No Justice, No Peace: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter

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Another protester told the group: “We continue to have this psychosis in society that splits us. There is racism and no justice which goes on for years and years before something is done. advocating for and implementing policies that promote equity, including school integration and investment plans, affirmative action programs, and disparate impact assessments; and The activists chanted: “No justice, no peace, no racist police” before a number of speeches were made on “systemic racism which exists in the UK”. He has always been such a compassionate leader, a hard leader that builds character,” McMillan said. “He’s giving me an understanding of what it means to move from demonstration to legislation.” Sociology Ph.D. student and South Bend BLM organizer Emmanuel Cannady discusses the current strategies for sustaining movement momentum and achieving meaningful change. More »

Elizabeth Adofo, an organiser of the protest, said: “We are here today to mark one year since the murder of George Floyd at the hands of racist police officers.Whether this is true of today’s uprisings is once again a strategic and organizational question, rather than a moral one. A moral judgment on property destruction is not relevant to the discussion of the most appropriate tactics; and even the moral imperative of nonviolence has to be critically evaluated in light of the moral imperative of self-defense. Which tactics are appropriate for today’s rebellions can only be determined by a strategic and organizational analysis along the lines King proposed, and not according to the moral judgment which he subordinated to that analysis. In fact, with news that Los Angeles is considering cuts in police department funding, Minneapolis city council members are openly considering disbanding the police force, and curfews are being lifted in several cities, there are good reasons to believe that the current riots are strategically effective. Sociology and peace studies professor Ann Mische examines the challenge of turning protest into policy while avoiding the risk of cooptation and remaining true to the liberatory vision of the movement. More » For many across the country who watched television coverage, the Los Angeles rebellion, as the event has been called by some, exposed the persistent problems of racism, poverty, and inequality in American life.

The recent proclamation of George W. Bush, to take one especially striking example, also sets out a perspective on justice and peace, which is intended to reconcile the two. He says that “lasting justice will only come by peaceful means,” adding that “looting is not liberation, and destruction is not progress.” According to Bush, who launched the so-called War on Terror, “we also know that lasting peace in our communities requires truly equal justice. The rule of law ultimately depends on the fairness and legitimacy of the legal system. And achieving justice for all is the duty of all.” Jonathan Jansen, then-Vice Chancellor of the University of the Free State, poses on the campus in Bloemfontein, South Africa, on Feb. 15, 2010. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP via Getty Images Department of Defense Issues Update to DoD Law of War Manual on Presumption of Civilian Status and Feasible Precautions to Verify Military Objectives Later, Fairbanks insists: “Love and happiness seemed to be such limited resources in Meadowlands. Most of her elders were reluctant to waste the little they had on children who, they hoped, could generate them on their own.”

These different and incompatible usages of the terms “justice” and “peace” suggest that they are in themselves contradictory, and divide into different meanings. Fairbanks’s prose is masterful, and there are passages in the book that sing. It is an ambitious project. Anyone seeking to make sense of South Africa’s messy and complicated post-apartheid journey is a brave soul. And there is plenty of courageous writing in The Inheritors. Meeting with reporters early Friday, Frey pleaded for residents'help: "We need to make sure that people are looking out for our city right now." Ben Zimmer writes that during the 1980s and '90s, "'No justice, no peace' was unequivocally understood as conditional, not conjunctive", [1] such as in a 1988 statement by lawyer Ron Kuby before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Criminal Justice: