Stop Mass Incarceration!

From the film of the Dialogue Revolution & Religion:

"Why are we still fighting for justice in 2015?"

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"No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who have been condemned to an early death or a life of misery and brutality, whom the system has destined for oppression and oblivion even before they are born. I say no more of that."

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From the Streets of Baltimore:

JUSTICE FOR FREDDIE GRAY!

Freddie Gray

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The Baltimore Police Murder of Tyrone West—and the Hard-Fought Struggle for Justice

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6:30 at First Unitarian Church, 514 N. Charles, Baltimore

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Super-Segregation, Police Terror, and People's Uprising in Baltimore

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West Baltimore: "I Take a Lot of Pleasure Being Part of This... Even Though It's in the Beginning Stages"

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Prince Draws Thousands to Baltimore Concert

May 12, 2015

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Charges, Backlash, and the Fight for JUSTICE for Freddie Gray

May 11, 2015

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Watching Clips from the Dialogue Between Cornel West and Bob Avakian in West Baltimore

May 11, 2015

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Revolution Club Member on Going to Baltimore:

Eye Opening to See the Hood, Amazing to See People Rise Up

May 11, 2015

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An Electric Brew of Jubilation, Power, and Fury in the Streets of Baltimore: Murder By Police Must STOP!

by Sunsara Taylor

May 7, 2015

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It's Right to Rebel! Get Organized for an Actual Revolution!

Baltimore Uprising: Our Fight Has Just Begun

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Reporter's Notebook:

May 2: Marching in Occupied Baltimore to Continue to Demand Justice for Freddie Gray

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Baltimore May 2, 2015
Pennsylvania and North, West Baltimore youth—including from street organizations—drawn to the Revolution Club banner saying "We REFUSE to Accept Slavery in Any Form" and "Fight the Power, and Transform the People, for Revolution." Photos: Special to revcom.us

Baltimore, May 2, 2015
Revolution Club in Baltimore, May 2

On the Indictments of the Pigs who Murdered Freddie Gray

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Coast to Coast Outrage and Protest in Solidarity with Baltimore and Freddie Gray

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NYC April 29 2015

From Social Media:

Postings On the Uprising in Baltimore

April 28, 2015

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Taking the Streets to Fight for Justice for Freddie Gray
April 25 Protest Disrupts Business-as-Usual in Baltimore

April 27, 2015

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The Police Murder of Freddie Gray

April 27, 2015

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April 25: Thousands Rally and March Through Baltimore Streets to Demand Justice for Freddie Gray

The people are still out in the streets in Baltimore—and very rightly so, because the killer cops who brutalized and murdered Freddie Gray are still walking around unindicted. On Saturday, over thousand gathered at the corner where on April 12 he was chased down and cuffed by cops—he died in police custody a week later. There were lots of people from the 'hood, a very poor Black area—but also many from other parts of the city and from other cities nearby and further away; people of all different nationalities and from different walks of life; various political organizations and trends.

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Update from Baltimore Protests against the Murder of Freddie Gray

From a correspondent

Thursday, April 23—This was the fifth straight day of protests in the streets of Baltimore since Freddie Gray died in the hands of police. After a rally and a march around the plaza in front of City Hall, hundreds poured into the streets of downtown Baltimore, snarling rush hour traffic. Many of the protesters were young and Black—but there were also people of different ages and nationalities.

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Baltimore, April 23

Protesters demanding justice for Freddie Gray rallied at the City Hall and marched to the Federal courthouse where different speakers, including clergy, addressed the crowd—a crowd that included family of Freddie Gray. The following audio clip is from Carl Dix' speech at the rally. Carl is a co-founder of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, and a representative of the Revolutionary Communist Party. Before the audio starts, Carl begins to talk about the murder of his brother-in-law by Baltimore police many decades ago.

Audio Listen here

New narrated video by witness to horrific police brutalizing of Freddie Gray before his death at the Baltimore Sun “Freddie Gray Was Folded Like Orgami”– watch this here now.

From a Revolution/revcom.us correspondent:

"We're gonna be out here every day, until something happens. We're out here all week, even if next week I got to be out here by myself out here… because we need a change."

