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As workers and oppressed peoples are constantly being inundated with the likes of Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and others running for president, Workers World Party will be countering all the early election hoopla with its annual national conference Nov. 7-8 in New York City. The main theme will be “Putting SOCIALIST REVOLUTION on the table.”

This theme is intended to offer a real alternative for any worker, oppressed person or activist on what is needed to combat the institutionalized racism, poverty and war that is plaguing the globe.

The bourgeois candidates, be they Democrat or Republican, will say or do anything — most often something reactionary — to get the dollars they need to win upcoming primaries. That means they won’t utter one word about capitalism being the root cause of all the oppression and inequality in the U.S. and throughout the world.

Only an independent, anti-capitalist, multinational working-class party like Workers World Party has always spoken class truth since its 1959 founding to this very day…

We will have a light dinner available.

On OCT 5, 2015 1PM-3pm Central Time show your solidarity by calling/emailing Madison Police Chief Koval and City Attorney Michael May.

JAM their phone lines and emails to say #HandsOffBrandi!
Spread this NATIONWIDE. We must protect each other!

TARGET PHONE/EMAILS

The City Attorney’s Office – Michael May
608-266-4511
mmay@cityofmadison.com
Madison Police Chief Mike Koval
608-266-4022
mkoval@cityofmadison.com

SUGGESTED SCRIPT:
(Doesn’t have to be exact as long as you include the basic points/demands).

Dear (Enter Chief koval or Madison City Attorney), Madison loves to see itself as a different city, as untouched by the plague of racism that this county is infected with. But the numbers and behavior of the city tells us different. So instead of saying one thing and doing another, walk the talk. We demanding that the City of Madison Dismiss all tickets issued to Brandi Grayson and to cease her harassment by the Madison Police Department. We demand an end to disparities in policing and arrests in Madison, WI. And we demand community control over the police. Be the city you aspire to be and do the right thing. Hands off Brandi and Hands off Black women.
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BACKGROUND INFO:
The Madison police department is targeting and harassing one of the most visible leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement in the city. Brandi Grayson, a founding member and leader of the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition has had cops park outside her house regularly, visit her home to talk with her children, charge her with citations without notifying her, pull her over for minor violations, and target her for the actions of huge groups of people protesting. They are targeting her because YGB has already had demonstrable success. It’s a classic attempt to intimidate a movement which has become far too successful for the taste of the police and political establishment.

– We demand the City Attorney’s Office dismiss YGB founder Brandi Grayson’s citations. We recognize that this attack on YGB founder Brandi Grayson is a tactic used by the Madison Police to quell the local movement for Black liberation led by Young Gifted and Black.

– We demand the Madison Police Department put an end to the harassment and terrorizing of Brandi Grayson and of all Black people in Madison, WI. The means an immediate end to the racial disparities in arrests and incarceration in Dane County.

– We demand Community Control of the police. In order to stop police violence we need to shift power from the state to the people. If we have community control Brandi would be protected from prosecution by Madison Police Department.

By building a powerful grassroots racial justice movement in Madison, YGB has so far stopped cold a project to build a new $150 million dollar jail, forced the county to pass a jail alternatives resolution and has pierced the veil behind the false pride of Madison as some sort of progressive Mecca – a city where the black to white arrest rate is 11 to 1 and the black to white child poverty rate is 75% to 5%!

Read more at http://ygbcoalition.org/events-page/item/609-mpd-hands-off-brandi

Calling all anti-racists, Black Lives Matter and social justice activists and anyone who agrees that fighting for your rights should not lead to harassment and intimidation by police:

Activists in the city are rallying behind Brandi but we need solidarity action from folks across the city, country and beyond who care about racial justice and for our right to fight without undemocratic, police intimidation.

Let’s jam up the phone lines and email in-boxes of Madison Police Chief Koval and City Attorney Michael May on Monday, Oct 5th 2015 (from 1pm – 3pm Central Time) with the message that we will not accept police harassment and intimidation of our activists, we will continue to fight for Black Freedom and will not be silent in the face of repression.

For more information:
Visit YGBCOALITION.ORG
Find us on Facebook by searching “YGB Ferguson to Madison”
Phone – (608) 618-0942 (618-0YGB)

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