The unfair trial of George Junius Stinney, Jr. June 6, 2020. https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/the-14-year-old-african-american-that-was-tortured-in-an-electric-chair-72faf44fb3fd
  2. [Referenced / resourced, but not read in segment] Hannah Ocuish (March 1774 – December 20, 1786) was executed at the age of twelve years and nine months, being hanged on December 20, 1786, in New London, Connecticut. She is believed to be the youngest person legally executed in the United States. Ocuish was a Pequot Native American girl with an intellectual disability who was accused of killing six-year-old Eunice Bolles, the daughter of a wealthy farmer, after quarreling with her over some strawberries. The primary evidence against her was her confession to the investigators. At her execution, she thanked the sheriff for his kindness as she stepped forward to be hanged. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Ocuish
  3. [Referenced / resourced, but not read in segment] State of Missouri v. Celia, a Slave was an 1855 murder trial held in the Circuit Court of Callaway County, Missouri, in which a slave woman named Celia was tried for the first-degree murder of her owner, Robert Newsom. Celia was convicted by a jury of twelve white men and sentenced to death. An appeal of the conviction was denied by the Supreme Court of Missouri in December 1855, and Celia was hanged on December 21, 1855. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Missouri_v._Celia,_a_Slave


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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annice_(slave)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_and_Restorative_Justice_Project
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coram_nobis
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_chair
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-degree_murder
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stinney
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Ocuish
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_deliberation
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wrongful_convictions_in_the_United_States
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(slave)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Mile_(novel)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacated_judgment
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_execution#United_States
  • https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9806250-men-talk-of-the-negro-problem-there-is-no-negro
  • https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7712931-hey-you-know-something-people-i-m-not-black-but-there-s
  • https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/139439-there-will-be-no-curiosity-no-enjoyment-of-the-process
  • https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/42713-i-was-not-born-to-be-forced-i-will-breathe
  • https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1243284-you-should-be-angry-you-must-not-be-bitter-bitterness










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  1. Madonna: "American Pie"
  2. Terence Trent D'Arby: "Wishing Well"



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  1. Wrongchilde, feat. White Sea: "Love is a Battlefield" (cover)



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