EMERGENCY—SHUT IT DOWN!
Travis Morales, Noche Diaz, others arrested in NYC

Updated April 15, 2015 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

 

April 14, 5:45 pm New York City:

Emergency: 1000s of people in NYC and around the country are right now SHUTTING SHIT DOWN to stop police murder. Traffic has been stopped on the Brooklyn Bridge in both directions with the huge enlargement of the 44 Stolen Lives for all to see.

8:30 PM Update: A Revolution correspondent outside the police station where arrestees are being held reports: The scene is tense. About ninety people including some youths from neighborhood are facing off with forty cops. There is a lot of anger. An activist spoke to crowd, saying they have our leaders here and we are not leaving until we get them back. A councilwoman is with us too - she said some conciliatory things that made crowd mad, but is mainly supportive. People are shouting at cops.

BUSINESS AS USUAL is being stopped by thousands nationwide  who are expressing that they will not tolerate police killing our youth day after day after day and getting away with it. This is beautiful and needed!

Travis Morales, a major leader of the Stop Mass Incarceration movement and #A14 Shut it Down, and several others, have been arrested in the last hour. It is an OUTRAGE that business as usual in this country means cops getting away with killing our people, day after day, and those who insist that this MUST STOP are being targeted!

FLASH: Noche Diaz and others have been arrested as this is being written. Everyone call and demand no charges, immediate release and that all these courageous resisters better not be harmed!

We need hundreds and thousands of people calling, texting, emailing, tweeting and spreading the word about this.

Call immediately:

Mayor Bill DeBlasio of NYC at 311 in NYC
NY District Attorney 212-335-9000
City Council at 311 in NYC

 

UPDATE—KEEP SHUTTING SHIT DOWN!

April 14, 7:50 pm New York City:

#ShutDownA14 IS happening all across the country.... this IS STOPPING business as usual everywhere from California to tulsa to brooklyn! 

This SHUTDOWN MUST continue, many many many more people need to come out NOW, TONIGHT. Brave resisters and revolutionaries like Sunsara Taylor, Travis Morales, Noche and more than 30 others have been arrested in the New York protests; arrests are being made around the country. The shutdown is happening and needs to continue.

Everyone, come out now, now is the moment. 

Join up NOW in Union Square or if you can get there faster to the 78th precinct in brooklyn (65 6th Avenue off Flatbush, 2 train to Bergen St). 

We need to keep shutting shit down and demand that all charges be dropped and the righteous protesters let go right away, donate for bail money etc at stopmassincarceration.net. Text, email, tweet, call people right away. The police are going on with business as usual including just murdering another person by driving him over! And then they arrest the people who are saying we will not live like this!!! Hell no, we are right and we must keep going. 

Get this out to everyone calling, texting, tweeting, emailing...

 

UPDATE: Update: As of the morning of 4/15, we received word that Travis Morales and Sunsara Taylor were released from jail. Noche Diaz remains in jail. We will post more updates as we get them.

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