New York: Daily Vigil at 1 Police Plaza, NYPD Headquarters—You Are Needed!
September 15, 2014 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
The following was sent out by the Stop Mass Incarceration Network:
New York: Daily Vigil at 1 Police Plaza, NYPD Headquarters—You Are Needed!
First Day Is Friday, September 12, 5 pm-7 pm. Thereafter: Monday-Friday, 3 pm-7 pm. Bratton and "Broken Windows" Must Go Now! Justice for Eric Garner! Indict the Killer Cops!
Stop the Repression of the Witnesses!
All-Out for the Month of Resistance to Mass Incarceration, Police Terror, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation!
"Broken Windows" means broken lives. "Broken Windows" means Black and Brown people harassed and arrested for putting their feet on subway seats, smoking pot in public, selling loose cigarettes, and more. [New York] Police Commissioner William Bratton claims he has instituted the "Broken Windows" theory of policing to target people that commit petty crimes because petty crimes are the first step to people committing major crimes down the road. No, that is a lie. The authorities had to jump back in the face of widespread and growing opposition to "stop-and- frisk." This is their new policy of abuse to replace it. In reality, "Broken Windows" policing is the first step to the NYPD harassing, brutalizing, and murdering people. Eric Garner was choked to death for supposedly selling loose cigarettes. The murdering cop Daniel Panteleo is still walking free. Ramsey Orta, the young man who filmed the police murder of Eric Garner, has been arrested and is facing prison.
Join a daily vigil starting on Friday, September 12, 5 pm-7 pm. Then every week day beginning:
Monday, September 15, at 1 Police Plaza from 3 pm-7 pm to demand:
Bratton and "Broken Windows" Must Go Now! Justice for Eric Garner! Indict the Killer Cops! Stop the Repression of the Witnesses! All Out for the Month of Resistance to Mass Incarceration, Police Terror, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation!
If you refuse to accept the constant harassment, brutality, and murder of Black and Brown people at the hands of the NYPD then come to the vigil. Let your voice and demands be heard. This must stop! Gather your friends, co-workers, members of your religious congregation, fellow union members, neighbors, professional colleagues, and others. Choose a day to represent, publicize that you will be there, and let us know. Think of the significance of families with pictures of their loved ones whose lives have been stolen by the NYPD gathering in front of 1 Police Plaza. Let the teachers be there one day, the students the next, the imams, rabbis, and ministers the next, each day gathering momentum. You are needed. Imagine the societal effect of day after day, different kinds of people gathering at 1 Police Plaza to demand "Bratton and 'Broken Windows' Must Go Now!" Imagine the impact of the news reports every day talking about how long people have been outside 1 Police Plaza, demanding "Justice for Eric Garner! Indict the Killer Cops!" Make all of this part of the buildup to and organizing for the October 2014 Month of Resistance to Mass Incarceration, Police Terror, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation. Make this part of impacting millions across the country, changing the way millions looks at mass incarceration, police brutality, and murder, and all these outrages, and bring many of them into a movement to stop all of this. And make this part of bringing thousands in New York out to Union Square, 1 pm, for the 19th Annual October 22 National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation. Start gathering everyone you know to be at 1 Police Plaza. Make your plans. Bring your signs, banners, and whistles!
New York—Stop Mass Incarceration Network
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