October 22: Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation
The days when the system can just keep on doing what it does to people, here and all over the world...those days must be GONE. And they CAN be.
October 16, 2013 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
We're going into the last weekend before October 22.
We know that there is a deep well of righteous outrage and anger against the hell that people need to protest against on October 22.
This anger must find mass political expression on October 22 as part of changing the whole way that people think, the whole "terms" in society, and what people see needs to be done to fight—and put an end to—these outrages.
NO MORE TO POLICE BRUTALITY! NO MORE TO REPRESSION! NO MORE TO THE CRIMINALIZATION OF A GENERATION!
But think about this: if people don't know about October 22, they CAN'T act on it. And even among those who do—if they don't see people on a mission to put a stop to this... people who are organized, with ways to involve those who want be part of this... they won't feel COMPELLED to act on it.
This weekend...
If people see hundreds, even thousands, of posters printed up from this week's centerspread of Revolution up in the shops, the schools, on the lampposts, posted in the halls of the projects, and all over in the communities of the oppressed and on the campuses... letting people know when and where to be...
If they see hundreds, even thousands, of the "3 Strikes" poster with the quote from BA that makes the connections to the whole system, and to revolution... and with stickers letting people know about the film BA Speaks: REVOLUTION NOTHING LESS! Bob Avakian Live...
If they run into or hear about cores of youth and others, not just flyering but manifesting in a way that challenges everyone—including straight-up challenging those youth who hang back to stand up on O22 and, as they stand up, to learn about and get into the revolution...
If they come across the O22 poster all over the social media, and get driven to the O22 videos that people have done, and get inspired to do more... and if they also get driven to video clips from BA's 2003 Revolution talk available online get the whole bigger picture and to meet the leader of the revolution, Bob Avakian (see "Yes there's a conspiracy, to get the cops off" and "The police, Black youth and what kind of a system is this?")...
If they go the new movie 12 Years a Slave or other cultural events which attract youth and progressive middle class people and meet other people building for O22 there, with the posters on O22 and 3 Strikes, raising money and raising hell on the movie lines and after...
And if they run into people raising funds for all this and are given a chance to participate by donating and raising funds themselves...
And if wherever you are, whatever you are doing, on O22, you wear black and hoodies up!
THEN there is a possibility that O22 can be what it needs to be: A MILITANT OUTPOURING TO STOP POLICE BRUTALITY, REPRESSION AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF A GENERATION! And a further step in the badly needed waking up that began to happen, and now needs to go further and get stronger, after the outrageous acquittal of George Zimmerman, the killer of Trayvon Martin.
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