Ferguson is Everywhere
Police Brutality and Murder MUST STOP!
Updated February 3, 2015 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
Day — And Still the Killer Cop Walks Free
JUSTICE FOR MICHAEL BROWN, ERIC GARNER AND ALL THE VICTIMS OF KILLER COPS!
Wilson Has Walked
AMERIKKKA MUST COME TO A HALT!
THERE IS RIGHTEOUS RESISTANCE AND YOU MUST BE PART OF IT!!!
by Carl Dix
November 24, 2014
THE STRUGGLE AGAINST POLICE MURDER AND MASS INCARCERATION MUST BE INTENSIFIED
November 27, 2014
The Grand Jury: A Sick Hustle, An Obscene Farce
November 25, 2014
Grand Jury Decision: Protests Around the World
Updated November 30, 2014
Ferguson Outrage vs. Police-State Repression
Updated February 3, 2015
» The Unjust Repression Against Protesters Fighting for Justice
» Repression, Resistance, and Rebellion in Police State Ferguson, by Larry Everest
» Assaulted by Police, Threatened, and Facing 11 Charges For Leading Resistance:
Defend Noche Diaz of the NYC Revolution Club!
» From the Chicago Revolution Club:
Drop the Charges Against Grant Newburger and Everyone Arrested! They want to punish a Revolutionary and make you afraid to stand up!
» Chicago: Ferguson Protesters Face Vicious Repression by Police and Court
» Hundreds of Arrests in LA Met With “Free the protesters, jail killer cops!”
Bob Avakian, "The police, Black youth and what kind of a system is this?"
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Michael Brown to Eric Garner
This has to stop NOW!
People are standing up in Ferguson!
It's right to rebel!
Time's up for this system.
Fight the Power, and Transform the People, for Revolution!
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A Statement and Call from Stop Mass Incarceration Network, Ferguson-St. Louis chapter
February 2, 2015
On the Justice Department "Leak" That Michael Brown's Killer Will NOT Be Prosecuted on Civil Rights Charges Either… Yes, the WHOLE Damn System IS Guilty as Hell!
January 29, 2015
Berkeley Law Faculty Statement Expresses "Despair and Outrage" About the Police Killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner
January 27, 2015
In the Streets in Ferguson: "It is our duty to fight"
January 14, 2015
December 13: Tens of Thousands March Across the U.S. Against Police Murder
December 13, 2014
Saturday, December 13, tens of thousands converged on Washington, DC for the "Justice For All" march. Protests also marked the day in dozens of other cities around the country, including tens of thousands in New York City. Other cities with protests include Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco-Oakland, Houston, Boston, and more. There was also a large police presence at these protests, and reports of multiple arrests in Chicago, Boston, Houston, and Oakland.
Scenes from Ferguson: the Uprising's Reach, and the Reaction
December 10, 2014
A Reader Shares Some Thoughts on the Revolution Clubs and the slogan "Get Organized for an Actual Revolution"
December 11, 2014
East Oakland: Week of Outrage in the 'Hood
December 11, 2014
1,000 Berkeley High Students Walk Out
December 11, 2014
St. Louis-Ferguson, December 10: Actions at the Federal Court and Washington U Med School
December 10, 2014
Berkeley: More than 1,500 Stop Train, Interstate 80 in Third Night of Protests
"Unless we're free, we will prevent the system from operating."
December 10, 2014
Berkeley, December 6: "It is our duty to fight for our freedom"
Police Repeatedly Stop, Corral and Attack Student Protesters in the Home of "Free Speech"—but the People Stay in the Streets
December 10, 2014
Denver High School Students Walk Out, December 3
December 6, 2014
Tuesday, December 2, Ferguson, MO:
Hundreds of High School Students Walk Out:
“Turn up, don’t turn down! We do this for Mike Brown!”
Cheers to Ariyana Smith: “I could not play that game”
December 5, 2014
Monday: "Hands Up Walk Out" Actions Coast to Coast and Worldwide
December 1, 2014
St. Louis Rams Football Players: "Hands Up" in Support of Ferguson Struggle
November 30, 2014
Harlem:
Courageous Speakout Denounces NYPD Crimes, Demands Justice for Mike Brown
November 29, 2014
“Black Lives Matter” Day Around the Country - November 28, 2014
- "Black Lives Matter Friday," November 28, San Francisco Bay Area
(November 29, 2014)
Read more - Seattle: Hundreds of Protesters Disrupt Business as Usual at Westlake Center Mall
(November 29, 2014)
Read more - Cleveland: Marching into Walmart on "Black Lives Matter" Friday
(November 29, 2014)
Read more - Black Lives Matter Friday – Major St. Louis Mall Disrupted and Shut Down
Read more - Bay Area Transit Station Shut For 2 Hours: Black Lives Matter!