--A young Black woman from Freddie Gray's neighborhood

On Wednesday afternoon, April 22, people gathered at the corner near Gilmor Homes projects in Baltimore, as they've done every day since Freddie Gray died, murdered by the police. A group of youths was impatient—"Come on, we gotta march and occupy the police station." They formed a line, five or six men and women in each line, and started down the middle of the street—"All night, all day, we're gonna fight for Freddie Gray."

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Interview with a young woman in the streets of Baltimore:

"For them to just be running around and getting away with killing people is not OK."

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Freddie Gray
April 21: Thousands march in front of the Baltimore Western District police station to seek justice for Freddie Gray, who died after being taken into police custody. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Revolution Club joins protests on the streets of Baltimore 4/22/15 in protest demanding justice for Freddie Gray

This afternoon people gathered at the corner where Freddie Gray was brutalized—before his death. The youth were angry and ready to march.

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Baltimore April 22, 6 pm, protests against the murder of Freddie Gray
Above, 6pm April 22, in the streets for justice for Freddie Gray

Baltimore April 22 protests against the murder of Freddie Gray
Above, 6:15pm April 22, in the streets for justice for Freddie Gray

Protests have rocked Baltimore since Freddie Gray died on April 19. The police suspended the six cops involved in arresting Freddie—but have not explained how he suffered the serious spinal injury that apparently led to his death. On Tuesday, April 21, more than 1,000 people marched in the streets and in front of the police station where Freddie was taken after his arrest, and more protests are being called for. Check back at revcom.us tomorrow for coverage directly from Baltimore.

Freddie Gray's family and friends marched at the front of the protests April 21. Photo: AP
Freddie Gray's family and friends marched at the front of the protests April 21. Photo: AP

(See a Baltimore Sun video on protests against the police murder of Freddie Gray here.)


April 18: Protesters took to the street and marched to the police station where Freddie Gray was taken to, chanting, "All night, all day, we gonna fight for Freddie Gray."

High Stakes in Baltimore

May 11, 2015

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Revolution Interview with D. Watkins:

Super-Segregation, Police Terror, and People's Uprising in Baltimore

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Obama's "Let Legal System Work" = Let Murdering Police Walk

May 11, 2015

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To the Revolutionaries and Resisters
in Baltimore and Beyond:

What Is It That The Masses Most Fundamentally Must Be Led to Understand and Act On?

April 28, 2015

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Voices from the Streets of Baltimore

Updated 4/28/15 early evening

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Freddie Gray's family and friends marched at the front of the protests April 21. Photo: AP

Freddie Gray's family and friends marched at the front of the protests April 21. Photo: AP

Carl Dix speaks in Baltimore,
May 2, 2015

Carl Dix, co-founder of the Stop Mass Incarceration Movement and representative of the Revolutionary Communist Party

This audio clip is from Carl Dix' speech at the April 23 rally in Baltimore. Carl is a co-founder of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, and a representative of the Revolutionary Communist Party. Before the audio starts, Carl begins to talk about the murder of his brother-in-law by Baltimore police many decades ago.

Carl Dix

Baltimore –
Another Black Man's Life
Stolen by the Police!

Statement by Carl Dix

Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old Black man, is dead after being taken into custody by Baltimore City cops. Freddie was chased and arrested on April 12. Why? We don’t know because police haven’t yet made public why they arrested him. All we know is that Freddie ran when the cops swaggered into the neighborhood like an occupying army. A video made by a witness to his arrest shows him being dragged to the police van screaming like he was in excruciating pain and seemingly unable to walk. 40 minutes later, the police call an ambulance to the precinct Freddie was taken to, and at the hospital doctors find his spinal cord had been broken. Freddie died a week later. The city has exploded in protest, with 2000 people in the streets on April 21 demanding Justice For Freddie.

Baltimore City officials are saying, “People should wait for the results of our thorough investigation.” Apologists for the cops ask, ‘Why did he run in the first place?” I don’t want to hear any of that crap. Freddie is another Black man whose life was stolen by the police. This is a horror that has been going on for decades and is intensifying today. It is a concentration of the slow genocide being enforced on Black and Latino people by this capitalist/imperialist system. It will take revolution, nothing less, to end this, and all the other horrors this system forces humanity to endure. And everybody who refuses to stand by while the color of someone’s skin determines how they live and whether they live needs to join those in the streets of Baltimore and everywhere else saying that “Police Getting Away With Murder Must STOP!”

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