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April 14, 2015 National Shut Down of Business as Usual to Stop Police Murder of Black
170 People Meet in Atlanta National Meeting
170 People Meet in Atlanta, Announce April 14, 2015 National Shut Down of Business as Usual to Stop Police Murder of Black and Brown People - #ShutDownA14
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170 People Meet in Atlanta, Announce April 14, 2015 National Shut Down of Business as Usual to Stop Police Murder of Black and Brown People - #ShutDownA14
Click to view Carl Dix's address at the SMIN National Meeting - #ShutDownA14
Note: Below is the press release announcing the conclusion of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network's national meeting in Atlanta GA.
On February 7 and 8, a wide variety of people, numbering over 170, gathered in Atlanta from across the country. At this meeting called by the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, people forged a plan of action to launch to a national day of action on April 14 to stop the police murder of Black and Brown people.
The call for April 14 in part states, " No business as usual. We will not go back ... we will take our movement to STOP wanton police murder to a whole new level ..." Those that attended stated that, "On this day, thousands of students must walk out of school, take over buildings and go on strike at colleges and high schools nationwide. People must gather and march in cities all across the U.S. The normal routine of this society includes wanton police murder of Black and Brown people. Everyone must disrupt that normal routine."
They demand:
* The murder of Black and Brown people by the police MUST STOP.
* Justice for all the victims of brutal, murdering police.
* Indict, convict and send killer cops to jail -- the whole damn system is guilty as hell.
* Stop the repression targeting the protests - Drop all the charges against all those arrested.
The 170 attendees included, people from, New York; Charlotte and Greensboro, North Carolina; Greenville, South Carolina; Jacksonville, Florida; Houston, Cleveland and Dayton, Ohio; Chicago; St. Louis/Ferguson, Missouri; Los Angeles, Sacramento, Oakland, and Stockton, California; Seattle, Washington; Maryland; Atlanta, Georgia and several more.
Participants included students, the religious people, revolutionary communists, Black nationalists, lawyers, artists, teachers, families of people murdered by the police and people incarcerated in the prisons of the U.S., LGBT activists, and immigrants.
Commitment toward the April 14 day of action was demonstrated by the pledges to raise 10,000.00 in seed money by February 22, 2015.
Contact us for more information:
Email: [email protected] FB: stopmassincerationnetwork
Twitter: @StopMassIncNet Phone: 347-979-SMIN (7646) stopmassincarceration.net
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Call from the Stop Mass Incarceration Network
APRIL 14—STOP BUSINESS AS USUAL!
WE WILL NOT GO BACK! NO SCHOOL! NO WORK!
SAY NO MORE TO THE SYSTEM GIVING A GREEN LIGHT TO KILLER COPS!
Feb. 7: We Are On a Mission for #ShutDownA14
This Call for a day of massive resistance all over the country on April 14 was adopted at the national meeting hosted by the Stop Mass Incarceration Network in Atlanta on February 7 and 8. Everyone needs to get on a mission to work from now to April 14 to make the day of stopping business as usual as powerful as possible to end the system putting its stamp of approval on police murdering people.
The people have stood up. Beginning in August with the youth in the streets of Ferguson and continuing through the end of the year, all across the country, thousands and thousands of people took to the streets to stop the murder of Black and Brown people at the hands of the police. People blocked highways and bridges, marched through shopping malls, stopping commerce as usual, did die-ins everywhere, walked out from school, and shook this country to its core, opening the eyes of millions around the world to the brutal reality that time and time again police kill Black, Brown, and other people of color with impunity. For many people, this was the first time they had ever marched and demonstrated. This outpouring was long past due and was a real advance in the people’s struggle to stop this horror.
Now we are at a crossroads: will the authorities succeed in suppressing our resistance, or will we move forward on the offensive and bring even more massive waves of struggle to STOP the murder of Black, Brown, and all people by the police?
WE WILL NOT GO BACK!
On April 14, we will take our movement to STOP wanton police murder to a whole new level. NO SCHOOL! NO WORK! STOP BUSINESS AS USUAL!
On this day, thousands of students must walk out of school, take over buildings and go on strike at colleges and high schools nationwide. People must gather and march in cities all across the U.S. The normal routine of this society includes wanton police murder of Black and Brown people. Everyone must disrupt that normal routine.
Our demands are clear:
* The murder of Black and Brown people by the police MUST STOP.
* Justice for all the victims of brutal, murdering police.
* Indict, convict and send killer cops to jail—the whole damn system is guilty as hell.
* Stop the repression targeting the protests—Drop all the charges against all those arrested.
The business as usual of police killing our people and never being punished is a concentration of an overall program of mass incarceration and all its consequences that has tens of millions of people living their lives caught up in the criminal “injustice” system of this country. A hidden part of this program is the demonization, criminalization, deportation, and murder of immigrants. This must stop. Will our righteous protest and the people’s determination to STOP this be suppressed with threats and empty promises? Will that business as usual continue? Or will we retake the initiative to lead, YES, millions back out into the streets, not stopping until the police murder of Black and Latino people stops? This is the challenge we face. All of us must act on April 14 to loudly declare we will not go back, stop the police murder of our people.