Read more
Activists from The Blackout Collective chained together bringing the BART train station to a halt for two hours, November 28, 2014.
- Friday, November 28 Actions in Chicago
Read more
Entertainers, Artists, and Athletes Speak Out on the Grand Jury Letting Killer Cop Walk Free
Updated December 2, 2014
Students from Coast to Coast Protest Grand Jury Decision to Let Mike Brown's Killer Go Free
November 28, 2014
"Nothing To Be Thankful For"
Protesters Disrupt Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
November 28, 2014
Cleveland: Determined to Have No Business as Usual
November 28, 2014
Kent State Black United Students Stage a Walkout and Protest
November 28, 2014
Detroit: Marching and Blocking Traffic to Demand Justice for Mike Brown
November 28, 2014
Rage in the Streets of Ferguson - report by Larry Everest
November 24, midnight
People Around the Country Join the Struggle
November 25, 2014
Points of Orientation on Righteous Rebellions
Slander
There is one issue, and one issue alone, regarding the murder of Michael Brown: once again, some racist pig has taken the life of an unarmed Black youth—in this case, trying to surrender. Don’t let them fucking change the subject!
This other shit they’re running about some unrelated incident is nothing but demonization, nothing but brainwash. This is nothing but a strategy to derail the righteous, long-overdue and much much needed fight, of many people in many different ways, from Ferguson to the whole world, against this horrific injustice and the whole larger agenda it’s part of.
A Call to Act Against the Killing of Michael Brown
GET OUT IN THE STREETS—in the downtowns and barrios and ghettoes across the country—to make it known that people are standing with and acting in unity with the people who have stood up in Ferguson, Missouri to protest the police killing of Michael Brown.
Bring, distribute and blow whistles. Bring many copies of the Three Strikes posters and also posters of “We Refuse to Accept Slavery in Any Form” with revcom.us prominently displayed. Spread the posters among everyone to get out widely.
Get out REVOLUTION! Raise your arms and raise your fists. March. ACT, ACT, ACT!!!
The Peculiar History of the United States: Slavery, "States' Rights" and the Federal Government
by Bob Avakian
Editor’s note: Attorney General Eric Holder has been deployed to Ferguson, MO to try to dampen the courageous uprising against the police murder of Michael Brown. Both in relation to that, but because it reveals essential truth behind illusions about the Federal Government’s role in relation to the oppression of Black people, we are sharing the following excerpt from Birds Cannot Give Birth to Crocodiles, But Humanity Can Soar Beyond the Horizon by Bob Avakian.
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Black figurehead dnt change the slave ship. NO to slow genocide. We need Revolution–Nothing Less! revcom.us #Ferguson #Michael Brown
[retweet from https://twitter.com/Carl_Dix] Obama says Now is time 4 healing, peace and calm in #Ferguson. I say, this is time 2 step up struggle . Name, Indict & Jail killer cop. revcom.us
Stop slandering the victim and send the killer to jail. #Ferguson #MichaelBrown revcom.us
Cosmetics don't mean shit. A pig is still a pig. #Ferguson #MichaelBrown revcom.us
Black, white or Latino: once you put on the blue, you gonna serve the system and come down on the people. #Ferguson revcom.us
The heart of the problem is not the color of the skin of the pig. #Ferguson revcom.us
Wolf or fox, just a different way to eat you. #Ferguson #MichaelBrown revcom.us
Calm Down? Hell No! The pig is still walking the streets... and the whole genocidal program is still in full effect #Ferguson #MichaelBrown revcom.us
Time to heal? Hell No! Time to step it up! The dogs are still in the street! #Ferguson #MichaelBrown revcom.us [to Gil Scott Heron: Jose Campos Torres]
Earlier Posts
Statement from The Revolutionary Communist Party, USA On the Arrests of Carl Dix, Travis Morales and Joey Johnson
August 20, 2014
We Urge You to Come to Ferguson, Missouri, October 10-13
September 24, 2014
Carl Dix Press Conference:
“Stand up, demand justice, don’t be intimidated”
August 19, 2014
To all revolutionaries and fighters for emancipation:
THIS WEEKEND, IN FERGUSON, TEXAS AND EVERYWHERE ELSE...
August 21, 2014
Sunday, August 17, Editorial
One week into the struggle for justice for Michael Brown and everything has changed—and nothing has changed.
August 19, 2014
Flash: Savage Police Attack Sunday Night in Ferguson—ACT NOW
August 17, 2014
Ferguson, Missouri:
No Time to “Calm Down”—Time to Step Up the Struggle
August 15, 2014
Statement from Carl Dix on the People Standing Up in Ferguson
August 14, 2014
The brave people who are standing up in Ferguson, Missouri, are changing the way everybody in this country is looking at what's going on.
