Call from the Stop Mass Incarceration Network for solidarity actions with Saturday’s Baltimore protests
Updated April 24, 2015 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
Revcom.us received the following from the Stop Mass Incarceration Network:
To Stop Mass Incarceration Network activists and friends,
Justice for #FreddieGray, Come to Baltimore Now! April 23, 2015
The outpouring of protests in Baltimore responding to the police murder of Freddie Gray is tremendous. It’s another case of the cops brutally murdering a Black man; and the people being told they should suffer this in silence, while waiting for the system to finish its investigations. NO! People were right to stand up here, and they need to keep on standing up and fighting, both as the way to get justice for Freddie Gray and as the way to build a fight to STOP the system from continuing to give a green light to their cops to brutalize and even murder Black and Latino people.
Stop Mass Incarceration Network (SMIN) activists and supporters need to act and respond to the outpourings in Baltimore. We should plan solidarity actions wherever we are so that people can be involved in standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the fight for Justice for Freddie Gray. And if you are close enough to Baltimore to mobilize people to get here, you should come down on Saturday to be part of the SMIN contingent in the march planned for 3PM at the sight of Freddie's arrest and marches to Baltimore City Hall. Contact the New York SMIN at 929-249-7996 to join the contingent. Or the national number at 646-709-1961.
Carl Dix
revcom.us urges those readers who are not able to get to Baltimore to organize protests in solidarity in their own areas on Saturday.
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