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Spontaneous Solidarity

Posted on November 1, 2016 by Roger David Hardesty — 9 Comments

Serial, unpermitted marches; a die-in on a major bridge; even overnight encampment at City Hall did not get #BlackLivesMatter concerns into meetings with the Mayor/ Police Commissioner in Portland, Oregon. Instead of allowing public testimony on a secretly negotiated police…

Tagged with: #BlackLivesMatter, Civil Rights Movement, complicit, dominance, Equality, identity, Jim Crow, Justice, moral crime, power, private property, Reconciliation, segregation, shame, social bondage, status quo, white domination, white privelege, women’s lives
Posted in Coercion, Punishment & Sale, Contemporary (1970- present), Cooperation: Assistance, Cooperation: Assistance, Support & Harmony, Discovery & Personal Reactions, Implications for Action, Power, Racism, Support & Harmony, The Journey

Talking About Slavery TODAY

Posted on October 22, 2015 by bittersweetblogcttt — 2 Comments

BitterSweet: Linked Through Slavery is trying an alternative form of posting. For the first time, we offer a compilation of five people’s responses to a single question. We hope you enjoy the post, give it comments, and feel inspired to…

What Do We Want to Say?

Posted on October 18, 2013 by prinnyanderson — Leave a comment

The Storytellers of BitterSweet have wide-ranging conversations and share stories on many topics, and we imagine that our readers and guest contributors will expand the exchange with new topics and themes. Our stories touch on all periods in U.S. history,…