The demands are clear: this murdering cop must be named, indicted and put in prison!
One more thing: these Uncle Toms need to get the hell out of the way of the people who are daring to stand up and fight back!
Black Man Murdered by Cops! Again!! This Must Stop!!!
by Carl Dix | August 11, 2014
People Take to the Streets After Police Kill 18-Year-Old Michael Brown
August 10, 2014
August 11. Photo: AP
From an online comment thread in the Washington Post, August 13:
Heavily armed, white protesters force authorities into retreat at Cliven Bundy Ranch despite allegations of the theft of over $1 million in fees from use of federal land. The police and FBI do nothing.
Unarmed, black protesters are gassed, shot, and beaten by authorities in their own backyards as they peacefully rally to expose a crime committed by a police officer witnessed by many. The police bring armored cars, helicopters, attack dogs, and riot weapons to use against the citizens.
These bootlickers and backstabbers of the oppressed—and of those standing with the oppressed—join with the reactionary forces of the system in attacking the masses who refuse to passively accept brutal and murderous oppression and repression, and attack those who stand with them in standing up. Not only do they do this, but let’s be clear: THESE BOOTLICKERS, ET. AL., HAVE NO SOLUTION, NO ANSWER TO THE BRUTALITY, MURDER AND ALL-AROUND OPPRESSION THAT IS CONTINUALLY BROUGHT DOWN ON THE MASSES OF PEOPLE. ALL THEIR RAGGEDY SHIT OF "PLAYING NICE" "BEING RESPECTABLE" AND BEGGING FOR MERCY CAN NEVER LEAD TO ANYTHING POSITIVE FOR THE MASSES OF PEOPLE. HOW MANY TIMES IN THE FACE OF THESE MURDEROUS OUTRAGES, AND HOW LONG, HAVE THEY RUN OUT THIS RAGGEDY SHIT, AND WHAT HAS IT DONE TO PUT AN END TO THE ENDLESS ABUSES?! THEIR SHIT IS TRULY PLAYED OUT, AND THEY NEED TO BEG FORGIVENESS OF THE MASSES, STAND WITH THEM IN STANDING UP—OR SHUT UP AND GET OUT OF THE WAY.
Antonio French—Bootlicker Supreme
August 20, 2014
What do you say about someone who not only attacks people who are standing up, who not only goes on TV to run slanders against the revolutionaries who are standing with those people, but who goes so far as to physically assault one of the revolutionaries (only of course when he has the backing of the armed pigs!)? And all while posing, and being promoted as, the “champion” of the people.
“Bootlicker” hardly captures the shame and low-life character of such a person. Better to call him “Supreme Bootlicker.”
Such a title goes to Antonio French, an alderman from the city of St. Louis. After getting arrested early in the protests—and getting notice and “credibility” for it—he became one of the “go-to spokespeople” for the media. Yesterday, after police carried out yet another killing, this time in St. Louis, this bootlicker actually claimed credit for keeping things calm. First off, why the hell is THAT—keeping people under the boot of the system—something to claim credit for? Then he made out like this shows what you can do when you have Black people in the power structure. Does this fool really want to claim that life is good, or even getting better, for the masses of Black people in St. Louis? No, in fact, life is getting worse, with police repression serving to defend a system of high unemployment and no decent jobs, horrible education, bad health care, evictions and homelessness, and all the rest that is life for the Black masses in 2014 America.
Antonio French, do the people a favor. SHUT THE FUCK UP!!
LZ Granderson
August 12, 2014
Fury and righteous outrage are sweeping the country after the wanton murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson by police.
On CNN—LZ Granderson says he’s tired of the murder of unarmed Black men. But then says:
“I hate black looters at peaceful rallies the way I hate the KKK.”
and
“Number one, it’s very important that the community down in Ferguson identify the people who were involved with looting and make sure those people were apprehended and arrested.”
You beg the vicious oppressors to stop killing Black people. But when those who this system considers less-than-human rise up and demand to be treated as human beings, you say they are as bad as the murderous white-supremacist KKK lynch mobs.
And you direct your real venom at those courageous people who refuse to beg the oppressor for mercy and insist on standing up strong when the oppressor is brutalizing and killing people.
That is the definition of a bootlicker.
So SHUT UP YOU BOOTLICKERS.
On August 19, St. Louis police shot and killed Kajieme Powell, a 25-year-old Black man, just a few miles from where Michael Brown was gunned down by Ferguson police. We will have more on this soon. Watch this video, which shows that this was yet another cold-blooded murder by the police.
Editor’s note: Tyisha Miller was a 19-year-old African-American woman shot dead by Riverside, California police in 1998. Miller had been passed out in her car, resulting from a seizure, when police claimed that she suddenly awoke and had a gun; they fired 23 times at her, hitting her at least 12 times, and murdering her. Bob Avakian addressed this.
