JUSTICE FOR MICHAEL BROWN—
MONDAY, DECEMBER 1
WALK OUT OF SCHOOL, WALK OUT OF WORK—
SAY NO MORE TO POLICE MURDER!
by Carl Dix | November 27, 2014 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
The Ferguson Action Team, a coalition of activists which has been coordinating protests around the murder of Michael Brown, has called for nationwide walkouts on Monday, December 1. I endorse this call and urge everyone to support this effort. Monday needs to be a day when everybody busts out of school, walks out of work and gathers to say that police murder must STOP! Get the word on this to everybody in your networks and involve them in it. Make plans for powerful actions on Monday. Spread the word to everyone we connect with between now and Monday.
The refusal of the system to indict Darren Wilson, the cop who killed Michael Brown, amounts to an official stamp of approval for police murder. If business as usual in this society includes police getting away with murdering our youth, we must continue and step up disrupting that business as usual.
By letting Wilson walk free, the system delivered its message: that Black life has no value in its eyes, that their cops can murder Black youth with impunity and face no punishment. The system continues to deliver this message with the police murders of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland and Akai Gurley in New York. People responded with determination and defiance. In Ferguson and in more than 100 cities around the country, people said NO, loud and clear, to injustice. Bridges and expressways were blocked by protests. City centers were clogged by demonstrations. People have raised their heads. This must continue and be taken further.
What’s at stake here is whether the color of a person's skin should determine how they live, or even whether they live. It comes down to what kind of society we want to live in and what kind of people we need to be. If things are allowed to go back to the normal routine, it will mean going along with a routine that includes wanton murders of Black youth by police. But if we continue to stand up and declare our determination to refuse to accept this routine, we can be part of bringing a whole different way for people to live into being.
WALK OUT OF SCHOOL—WALK OUT OF WORK! GATHER AND PROTEST!
JUSTICE FOR MICHAEL BROWN!
POLICE MURDER MUST STOP!
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