EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/k2p9v4b

Justice is what we march for. Justice is what we protest for. Justice is what we are calling for. Justice is what we are going to get.Dontre Hamilton was shot 14 times on April 30th in Red Arrow Park by former Milwaukee Police Officer Christopher Manney. Its been 8 months since this murder took place, and still our D.A. has not made a decision on whether to charge this officer for recklessly and unnecessarily taking another mans life. Dontre will never be able to go home to see his family again. Officer Manney is still a free man. We cannot stand for this. We must demand that this negligent officer be charged for his crimes, and work to change the system that says that it is ok to murder black women and men …with impunity.

On Friday we will rally and march to protest this unjust system and demand that our D.A. make a decision now (and that decision be to charge and arrest former Milwaukee Police Officer Christopher Manney with Murder). Please join us at Red Arrow Park (1000 N. Water St.) at 4pm. We will leave promptly so please try to be there as soon as possible. Join our fight for justice!

To stay updated and/or to contact us, please follow us on twitter @justicefordontre, instagram @thecoalition4justicemke or give us a call (414) 375-9330.

See you there! Do not sit this one out!

Manhattan, December 13, 2014

STATEMENT ON ROLE OF POLICE: http://tinyurl.com/kf2cvmx

STATEMENT ON ORGANIZATION: http://tinyurl.com/p2p8nor

PDF OF STATEMENT: http://tinyurl.com/kqh5bxn

To sign on as an individual or as an organizational endorser:
Please email imani@peoplespowerassemblies.org or text (646) 342 9673

We as community leaders, family members, clergy, people of conscience join together to say NO to the Thank you NYPD, racist pro-police brutality mobilization in NYC December 19 2014. The provocative demonstration callously called Thank you NYPD, using the hashtag #BlueLivesMatter, is set for City Hall on Friday, December 19. This is insulting and disrespectful to families who have either lost loved ones to police murders and people who have survived police brutality. In fact, also on December 19, at the same time, only blocks away from this pro-police brutality rally, the family of 18-year old Ramarley Graham — murdered in his Bronx home by NYPD Officer Richard Haste on February 2, 2012 — will be holding a rally to demand that the Department of Justice convene a grand jury hearing for his case.

We believe this pro-police demonstration is cause of great concern to millions of people across the country who have been in the streets protesting against racism, white supremacy and police violence. After all it is not police officers who are shot down every 28 hours in the U.S. but this alarming statistic is the daily reality for Black people in the United States.

We believe this pro-police brutality mobilization is a dangerous threat to communities of color already under attack due to police occupation. We see this mobilization of largely armed off-duty and plain-clothes police and their supporters as an effort to whip up violence against people who have peacefully mobilized in the streets for the past several months all across the country.

If the organizers of this pro-police brutality rally go through with their hateful and insulting event and mobilize scores of right-wing and fascistic elements then they and they alone are solely responsible for inciting a climate of violence. The vast majority of posts and comments on Thank you NYPD Facebook and Twitter pages for this event confirm its racist and anti-protester intent. The seven-hour police rally from 5 pm to midnight is an ominous siege of City Hall.

We understand that this pro-police rally in NYC is part of a national campaign on social media on Dec. 19 to turn the issue of police murders on its head and present the well-armed attackers and killers as helpless victims. The NYPD has already begun a political witch hunt to try to justify suppressing the massive protests by targeting seven activists for arrests at the march on the Brooklyn Bridge on Dec. 13, claiming that they attacked armed detectives.

Millions of people around the world saw the video of Eric Garner, a loving father of six children, say “I can’t breathe” as he was choked to death by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo. We believe to talk about “Blue Lives Matter” after continual and well-documented police atrocities is to support racist violence.

We along with many New Yorkers remember all too well the 1992 police rally where thousands of cops rallied in a racist and intimidating attack upon Mayor David Dinkins. It was the launching pad for the ugly climate that surrounded Rudolph Giuliani’s rise to mayor. Even the New York Times admitted that “Beer-drinking officers broke through barricades to rush the steps of City Hall; others blocked traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge and used racial epithets to describe the Mayor.” (Sept. 30, 1992) Afterwards two drunken cops assaulted and seriously injured a young Black man on the J train. We fully believe that this racist pro-police brutality, #BlueLivesMatter rally scheduled for this Friday, Dec. 19 threatens more violence on communities of color of New York.

In the face of this ominous threat we cannot be silent.

We urge all people deeply disturbed by the ongoing police occupation and militarization of communities of color, as well as the escalation of police violence to do the following on Dec. 19:

1. Please sign on to this statement as an organization or individual endorser and circulate it nationally.
2. We ask New York residents to gather around City Hall in NYC at 5pm on Friday, December 19 with a message of solidarity, unity and justice.
3. We ask people to counter this shameful pro-police brutality rally social media with anti-police brutality messages such as the demand to end “Broken Windows” – a racist, anti-poor peoples policy that led to the murder of Eric Garner
4. We people to use the hashtags : #NoThankYouNYPD #BlackLivesMatter & #ThisStopsToday along with others.
5. We ask for solidarity rallies at city halls and police precincts across the U.S. and around the world.
6. We urge legal observers and media activists to mobilize in NYC on Friday to protect our communities against the potential racist and right-wing provocations of these pro-police brutality protesters.
7. We urge trade unions and social formations to respond to defend communities under continuing police attack.
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Once again, we call upon all people of conscience to protest a racist pro-police brutality mobilization of armed off-duty cops and their supporters that threatens further violence in New York City.

