ALERT: At least five members of Revolution Club, Chicago arrested for challenging “unofficial” martial law in South Side
July 21, 2017 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
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Revolution Club, Chicago, Press conference at 7th District Chicago Police Department
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, BAsics 1:24
Twice this morning 7th district police sent over 10 cars of cops out to mob and arrest at least 5 members of the Revolution Club on 57th and Racine. People in the neighborhood not only objected to this attack, but took video of it.
What was the crime of these revolutionaries?
Standing with a banner urging people to defend and exercise their rights, and to learn about, and get into, the movement for revolution. This neighborhood has been the target of what can only be described as “unofficial” martial law for the past several weeks, with police forbidding people to even be on the streets, harassing people for wearing revolutionary tee-shirts or blowing whistles when police appear, carrying out raids on simple holiday parties, etc. The Revolution Club had vowed to defy this illegal and illegitimate unofficial martial law, and that's what they were doing when the police assaulted them.
At 3 pm today, the Revolution Club will hold a press conference at the 7th district police station detailing what happened and outlining its response.
Members of Revolution Club, Chicago arrested Friday July 21 as they defied police rules against being on the street between 7 am and 3 pm and other harassment.
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