New – Saturday May 5 –  SilenceSam.com website!

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Chelsea Manning attended the Silent Sam protest on March 24, 2018 at the University of North Carolina.

The Silent Sam statue was erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in the hopes of creating a new image for white supremacists, one of the “Lost Cause” of the South. (Code for the “Lost Cause of the Confederacy.)

They made sure to put “Lost Cause” language into as many text books as they could, too. It’s one of the main reasons that southerners grow up with such an attitude about having pride in “the south” and their “southern traditions” etc. This is all code for looking back on a better time when people of color knew their place. (As in the  “lost tradition” of slavery.)

Why is this monument still standing? Because the University of North Carolina would rather pay thousands of dollars to guard its white supremacy statue than listen to its community about the correct way to proceed.

Link to tweet below.

🚨big announcement🚨

we and our comrades at @unc_ydsa are proud to sponsor a rally against surveillance 👁 of student activists

ft. speeches from@xychelsea 😉🌈💕@Move_Silent_Sam 🚫

and Defend Durham ✊🏽

Details here: https://t.co/QK1HnnrR2w pic.twitter.com/TMjz9a60Yt

— Workers Union at UNC (@workersunionunc) March 23, 2018

Link to tweet below:

Today @xychelsea joined @workersunionunc @unc_ydsa @Move_Silent_Sam to call @UNC to #MoveSilentSam. How much longer will #UNC put students of color at risk? How many more resources will be squandered surveilling students for protesting #racist symbols? #SilentSam #SilenceSam pic.twitter.com/0ZWRZNhrKt

— HumanCoral (@HumanCoral) March 24, 2018

Link to tweet below:

This Saturday at 11 AM, take a stand against anti-activist policies at UNC – the real risk for expression on college campuses. With @Move_Silent_Sam @workersunionunc @CampusY_UNC and @xychelsea pic.twitter.com/d22SBtROHW

— UNC-Chapel Hill YDSA (@unc_ydsa) March 23, 2018