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Chicago, April 28: Emergency Action in Solidarity w/ Baltimore!!

Too many names have been turned into hashtags. What is happening in Baltimore is not an isolated event. This did not start today, or yesterday or last month or with Ferguson or with Rodney King. You cannot critique how Black people & people of color deal with the anguish, the frustration, the trauma, the death we experience everyday at the hands of the state, especially if you have never joined in the fight to end this oppression.

Chicago, Baltimore may be on your CNN, FOX, ABC, CBS news stations but the police militarization & murder, the racist & systemic violence, the trauma & denied justice is happening in your backyards. Just days ago the judicial system that we are told to have faith in, let Dante Servin walk free after acknowledging he did kill Rekia Boyd.

JOIN BYP 100, We Charge Genocide, The Chicago Light Brigade, Black Lives Matter: Chicago, Chicago Socialists – ISO, #LetUsBreathe Collective & many many more tomorrow for an emergency action at CPD HQ to protest, to learn, to join together, to continue loving one another by fighting for each other’s lives.

We do this for Rekia Boyd, Freddie Gray, Dominique Franklin, Mya Hall, a trans woman who was killed by Baltimore police March 30. We do this to have symmetry in the cemetery. To value every life taken.

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

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