#BlackLivesMatter Activists Plan to Disrupt Hillary Clinton Event

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Activists from Boston’s #BlackLivesMatter chapter plan to disrupt a Hillary Clinton event in Keene, New Hampshire, on Tuesday afternoon, asking her questions specifically about her platform on drug enforcement. The event, which was scheduled to begin at 2:30pm ET, is a community forum on substance abuse. Keene is one of many New England towns being affected by a heroin crisis.

A small group of activists, led by Black Lives Matter Boston founder Daunasia Yancey, shared their talking points and planned questions exclusively with the New Republic while en route to the protest. They mention Clinton’s previous support of policies “which instituted draconian penalties for drug possession and abuse at the same time they funnel money away from anti-poverty programs and into hyper-militarization of urban police forces and the institution of white supremacist police profiling policies.”

The #BlackLivesMatter movement has faced criticism stemming from two protests of presidential candidates: a July disruption of a Netroots Nation event featuring two Democratic hopefuls, former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley and current U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. O'Malley subsequently released a criminal justice reform plan that responded to many of the protesters' concerns. Sanders was interrupted again on Saturday at an event in Seattle. Sanders's supporters have been vocal in print and online articles, as well as social media, about their consternation that their candidate, a vocal supporter of civil rights for decades, was the target of #BlackLivesMatter protests. Many openly wondered why Clinton was not herself a target. Activists and journalists, including me, have levied criticisms in return.

The activists said they plan to ask several questions including, "Can you give at least one tangible example of how you expect to reverse the health and human services disaster you orchestrated in impoverished, urban, non-white communities through the domsetic [War on Drugs] policy you've championed as FLOTUS & Senator?" and "Is it your plan, as POTUS, to finally put an end to the International War on Drugs ... you waged as Sec. of State or is your intention to continue to oversee its horrendous expansion?"

Yancey was called the “new face of Boston’s civil rights movement” in a February Boston magazine profile. An activist since the age of 13, Yancey was trained largely in local LGBT youth organizations. She has led marches and rallies in Boston, including one in November shortly after the announcement that no charges would be filed in the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Fifty-one protesters were arrested.

Clinton gave a major speech at Columbia University in April regarding criminal justice reform, calling for an end to mass incarceration. The former Secretary of State also noted that of a large percentage of the more than two million Americans currently in prison are low-level offenders, many of them simply waiting for trial. In late May, she not only signaled her intention to make substance abuse a key issue in her campaign, but as the Huffington Post reported,began drafting policy solutions. “The drug epidemic, meth, pills in Iowa, and then I got to New Hampshire and at my very first coffee shop meeting I heard about the heroin epidemic in New Hampshire,” Clinton said in a Google Hangout organized by her campaign. “This is tearing families apart, but it is below the surface. People aren’t talking about it, because it’s something that is hard to deal with,” she said.

We will update this story as events transpire.
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#BlackLivesMatter Activists Plan to Disrupt Hillary Clinton Event
 
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Great news i hope BLM don't forget that Clinton let a million Africans slaughter each other over 3 months in Rwanda for nothing.
 
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Swavy Karl Marx said:
How is it a disruption if you're putting out press releases and all you're going to do ask questions at a community forum?

Pretty sure this is called attending.
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BLM had the courage to run up on stage while Bernie Sanders was talking so let them run up on Hilary and see what happens.

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Yeah I didn't want to say it but this is mad fishy. Bernie Sanders kind of turned his interruption into a positive and has gotten some good attention from his detailed response. Now they're contacting the press and announcing their plan to do the same to Hillary with specific questions on some "Equal Time" shyt...
 
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Street Knowledge said:
They'll be shot if they try to run up on stage

Bernie's security is :trash:
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He needs to holla at somebody quick. No reason a self-identified "socialist" this popular running for the highest office in the land should be rolling around as light as he is :dahell:

Swavy Karl Marx said:
How is it a disruption if you're putting out press releases and all you're going to do ask questions at a community forum?

Pretty sure this is called attending.
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I don't really like the wording, but they did catch a lot of shyt for "tone" & "blindsiding" Sanders and O'Malley

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so they only doing this BLM to dems :martin:





seems like hired agents
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are they DNC agents, stooges working for Hillary, paid agents working for the GOP or radical anarchists with "beef" against BLM?
 
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Update, 4:17pm ET: Once they arrived at the event, Yancey and her group found the doors closed by the United States Secret Service due to capacity, according to CNN’s Dan Merica. In a phone call shortly after 3:30pm ET, Yancey indicated that they were still making efforts to enter the event, and were in discussions with Clinton campaign officials about it. Merica also reported that Clinton herself noted that there is an “overflow room” at the Keene event.

Update, 4:52pm ET: The #BlackLivesMatter Boston Twitter account tweeted this:
Huge thanks to everyone tweeting about #HollupHillary action. We've gotten the attention of @HillaryClinton's staff & they are working w us.
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— BlackLivesMatterBOS (@BLM_Boston) August 11, 2015
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:martin:#BlackLivesMatter Arrives on Hillary Clinton’s Doorstep
 
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