We Are All Trayvon!
The Whole Damn System is Guilty!
Behind the murder of Trayvon Martin lies a SYSTEM—a system that in effect "deputizes" people like Zimmerman to act as judge and executioner of young Black people like Trayvon Martin, just like it has done throughout the ages in different forms.
Trayvon Martin's Killer Can't Walk Free
Act Now! Demand Justice!
The man who murdered Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, is going to trial on June 10, and it is quite possible he could walk out of the courtroom a free man. We cannot let that happen!
Obama’s Speech:
Not a Step in the Right Direction, But Justification for Assassination, Torture, Unjust War
On May 23, Obama delivered a major speech on drones, Guantánamo, and the “war on terror.” The speech was packaged as a real step away from “endless war”—it was nothing of the kind.
Photo: FJJ
Summer 2013 BA Everywhere Campaign: Making a Difference
BA Everywhere planning conferences were held across the country on June 1-2, to make breakthroughs in getting out Bob Avakian’s vision and works broadly through the summer and beyond.
June 10, 2013 is National Hoodie Day!
Hit the Streets on June 10, 2013. Protest (and walk out) at schools nationwide; rally in communities; wherever you are wear the sticker, post the slogan, and put up signs declaring:
WE ARE ALL TRAYVON!
THE WHOLE DAMN SYSTEM IS GUILTY!
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"In California, individuals can be added to the CalGang Database without being arrested or accused of a crime...."
The interests, objectives, and grand designs of the imperialists are not our interests—they are not the interests of the great majority of people in the U.S. nor of the overwhelming majority of people in the world as a whole. And the difficulties the imperialists have gotten themselves into in pursuit of these interests must be seen, and responded to, not from the point of view of the imperialists and their interests, but from the point of view of the great majority of humanity and the basic and urgent need of humanity for a different and better world, for another way.
BAsics 3:8
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Revolution interview with Sunsara Taylor
"State of Emergency"
From a soon-to-be-published interview with Sunsara Taylor regarding summer of actions to fight for abortion on demand and without apology.
Also in this issue
Class Action Lawsuit Goes to Judge
Trial Exposes: Stop and Frisk Don’t Stop the Crime, Stop-and-Frisk IS the Crime!
by Li Onesto
The trial of Floyd v. City of New York, the class action lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), ended on May 20 where lawyers for CCR argued that the NYPD’s stop-and frisk-program illegally detains hundreds of thousands of people every year.
A Call to Prisoners:
Write to Revolution about “What to the Prisoner Is Your Fourth of July?”
Revolution calls on prisoners to write on Frederick Douglass’s 1852 statement, “What to the American slave is your Fourth of July?”
Photo: AP
South Central LA March Against Police Murder: "Justice for Terry Laffitte!"
Los Angeles Area Police Murder and Brutality:
The Dogs Are STILL in the Motherfucking Street!
A reader did a Google search for “police shootings in Los Angeles” and came up with a long list of people shot by the LA area cops in just the past month.
Full-Page Statement in the New York Times Demands: “Close Guantánamo NOW!”
The “Close Guantánamo Now!” statement, organized by World Can’t Wait, appeared in the front “A” section of the New York Times on Thursday, May 23—the same day that Obama gave a major speech that discussed U.S. drone strikes as well as Guantánamo.
Prisoner Letter:
From Pelican Bay SHU to Guantánamo: “we share the same torturer”
High Stakes in the Cruel and Unjust Trial of Bradley Manning
The trial of Bradley Manning is set to begin on June 3 at Fort Meade, MD. He is charged with 22 violations of the “Uniform Code of Military Justice.” But the real criminals are the U.S. government and military, whose monstrous crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere were exposed by the leaks.
Stop-and-Frisk on Trial Again in Queens
The following is from stopmassincarceration.org website:
On May 21, another trial of stop-and-frisk began in Queens, when four more freedom fighters were brought to stand trial for protesting at the capital of stop-and-frisk, the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica. On November 19, 2011, twenty people were arrested for standing outside the precinct doors, demanding an end to stop-and-frisk.
Tremaine and Trayvon: What this System does to the Youth
We received the following correspondence from a reader
Report from the Cornel West-Carl Dix Dialogue on Mass Incarceration
On a summer-like night in New York City, over 400 people gathered on the Upper West Side to listen to and engage with Carl Dix and Cornel West at a dialogue called “Mass Incarceration + Silence = Genocide—Act to Stop It Now!”
The Hellhole of Dhaka, Bangladesh
A reader recounts seeing first-hand the horrendous working and living conditions of millions during a trip to the capital city.
Photo: AP
From A World to Win News Service
65th Anniversary of the Nakba: Ethnic Cleansing and the Birth of Israel
Palestinians call what happened to them beginning in 1947 the Nakba—Arabic for catastrophe. It was perpetrated by Zionist leaders looking to form the state of Israel on Palestinian land without the Palestinians.
New & Breaking News...
Interview with Jules Lobel, Lead Attorney for California Lawsuit Against Solitary Confinement
June 6, 2013
Emergency Call! Join Us in Stopping Torture in U.S. Prisons!
Tens of thousands of people imprisoned in the U.S. are being subjected to torturous, inhumane conditions. A call has been issued for June 21, 22, and 23 Days of Solidarity With the Struggle to End Prison Torture.
Bradley Manning Trial Opens
Exposing War Crimes Is an Act of Moral Courage, Not a Crime!
June 6, 2013
Donate Funds to Send Revolution Reporters to Cover the Trial of George Zimmerman
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Statement from the Los Angeles Branch of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
June 5, 2013
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