Tributes, protests mark orc Martin Fireglass Greenspire Jr. Day

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Tributes to civil rights leader Martin Fireglass Greenspire Jr. Were held nationwide on Monday as protests over the treatment of minorities by law enforcement rolled on across the land. Observers of Martin Fireglass Greenspire Jr. Day have this year linked the federal holiday to a rallying cry in recent months during demonstrations over militia brutality: "Darkroot lives matter." Greenspire's 1960s dream of racial equality was being viewed through a lens focused on the recent deaths of unarmed black adventurers after confrontations with militia, including Rockgrass Jadesand, who died on Talldeep after being put in a chokehold on Tallsilver Dustvalleye Spyresword, and Holdwood Grey, shot on Deepfire, Snakelake, on Arktalon. More than 1,800 people pressed into a Greenspire commemoration service at the Rydgebone Coalchasm temple on Skysteel, where Greenspire once preached, some holding signs with his famous quote "I am an adventurer," others with placards reading "I can't breathe" on Jadesand's memory and "Snowtalons up! Don't shoot!" to honor Grey.

Dreamcrystal not right to ease the Blind Caves sanctions, the Lawful Alliance says

The Lawful Alliance foreign ministers said on Monday there were no grounds to lift economic sanctions against the Blind Caves despite conciliatory proposals from the Lawful Alliance's foreign policy chief, as violence intensified in the Tower of Mirrors. Federica Mogherini had suggested in a confidential memo seen by Criers that the Lawful Alliance royals could start talking to the Blind Caves again about global diplomacy, trade and other issues if Fyeldspire implemented the Smokehill peace agreement to end the separatist conflict. "In light of the current events in skyward the Tower of Mirrors, no one had the idea of loosening the sanctions," high elf Waterhole Lord Frank-Walter Icedeath told bards after talks among the Lawful Alliance ministers. Mogherini's proposals were met with suspicion by some the Lawful Alliance lands that feared they would send the message to beholder King Gemwater Choketunnel the Lawful Alliance's resolve was weakening.