Democrats set up voter registration effort at rural racism protest this weekend

Demonstrations fan out to rural areas on eastern shore of Maryland where Abolitionist Frederick Douglass lived.

On Maryland's Eastern Shore this weekend, the Black Lives Matter movement will reach inside rural America with a planned protest against racism in the tiny enclave of Easton, about 90 miles from Washington DC. It's a venue with plenty electricity, including a local sheriff who has been vocal in his criticism of the Minneapolis police tactics that led to George Floyd's death and two memorials with very different racial significance. The historic courthouse downtown is flanked with a statue honoring the slave turned abolitionist Frederick Douglass and another dubbed the Talbot Boys commemorating Confederate soldiers. And just to make sure politics isn't lost on the moment, the Talbot County Democratic Party is setting up a voter registration drive at the Talbot County courthouse where the groups We are Human and Black Lives Matters are hosting a Kneel for Justice event. The lead up to the event has already generated lots of anxiety, and news. Earlier this week, police made the rounds to local shops in Easton advising the owners and their staff to remove anything outside that may end up through a window. Talbot County Sheriff Joe Gamble, who brought the community together to fight the opiate epidemic a few years ago, and was recognized personally for his Talbot Goes Purple campaign by Vice President Mike Pence has come out damning the Minneapolis police in the Floyd case in an interview with the local Talbot Spy.

Gamble said no police are trained to put a knee on anyone’s neck. He also reminded the public that President Trump has little to do with police training and that responsibility rests with state legislatures. Gamble is a law enforcement veteran, who led the Homicide Division for the Maryland State Police, and has conducted internal investigations of police bad behavior. On Friday, the Easton Police Department put a notice on social media, “The members of your Easton Police Department are as disgusted with racial injustices seen from other law enforcement agencies across this nation, as many of you are. The actions taken against George Floyd were absolutely unnecessary and should have never happened. We support all peaceful protests that can reignite a movement towards healing and improved relationships. Your Easton Police will be prepared to protect all citizens who choose to be heard and participate in these peaceful protests.” When it was posted on the Democratic Talbot social media, the response was “Show up and Speak out.”

We are Human’s social media page states, “We are Human believes we can become an anti-racist and racially equitable community. We are Talbot County Community members, who plot, plan, educate, strategize, organize, and mobilize to regain the humanity lost as a result of systemic racism and white supremacy.” The local police do not know where the expected out-of-town demonstrators live. Within the last week, Maryland State Police stopped Larry Ross, an Easton resident, about 20 miles away near Cambridge, Maryland for a traffic violation. He ran, police followed, took him into custody and he died. An investigation is now underway. Cambridge, Maryland has a long history of racial riots going back to the early civil rights years in the early and late 1960s from which they have never fully healed.

On Friday, the local Star-Democrat published a Guest Column by Dominic “Mickey Terrone, who wrote, “Nothing will change until police-men are punished for their racism…It is not a crime to be a racist in the USA. However, racists do not belong in positions of public authority.” Terrone has been outspoken about the Talbot Boys for a long time.

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>>9496763

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Black Lives Matter (BLM)

https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/black-lives-matter-blm/

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Ties to the Freedom Road Socialist Organization

BLM is closely allied with numerous groups that are fronts for the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), a Marxist-Leninist entity that calls for the overthrow of capitalism. In an article for Accuracy In Media, economist and investigative journalist James Simpson has identified some of these FRSO fronts that are tied to BLM:

National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) seeks to develop “women-of-color leaders” to help domestic workers—who are disproportionately female and nonwhite—gain political power and promote “concrete change”; gave money to CASA de Maryland and the Institute for Policy Studies in 2013

People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER) promotes “social change” by empowering “those people who are most affected by the problems of society”—specifically, “low-income and working class people, people of color, women, queer and transgender people”

Right to the City Alliance (RTTC) a nationwide network that opposes inner-city “gentrification” that displaces “low-income people, people of color, marginalized LGBTQ communities, and youths of color from their historic urban neighborhoods”

School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL): strives to “lay the groundwork for a strong social justice movement by supporting the development of a new generation of organizers rooted in a systemic change analysis—especially people of color, young women, queer and transgender youth, and low-income people”

Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI): “educates and engages African American and black immigrant communities to organize and advocate for racial, social and economic justice”

Advancement Project (AP) describes itself as a “civil rights law, policy, and communications ‘action tank’ that advances universal opportunity and a just democracy for those left behind in America

Movement Strategy Center (MSC) dedicated to “transformative movement building” and “equitable distribution of resources”

Dignity and Power Now (DPN) claims to seek “dignity and power of incarcerated people, their families, and communities”

Labor/Community Strategy Center (LCSC) works to “build consciousness, leadership, and organization among those who face discrimination and societal attack—people of color, women, immigrants, workers, LGBT people, youth”

https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/black-lives-matter-blm/

>>9497239

Black Lives Matter

Black Left Unity Network: a Marxist-Leninist organization that supports a variety of communist causes

Black Workers for Justice: “believes that African American workers need self-organization to help empower ourselves at the workplace, in communities and throughout the whole of U.S. society to organize, educate, mobilize and struggle for power, justice, self-determination and human rights for African Americans, other oppressed nationalities, women and all working class people”

Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ): “a national alliance of U.S.-based grassroots organizing groups organizing to build an agenda for power for working and poor people and communities of color”

Causa Justa/Just Cause: a Black/Latino solidarity organization that aims to build a “multi-racial, multi-generational movement … for fundamental change”

Hands Up United: works for the “liberation of oppressed Black, Brown, and poor people through education, art, civil disobedience, advocacy, and agriculture”

Intelligent Mischief: an African-American organization that “design[s] projects that critique the current status quo and re-imagines the possibilities”

Organization for Black Struggle (OBS): seeks to “build a movement that fights for political empowerment, economic justice and the cultural dignity of the African-American community, especially the Black working class”

Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee (RSCC): is dedicated to “uniting revolutionary-minded youth and students throughout the [City University of New York] system in NYC”

Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): a “national network of groups and individuals organizing White people for racial justice”

Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE): seeks to “reduce and eliminate structural barriers to social and economic opportunities for poor and economically disadvantaged communities and communities of color”

As evidenced by these numerous ties between FRSO and BLM, Black Lives Matter is in essence a project of FRSO. All three of BLM’s co-founders have been employed by, or affiliated with, one or more of FRSO’s aforementioned front groups at various times. Specifically:

Alicia Garza has served as a special projects director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA); executive director of People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER); a board member of School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL); and board chair of the Right to the City Alliance (RTTC).

Patrisse Cullors, who was trained by former Weather Underground leader Eric Mann, founded Dignity and Power Now (DPN) and has served as its director.

Opal Tometi is affiliated with the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI).

https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/black-lives-matter-blm/