Times Square NYC: Powerful, Moving Action Against Police Terror
August 13, 2015 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
Thursday, August 13, in Times Square, New York City a powerful and very moving action involving major recording artists, leaders and activists in the fight against police terror, family members of victims of police murder, and others disrupted the usual hub-bub. Credit: Miles Solay
Jamel Mims, Carl Dix, Jidenna and others from Wondaland Records. Credit: Miles Solay
"HELL YOU TALMBOUT! Walter Scott—say his name!...Michael Brown—say his name…Sandra Bland—say her name!..."
Thursday, August 13, in Times Square, New York City a powerful and very moving action involving major recording artists, leaders and activists in the fight against police terror, family members of victims of police murder, and others disrupted the usual hub-bub. Singing and chanting rang out from a large group of protesters, attracting both the curious and the furious who watched and even joined in a brief march to the Times Square police station, where performance and die-ins were spread around the world via snapping cellphones.
The action was preceded by a press conference and speak-out featuring Janelle Monáe, Jidenna, and other Wondaland artists; Carl Dix, co-founder of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network and representative of the Revolutionary Communist Party; and parents and other family members of youths whose lives have been stolen by police and have become activists in the movement to stop murder by police. A call went out to artists to step forward and become part of the organizing force to end police terror coming down on Black and Brown youth and for everyone to build for a massive protest in NYC , October 22-24.
Hear the song "Hell You Talmbout" featuring Janelle Monáe, Deep Cotton, St. Beauty, Jidenna, Roman GianArthur, and George 2.0 at Soundcloud and on YouTube.
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