O22: National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and Criminalization of a Generation

September 23, 2013 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

This year's October 22 is the 18th annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and Criminalization of a Generation. At this moment, it's more important than ever that O22 be marked powerfully by people acting across the U.S. As Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party says, "This has to be a day when all across the country people are taking to the streets in outrage, holding cultural events, teach-ins, and in other ways spotlighting the horrific reality of police brutality and murder, the widespread repression and the criminalization of whole generations of youth. This has got to be something that people respond to." ("In the Bitter Aftermath of the Trayvon Martin Verdict: The Outrages of AmeriKKKa... and the Need for Revolution".)

We're posing the following challenge to spark people's thinking and plans around how to make October 22 what it needs to be. A key point of method: It's always important to begin efforts like this by asking the right questions.

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If you couldn't sleep when the verdict on Trayvon Martin's killer came down...

Whether you feel you've been living that verdict your whole life... or you are just finding out about it...

If you burn with anger or agony at living in such a society...

YOU NEED TO ACT ON OCTOBER 22!

Protest police brutality, repression and the CRIMINALIZATION OF A GENERATION!

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