American Thinker: Behind the Don't Shoot Coalition in Ferguson - "The eclectic composition of the DSC suggests that it assembled, not as a coalition of persons who see themselves as long standing victims of police brutality, but as collegial progressive activists who, when summoned to align behind the meme of police brutality against young black males, signed-up in a shared spirit of victimhood."

Behind the Don't Shoot Coalition in Ferguson



A core of community organizers is behind the 45 organizations placing demands on the policing agencies in St. Louis County.

As the Grand Jury’s decision concerning Officer Darren Wilson is awaited, Don’t Shoot Coalition (DSC) is preparing its role in street demonstrations likely to come in the wake of an anticipated No True Bill
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The sub-culture of progressive social activism is organic. Its alliances evolve and dissolve, only to reconstitute under changed names, but with unchanged ideologies.

The internet facilitates the proliferation of evolving variations of front groups. Many of their websites have on-line donation solicitation capability. The larger, more permanent organizations have 501(c)(3) status, and some have millions of dollars to share with cash-poor community activism enterprises. Those money transfers are often hard to track.

It is not just a challenge to keep track of who’s who without a scorecard – it’s a struggle to even define the scorecard. Persons and groups shift, adjust to circumstances, and are quick to take advantage of a crisis. They are, in short, agile as well as committed.

With that in mind, these questions are among those that merit consideration:

• Who is on the Don’t Shoot Coalition (DSC) membership list?
• Who are among the DSC’s leading operatives and organizations?
• What key support groups are not on the DSC list? ...

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/11/behind_the_dont_shoot_coalition_in_ferguson_.html