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Tonight-11/5-Harlem - 6pm Protest to Stop Police Brutality
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Word Out
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Nov 05, 2009 11:47 PST
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[distribute widely]
Thursday, November 5
Protest to Stop Police Brutality
6:00 p.m.
Gathering: 125th Street & Amsterdam Ave.
Outdoor Information Table and Rally/Demonstration
Participate. Details below.
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Folks,
Carl Dix sat down this summer with Cornel West at Harlem Stage in conversation addressing, "The Ascendancy of Obama and the Continued Need for Resistance and Liberation". Here are some essential links you may want to check out, but first...
http://blip.tv/file/2380374
http://blip.tv/file/2380374
http://www.youtube.com/v/JP5-UUEBDig&hl
...Below, in reflecting on the phenomena of police brutality and murder of youth, Carl Dix quotes Oscar Brown Jr's poem, "Children of Children," including these lines:
The children of children trapped by dark skins to stay in and play in
a game no one wins
The children of children while still young and sweet are all damned
and programmed for future defeat
The children of children are trapped by adults who fail them then jail
them to hide the results...
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Statement by Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
On the occasion of last month's observation of
The National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation
October 22nd, 2009: NO MORE! No More Stolen Lives! Corey Harris, a
junior at Dyett High School, a star basketball player and captain of
the baseball team, was the first Chicago student to be killed by gun
violence this school year—shot to death on September 11. He was killed
after school, shot in the back as he ran away from a man with a gun.
There was no media outcry over Corey's murder, no statement from the
White House about their distress over it. Hundreds of students and
adults who loved Corey attended his funeral, but there was no parade
of politicians there. The name of his murderer is known by the Chicago
Police Department and yet he walks the streets today, uncharged for
this murder. Why? The man who executed this unarmed student was an
off-duty Chicago cop.
Last year the Chicago police killed 21 people.
The death of Derrion Albert, an honor student at Fenger High School in
Chicago, is also a horror for the people. On September 24, the nation
was stunned by vivid images of the Fenger High School melee resulting
in his death. People are agonizing over how did we get into a hellish
situation where parents watch students being killed over nothing,
where kids grow up haunted by images of gunfire. Everyone talks about
responsibility. But who and what is responsible for this situation?
Oscar Brown Jr's poem, "Children of Children," includes these lines:
The children of children trapped by dark skins to stay in and play in
a game no one wins
The children of children while still young and sweet are all damned
and programmed for future defeat
The children of children are trapped by adults who fail them then jail
them to hide the results...
It is a crime of this system that our youth internalize the message
they get every day through the worthless schools and degrading
conditions and brutalizing cops—the message that this system has no
future for them and that they don't even deserve a future—and then
they act it out against each other. More police are not the answer, as
the police murder of Corey Harris shows.
Youth need to be inspired, encouraged, organized and unleashed to
stand up against and resist the conditions they face, including
degradation, dehumanization and outright murder they face at the hands
of the police. In the course of this, and joining with others to throw
off oppression throughout the world, people can and will change
themselves.
"The days when this system can just keep on doing what it does to
people, here and all over the world...when people are not inspired and
organized to stand up against these outrages and to build up the
strength to put an end to this madness...those days must be GONE. And
they CAN be." ("The Revolution We Need... The Leadership We Have,"
Revolution #170, July 19, 2009)October 22nd is the National Day of
Protest to STOP Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization
of a Generation. It is the day to begin to stand up and resist the
outrage of police brutality and police murder. FIGHT BACK! WEAR BLACK!
Contact Carl Dix at comrad-@hotmail.com
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Ways to Help in this Urgent Work:
1) Mark you calendar for Thursday, November 5th, 6:00 p.m.
and come to 125th Street & Amsterdam Ave.
Protest Police Brutality -- information table and rally
2) Get a stack of leaflets for the neighborhood, your building, your
church, and for all your friends.
3) Bring donations; participate in the raffle.
4) Be part of planning for Thursday, November 5th by e-mailing back: revolutio-@gmail.com and we'll arrange to bring you flyers,
raffle tickets and literature.
"A system which offers millions of youth no greater purpose, no better fate, than crime and punishment... -- that alone is reason enough to sweep this system from
the face of the earth!"
http://www.revcom.us/ for articles in Revolution newspaper about police brutality/murder
and the system it serves
http://www.revcom.us/a/179/stop_and_frisk-en.html for the article "NYPD
Stop-and-Frisk, Racism and Injustice on a Massive Scale"
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