Revcom editors’ note: We received this Call for October 22, the National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and Criminalization of a Generation in Chicago. Go to the October 22nd Coalition website to either join or plan an action in your area.
POLICE GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER MUST STOP!
TAKE TO THE STREETS
MONDAY, OCTOBER 22
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Call issued by the signatories listed below.
October 22, 2018, the 23rd annual National Day of Protest to STOP Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation!
March and Rally: October 22, 2:30 pm Daley Plaza
(Washington & Dearborn in the Chicago Loop)
Police continue to brutalize and murder people, especially Black, Latino, and Indigenous people. The system continues to almost always let brutal, murdering cops walk free. Now Donald Trump, and his Keebler elf looking attorney general, Jeff Sessions, are saying “bring back stop-and-frisk” and “courts should stop getting in the way of police trying to do their jobs,” there will be more racial profiling and more police terror.
The conviction of the Chicago cop who murdered Laquan McDonald was a little taste of justice. But rivers of blood have been spilled by killer cops.
This must STOP, and it’s up to us to stop it. Laquan’s murderer got convicted because people took their refusal to put up with police getting away with murder into the streets; in Ferguson, in Baltimore, and all across the country, including in Chicago. Now is a time for those who have to live their lives under the guns and billy clubs of brutal, murdering cops to be joined by everybody who doesn’t want to live in a world where police get away with murder to join together to say: Police Terror Must STOP!
October 22 is the day to do this. It’s the National Day of Protest to STOP Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation. A day when those whose loved ones have been stolen from them by those sworn to protect and serve have a platform to speak of how the police have stolen the lives of their loved ones! A day when others stand with them and call for this injustice to stop!
All out for October 22!
This call has been issued by:
Alice Howell, grandmother of Justus Howell, killed by police in Zion, Illinois, in 2015
Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party, co-founder of Stop Mass Incarceration Network
Gloria Pinex, mother of Darius Pinex, killed by police in Chicago in 2011
Latoya Howell, mother of Justus Howell, killed by police in Zion, Illinois, in 2015
Panzy Edwards, mother of Dakota Bright, killed by police in Chicago, 2012
Veda Washington, aunt of Alton Sterling, killed by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 2016
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