Contact us for more information:
Email: [email protected] FB: stopmassincerationnetwork
Twitter: @StopMassIncNet Phone: 347-979-SMIN (7646) stopmassincarceration.net
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NYC: February 22 National Day of Action for Tamir Rice & Children Killed by Police
NYC: February 22 National Day of Action for Tamir Rice & Children Killed by Police
February 22, Sunday - National Day of Action Justice for Tamir Rice and ALL Victims of Killer Cops February 22 is the 3 month anniversary of the murder of 12 year old Tamir Rice by Cleveland police.
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February 22, Sunday - National Day of Action
Justice for Tamir Rice and ALL Victims of Killer Cops
February 22 is the 3 month anniversary of the murder of 12 year old Tamir Rice by Cleveland police. THIS MUST STOP! Join with people around the country as we remember Tamir and ALL victims of police murder.
In New York on Sunday, February 22:
▪ 9:00 AM to 12 Noon - Outreach to Churches (contact us to join with this effort)
▪ 2:00 PM - Rally at Harlem State Office Building, 125th and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard
▪ 5:00 PM - Vigil at Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr. Playground, Gowanus Houses, Wyckoff St. between Hoyt St. and Bond St., Brooklyn. Directions here.
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Extended video of Tamir Rice killing by Cleveland police.
On November 22, 12 year old Tamir Rice was executed simply because he was Black and playing with a toy gun in a park. Cleveland cops arriving on the scene took 2 SECONDS to gun Tamir down, shooting him twice in the stomach. Tamir’s 14-year-old sister ran to Tamir’s aid and was tackled by the cops, handcuffed, and thrown in the back of a police car as Tamir was dying. Tamir’s mother also tried to run to Tamir and was stopped. Four minutes passed without any attempt to administer first aid to Tamir who bled to death.
The whole incident was caught on video. Yet still the cop who murdered Tamir walks free and has NOT been indicted. The police patrol inner city communities like an occupying army while the system gives them a license to brutalize and murder people. This Must Stop and WE must stop it.
On February 22 - Remember Tamir and all children murdered by cops! We refuse to go back to the days when cops wantonly brutalize and kill Black and Brown people without people standing up. No More!
On April 14 people must re-take the offensive to stop police murder all across the country.
APRIL 14 - STOP BUSINESS AS USUAL! WE WILL NOT GO BACK! NO SCHOOL! NO WORK! SAY NO MORE TO THE SYSTEM GIVING A GREEN LIGHT TO KILLER COPS!
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Help raise $10,000 seed money for April 14th. We need to produce posters and palm cards and to send Stolen Lives family members and student organizers to build April 14 across the country.
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February 26: 3 Years Since the Murder of Trayvon Martin
February 26: 3 Years Since the Murder of Trayvon Martin
3 Years Since the Murder of Trayvon Martin - US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FINDS NO FEDERAL CRIME IN THE MURDER OF TRAYVON MARTIN! February 26, 2015 mark
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3 Years Since the Murder of Trayvon Martin -
US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FINDS NO FEDERAL CRIME IN THE MURDER OF TRAYVON MARTIN!
February 26, 2015 marks three years since George Zimmerman's vigilante murder of Black, unarmed teenager, Trayvon Martin.
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Statement by the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, February 25, 2015.
The federal Department of “Justice” (DOJ) announced February 24 that it will not indict George Zimmerman, the vigilante who murdered Trayvon Martin 3 years ago on February 26, 2012. In announcing this decision the DOJ said, “... the independent federal investigation found insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman for the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida.”
Think about this – Zimmerman saw a Black youth walking through a housing development, decided he was a “thug” and “up to no good,” pursued him, confronted him and shot him to death. Yet the feds found “insufficient evidence” to charge him with violating Trayvon Martin's civil rights. The legal system in Florida initially refused to even charge Zimmerman until thousands of people marched all across the country demanding Zimmerman be brought to trial. After being forced to try Zimmerman, the prosecutors forgot how to prosecute, and Zimmerman walked free. Now with this DOJ decision, the legal system has given this vigilante murderer a complete pass. And think about how the DOJ chose to announce this decision on the eve of the anniversary of Trayvon's murder. This is a huge slap in the face to his family and to everyone who was saddened and angered by his murder.
THE WHOLE DAMNED SYSTEM IS GUILTY!
When the court in Florida found Zimmerman not guilty, many people looked to the feds to come in and provide justice. In the face of case after case of police killing people and getting a pass from district attorneys and courts locally, many raised that we should look to the federal government to provide justice. It's time to wake up to reality.
