Stop police crimes: Thousands to march for community control of the police [Chicago]

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Stop police crimes: Thousands to march for community control of the police, Sat., Aug. 29, Chicago


Friends -

This Saturday, join an historic coalition of organizations to demand that the city of Chicago enact legislation to create community control of the police.

When: Saturday, August 29, Noon

Where: Kick-off from Federal Plaza, Adams and Dearborn. March to Daley Plaza.

Why: Because over 120 people have been murdered by police in Chicago since 2007, and not a single officer has been held to account.

Because torture and coercion are still practiced by police to extract confessions from suspects.

Because over 100 Black men are still in prison after being tortured by Chicago Police.

Because the Independent Police Review Authority and the Chicago Police Board refuse to take action against police officers for unjustified shootings.

The marchers are demanding that the Mayor and City Council pass an ordinance creating an all-elected Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC). Organized by the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR), the coalition for CPAC has gathered over 20,000 signatures demanding its passage. These signatures have come from Chicago neighborhoods most affected by police crimes.

Speakers & Performers to include: Frank Chapman, CAARPR; Charlene Carruthers, BYP100; Rev. Otis Moss III, Trinity United Church of Christ; Martinez Sutton, brother of CPD murder victim, Rekia Boyd; Howard Morgan, victim of attempted murder by CPD; Rasmea Odeh, Palestinian community activist, target of U.S. government repression; Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye, co-star of the film Sankofa; Michael Brunson, Recording Secretary - CTU, chair of Black Caucus; Lyric Squad poets; Page May, We Charge Genocide; Grisel Rodriguez, daughter of Nestora Salgado, political prisoner in Mexico.

The coalition: American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees Local 2858; Anakbayan - patriotic Filipino youth; Anti-War Committee; Arab American Action Network; Black Caucus - Chicago Teachers Union; Black People Against Police Torture; Black Youth Project 100, Black Lives Matter; Chicago Torture Justice Memorials; Coalition of Black Trade Unionists; Coalition of Trade Union Women; Committee to Stop FBI Repression; Council of Islamic Organization of Greater Chicagoland; Fight 4 $15; Freedom Road Socialist Organization; National Alliance of Filipino Concerns; Project NIA; Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 73; SEIU Healthcare Illinois/Indiana; Students for a Democratic Society; United Electrical workers; UIC Graduate Employees Organization; Workers Center for Racial Justice; & many more.

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Stop Police Crimes!

Build the movement for community control of police!

By Freedom Road Socialist Organization

The Chicago August 29 demonstration to stop police crimes and to establish community control over the police is nothing short of a historic step forward for the movement against racist discrimination and national oppression, and an advance in the fight for freedom, equally and liberation.

A key demand advanced by the march is for the creation of an elected Civilian Police Accountability Council that would have the power to investigate and punish police crimes, and that would have real power to determine how policing is carried out in Chicago. The struggle for this demand to extend democracy has U.S.-wide implications and it deserves the consideration and support of everyone who is working to end police terror.

The growing movement for community control of the police comes in the context of new upsurge in the African American liberation movement. During the last great upsurge in the late 1960s, the Black Panther Party demanded the community should control the police. Today, the rebellions against police terror and against police crimes In Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, the rise of the Black Lives Matters movement and the mass protests against police terror in cities across the country are clear signs that community control of the police is an idea that’s time has come.

The police in general, and Chicago police in particular, have made a name for themselves with a reign of killings, beating and torture centers that are disproportionally aimed at the African American, Native American, Chicano/Mexicano and Latino and other oppressed nationalities.

The United States today is not about equality. It is about oppression. At the top are the 1% - the wealthy exploiters - and those who answer to them. The system is working very well for them, but for oppressed and working people it is a failure, a complete failure.

Social services are being cut back and our labor unions are under attack. Good jobs are disappearing, and at every step the Black, Latino and other oppressed communities are hardest hit. There is no justice and the ‘peace’ that is imposed upon the communities is the ‘peace’ of police occupation and violence.

The broad support generated by the August 29 march is the shape of things to come. There is yearning for change and the motion is there for real and concrete change. The time is now for a Civilian Police Accountability Council. We need community control of the police. The trade union backing for the August 29 march, including the support of the Karen Lewis, president of Chicago Federation of Teachers, is an encouraging development. Unity, a strategic alliance between labor and the Black, Latino and other oppressed communities is a powerful force for change.

Across the country the crimes of the police are being challenged. The movement against inequality and racist discrimination is growing. Nothing can hold back those who are determined to fight for justice and freedom!

