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We Will Shut It Down; DC Activists Disrupt Xmas Shopping; Occupy Hong Kong Confrontation
What Happened When #BlackLivesMatter Met Obama. We told him that we had neither the power, positions, nor desires to stop the eruptions in the streets and that they would continue until a radical change happened in this country. We told him that the country was on the brink and that nothing short of major capitulations at all levels of the government to the demands of the people could prevent it. We debated on the power of the vote and the lack of faith in the Democratic party. If we don’t get what we came for, we will shut it down.
DC Activists Disrupt Xmas Shopping as Another Teen Killed Near Ferguson. After police officers shot and killed 18-year-old Antonio Martin two miles from Ferguson, DC activists call for an emergency action to protest the latest police killing. The group of activists, mainly black women, have been living by one motto since the police officers who killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner were not indicted: Shut it down.
Occupy Hong Kong Protesters Attempt To Return. Thousands of protesters had occupied three busy neighborhoods to demand that residents of the semi-autonomous city be allowed to elect their top executive in 2017 from an open list of candidates. Chinese officials are requiring that a committee believed friendly to Beijing select the candidates.
