Ferguson Protesters Take Lead in TIME’s Person of the Year Poll
Source: Time
Ferguson protestors have gained the lead in TIMEs Person of the Year poll, with seven days to go in the voting.
Unrest in Ferguson and around the country focused attention on race and policing, helping to lift Ferguson protestors into first place in the TIME reader poll with 10.7% of the vote. Thousands of demonstrators marched in solidarity with the family of Michael Brown, an unarmed black man who was shot by the police, disrupting Black Friday shopping in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Seattle and other cities.
Protests cropped up all across the United States in the wake of a grand jurys decision in Ferguson Monday not to indict the white police officer who fatally shot Brown.
Narendra Modi, the newly elected Indian prime minister, stands at 10% in the polls. As the leader of the largest democracy in the world, Modi has raised high hopes among Indians that he can invigorate the countrys economy and cut bureaucratic red tape that has slowed development in India.
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mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)The Victims
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)I have a bad feeling about your post.
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)calimary
(81,261 posts)Glad you're here! That same thing makes me feel a little bit more encouraged. It's about time. I saw this photo...
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...and realized it really hit home for me. As a woman, I feel that same way - about a woman's right to choose. I MYSELF cannot believe I still have to protest that shit, too.
easychoice
(1,043 posts)I would like to find the original publisher or photographer.
calimary
(81,261 posts)unlike any other photos I've seen lately. I'm with that girl. I CANNOT BELIEVE I, too, still have to protest this shit. LOTS of different kinds of "this shit" too. Seems like there's more of it every day.
This was just one of MANY different photos of the reaction to Michael Brown's murder since August. But this one just struck me. Hard.
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)Instead of naming Brown,all similar victims should be included.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)But the votes are meant to be about those facilitating change and that would be the protestors not the deceased.
robinlynne
(15,481 posts)It is the human race which suffers. It is democracy which suffers. I'm not being eloquent, but the protests represent ALL of us. Which is why it is such a great choice! I was personally too lazy to go downtown and protest, but I admire and thank the people who are doing it, for all of us.
or, another way to say it would be: Michael Brown IS all of us.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)I voted for Ferguson Protestors, they have 80% approving with a yes vote.
mahannah
(893 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)Or some other asshole.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)...Time's Person of the Year, the person or persons who "for better or for worse...has done the most to influence the events of the year," simply MUST be the Koch Brothers. Time picked thugs in 1938-39, 1942, 1957, 1965, 1971-72, 1979-80, 1983, 1995, 1998, 2000 and 2007, so they're overdue to put a real scumbag on the cover.