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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Stop political repression: police spying and the March on the RNC 2012

By Freedom Road Socialist Organization

The Freedom Road Socialist Organization denounces the lies and exaggerations made by Major Marc Hamlin of the Tampa Police in an August 3, 2015 news article. We oppose police spying, police wrecking and political repression of the people's movements. It is outrageous that police claim they managed to “join” and “take over” activist groups at the protests against the Republican National Convention in 2012.

The Coalition to March on the RNC, with an impressive list of endorsers demanding, “Good jobs, affordable education, health care, equality and peace,” led the largest of several events protesting the Republicans and their right-wing agenda of hate and war. The Freedom Road Socialist Organization played an active role in the Coalition to March on the RNC in 2012, just as it did in 2008 when protesters marched on the RNC in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

We are well aware that police intelligence operations began soon after we announced our plans to march on the Republicans the year before the RNC.

We also know the dedicated and hard-working activists who led the meetings, press conferences, planning sessions and the big march itself. While we are open and democratic with many people participating, the leadership of the Coalition to March on the RNC consisted of a close-knit group of young friends. They went to college together and knew each other since before they were even interested in politics. While many activists came forward and played important roles in organizing against the Republicans, we are confident in our leadership and clear about the empty boasting by the police.

The leaders of the Coalition to March on the RNC made plans that were both politically and tactically sound, and successfully carried them out even when the state tried to impose a ‘clean zone’ around the RNC itself. The march was a big success and saw virtually no deviation from the plan. We captured the political spotlight that day, despite hurricane rains that caused the Republicans to cancel their opening day. The media covered our march with its people’s demands instead of Mitt Romney’s right-wing agenda of the 1%.

However, this does not prove that the police or other law enforcement agencies did not send spies and provocateurs into organizations mobilizing against the RNC that year – in fact, we know that the enemy has infiltrated the movement before and certainly conducted surveillance of social justice organizers in 2012. No one who loves peace and justice is unaware of the heavy amount of surveillance and repression of activists and community organizers carried out on a daily basis by the state and its agents. What is important is to take a stand against disruption and repression, and for activists to look out for each other and show solidarity with those under attack.

The repression of those who fight for peace and justice is part of the long history of state repression that organizers and revolutionaries, often anarchists and communists, face. This account serves as a backdrop for important conclusions to be drawn about the nature of state repression today and the enemy's spying on the 2012 RNC protests in Tampa, Florida.

The police and law enforcement agencies hate activists and organizers who fight for a better world and will do anything to suppress them or stop them from achieving their goals. This fact was well known to those who organized in Tampa in 2012, and to other forces in movements like Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter.

It is certain that the police sent spies to meetings, marches and rallies – with the purpose to disrupt, divide and destroy an open, democratic and progressive march and other protest events against the Republicans. It is even likely that some of the police spies stuck around after the march was over in Tampa, as was the case with police spy “Karen Sullivan” in Minneapolis-Saint Paul in 2008. If so, then they have failed to meet their objectives and instead have witnessed a growing people's movement in Florida and the rest of the country that is resistant to provocateurs, sabotage, co-option and wrecking by the enemies of the people.

The Coalition to March on the RNC's event was a huge success despite Tropical Storm Isaac soaking Tampa on the day of the big march. That day, veteran activists along with new organizers dealt a blow to the 1%, the imperialist class in the U.S. Just as police spies and all the forces of nature could not impede the march on the RNC in Tampa, so too will the oppressed and the working class ultimately emerge victorious against capitalism.

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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Join us @ Saturday’s mass march to Stop Police Crimes


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Join #RiseUpOctober and Stop Mass Incarceration Network Chicago at the mass march and rally to Stop Police Crimes! this Sat, Aug 29

Federal Plaza, Adams & Dearborn, Chicago 12:00 noon

This Saturday, join the #RiseUpOctober (http://facebook.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e05828b6ad8fcecc3fb70692&id=7025a8b3bd&e=ab87903984) contingent at the “This Stops Today… We Can’t Breathe!” march on Chicago City Hall (http://facebook.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e05828b6ad8fcecc3fb70692&id=57ee7f8888&e=ab87903984), mass march on Chicago's City Hall, as we build for militant and mass mobilization on October 22 to 24, focused in New York City, to Stop Police Terror - WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?

Thousands of people have risen up in the last year to demand that the police stop their wanton and repeated killings of Black and Latino people. But the police, backed from on high, have continued this onslaught and lashed back harder. This is the spear point of a genocide.

Yet way too many people still sit on the sidelines. We must unite people everywhere to resist this horror together. Let our voices be heard, and let’s not stop until this Police Terror STOPS.

#RiseUpOctober (http://facebook.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e05828b6ad8fcecc3fb70692&id=7025a8b3bd&e=ab87903984), initiated by Dr. Cornel West and Carl Dix, aims to mobilize many more thousands of people, from all walks of life, much more actively into this fight, to powerfully insist through our actions on October 22 – 24 that these murders must stop, NOW. October 22nd – demonstrations and actions in cities everywhere. October 24th – New York City.

