The Ferguson Action Council has announced a series of events for Ferguson Commemoration Weekend, August 7-10, which includes the August 9 anniversary of the Ferguson police killing of Michael Brown Jr.
The goals, organizers said, are “to commemorate lives lost to police violence over the past year, to pay homage to our great civil rights leaders and ancestors and to honor the modern-day activists, young and old, who set off the Ferguson Uprising, crystallizing a nationwide movement for black lives.”
The group described itself as a broad coalition of St. Louis organizations that came together following the killing of Michael Brown Jr., including Don’t Shoot Coalition, Hands Up United, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Ferguson Action, Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE), Organization for Black Struggle (OBS), Operation Help or Hush, Socialist Alternative and Tribe X.
“We ask that groups honor Michael Brown Jr. by participating in a four-and-a-half minute National Moment of Silence on Sunday, August 9 at 11:55 a.m. CST,” organizers said in a release. “We also ask groups to join us in a day of mass civil disobedience by planning Moral Monday actions for August 10.”
The scheduled events:
Friday, August 7
10 a.m.: Youth Art Build @ O’Fallon Park (Boathouse)
3 p.m.: Memorial Build @ Kajieme Memorial
6 p.m.: Policing for Black + LGBTQ Liberation @ UMSL
8 p.m.: “Who’s Streets” documentary @ Nine Network
7 p.m.: Revolutionary Rap Concert @ The Pageant
Saturday, August 8
11 a.m.: Youth Chalk Out
2 p.m.: March from VonDerrit Memorial to Block Party
7 p.m.: Ferguson Rocks Concert @ Ready Room
Sunday, August 9
11 a.m.: Silent March @ Canfield to Greater St. Mark’s Church
11:55 a.m.: National Moment of Silence
1 p.m.: The People’s Brunch @ W. Florissant
2 p.m.: Revolutionary Rap Concert @ Fubar
7:30 p.m.: Cornel West @ Greater St. Mark’s Church
Monday, August 10
Day of Civil Disobedience and National Call to Action
Organizers are using the hashtag “#UnitedWeFight.”
They said, “We’re using the hashtag #UnitedWeFight because we lift up and demand justice not just for Michael Brown, Jr., but for Sandra Bland, for Cary Ball, for Yvette Smith, for Kajieme Powell, for Dontre Hamilton, for Taneisha Anderson, for Vonderrit Myers and for far too many more.”