If you can’t handle this situation differently than this, then get the fuck out of the way. Not only out of the way of this situation, but get off the earth. Get out of the way of the masses of people. Because, you know, we could have handled this situation any number of ways that would have resulted in a much better outcome. And frankly, if we had state power and we were faced with a similar situation, we would sooner have one of our own people’s police killed than go wantonly murder one of the masses. That’s what you’re supposed to do if you’re actually trying to be a servant of the people. You go there and you put your own life on the line, rather than just wantonly murder one of the people. Fuck all this “serve and protect” bullshit! If they were there to serve and protect, they would have found any way but the way they did it to handle this scene. They could have and would have found a solution that was much better than this. This is the way the proletariat, when it’s been in power has handled—and would again handle—this kind of thing, valuing the lives of the masses of people. As opposed to the bourgeoisie in power, where the role of their police is to terrorize the masses, including wantonly murdering them, murdering them without provocation, without necessity, because exactly the more arbitrary the terror is, the more broadly it affects the masses. And that’s one of the reasons why they like to engage in, and have as one of their main functions to engage in, wanton and arbitrary terror against the masses of people.
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Photo: Reuters
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From on the ground in Ferguson...
- Dispatches from Ferguson - by Li Onesto
On-the-ground coverage of protests in the streets and interviews with people from Ferguson and around the country. - September 28th in Ferguson
Barbeque in the Afternoon....Defiance and "Indict NOW" at Night - October 2
Fight for Justice for Michae l Brown in Ferguson: Outrageous Arrests of Protesters - Taking the Pledge of Resistance in Ferguson, October 1
- August 30: 1,000+ Demand Justice for Mike Brown in Ferguson
- From Readers in Chicago: Report from Ferguson—Occupied Territory
August 28, 2014
- Reporters Notebook from Ferguson:
People Speak Out About Getting Justice for Michael Brown
August 28, 2014
- People's Defiance Was Evident Everywhere
August 12, 2014
- Protests in Ferguson, Day 5:
Going Up Against Police Martial LawAugust 14, 2014
- From the Streets of Ferguson: A Message from the Month of Resistance to Mass Incarceration, Police Terror, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation
August 15, 2014
- From the Streets of Ferguson: Governor Declares State of Emergency and Imposes Curfew in Ferguson
August 16, 2014
- Building resistance to Police Terror (Audio from WBAI)
August 18, 2014
Carl Dix from the RCP, USA and Stop Mass Incarceration Network live from Ferguson; Michael McPherson, Veterans for Peace; and Shahid Buttar, Executive Director, Bill of Rights Defense Committee on Building Bridges on WBAI
Listen
Support for the people in Ferguson from around the country and around the world...
- Requiem for Michael Brown at St. Louis Symphony Hall
October 6, 2014
- We All Have a Role to Play: An Open Letter from Public Health Students and Professionals
October 7, 2014
- From Colombia: Stand with the People of Ferguson!
August 28, 2014
- Southern California: Hands Up Don't Shoot: A Great Beginning at Our Campus
August 28, 2014
- Family Members of Police Murder Victims Speak Out
August 23, 2014
- Chicago Press Conference, August 18
- From Michael Brown in Ferguson to Ezell Ford in LA—Jail the Killer Cops!
August 20, 2014
- Being Black, Being Palestinian
by Amer Zahr* (reprinted by permission)August 18, 2014
It is hard for me to see Ferguson through anything other than Palestinian eyes…
- SF Bay Area: Banners Over the Freeway for Ferguson
August 18, 2014
- Detroit Protest: Not That Silent!
August 18, 2014
- SF Bay Area: People Hit the Streets for Ferguson, August 18
- Cleveland Protest for Ferguson, August 14
Jon Stewart Goes After Fox in Ferguson Monologue
Cheers to Illustrator Mary Engelbreit for "In the USA"
August 28, 2014
Mumia Abu Jamal "Outside Agitators"
Reverend Jeff Hood—"The Violence of Demanding Peaceful Protest: The Missteps of Clergy in Ferguson"
August 23, 2014
Anti-War Activist Cindy Sheehan Supports Courageous Rebellion in Ferguson
August 20, 2014
Read: “Why the Climate Movement Must Stand with Ferguson” Posted at 350.org. By Deirdre Smith, Strategic Partnership Coordinator
August 23, 2014
Holocaust Survivor Hedy Epstein arrested in protest Against Deploying National Guard
August 18, 2014
Ferguson Protests: Where Do We Stand? Russell Brand The Trews
Jesse Williams and the depiction of Michael Brown (on CNN)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization (HBO)
Cornel West on Missouri: "Obama reeks of political calculation not moral conviction"—BBC Newsnight
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