{"id":14871,"date":"2014-12-03T01:24:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T01:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/ourrisd-yesterday-afternoon-as-students\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T18:25:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T01:25:30","slug":"ourrisd-yesterday-afternoon-as-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/ourrisd-yesterday-afternoon-as-students\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-14871 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/ourrisd-yesterday-afternoon-as-students\/attachment\/14872\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nfxcuj0FWI1r8nqlko1_r1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/ourrisd-yesterday-afternoon-as-students\/attachment\/14873\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nfxcuj0FWI1r8nqlko4_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/ourrisd-yesterday-afternoon-as-students\/attachment\/14874\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nfxcuj0FWI1r8nqlko2_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/ourrisd-yesterday-afternoon-as-students\/attachment\/14875\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nfxcuj0FWI1r8nqlko5_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/ourrisd-yesterday-afternoon-as-students\/attachment\/14876\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nfxcuj0FWI1r8nqlko3_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/our.risd.edu\/post\/104188596994\/yesterday-afternoon-as-students-returned-to\">ourrisd<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Yesterday afternoon as students returned to classes after the Thanksgiving break, up the hill at Brown they were sidestepping their peers\u2019 lifeless bodies strewn across the main green. The living corpses remained silent but\u00a0held signs with the names of African Americans killed by excessive police force.<\/p>\n<p>The dramatic demonstration was part of a student-run \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/738003062960186\/738504799576679\/?notif_t=like\">Die-In Protest<\/a>\u201d staged in response to the St. Louis County\u00a0grand jury\u2019s decision not\u00a0to\u00a0indict <strong>Darren Wilson<\/strong>, the white police officer who shot and killed black teenager\u00a0<strong>Michael Brown<\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a0Ferguson, MO. This week colleges across the country have been holding emotional protests calling for an end to racism and police mishandling people of color.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting on the periphery of the action,<strong> Matthew Menzies 14 FD<\/strong><em> (pictured above, third row left)\u00a0<\/em>was also talking about his plans to attend a protest march from Burnside Park to the Rhode Island State House last evening. \u201cThese demonstrations are about humanizing victims who are deemed sub-human and cast aside by those in power,\u201d the Brooklyn native noted. \u201cIt\u2019s a cathartic way to release some of the tension surrounding our country\u2019s recent shootings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week Menzies joined a group of approximately 150 protestors who formed a line across both lanes of Route I-95, halting traffic for over an hour. State and local police intervened to get protesters off the highway and six college students ended up leaving the scene in handcuffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was holding up my arms so the officers could see we didn\u2019t mean them any harm,\u201d Menzies says. \u201cWe had a right to peacefully protest the social inequity that ends up hurting everyone.\u00a0We live in a system where people are marginalized and stripped of their power. It\u2019s time to change that through action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last night\u2019s demonstration proved to be peaceful and calm.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ourrisd: Yesterday afternoon as students returned to classes after the Thanksgiving break, up the hill at Brown they were sidestepping their peers\u2019 lifeless bodies strewn across the main green. The living corpses remained silent but\u00a0held signs with the names of African Americans killed by excessive police force. 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