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News by Erika Morris Published August 23, 2017 |

During the moment of silence to commemorate the people who have died of HIV/AIDS and homophobic and transphobic laws at Sundays Pride parade, about 30 members of Black Lives Matter Montreal and their allies held a peaceful protest and made demands for better representation and inclusivity to Pride Montreal.

Black Lives Matter Montreal want the police to stay off Pride grounds, want to see more Black and Indigenous people on their board of directors, to have Black queer and trans folk approve the sponsors of Pride, and to publically acknowledge that Pride is a political movement that was started by trans people of colour by the names of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.

The protesters formed a circle holding hands while red smoke bombs went off. Allies came carrying Black Lives Matter posters. Then Lucas Charlie Rose, an organizer with Black Lives Matter Montreal, took a megaphone to talk about the Stonewall riots, stating that we can only have Pride as a result of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Riveras efforts during the police riots. The protesters then chanted Black lives matter!

Employees of Pride Montreal then broke the circle of protesters and took away Roses megaphone. People in the crowd shouted at them to shut up during the moment of silence and others even pushed them.

As a Black trans person, having a white cis person snatch the megaphone out of my hand while Im saying that Pride was started by trans women of colour is the perfect example of what Pride has become, said Rose.

While trying to safely exit the parade and avoid violence, the crowd didnt make room for the protesters to leave.

To make our voices heard we chose to do this during the moment of silence, said Brian*, a protester and member of Black Lives Matter Montreal. It wasnt disrespectful because the moment was meant to commemorate the people who died [of AIDS or homophobic and transphobic laws], and most of them are trans women of colour so we reclaimed that moment.

Pride Montreal had been made aware that Black Lives Matter would hold this interruption and had instructions to leave them alone and let them exit after their protest was over. Pride Montreal has confirmed this, though they claim to not have known what Black Lives Matter was planning to do.

We want Pride to respond to [todays events], Rose said that night after the protest. How come you let this happen? We were not violent. What are you going to do to change this?

Montreal Pride vice president Jean-Sebastien Boudreault has since responded.

We know that Pride started as a protest; its important to be able to give political messages at events of Pride. We want to be a better voice to the LGBT community, especially trans people, transmigrant, people of colour but we feel that the moment Black Lives Matter chose to intervene at the parade on Sunday was inappropriate, said Boudreault.

The protesters also say that little effort towards inclusion and intersectionality were made by Pride Montreal, despite their promises to do better this year.

We were walking through the parade thinking where are all the Black people? said Brian. Where are all the trans people of colour? This is going to be a process but we will keep going until we have space for Black queer people to celebrate. Right now we cant celebrate because we are the victims of racism and transphobia. Pride Montreals executive team consists mostly of white people.

Later that night

Black Lives Matter Montreal in collaboration with Trans Trenderz held a benefit show at La Vitrola at 9 p.m. that same evening and brought Black queer artists to the stage. During the show Rose addressed the events that took place at the parade, and demanded an official response from Pride Montreal.

There protesters also criticized Pride for being overly capitalistic, and criticized a number of their sponsors they claim refuse to support and employ queer people of colour.

Now when you look at Pride all you see is TD, Pet Store, Starbucks, and Walmart and places that will never hire a Black trans person and to us that isnt acceptable, said Rose.

TDs sponsorship of Pride has been under a lot of criticism. TD, who is one of the biggest sponsors of Pride, is financing pipelines in Native territory, said Brian. What is going on here? Is no one going to say something about that?

*full name omitted for safety concerns as a Black trans person.

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By Derek Gannon 08.21.2017#North America News Email Share Tweet

Dallas, Texas On Saturday the Dallas-based In Solidarity Movement held a demonstration calledDallas Against White-Supremacy on the grounds of city hall in downtown Dallas. After the horrors of what occurred in Charlottesville the leadership for the In Solidarity Movement wanted to bring people together to denounce white supremacy, neo-nazism, neo-confederates, the alt-right, and any other moniker you may know them by, as well as demand the city take down the Confederate war memorial within the Pioneer Park Cemetery adjacent to city hall.

All religions, nationalities, and creeds were invited to the rally to show their support for the victims of Charlottesville, memorialize the loss of Heather Heyer who was killed after being struck by a vehicle driven into the crowd of counter-protesters by a known white nationalist, James Alex Fields Jr, and to demand the removal of the Confederate statues at the park.

