Tag Archives: BlackLivesMatter

#JusticeForTony photo art installation at the Social Justice Center extended

by on May 17, 2016 in Black Lives Matter, Citizen Media, First Amendment, Images, Photo of the Day, Uncategorized

May 17, 2016 by Leslie Amsterdam #JusticeForTony, an intimate photographic art show currently installed at the Jackie Macauley  Gallery at the Social Justice Center has been extended through June 26, 2016.  The show documents the response of Tony Robinson’s family and the community to his killing by a Madison police officer on March 6, 2015. […]

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Family of #TonyRobinson Demands Justice From the Dane County DA

by on April 8, 2015 in Black Lives Matter, Citizen Media, Images, Photo of the Day, Video

April 8, 2015 by Leslie Amsterdam On April 6, the family of slain teen Tony Robinson and their supporters marched from the house where he was killed to the offices of Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne to demand justice and an indictment for Matt Kenny, the Madison police officer who killed Robinson. The march […]

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In Living Color: Tony Robinson and Why #BlackLivesMatter Matters

by on March 12, 2015 in Black Lives Matter, Citizen Media, Editorial, First Amendment, Free Speech, Images

by Ryan Wherley  March 12, 2015 To all those who chime in with “all lives matter” in response to the rallying cry that “Black Lives Matter,” in response to the police officer shooting of Tony Robinson last week, I have to say this in response to you: No fucking shit. Of course we know that all […]

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Madison Community Honors Slain Teen Tony Robinson

by on March 8, 2015 in Black Lives Matter, Citizen Media, Images, Photo of the Day, The 99%, Video

By Leslie Amsterdam, March 7, 2015 On Saturday, the Madison community honored slain teen Tony Robinson by marching from the City-County Building to a vigil at the scene of his death Friday evening. The unarmed, recent high school graduate was shot five times by a Madison police officer responding to a call on Williamson Street […]

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I❤️UW-Fourth Anniversary of Wisconsin Uprising

by on February 15, 2015 in Budget, Citizen Media, First Amendment, Free Speech, Images, Legislation, Public Education, Scott Walker Trainwreck, The 99%, Video, Worker's Rights Under Attack

February 15, 2015 by Leslie Amsterdam Frigid temperatures with below zero wind chills did not keep several hundred citizens from celebrating the fourth anniversary of the I❤️UW rally of February 14, 2011, which ignited the Wisconsin Uprising. UW Faculty Organizing for Change hosted this year’s Stop the Cuts-SaveUW rally as a response to a proposed […]

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