The DOJ is put out there as the hope to get justice when police get away with killing somebody. This is a myth, and it's meant to lure people out of the streets and back into the normal channels of the system and keep people accepting the legitimacy of this system. The authorities do this because they fear people breaking out of these channels and disrupting the normal routine of society. The DOJ never brought a single indictment in the thousands of cases where white mobs lynched Black people between the 1870's and the 1960's. Since then the DOJ has done investigations in hundreds of cases where cops (or racist vigilantes) got away with killing someone, and they have almost never indicted any of them. It's like Malcolm X said, you can't rely on the federal “foxes” to deal with the hell the local “wolves” inflict on you. We have to stand up and say NO MORE to these horrors. The Shut Down day called for April 14 is the way to do that.
Letting this killer walk is a criminal act by a criminal system. It comes down to the system declaring that Black youth have a target on their backs in this society, that they can be harassed, brutalized and even murdered by cops, and by racist vigilantes, and the system will do nothing to punish them! This is racist, illegitimate and unacceptable!
From Ferguson to New York City to Los Angeles and everywhere in between, a cry rang out from those who took to the streets saying NO MORE to the horror of police wantonly murdering Black and Latino people and getting away with it: Indict, Convict, Send the Killer Cops to Jail, the Whole Damned System is Guilty as Hell! This decision by the DOJ, like the verdict in this case in Florida, the exonerations of the cops who murdered Michael Brown, Eric Garner and many, many other victims of murdering cops – they all point to how that slogan is right on time.
And it points to the need to get back out in the streets, mobilizing wave after wave of even more powerful resistance to the system giving a green light to cops, and racist vigilantes, to murder people at will. This is exactly what will be done on April 14, 2015 – a day of NO WORK, NO SCHOOL - a day of DISRUPTING BUSINESS AS USUAL; because business as usual in this society includes the murder of Black and Brown people by those who are sworn to protect and serve.
JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON AND ALL VICTIMS OF KILLER COPS AND RACIST VIGILANTES!
APRIL 14 -- #ShutDownA14-- DISRUPT BUSINESS AS USUAL!
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Madison, Wisconsin: Thousands of Students Walk Out of School, Demand Justice for Tony
Madison, Wisconsin: Thousands of Students Walk Out of School, Demand Justice for Tony Robinson
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March 19: Pack the Court: Hands OFF Noche Diaz! [NYC]
March 19: Pack the Court: Hands OFF Noche Diaz!
Pack the Court: Hands OFF Noche Diaz! What: Pack the Court: Hands OFF Noche Diaz! When: Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 9 AM Where: Manhattan Criminal
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What: Pack the Court: Hands OFF Noche Diaz!
When: Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 9 AM
Where: Manhattan Criminal Court, 100 Centre Street, NYC
Directions: btw. White St. & Leonard St./Hogan Pl., opposite Collect Pond Park & Franklin St., nr. J, N, Q, 4, 5, 6, R, 1, A, C, E, 2, 3, PATH stops, & buses via Broadway, Bowery, Church, Allen & East Broadway; map.
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Noche Diaz is not guilty for standing up and leading people to resist blatant police murder. This brother is still facing a possible two year imprisonment.
On Thursday, March 19, Noche Diaz is scheduled for trial stemming from an August 14 arrest during the massive protests against the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, where he was snatched off the street, and arrested, by the NYPD. At an earlier hearing in January, the Manhattan DA’s office dropped charges of “inciting to riot” and “resisting arrest,” “unlawful assembly,” and “disorderly conduct.” But then they turned around to issue new charges of “obstruction of government administration” (one year) and “harassment” and demanded Noche plea to this "deal" and get time served. Noche outright refused. He is not guilty for standing up and leading people to resist blatant police murder. This brother is still facing a possible two year imprisonment.
Noche is a member of the NYC Revolution Club, and an organizer of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, who is well known and respected among people of Harlem and the Bronx. Though he's one of hundreds around the country who have been arrested protest the injustice of the Brown & Garner decisions – from Ferguson, to LA, Seattle, Arizona to Atlanta – Noche continues to face greater charges than any other protester. (Interview with revcom.us here.)
He and his supporters will be at Manhattan Criminal Court, demanding all charges be dropped. We will rally Thursday morning at 9 AM outside the Manhattan Criminal Court at 100 Centre Street. The trial is set for 9:30 am in Part B (Check the board inside security for final location).
Hands Off Noche Diaz! Pack the Courtroom! Stop the Outrageous Persecution! Drop All the Charges!
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AFTER THE MURDER OF WALTER SCOTT #SHUTDOWNA14 IS MORE CRUCIAL THAN EVER!
GET READY FOR APRIL 14 -- Stop Business As Usual to Stop Police Murder
Below are a number of valuable links -- Videos and Articles that will give guidance and strength as we all prepare to
KEY ARTICLE: http://revcom.us/a/381/the-time-is-n...pril14-en.html
#ShutDownA15 Public Service Announcement: https://youtu.be/Kn_tVxc-mMg
Live Stream Cornel West/Carl Dix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKSwwzKZbVo
Alice Walker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UinuQeKuzig
Jet Magazine Article on #ShutDownA14: http://www.jetmag.com/news/cornel-we...na14-movement/
La Opinion Article in Spanish: http://www.laopinion.com/convocan-a-...os-de-policias
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