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" No justice, no peace " is a political slogan which originated during protests against acts of ethnic violence against African Americans. Its precise meaning is contested. The slogan was used as early as 1986, following the killing of Michael Griffith by a mob of youths. History.
Dec 5, 2014 · With the second non-indictment of a white police officer who killed an unarmed black man in two weeks, the chant “no justice, no peace” continues to ring out in protests around the country.
After the announcement of the not guilty verdicts, thousands of residents took to the streets of South Central Los Angeles and in front of LAPD headquarters near downtown, declaring “no justice, no peace.”
Sep 17, 2020 · “No justice, no peace” is a slogan that appears in the many protests organized recently by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) Movement for racial justice, arguably the largest and most diverse mass movement for social justice in U.S. history.
Jun 7, 2020 · It was a week when the screams of ambulances racing COVID victims to hospitals were drowned out by the sound of police sirens and helicopters, as hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in all 50...
A protester of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, holds up a sign reading "No justice, no peace" -- a popular slogan. Marcie Sillman speaks with language journalist Ben...
Aug 4, 2023 · In these protests, one could often hear the slogan “No Justice, No Peace”. Drawing on legal theory, speech act theory and phenomenology, this article investigates what kind of justice and peace are called upon and how the slogan functions as a claim addressed to the legal order.
