#trayvon martin

[odinsblog]

Born on February 5, 1995 — today should have been Trayvon Martin's 29th birthday. 🤍

#trayvon martin #blacklivesmatter #havent forgotten about you little brother #in memoriam

[blackautmedia]

Today, 2/26 is the anniversary of when George Zimmerman murdered Trayvon Martin, a 17-year old Black boy in 2012.

Much love to Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, his parents and to the rest of his family. You all are hurting far more. Never forget this day.

This should always fill you with outrage knowing that Black children are viewed as inherently dangerous, that anyone can freely murder Black people as they see fit and will view Black children as adults.

It should be enraging that not only is this allowed of citizens it's expected and supported by the state. We've only had increased spending on policing since 2012.

It should be blood boiling that within that, police target Black trans and Black disabled people at even higher rates and both are routinely ignored or downplayed.

Black trans and disabled communities are consistently abandoned. Black trans people often get misgendered and deadnamed even in coverage discussing them.

It is so exhausting.

For Black Lives to Matter, that means all Black lives. It includes Black trans lives, Black disabled lives, Black unhoused lives, Black Sex Worker's lives, Black women, Black children, everyone.

#trayvon martin #black lives matter

[stoplookingup]

This original Uhura uniform is part of the Afrofuturism exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. The item on the left is the flight suit Trayvon Martin wore when he attended a program called Experience Aviation.

#star trek #tos #uhura #afrofuturism #smithsonian #nmaahc #trayvon martin

[worldwide-blackfolk]

Happy birthday Trayvon!

#trayvon martin #happy birthday #February 5th #Florida

[soberscientistlife]

Black History Month Day 26

#black history month #black lives matter #black history facts #trayvon martin

[ladyinpink13]

It’s been 12 years since 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was pursued, shot, and killed by an armed vigilante while walking home from a Florida convenience store. Trayvon’s family will never receive justice—in part, due to Florida’s Shoot First law, which essentially makes murder legal.

Trayvon was a child and should be alive today. He should have celebrated his 29th birthday this month. He should have graduated from high school and pursued his dream of becoming a pilot. Instead, his future was stolen by a man emboldened by racist gun laws.

Our hearts are with Trayvon’s loved ones as they mourn 12 years without him. We will honor Trayvon, and all whose lives have been stolen in this senseless way, with action.

#rest in power #trayvon martin

[hopelessromanticsavage]

💙

#say their names #black tumblr #black stories #breonna taylor #trayvon martin #tamir rice #4 little girls #george floyd

[mos-twin-mattress]

Thinkin ab you Trayvon.

You should be 29. You should have celebrated your birthday with family, you should be gettin hugged by your momma. Maybe you would have your own son or daughter by now...

What happened to you, should never happen to anyone. I wish they had held him accountable. I wish you were here... You were so young.

I cried when i heard what happened to you...

You were a bright light in this world, and I love you sib. I will continue to fight for us. I will never stop. We (Black people) are so deserving of love and care.

The things they do to keep us down, we wont buckle, not ever. I will fight for you, for Breonna, for Casey, for Mike, for George, for Eric, for Ma'Khia, for Sandra.

I HAVE to fight... I can't stop, I cant even slow down... I love being Black, I love how amazing Black people are, I love how resilient we are. But I HATE that we HAVE to be resilient...

#black is beautiful #black pride #black history month #trayvon martin #blacklivesmatter #black lives fucking matter #black lives matter #happy birthday Trayvon #I'm so tired... #ma'khia bryant #sandra bland #eric garner #casey goodson #george floyd #mike brown #breonna taylor

[whenweallvote]

Happy heavenly 29th birthday, Trayvon. 🕊️ Today we’re sending love to your family, and celebrating your life, achievements, and JOY!

#trayvon martin #TrayvonMartin

[nando161mando]

#no impunity #killer cops #no immunity #1312 #michael brown #ericgarner #oscargrant #trayvon martin #all cops are bastards #all cops are bad #acab #ftp #fuck the police #fuck the cops #anti police #anti cop #cooee #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #police state #police #defund the cops

[fundamentallyroyal]

The white 18-year old suspect in the race related murder of people is a “teenager” and a “child”. A 17 year old person of color who is murdered for just walking down the street and wearing a hood is a “thug”. An 18 year old person of color, walking towards police with his hands up is gunned down and called a “man”. Tell me it’s not race related. The media is complicit.

