June 22 CPAC NOW! Protest Chicago City Hall

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June 22 CPAC NOW! Protest Chicago City Hall

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CPAC NOW! Protest Chicago City Hall

When: 8:30am Wednesday June 22, 2016
Where: Chicago City Hall 121 N LaSalle

WHY WE ARE PROTESTING ON JUNE 22 AND WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN US

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Just a about six months ago the Mayor's Task Force on Police Accountability, chaired by Lori Lightfoot, released a report that said:

"The Police Accountability Task Force arose amidst a significant and historic public outcry. The outcry brought people into the streets, on social media and other venues to say in a very clear voice that they had reached a breaking point with the entire local law enforcement infrastructure. People were and are demanding accountability and real and lasting change. The outcry was not localized in any particular neighborhood or demographic, although communities of color and those ravaged by crime added some of the most poignant commentary."

We agree that this "Task Force on Police Accountability" was agitated into existence by the outrages of the police criminals and the mass protest of our people demanding justice and a radical systemic change. But the agreement starts and stops here. Because the Mayor and his appointee Lori Lightfoot do not want systemic change that empowers the people to hold the police accountable for the crimes they commit. Hell, they are not even calling for the prosecution or the firing of the police criminals who have murdered and tortured hundreds of people that we know by name. They didn't fire Dante Servin, the murderer of Rekia Boyd. They have yet to indict Gildardo Sierra, the CPD officer who murdered Flint Farmer. They didn't stop the FOP from hiring Jason Van Dyke, the indicted murderer of Laquan McDonald. They haven't closed down that torture chamber Homan Square or addressed the more than one hundred torture victims still languishing in jail. Not to mention that when the Mayor's Task Force on Police Accountability held their hearings they did not call up Dorothy Holmes to testify, or any of the many mothers whose children have been murdered by CPD officers. They are all talk and no action.

On June 22, 2016 Mayor Emmanuel plans to announce that he will abolish the Independent Police Review Authority and introduce into the City Council "...a comprehensive plan to fundamentally reshape our system of police accountability". We are announcing that on June 22 we will be there to say in one united voice "NO to Mayor Emmanuel's police reform sham and YES to having City Council pass an Ordinance creating an all elected Civilian Police Accountability Council"

Crunch time! - How to get involved and spread the word about June 22

Social Media - #CPACNOW
Share this email, join and invite your friends & family to the FB event page (https://www.facebook.com/events/967427950021672/). Spread the word on social media: twitter, FB, instagram, snapchat...take a pic of the June 22 flyer (http://naarpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Flyer_June22_Cityhall.jpeg) and share.
If you do not use social media but know folks who do, perhaps younger family members or neighbors, ask them to share the love.

In person

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The Woodlawn Stop Police Crimes table this past Saturday serving heatbeating CPAC snow cones and June 22 CPAC NOW flyers

We have Stop Police Crimes CPAC organizing tables at 10 locations across the city, every Saturday noon - 3pm. This next Saturday June 18 we will be busy flyering for June 22. Come join us! Call 312 939 -2750 or email: [email protected] for details on a table nearest you.

ALSO, if you would like to hand out flyers on your block, or at a local community group or Church etc, give us a holla. We can get flyers to you or you can pick them up at our office at 1325 S Wabash #suite 105. Call us and let us know what you need 312 939 2750 or email: [email protected]

On the phone
Like to talk on the phone and have a hour or two spare between now and June 22?
Call us 312 939 -2750 or email: [email protected] to signup for phone banking (every day between now and June 22) We have over 35,000 CPAC supporters that we will be calling. We need all of you wonderful talkers to get chatting about June 22 CPAC NOW! Protest.

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CALL YOUR ALDERMAN, DEMAND CPAC!
Call your alderman today and insist they support an all elected all Civilian Police Police Accountability Council

How do I find out who is my alderman? Follow this link and enter your address
What do I say to my alderman? see here for a suggested script

Let us know how your alderman responded
Call 312 929 2750 OR email: [email protected] OR come to a CPAC Stop Police Crimes meeting, every Monday, 6pm at 1325 S Wabash, Chicago, Suite# 105 OR send us a message on FB Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression OR twitter @naarpr
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Chicago protest demands community control of the police

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By staff

Chicago, IL – About 1000 protesters converged on Chicago City Hall, June 22. The Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR) was there to demand an elected, civilian police accountability council (CPAC). The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) raised their demand for progressive revenue to fund the public schools, but also supported the demand for community control of the police. The CPAC rally also included Black Lives Matter, the Pilsen Alliance, Arab American Action Network, and AnakBayan, the Filipino patriotic youth organization.

Frank Chapman, field organizer for the Alliance stepped to the microphone at the press conference outside city council chambers. “The reason why we’re here today is that the mayor was supposed to be introducing his legislation to reshape our system of police accountability to become something the people can trust. Now he’s not introducing anything today.”

“But we’re against what he is trying to introduce. We don’t want any more mayor-appointed nothing. In fact, he should be a codefendant along with Jason Van Dyke, the murderer of Laquan McDonald.”

The crowd burst out with the most famous chant in Chicago’s movement: “16 shots and a cover-up!” referring to the 16 bullets that riddled the body of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in October 2014. The administration of Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been exposed for covering up the video of the murder to get past the mayor’s re-election in spring 2015. Since the video was forced into public by a lawsuit in November 2015, it is well known that Emanuel will never be re-elected.

Chapman continued, “We want to replace the so-called Independent Police Review Authority, the Police Board, Internal Affairs of the Police Department, and put power squarely in the hands of the people.”

“The cops don’t get punished for nothing they do in this city. We want some prosecutions to take place. They can start with those cops that lied in the Laquan McDonald case. They can start with Flint Farmer. They can start with Reverend Catherine Brown.” Farmer was murdered by Chicago police in 2011. Rev. Brown and her two young daughters were brutalized by cops in 2013.

“When I say CPAC, you say fight back!”

Rev. Brown led the crowd in chanting for CPAC, and then spoke. “Mayor Rahm Emanuel, we’re asking you to give us CPAC. We don’t want fake police accountability. What am I to tell my daughter? She can’t sleep. Those officers are still on the street. We want Officer Murphy and Lopez off of the street now!”

Michael Brunson, recording secretary of the Chicago Teachers Union, expressed their support as well. “Just like we want parent, teacher and community control over our public schools with an elected, representative school board, all public institutions should be overseen by community members, by civilians in a democracy. We want a civilian police accountability council.” Brunson went on to predict about CPAC, “This will become a model for other cities across the nation.”

When the press conference was finished, people tried to enter the city council meeting but were denied. Rev. Brown’s husband responded to the lockout by saying, “They kept us out today, but they can’t keep our movement, our demands and our dreams out.”

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