Such an unprecedented outpouring of protest and resistance, along with the whole process of building up to October 22 – 24, would awaken and inspire millions, and sharply challenge the whole society and the whole world – WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?

The aim is to get things to the point where there are millions in this country who both feel in their bones that this system of intimidation, terror and murder is INTOLERABLE… and are willing to step out and act in all different ways to stop this, and have the ways to do so. These actions in October aim to change the whole tenor and direction of society.

On Saturday, look for the Stolen Lives banner (http://facebook.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e05828b6ad8fcecc3fb70692&id=162d2a5640&e=ab87903984), which has pictures of a small fraction of the people across this country murdered by the police. Join with us as we carry placards of the faces of young men and women killed by police. Bring your signs.

On October 22 – 24, actively join with tens of thousands of people across the country who want to put an end to police terror and murder!

There are many ways people can be part of #RiseUpOctober (http://facebook.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e05828b6ad8fcecc3fb70692&id=7025a8b3bd&e=ab87903984), including by donating much needed funds (http://facebook.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e05828b6ad8fcecc3fb70692&id=c04da2b960&e=ab87903984).

See you Saturday at the Federal Plaza!
Look for the Stolen Lives Banner!


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3000 march in Chicago for community control of the police

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Chicago, IL - An historic mobilization took place in Chicago’s Loop, the center of the city, August 29, when 3000 people marched to demand an elected, civilian police accountability council.

Frank Chapman, organizer of the march and field organizer for the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression said, “This is what united action for community control of the police looks like. We've initiated a new stage in the struggle with a clear political objective demanding systemic change. CPAC is about power to the people!”

The march included families of victims of police crimes, Black Lives Matter groups, Palestinians marching around community leader Rasmea Odeh, the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicagoland, trade unionists, immigrant rights activists and other groups.

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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Frank Chapman speaks on Black liberation and socialism (http://fightbacknews.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a29530af96a02fc55d345e735&id=4094b6eaca&e=d323598fe4)

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By Joe Iosbaker

Chicago, IL - The strains of the civil rights anthem, Oh, Freedom, rang out in Trinity Episcopal Church on Chicago’s South Side, Feb. 12, sung by Evangeline Jackson. Jackson, a registered nurse, is a leader in her union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1216. As a young woman in the South in the 1980s, her hospital was unionized with the help of Frank Chapman, a veteran of the Black liberation movement.

The song introduced a Black History Month program where Chapman spoke about his upcoming book, “A Marxist-Leninist Perspective on the Struggle for Socialism and Black Liberation.” A leading member of Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), Chapman explained that the book sets forth the thesis that an important part of revolutionary content of Marxism-Leninism lies precisely in seeing the centrality of the national question in the struggle against imperialism and the struggle for socialism.

For Chapman, history is alive. He illustrated that the struggle for democratic rights that was the period of Black Reconstruction is still on the agenda today. “We lost the right to vote in the 1890s, we fought to get it back in 1965, and the Supreme Court just took it away again.” He explained that it was political power backed by arms in the South after the Civil War that guaranteed Black equality.

Chapman began by establishing that the idea of Black people as a nation in the U.S. grew organically out of the Black liberation movement, starting before the Civil War. He recounted the development in the 1920s, when the Communist Party USA, with the leadership of Black communists like Harry Haywood and the influence of the Communist International, “dealt with Black people as an oppressed nation within this nation.” Once this happened, the Party began to play a leading role in the Black movement, including the campaign to free the Scottsboro Boys, and organizing textile workers in North Carolina. Chapman even argued, “In the South, without the role of the Communists, there would have been no Civil Rights Movement.”

A former member of the Communist Party, Chapman joined FRSO because of the organization’s view of “the strategic alliance,” expressed in a statement adopted at the organization’s 2007 congress: “Our basic strategy for revolution and socialism is building a united front against the monopoly capitalist class, under the leadership of the working class and its political party, with a strategic alliance between the multinational working class and the oppressed nationalities at the core of this united front.”

The event opened with comments by Aislinn Pulley of Black Lives Matter-Chicago, who spoke of the recent Amtrak Police shooting of Chad Robertson; the refusal of prosecutors to bring charges against the cop who killed Quintonio LeGrier and Bettie Jones on Christmas morning 2015; and the Chicago police department murder of a mentally ill woman two days before the event. This helped place Chapman’s talk in the context of the ongoing struggle against racist discrimination and national oppression.

Read more News and Views from the Peoples Struggle at http://www.fightbacknews.org. You can write to us at [email protected]