#black lives matter #black lives count #trayvon martin #buffalo shooting #michael brown

[odinsblog]

The Black Lives Matter movement hits a milestone on Thursday, marking 10 years since its 2013 founding in response to the acquittal of the man who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

Gunned down in a Florida gated community where his father lived in 2012, Martin was one of the earliest symbols of a movement that now wields influence in politics, law enforcement and broader conversations about racial progress in and outside the U.S.

BLM activists and organizations plan to mark a decade of the movement with in-person and virtual events. Calls to action include a renewed push to defund police departments and reinvest in Black communities that have suffered disproportionately from police brutality, unequal treatment in criminal justice systems and mass incarceration.

In the wake of Supreme Court decisions that stymied relief from student loan debt held disproportionately by Black borrowers and banned affirmative action in higher education, the need for BLM’s existence couldn’t be more clear, said prominent movement activist Melina Abdullah.

“What this movement moment means is that we have to absolutely redouble our efforts and redouble our commitment to making Black lives matter,” said Abdullah, who is a director of BLM Grassroots Inc, a collective of organizers across the country.

“Ten years in, we’re getting a glimpse at what would happen if there were no Black Lives Matter,” she said. “We’re not just going to fight when it’s popular, but we’re going to fight because we need to fight.”

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#politics #blacklivesmatter #trayvon martin #black history #scotus #affirmative action #anti blackness #racism #police #defund the police

[theconcealedweapon]

"We can't let transgender women use the women's restroom. That would make it easier for creeps to follow children."

- people who believe that George Zimmerman following Trayvon Martin was his God given right

#conservative logic #racism #transphobia #george zimmerman #trayvon martin

[angelstills]

Lemonade (2016)

#Lemonade Beyonce #2010s #2016 #Film #Trayvon Martin #Michael Brown Jr #Eric Garner #Lesley McSpadden Head #Beyonce #Gwen Carr

[bdistant]

“When you die unjustly in this country everything is a would be”- Alysia Harris

Rip 🪦 Trayvon Martin February 26.

#trayvon martin #february 26

[reasoningdaily]

In beloved memory of Trayvon and in honor of all who love him

Fam,

Ten years ago, a Florida jury acquitted vigilante George Zimmerman for the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. It was 2013, and the Dream Defenders, a Florida-based community group formed to vindicate Trayvon, occupied the Florida State Capitol for 30 nights and 31 days, demanding a repeal of Zimmerman’s winning defense, the controversial Stand Your Ground law.  A decade later, the community group is a powerful organization within the M4BL ecosystem, still organizing and combating fascist policies like the so-called “Stop W.O.K.E” bill introduced by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, which bans school curricula that explain the workings of race, class, gender, sexuality, and power in our society.

DeSantis’ motive is to defang the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) and adjacent left movements whose organizing yielded material wins on racial justice and police reform in the 2010s. But today’s Black liberation organizations are not intimidated.

Since Trayvon’s death, millions of ordinary people have organized to vindicate him and others like him. 

Our movement has been building and harnessing political power at the ballot box and on the local, state, and federal levels, growing support for investing in what our communities need to thrive and divesting from the systems that are causing us harm.

Vigilante and police violence still persist, and until these systems are dismantled, our communities remain under threat. This year, police killed Anthony Lowe, a 36-year-old double amputee in a wheelchair. They also killed 26-year-old Manuel "Tortuguita" Esteban Paez Terán, a forest defender in the fight against Cop City.

In May, a vigilante choked 30-year-old street performer Jordan Neely to death on the New York City Subway.

Our movement's work is more important than ever. Today, Dream Defenders has expanded their organizing to Oklahoma, New York, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C. Earlier this year in Florida, where the group started, activists occupied Ron DeSantis’ office to demand an end to the vicious attacks on queer and transgender communities. 

What most people get wrong about deeply rooted social movements is that even under the threat of ongoing attacks and erasure, they provide a meaningful and consistent entryway for disillusioned people who want to see justice and material change to plug into. People join us to be a part of something and work for real change in their lives and communities. They join us to feel like they can do something about it. This people-power keeps our movements constantly growing, relevant, and threatening to the status quo of power and privilege. We will keep on, and until our dreams are realized, until our children and all our people are safe from these harms, we wouldn’t have it any other way.

In beloved memory of Trayvon and in honor of all who love him,

Movement for Black Lives

Movement for Black Lives 1624 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94612 United States

Visit us at M4BL.org

#trayvon martin #Movement for Black Lives #MBL #Black LIves Matter #In beloved memory of Trayvon and in honor of all who love him