We received the following from the Stop Mass Incarceration Network:
Memo to the Campus Community
Carl Dix & Family Members of Those Killed by NYPD Available to Speak in Classes, at Student Organizations & Rallies
September 25, 2014 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
This generation knows Black and brown youth are walking around with a target on their chests. There's an American epidemic of police murder, and people are standing up in outrage. Bring front-line fighters working to stop police brutality and mass incarceration to your classroom or organization's meeting, as a month of protest & resistance jumps off across the U.S.
“From July 17, when the NYPD killed Eric Garner with an illegal choke-hold, to August 17, police killed 59 people in the U.S. That's an epidemic of almost 2 people every day. We don't need a conversation about race—we need mass resistance to these injustices. The October Month of Resistance will mobilize tens of thousands of people in demonstrations, panels on campuses, cultural events, sermons in religious institutions and more, putting a big stop sign to these horrors right in the face of US society,” says Dix.
Carl Dix is a co-founder, with Dr. Cornel West, of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, and has spent his life opposing injustice. He is a representative of the Revolutionary Communist Party. In 1970, Carl was one of the Fort Lewis 6, the largest mass refusal to go to Vietnam by U.S. soldiers during that war. He spent two years in a U.S. military prison for this stand. Carl has been a leader in the fight against police terror and of the annual October 22 marches to stop police brutality. In 2011, he and Cornel West called for mass, nonviolent protest at NYC police precincts with the highest rates of “stop and frisk,” contributing to mass public opposition to the practice.
Along with Dr. West, Carl put out the Call for the October 2014 Month of Resistance to Mass Incarceration, Police Terror, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation. In August Carl joined mass protest in Ferguson, Missouri against the police murder of Michael Brown, and was arrested while standing with the “defiant ones” on the first night of the national guard mobilization there.
Nicholas Heyward & Juanita Young are founders of NYC's Parents Against Police Brutality. Both of their children were shot and killed by NYPD; Nicholas Heyward Jr. in 1994, and Malcolm Ferguson in 2000, with no prosecution of the shooters. They are leading the fight for an end to police murder, seeking justice not only for their own families, but for all whose family members’ lives have been stolen.
Iris Baez' son Anthony Baez was killed in 1995 by an NYPD officer who was only prosecuted after tremendous protest and struggle.
Phone: 347-979-7646 * eMail: stopmassincarceration@gmail.com
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