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Memorabilia from Colin Kaepernick's protest of the national anthem last year will head to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History as part of its Black Lives Matter exhibit.

Civil rights activist Harry Edwards spearheaded the effort to get Kaepernick items, such as a jersey and shoes, enshrined.

"I said, 'Don't wait 50 years to try to get some memorabilia and so forth on Kaepernick,'" Edwards related. "It should be put right there alongside Muhammad Ali. He's this generation's Ali."

NFL players have followed the quarterback's example of protesting America's anthem as a statement against police brutality towards blacks.

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The Seattle Seahawks' Michael Bennett announced he plans to protest the anthem all season. The Oakland Raiders' Marshawn Lynch sat and ate a banana as everyone else stood during the song at a pre-season game.

"The Colin Kaepernick collection is in line with the museum's larger collecting efforts to document the varied areas of society that have been impacted by the Black Lives Matter movement," said curator Damion Thomas.

Kaepernick is still a free agent, partly because teams balked at signing him after his protests caused a firestorm.

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Shortly after Charlottesville, Virginia, became the site of deadly violence, Texas A&M University canceled a previously scheduled White Lives Matter rally, citing concerns that the event would turn violent. The University of Florida soon refused to allow a similar white supremacist event, followed by Michigan State and Louisiana State, with other colleges facing the same issue.

This raises a problem known in First Amendment law as the hecklers veto. If speech that may lead to violence is banned, anyone can get anything censored by generating a sufficient threat of potential violence in response. But before pursuing the free speech issue, let me consider the speech that is at issue.

A good place to start is the slogan of the canceled rally: White Lives Matter. This is true, of course, but why say that? Obviously it is meant as a response to Black Lives Matter, which was followed by All Lives Matter and now White Lives Matter. If one takes these three slogans simply as independent moral propositions, they are fully consistent with each other and are all true. But consider them now in sequence and in context.

Black Lives Matter was a response to a series of killings of black boys and men under circumstances that led many to question whether black lives were taken as seriously as white lives. The clear message was Black Lives Matter too. No one suggested that only black lives matter. On the contrary, black lives matter precisely because all lives matter.

But if all lives matter, whats wrong with the slogan All Lives Matter? It appears to be true, relevant, and morally important.

The problem lies in the sequence. Black Lives Matter (Too) already assumes that all lives matter, so it makes no sense to respond that All Lives Matter. Instead, a response of All Lives Matter implicitly misinterprets or misrepresents Black Lives Matter as Only Black Lives Matter. At best, this misses the point. At worst, All Lives Matter willfully deflects attention from black lives just when we are being reminded that they matter.

Now we have White Lives Matter. This would be a reasonable response to Only Black Lives Matter or Not All Lives Matter. But following Black Lives Matter (Too) and All Lives Matter, why respond with White Lives Matter, which has not been questioned? In this context and sequence, the most obvious interpretation of White Lives Matter is Only White Lives Matter, which contradicts the previous slogans and thus adds something new.

Only White Lives Matter is the ideology of white supremacy, including Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, and Vanguard America, whose slogan is Blood and Soil. These are the people who organized the armed rally in Charlottesville.

But we should not permit our concern about white supremacists to blind us to another, and perhaps more common, reading of White Lives Matter. For many, this is a claim that white lives matter too.

Many white people perceive themselves to be living in a world where groups of all sorts get affirmative action while white lives and struggles are ignored or dismissed. Some, without denying that black lives matter, may be sympathetic to, or at least interested in, White Lives Matter (Too). Banning a White Lives Matter rally reinforces their sense of group victimization.

So how should colleges respond to plans for a White Lives Matter rally? They can of course deny or cancel any event that is intended to be violent. But if the threat of violence arises from the possibility of potentially violent counterdemonstrators, then to cancel the event is to give in to a hecklers veto.

Once it becomes clear that speech can be silenced by a sufficient show of likely violence, moreover, there may be threats to all sorts of speech deemed objectionable. The hecklers veto may come back to haunt in unexpected scenarios. Ultimately, white supremacists may be among the most successful in shutting down events they dislike by mustering credible threats of violence.

Maintaining both physical safety and intellectual freedom for all may be the top challenge of the coming academic year. Regardless of who the heckler may be, the hecklers veto must not prevail. Colleges must ensure they have plans, procedures, and sufficient security to protect controversial speech and those who wish to hear it. We cannot permit threats of force and fears of violence to dictate what can be said on college campuses.

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