To Stop Mass Incarceration Network activists and friends, The Stop Mass Incarceration Network (SMIN) is calling for people to go down to Baltimore to
April 24, New York high school students rally against murder by police
To Stop Mass Incarceration Network activists and friends,
The Stop Mass Incarceration Network (SMIN) is calling for people to go down to Baltimore to join the defiant ones there this Saturday. This is in line with Carl Dix's statement on the police killing of Freddie Gray in Baltimore says, "[E]verybody who refuses to stand by while the color of someone’s skin determines how they live and whether they live needs to join those in the streets of Baltimore and everywhere else saying that “Police Getting Away With Murder Must STOP!” (full statement below)
We and the NYC Revolution Club have an advance team there already. There needs to be an outpouring of all people demanding justice for Freddie, for all people murdered by police, and to put an end to this. All sections of people need to be in Baltimore this Saturday -- families of people killed by the police, clergy and church folk, high school and college youth, teachers, writers, activists. A rally is being called for on Saturday at 1 PM.
Please call us if you can help organize carpools or hook up on buses to get down to Baltimore. Contact the New York SMIN at 929-249-7996 for more information, or to help organize the contingent. The national number at 646-709-1961.
from revcom.us
Baltimore – ANOTHER BLACK MAN’S LIFE STOLEN BY THE POLICE!
by Carl Dix, Co-founder, Stop Mass Incarceration Network
Freddie Gray, a 25 year old Black man, is dead after being taken into custody by Baltimore City cops. Freddie was chased and arrested on April 12. Why - we don’t know because police haven’t yet made public why they arrested him. All we know is that Freddie ran when the cops swaggered into the neighborhood like an occupying army. A video made by a witness to his arrest shows him being dragged to the police van screaming like he was in excruciating pain and seemingly unable to walk. 40 minutes later, the police call an ambulance to the precinct Freddie was taken to, and at the hospital doctors find his spinal cord had been broken. Freddie died a week later. The city has exploded in protest, with 2000 people in the streets on April 21 demanding Justice For Freddie.
Baltimore City officials are saying, ‘People should wait for the results of our thorough investigation.’ Apologists for the cops ask, ‘Why did he run in the 11st place?’ I don’t want to hear any of that crap. Freddie is another Black man whose life was stolen by the police. This is a horror that has been going on for decades and is intensifying today. It is a concentration of the slow genocide being enforced on Black and Latino people by this capitalist/imperialist system. It will take revolution, nothing less to end this, and all the other horrors this system forces humanity to endure. And everybody who refuses to stand by while the color of someone’s skin determines how they live and whether they live needs to join those in the streets of Baltimore and everywhere else saying that “Police Getting Away With Murder Must STOP!”
