Where Will You Be? What Will You Do?
October 22 National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation
October 14, 2014 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
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Where Will You Be? What Will You Do?
October 22 National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation
In New York City: **October 22, Wednesday, 1 PM **
**Gather at Union Square, March to Times Square**
Spread Facebook Event for October 22
For National October 22nd Mobilization Plans, go here!
No School! No Work! Walk Out! No More!
On October 22, the National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation, thousands of people must gather in Union Square, take to the streets, and march to Times Square, in a defiant statement that we will not live this way. Students walking out of the high schools and universities, people leaving work, all determined that October 22 will not be a routine day, this will not be business as usual, loudly proclaiming that we are taking responsibility to stop these outrages.
We will gather in Union Square, people from all the different organizations, faith communities, the projects, those that are the target of police brutality, activists and others. And especially, youth from the high schools walk out, busting out of the schools, those that are sweated and brutalized by the police everyday, bringing their energy, their enthusiasm, their defiance, their refusal to live like this. Everyone should bring their banners and signs. Pictures of loved ones whose lives have been stolen by the police should be everywhere. Thousands will be holding the poster of the target that says, “No More”. A huge banner with the name of the day and the O22 logo will be at the front with a contingent of the parents and the youth that are being criminalized.
On this October 22 we don’t need a long rally. We will have short messages that inspire us to take the message that “THIS MUST STOP!” to the streets. These will come from the parents and youth that refuse to accept being demonized and criminalized. Our defiant march to Times Square will be our statement. No business as usual, no routine rally and demonstration, no acting like this is just another march. NO! Defiance and resistance and we will make that real. The slow genocide is picking up speed. The time to act is now!
We will take to the streets to march to Times Square with drums beating, horns blowing, our banners, target posters that say “No More”, posters that say “We stand with the defiant ones of Ferguson”, pictures of loved ones, everyone blowing the whistle. We will be loud, raucous, and defiant. One and all will see that we are determined to stop police brutality, repression and the criminalization of a generation.
Times Square, where people from all over the country and the world go to visit, will not be business as usual. We will Circle the Square and the NYPD Times Square Precinct. We will rally in Times Square with the voices of the families who have been robbed of their loved ones by the police. With our presence and action, a message will go out to the world that this country is guilty of horrific crimes against its own people and this must stop, NOW! We will gather and read the Pledge of Resistance in one loud voice, declaring that this is the beginning of a movement that aims to stop police brutality, repression and the criminalization of a generation, NOW! People will get a sense that across the country thousands have been acting on this day together, this movement is real, and they must be a part of it. We will demonstrate and march and bring many more into our ranks to put an end to these crimes.
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