APRIL 14 SHUT IT DOWN!

Demonstrations

April 14 2015 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

 

New York
Chicago, Illinois
Greensboro, North Carolina
Atlanta, Georgia
Los Angeles, California

Houston, Texas
San Francisco Bay Area, California
Oakland, California
Springfield, Massachusetts
Stockton, California
Seattle, Washington

Portland, Oregon
Cleveland, Ohio
Pasco, Washington
Trenton, New Jersey
Detroit, Michigan
Ferguson, Missouri

New York

New York
Union Sq. Park, New York. #ShutDownA14 #sos #saconscene @mtsacjour

Cornel West at Union Square
Cornel West addressing the crowd at Union Square in New York City. Instagram/jailsactioncoalition

New York Union Square
Setting out from Union Square. @JamesFTinternet

New York March
Starting on the march in NYC, A14

New York March
Blow the Whistle New York City 12:23 pm. Photo: @MathisOdell

New York March
UnionSquare in NYC on A14. Photo: emylesjr@Instagram


A packed Union Sq. Park. New York. #ShutDownA14 #sos #saconscene #sosnyc @mtsacjour


Eve Ensler hugging Hawa Bah whose son Mohamed was killed by Police. #ShutDownA14 now!

New York March
New York: Cornel West & Carl Dix with arms around parents of victims. Photo: @JailsAction

New York March
#BLKSocialJ: RT @BorisRorer: SHUTTING SHIT DOWN! Keep Your Eyes On The Prize Brooklyn #ShutDownA14 #BlackLivesMatter. Photo: @BorisRorer

#ShutDownA14 on the Brooklyn Bridge!
Credit: James FromTheInternet


Chicago, Illinois

Chicago
Hundreds of people take the streets of #Chicago in #protest of police violence #ShutDownA14 #stopPolicebrutality. Photo: @kelly_wenzel

Chicago
At the rally at the Richard J Daley Center, Chicago. Photo: Instagram

Chicago
Die in on Chicago's Michigan Ave in front of the Marriott. Photo: @StopMassIncChi

Chicago Metra Train Station 8AM A14 Freedom Song

This video is of this morning's disruption of "business as usual" at the Ogilvie Metra commuter station. The singer gave beautiful voice to the "I Cant' Breathe" song. Commuters looked stunned out of their morning drill, and people were doubling back to get leaflets. Even the security guard who told us we had to leave from inside the station said that she personally has lost friends to police brutality and she felt our cause.

Greensboro, North Carolina

Greensboro, North Carolina
Rally in Greensboro, North Carolina on A14. Photo: smin_nc@twitter

Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro, North Carolina on A14. Photo: North Carolina SMIN


Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta
Atlanta 12:23 pm. Photo: @AFelipeCR

Atlanta
Atlanta: protest for #ShutDownA14 blocked off an on-ramp by Georgia State University. Photo: @daltonm17


Los Angeles, California


Nearly a thousand people joined the protest, here at the site where Afrika was murdered by the police. #ShutDownA14 NO MORE! IT STOPS TODAY! WE REFUSE 2 LIVE THIS WAY! Photo: @revclub_la


At LAPD Headquarters in Los Angeles. Photo: @revclub_la


Dozens of protesters determined to keep shutting it down on A14 to STOP police murder stayed in the LA Downtown area through rush hour.  Twenty of them sat down in a very busy intersection downtown stopping the blue line metro train, backing up street and freeway traffic for over an hour.  The LAPD has threatened them with felony charges, high bail and keeping them locked up through Thursday.  This is intolerable! Call to demand their immediate release and for all charges to be dropped!  Call LA Central Division 213.486.6606. In addition, four UCLA students stopped traffic on the 405 Freeway offramp earlier today. Call Century Regional Detention Center at 323.568.4000 and West Hollywood Sherriff's at 310.855.8850 to demand their immediate release with all charges dropped.
Photo: Los Angeles—blocking the train. @Jayron26


Oakland, California

Shit got shut down in Oakland on April 14! The day began with a speak-out at Oscar Grant Corner in the heart of downtown and ended with a major disruption of traffic on a key Bay Area freeway.

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April 14 protesters pushed through a line of police and took over the lobby area of Oakland City Hall for a half hour chanting "Indict, convict, send the killer cops to jail, whole damn system is guilty as hell," names of victims of police murder, with "presente!" They carried posters of Stolen Lives. At the same time a number of people from Black Lives Matter took over the rotunda area of city hall for 15 minutes.


Houston, Texas


Houston on A14. Photo: Special to revcom.us


Houston on A14. Photo: Special to revcom.us


Ferguson, Missouri

Video: Special to revcom.us

Ferguson
Ferguson, intersection of Canfield and West Florrisant. Photo: Special to Revolution

Ferguson
Ferguson, Canfield and West Florrisant. Photo: Special to Revolution

Ferguson
Ferguson, marching to the police station. Photo: Special to Revolution


San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco City Hall A14
A14 Rally at City Hall in San Francisco. Photo: kathrynsnyder@Instagram

San Francisco
#BlackLivesMatter protesters here to "shut down" SF City Hall over @SFPD racist text messages and more. Photo: @FitzTheReporter

San Francisco
#bart #BlackLivesMatter @24th st and Mission, San Francisco. Photo: @StarkKev


Cleveland, Ohio

CLeveland
Cleveland, blocking intersection A14.


Cleveland, police used horses against demonstrators


Cleveland, families of people murdered by police.


Cleveland march.


Springfield, Massachusetts:

“We are no longer going to sit back and watch our black and brown children get killed”

Atlanta
Several dozen activists took to the streets of Springfield, MA to protest on April 14, blocking traffic. Signs included "Prisons are slavery, police are the slave trade" and "Black Lives Matter - Shut It Down." Over a dozen were arrested.

Over a dozen protesters were arrested.

From mainstream news coverage of the protest: "One protester explains, ‘The mayor needs to be here, see this, be arm-in-arm with us and standing up with this to let the system know we are no longer going to sit back and watch our black and brown children get killed.’”

[Interviewer:] “You saw a lot of people with you that got arrested, what did that mean?”

[Protester:] “That’s why we did it, that’s how much it means to us, that’s why put our lives on the line. This means so much to us, we’re fighting to survive.”
Photo: Michael S. Gordon | mgordon@repub.com


Pasco, Washington

Pasco, Washington

At the Sacajawea Memorial in Pasco, Washington


Trenton, New Jersey

Trenton, New Jersey
Trenton, New Jersey on A14. Photo: babbiedunnington@Instagram

Stockton, California

Stockton, California
Beautiful # ppl getting outof cars & joining us! #ShutDownA14 #Stockton - we r the people w/the power. Photo: @alyssa011968


Seattle, Washington

Stockton, California
Crowd of around 75 anti-police brutality protesters blocking intersection near Seattle's Westlake. Photo: BrandiKruse@Twitter


Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon
On the Hawthorn Bridge, Portland OR. Photo: @itsmikebivins


Detroit, Michigan

Portland, Oregon
Detroit, April 14. Photo: Vanu Styles



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