A few seconds before his death the unarmed teenager knew that he was in big trouble.
The forces against him were just too much for him to handle alone.
A bigger, older, determined man had stalked him, confronted him, and now had a gun pointed at his heart.
He needed help and he needed it now.
Screaming for his life, every breath.
Agonizing, heartbreaking screams for help.
As the late Rodney King put it:
"The horrifying sound of a young black male screaming for his life on a 911 call reminded me of my horrifying scream on a videotape 20 years ago."
His screams went unanswered that night, and we all know what happened.
Trayvon is still screaming.
Will we let him down this time?
One group has already answered the call.
One group of determined young people have taken it upon themselves to right some wrongs, and they need your help.
Meet the Dream Defenders:
The Dream Defenders are fighting for justice in Florida. Their goal is to enact Trayvon's Law in Florida, which would repeal the Stand Your Ground law, ban racial profiling, and end the school-to-prison pipeline.
The Dream Defenders are peacefully occupying the governor's office in Florida. Today is day 23.
If you heard
Trayvon's screams that night,
If you were heartsick as you listened to him screaming for his life,
If you were sickened by the killer's calm declaration that it was "God's will,"
If you were sick to your stomach on the night the verdict was handed down,
If you are just past mad at the attempt to switch the conversation from the SYG law and its deleterious effects on our communities to talking about black pathology,
If you feel anger and frustration at what you know to be an injustice,
Then help these young people in their stand for justice at the governor's office in Florida.
They, like Trayvon, cannot do it alone.
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The Dream Defenders are fighting for justice in Florida. Their goal is to enact Trayvon's Law in Florida, which would repeal the Stand Your Ground law, ban racial profiling, and end the school-to-prison pipeline.
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About the Daily Kos group Support the Dream Defenders
The Dream Defenders are fighting for justice in Florida. Their mission is to enact Trayvon's Law in Florida, which would repeal the Stand Your Ground law, ban racial profiling, and end the school-to-prison pipeline.
Support the Dream Defenders is a Daily Kos community. We promote and support the Dream Defenders, online and off.
How To Join Us: Send us a kosmail.
How to Follow Us: Go to our diaries page and click the ♥. If you are a Kossack, when you Follow a person or group, their diaries will appear in your Stream. As an example, here is the Stream of Denise Oliver Velez. Note: Joining and Following are completely separate functions in DK4.
How to Find Our Diaries: Our next group diary. All diaries published and republished by our group.
How to Find Our Groupmail Inbox: DK4 groupmail inboxes are notoriously difficult to find, because we receive no "You have mail" signal. If you have Editor status, and you want to participate, please bookmark our group kosmail inbox, and check it as frequently as you want to participate. That page does not refresh itself, either.
Kossacks in Florida: We welcome your reports and pictures about your orange feet-on-the-ground protests and organizing in support of the Dream Defenders. Please use our comments and/or group kosmail to confidentially locate nearby Floridians who support the Dream Defenders and build networks. If you have never written a diary, we will help you. Ask us anything.
Note: Support the Dream Defenders is a community of Kossacks. Each of us is opposed to the Stand Your Ground law in Florida. We are an action group dedicated to supporting the passage of Trayvon's Law in Florida. We do not need to debate the merits of SYG laws or 2nd Amendment issues in our action diaries. If you want to argue, go start your own DK group and/or go write your own diary.