Fw: SUNDAY-Oct 22nd Nat'l Day of Protest Against Police Brutality - O22 #TakeAKnee Against Police Brutality
SUNDAY OCTOBER 22nd
NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY, REPRESSION AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF A GENERATION
GATHER AT: Michigan and Roosevelt in Grant Park
MARCH TO: Soldiers Field
GATHERING TIME: 10:30 am
Soldiers Field at Game Time -- 12 noon
FACEBOOK EVENT: http://bit.ly/NatlDayStopPoliceBrutalityO22
O22 #TakeAKnee Against Police Brutality
#TAKEAKNEE in a powerful statement against police terror and the killing of Black, Latino and other oppressed pe...
#TAKEAKNEE in a powerful statement against police terror and the killing of Black, Latino and other oppressed people and Trump's white supremacy on October 22 National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation in front of Soldier Field. Meet at the northeast corner of Michigan & Roosevelt at Grant Park at 10:30am. The Revolution Club is getting organized for an actual revolution, and as a part of that is building and mobilizing for November 4-It begins...This Nightmare must end: THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME MUST GO!
From www.refusefascism.org:
The Trump/Pence Regime on White Supremacy, Police Brutality, and Mass Incarceration
Black and Latino people are full human beings, not people to be denied the right even to live, gunned down by the police with impunity, incarcerated in genocidal numbers, and denied basic rights.
What they have done
Attorney General Jeff Sessions called for maximum charges and penalties for non-violent drug offenders, reversing policies reducing them, at a time when 2.3 million people, disproportionately Black and Latino, are already incarcerated.
Sessions has put a halt on consent decrees with cities that aim to address some of the most egregious police abuses, such as in Baltimore.
Police across the U.S. have already shot and killed over 508 people in the first 6 months of 2017, over 200 of them Black or Latino, with many unarmed.
In the name of stopping the “carnage,” the Department of Justice is working with local police in 12 cities, and Trump has sent feds into Chicago. These forces are an advance guard for a stepped-up reign of terror on Black and Latino people.
Under Betsy DeVos, the Department of Education is rolling back investigations of civil rights abuses against people of color, women, and LGBTQ people in public schools.
What they said they will do
The Republicans are moving to end Obamacare, which will result in an additional 217,000 deaths over the next decade and 22 million more people without health insurance—hitting poor, Black, Latino, and Native American people hardest.
A proposed “Back the Blue Act” would make it harder to sue for damages for unjustified police violence; turn even minor, often non-existent, assaults on police into federal crimes with severe mandatory minimum sentences; and expand the federal death penalty to cover killings of police.
Trump’s proposed budget will cut $192 million from the Food Stamps program over the next 10 years, taking food from many of the nearly 44 million recipients—about 26 percent Black—depriving basic nutritional assistance from children and elderly, disabled, working poor, and homeless people.
Funding for the Special Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) will be reduced. Latinos make up 40 percent of WIC recipients, Black people about 20 percent, and Native people about 12 percent.
Trump’s budget would cut 13 percent of the Department of Education budget—$9 billion—which will lead to further deterioration of public schools in oppressed neighborhoods, while $1.4 billion will be added to encourage and support private, charter, and religious schools, including vouchers for religious fundamentalist charter schools.
Other education cuts affecting oppressed nationalities in particular include elimination of $1.2 billion allocated for after school and summer programs serving 1.6 million students of working families, including after school food programs for low-income students.
What they have unleashed nationally
The Trump regime has fostered a climate in which white supremacists feel empowered and emboldened, including a Mississippi legislator who declared that anyone wanting to take down Confederate monuments “should be lynched.”
In just the first 5 months following Trump’s election, there were nearly 300 acts of racist threats directed against Black people.
There is an epidemic of lynching nooses appearing across the country—clearly meant to deliver a hateful, racist, threatening message. One appeared in May at the exhibit on segregation at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC—4 days after another noose had been found at another Smithsonian museum, the Hirshhorn.
In June, another lynching noose was hung near the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
Other lynching nooses have appeared, since Trump’s election, at a construction site and a middle school in Maryland; a frat house at the University of Maryland; the Duke University campus and Wakefield High School in North Carolina; the Port of Oakland in California; a high school in Lakewood, California; and a New York City butcher shop.
One hundred racists with burning torches, and some armed with automatic weapons, held a nighttime rally in May in Charlottesville, Virginia, against the taking down of a Confederate monument, shouting “We [white people] will not be replaced!”
After Texas congressman Al Green said on the House floor that Trump should be impeached, he was flooded with telephone lynching threats, like “You’re not going to impeach anybody, you fucking nigger. You’ll be hanging from a tree.”
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"There is the potential for something of unprecedented beauty to arise out of unspeakable ugliness: Black people playing a crucial role in putting an end, at long last, to this system which has, for so long, not just exploited but dehumanized, terrorized and tormented them in a thousand ways???putting an end to this in the only way it can be done???by fighting to emancipate humanity, to put an end to the long night in which human society has been divided into masters and slaves, and the masses of humanity have been lashed, beaten, raped, slaughtered, shackled and shrouded in ignorance and misery."
Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, revcom.us/avakian