STOP "STOP & FRISK"
The
role of the police is not to serve and protect the people. It is to
serve and protect the system that rules over the people. To enforce the
relations of exploitation and oppression, the conditions of poverty,
misery and degradation into which the system has cast people and is
determined to keep people in. The law and order the police are about,
with all of their brutality and murder, is the law and the order that
enforces all this oppression and madness.
Bob Avakian
Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
BAsics 1:24
There will never be a revolutionary movement in this country that doesn't fully unleash and give expression to the sometimes openly expressed, sometimes expressed in partial ways, sometimes expressed in wrong ways, but deeply, deeply felt desire to be rid of these long centuries of oppression [of Black people]. There's never gonna be a revolution in this country, and there never should be, that doesn't make that one key foundation of what it's all about.
BAsics 3:19
Some Points of Orientation:
On Mayor de Blasio's Stop-and-Frisk "Reforms"
New York City:
The Mayor's New Clothes
New York City has a new mayor. A new face on the operation of this system of global nightmares.
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Mr. "Stop-and-Frisk" Bratton as New York's Police Commissioner—Same Thing,
Different Package
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Cornel West (center left) and Carl Dix (center right) in a protest against stop-and-frisk at a New York police precinct.
Photo: Li Onesto/Revolution
STOP “STOP & FRISK”
In October 2011 This Call was issued by: Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party, & Cornel West, professor, author and public intellectual; Herb Boyd, author, journalist, Harlem, NY; Efia Nwangaza, Malcolm X Center, Greenville, SC; Rev Omar Wilkes.
" The NYPD is on pace to stop and frisk over 700,000 people in 2011! That’s more than 1,900 people each and every day. More than 85% of them are Black or Latino, and more than 90% of them were doing nothing wrong when the police stepped to them. This is intolerable! It must be stopped. WE ARE STOPPING IT, AND YOU MUST JOIN US IN DOING THAT!
In the days leading into the Oct 22nd National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, the Network to Stop Mass Incarceration is calling for Stopping Stop & Frisk. We will target this illegal, unconstitutional policy with non violent civil disobedience.
If you are sick and tired of being harassed and jacked up by the cops, JOIN US. And if you are shocked to hear that this kind of thing happens in this so-called homeland of freedom and democracy—it does happen, all the damned time—you need to JOIN US too—you can’t stand aside and let this injustice be done in your name."
Among those arrested in 2011 protesting Stop and Frisk were: Gbenga Akinnagbe (actor & director), Nellie Bailey (Harlem Tenants Union), Rev. Luis Barrios, Randy Credico (social comedian), Noche Diaz (Revolution Club), Carl Dix, Rev. Earl Kooperkamp, Jamel Mims (artist & revolutionary), Rev Stephen Phelps, Atty Margaret Ratner Kunstler, Professor James Vrettos and Cornel West.
Mass
Incarceration + Silence = Genocide:
Act to STOP It Now!
A Dialogue between Cornel West and Carl Dix
May 20, 2013, New
York City
Outrageous Ruling By Federal
Court on Stop and Frisk
On October 31, a panel of judges on the federal appeals court in New York City delivered a slap in the face to the millions of people..
November 4, 2013
Behind
the Outrageous Ruling in the Stop-and-Frisk Lawsuit
Stop-and-Frisk
Is Immoral and Illegitimate—
Why
There Can't Be a "Race-Neutral" Stop-and-Frisk
On October 31, a panel of judges on the federal appeals court in New York City delivered a slap in the face to the millions of people..
November 4, 2013
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Behind
the Outrageous Ruling in the Stop-and-Frisk Lawsuit
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Stop-and-Frisk
Is Immoral and Illegitimate—
Don’t Mend It. End It!
by Carl Dix
August 13, 2013
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Why
There Can't Be a "Race-Neutral" Stop-and-Frisk
August 13, 2013
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