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6th December 2014, 16:45
Chicago marches for justice for Eric Garner
By staff
http://www.fightbacknews.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/article-lead-photo/Chicago%20-%20intersection%20Roosevelt%20Road%20and%20Wabash. jpg
Chicago, IL - Over 600 people marched here, Dec. 4, to protest the failure of a grand jury in New York to indict the cop who killed Eric Garner. Many signs at the march noted that Dec. 4, 1969, was the day the Chicago police assassinated Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. Frank Chapman of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression states, “To stop police crimes, we have to end police control of Black and Latino communities.”
The march began in the Loop, seized Lake Shore Drive, and continued for over five hours.
Read more News and Views from the Peoples Struggle at http://www.fightbacknews.org. You can write to us at [email protected]
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PROTEST TODAY and NEXT STEPS
To: Everybody who is outraged by the murders of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and all the other victims of the police terror of Amerikka
This email has 3 important messages (more detail below):
Join with people on the West Side SATURDAY at 12 noon at Madison and Pulaski to protest police terror and murder. West Side community members and the Chicago Revolution Club, including families whose children were murdered or shot by the police, have called for everyone to come out to protest police murder. Madison & Pulaski is a shopping area in a neighborhood where Black people constantly face police terror.
Mass Meeting: Sunday December 7, 3-5 pm, 1550 S State to Intensify and Spread the Struggle Against Police Murder and the New Jim Crow — Get Organized and Go Higher! [more below]
Attention churches, pastors, and churchgoers. Father Pfleger and six other Chicago clergy have called for all churches in Chicago to take their congregations to the street and interrupt traffic THIS SUNDAY during their services to declare that BLACK LIVES MATTER. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGz5-TT-67E
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Intensify and Spread the Struggle Against Police Murder and the New Jim Crow — Get Organized and Go Higher!
Mass Meeting
Sunday, 3 pm, December 7
Daystar Center/Overflow Coffee Bar
1550 S State (NW corner of 16th and State)
The actions of the people in the last 2 weeks have achieved a great deal. These actions have forced everyone in this country to confront the reality of this epidemic of police brutality and murder, of mass incarceration, of the criminalization of entire peoples.
Now is not the time to retreat or quiet down. Now is not the time to fall for the honeyed words and empty promises of the oppressors, nor to be misled by their slanders. Now is the time to intensify and to spread this movement and the righteous actions taken so far.
Many more people must be involved—there are plenty of people who have not come out in struggle yet, who must and should and can be won to come out. Organizing through Twitter and Facebook has its definite strengths, but people also need to get together in person and decide how to take this higher.
All are welcome -- all needed to build this righteous movement.
FERGUSON IS EVERYWHERE!!
JUSTICE FOR MICHAEL BROWN AND ERIC GARNER!
POLICE MURDER AND BRUTALITY MUST STOP!!
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Stop Mass Incarceration Network - Chicago
[email protected] • (312) 933-9586
www.facebook.com/SMINChicago
@StopMassIncChi
stopmassincarceration.net
The Stop Mass Incarceration Network is a project of the Alliance for Global Justice, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The Stop Mass Incarceration Network is building a movement to stop the injustice of mass incarceration and police brutality; and the racially biased policies and practices of the police, the courts and the U.S. legal system; and to support the rights of prisoners and the formerly incarcerated. We call on all to join us.
By staff
http://www.fightbacknews.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/article-lead-photo/Chicago%20-%20intersection%20Roosevelt%20Road%20and%20Wabash. jpg
Chicago, IL - Over 600 people marched here, Dec. 4, to protest the failure of a grand jury in New York to indict the cop who killed Eric Garner. Many signs at the march noted that Dec. 4, 1969, was the day the Chicago police assassinated Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. Frank Chapman of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression states, “To stop police crimes, we have to end police control of Black and Latino communities.”
The march began in the Loop, seized Lake Shore Drive, and continued for over five hours.
Read more News and Views from the Peoples Struggle at http://www.fightbacknews.org. You can write to us at [email protected]
---
PROTEST TODAY and NEXT STEPS
To: Everybody who is outraged by the murders of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and all the other victims of the police terror of Amerikka
This email has 3 important messages (more detail below):
Join with people on the West Side SATURDAY at 12 noon at Madison and Pulaski to protest police terror and murder. West Side community members and the Chicago Revolution Club, including families whose children were murdered or shot by the police, have called for everyone to come out to protest police murder. Madison & Pulaski is a shopping area in a neighborhood where Black people constantly face police terror.
Mass Meeting: Sunday December 7, 3-5 pm, 1550 S State to Intensify and Spread the Struggle Against Police Murder and the New Jim Crow — Get Organized and Go Higher! [more below]
Attention churches, pastors, and churchgoers. Father Pfleger and six other Chicago clergy have called for all churches in Chicago to take their congregations to the street and interrupt traffic THIS SUNDAY during their services to declare that BLACK LIVES MATTER. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGz5-TT-67E
___
Intensify and Spread the Struggle Against Police Murder and the New Jim Crow — Get Organized and Go Higher!
Mass Meeting
Sunday, 3 pm, December 7
Daystar Center/Overflow Coffee Bar
1550 S State (NW corner of 16th and State)
The actions of the people in the last 2 weeks have achieved a great deal. These actions have forced everyone in this country to confront the reality of this epidemic of police brutality and murder, of mass incarceration, of the criminalization of entire peoples.
Now is not the time to retreat or quiet down. Now is not the time to fall for the honeyed words and empty promises of the oppressors, nor to be misled by their slanders. Now is the time to intensify and to spread this movement and the righteous actions taken so far.
Many more people must be involved—there are plenty of people who have not come out in struggle yet, who must and should and can be won to come out. Organizing through Twitter and Facebook has its definite strengths, but people also need to get together in person and decide how to take this higher.
All are welcome -- all needed to build this righteous movement.
FERGUSON IS EVERYWHERE!!
JUSTICE FOR MICHAEL BROWN AND ERIC GARNER!
POLICE MURDER AND BRUTALITY MUST STOP!!
--
Stop Mass Incarceration Network - Chicago
[email protected] • (312) 933-9586
www.facebook.com/SMINChicago
@StopMassIncChi
stopmassincarceration.net
The Stop Mass Incarceration Network is a project of the Alliance for Global Justice, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The Stop Mass Incarceration Network is building a movement to stop the injustice of mass incarceration and police brutality; and the racially biased policies and practices of the police, the courts and the U.S. legal system; and to support the rights of prisoners and the formerly incarcerated. We call on all to join us.