2006: A noose is hung from a “Whites Only” tree in a Jena, Louisiana high school.
September 20th, 2007: tens of thousands descend on Jena in an outraged and joyful protest.
October 9, 2007: a noose is hung at Columbia Teacher’s College as part of a spate of nooses, racist threats and brutality lashing back across the country. A white supremacist website has published the home addresses of the Jena Six, encouraging people to take “justice” into their own hands.
TODAY: Time for everyone who refuses to go backwards and worse to stand up, resist, and take the future into OUR hands!
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