Join us in Unity on Friday, Dec 19 5 pm at City Hall to say NO to Racism! NO to police impunity!

#NoThankYouNYPD
#BlackLivesMatter
#ThisStopsToday

Endorsers in formation as December 18th

Organizations:
BAYAN-USA
BlackLivesMatterNYC
CAAAV/Organizing Asian Communities
DRUM – South Asian Organizing Center
Equality for Flatbush
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition (NYC)
Guyanese American Workers United
Occu-Evolve
May 1st Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights
New Yorkers Against Bratton
Pakistan USA Freedom Forum
Peoples Power Assemblies

Individuals:
Reverend Osagyefo Sekou
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark
ABear, Radio Host, Pinko the Bear Show, IWW
Alexia Filpo, CUNY student
Cathy Zeitz, Manhattan, NY
Chazz Giovanni, Fine Arts Acting Student
Crysbel Tejada, Freedom / Land Defender, New York
Emma Hartung, Student, Manhattan, NY
Lucy Parks, Queens, NY
McKenzie Angelo, High School Teacher, Artist, Brooklyn, NY
Mia Anderson , Brooklyn, NY
Monica Thompson, Social Worker, Writer,
Patrick Arthur, Writer, Manhattan, NY
Sasha K Hippard, Artist & Butcher, Brooklyn, NY
Sonia Choi, Fine Art Student & Organizer, The New School
Tess Raser, School Teacher, Brooklyn, NY

Brenda Stokely, Million Worker March Movement
Monica Moorehead, International Working Women’s Coalition

https://www.facebook.com/RKFDFIST

National organization of young revolutionaries working to fight systematic racism, sexism, LGBTQ oppression and capitalism. We fight for socialism!

National FIST: http://fightimperialism.org/

Red Flag (The Voice of FIST): http://tinyurl.com/knjjtgs

http://vimeo.com/113772690

ARTICLE: http://tinyurl.com/mc83fse

Around 100 New York public defenders staged a walkout at Brooklyn Criminal Court Wednesday, marking five months since Eric Garner died after an NYPD officer placed him in a chokehold.

The protest, organized by the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (ALAA), saw hundreds of lawyers walk out of court as part of the #ThisStopsToday 11 days of action movement for Garner.

PressTV Coverage: http://tinyurl.com/n9dhkso

The Moscow rally has also been attended by American activists who strongly condemn the United States government’s actions against its own people and its foreign policy. According to the protesters, United States is waging an economic and political war against Russia and its allies. They say millions of people around the world suffer because of Western intervention in the affairs of independent states. The demonstrators made clear their opposition to Washington’s domestic and foreign policies, and say many people around the world are against the construction of a unipolar world. Protesters also laid flowers at the entrance of the U-S Embassy in Moscow to honor several African-Americans killed by U-S police recently.

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/oydgo8g

(English Below)

Compañeros, a esta altura la mayoría de nuestra gente aqui en Milwaukee está al tanto de la situación no sólo en Guerrero pero también en todo el país. Los compañeros normalistas, padres de familia, ciudadanos, trabajadores, intelectuales, estudiantes, y artistas han librado una gran lucha por justicia que ha alcanzado cada esquina de México.

¿Y a nosotros aqui en el país vecino del norte, qué nos toca hacer?
A nosotros nos toca apoyar y a seguir luchando en este país. Muchos de los que venimos de México venimos por exactamente los problemas que se protestan actualmente. Ahora que desgraciadamente el gobierno (a todos los niveles) expuso su corrupción totalmente con los crímenes de Iguala, y que el pueblo de México dice ¡YA BASTA! también nos toca a nosotros paisanos y amigos del pueblo mexicano aportar a esta honorable lucha.

Se les ofrece esta invitación a quienes quieran apoyar la lucha en México, a la escuela rural de Ayotzinapa, y a los padres de familia a que participen en esta colecta.

Habrá comida, música, arte e información. Sólo se les pide que contribuyan con $10 pesos por persona adulta y $5 para niños para entrar.

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Comrades, at this time the majority of our people here in Milwaukee are aware of the situation not only in Guerrero, but also throughout the Mexican country. The normalistas, parents, citizens, workers, intellectuals, students, and artists have fought a great fight for justice that has reached every corner of Mexico.

And to us here as the northern neighbors, what is our role? It is our duty to support and keep the struggle alive in this country. Many of those who come from Mexico, come because of the issues that are currently being protested. Now unfortunately the government (at all levels) has exposed its corruption shown in Iguala, and the Mexican communities have said, ENOUGH! It is also a duty for us paisanos and friends of the Mexican people to contribute to this honorable struggle.

This invitation is open to those who want to support the struggle in Mexico, rural school in Ayotzinapa, and parents to participate in this collection.

There will be food, music, art and information. We only ask for a contribution of $10 per adult and $5 for children to enter.

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/

Cars drive past a banner featuring five Cuban prisoners held in U.S. custody, two of whom were previously released, in Havana Dec. 17, 2014. | Photo: Reuters