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DESCRIPTION:The Call for a National Day of Protest on October 22nd, 2002, to Stop 
 Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a 
 Generation\n\nOCTOBER 22nd WEAR BLACK!\n\nfrom 
 "http://www.october22.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=16&page=1 
 " \n\nPOLICE BRUTALITY DID NOT DIE ON SEPTEMBER 11th!\n \nSince September 
 11, 2001, the authorities have rapidly imposed a resoundingly repressive 
 atmosphere. Law enforcement on both the local and national level has been 
 given broad new powers. Laws and policies that drastically restrict civil 
 liberties have been put into place. A throw back to COINTELPRO of the 
 1960s, coordination between the CIA, FBI, local police departments, and the 
 INS is intense and now public.\n\nBecause the October 22nd Coalition 
 memorializes and fights for justice for the thousands who have been killed 
 or brutalized by police and other law enforcement agents in this country, 
 we know what it’s like to have a loved one leave home in the morning and 
 never return. Our hearts go out to those who lost friends and loved ones on 
 September 11th.\n\nAt the same time, we cannot and must not allow the 
 authorities to get away with using September 11th to let cops who brutalize 
 and kill people go free. We cannot allow the authorities to legitimize 
 heinous practices like racial profiling. We will not allow our hard fought 
 and won victories to be snatched away from us, nor will we be told to shut 
 up. It is more important than ever that people from different ethnicities 
 and backgrounds take to the streets in cities and towns across the US on 
 October 22, 2002, the 7th annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police 
 Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation.\n\nThis is 
 important because since September 11, 2001:\n \n*	All over the US people 
 are being killed by law enforcement officers at an escalating rate. The 
 numbers we have been able to document so far include twenty-one people from 
 LA, twenty in Chicago, twelve people in the Seattle-Tacoma area, eleven in 
 New York/New Jersey, six in San Francisco/Bay Area, six in North Carolina, 
 two in Atlanta, and many more. Their stories join the already too long list 
 of over 2,000 cases documented in the book, Stolen Lives (and Spanish 
 edition, Vidas Robadas). Cops who kill and brutalize are not heroes!\n*	In 
 city after city, cops viciously beat people, confident that they will face 
 no punishment. The recent beating of the Inglewood, California youth, 
 captured on videotape, is no isolated incident. As cases in Detroit and 
 elsewhere have shown, even the existence of videotape catching police in 
 the act of brutalizing someone is no guarantee they will be punished for 
 their crimes!\n*	The authorities have used the post-September 11th 
 atmosphere to exonerate cops convicted of brutalizing people and to 
 continue to allow cops who brutalize and kill to get off either completely 
 free or with a wink and slap on the wrist. Detroit and other cities are now 
 refusing to pay civil damages for killings and brutality done by members of 
 their police forces. Three of the cops convicted for torturing Abner Louima 
 or helping to cover it up afterward have had their convictions thrown out 
 by an appeals court. Now Abner Louima himself is being portrayed in court 
 as a malicious liar who wrongfully accused an innocent cop. In Chicago, 
 authorities recently decided that the cops who killed LaTanya Haggerty and 
 Robert Russ would not be charged. In Detroit, Eugene Brown, a cop who has 
 killed 3 unarmed men and shot at least 6 others who survived, is offered a 
 $340,000 buy-out by the city to leave the police force! Just before 
 September 11, 2001, it was exposed that cops in Miami regularly plant guns 
 on the bodies of people they kill to try to justify the murder, a news 
 story which got buried in the post-September 11th atmosphere.\n*	Racial 
 profiling, which had been widely exposed and discredited through people’s 
 struggles, has now come back with a vengeance. Airport searches, 
 checkpoints, and traffic stops for individuals based solely on their 
 religion or national origin are promoted and defended by the authorities. 
 \n\nAs Saikou Diallo, father of Amadou, said, “My son fell victim to 
 racial profiling and it cost him his life. His only crime was the color of 
 his skin. Today even more people are being singled out and persecuted 
 because of race. We cannot allow this to continue. We must stand together 
 in our fight against racial profiling. If we don't stand up for each other, 
 who will? What happened on September 11th was a terrible injustice. Many 
 innocent people lost their lives in this relentless display of violence. 
 But to allow Muslims, Arabs, South Asian immigrants or any person to be 
 denied legal representation or to just quietly disappear is also an 
 injustice and must be stopped.”\n\n*	Since September 11th thousands of 
 Muslims, Arabs and South Asians have been rounded up, detained and 
 disappeared. The Department of Justice refuses to give an accounting of who 
 has been detained, for how long and under what charges. Hundreds still 
 languish in correctional facilities across the country without access to 
 family, friends or legal representation, and suffer inhumane conditions and 
 even beatings by corrections officers. So far at least one person has died 
 while incarcerated. Thousands have been subjected to so-called 
 “voluntary” interrogation by the government.\n*	Hard won civil 
 liberties and protections have been stripped away as part of the 
 government’s “war on terrorism.” The USA-PATRIOT Act brings in a new 
 set of repressive laws and restrictions on people and grants even greater 
 power to law enforcement agents of all kinds. We know exactly in what 
 direction this road will lead us—total repression and criminalization of 
 all questions and dissent. The basic principle of attorney-client privilege 
 was threatened with the arrest of Attorney Lynne Stewart. Already, 
 bookstores and libraries have been forced to snitch on their customers and 
 turn over book lists. Services at mosques and events sponsored by 
 progressive organizations are now subject to FBI, CIA, and other law 
 enforcement surveillance, recording, and photographing. In the case of Jose 
 Padilla (Abdullah al Mujahir), the government is saying that even US 
 citizens will be subject to detention without trial or even charges.\n*	The 
 very right to protest is under serious assault, as the authorities give the 
 FBI, the police and the courts broad new powers to investigate and target 
 people who question government actions and organize against them. Peaceful 
 protests have been met with police brutality and rubber bullets. Emergency 
 room physicians recently called for an end to the use of rubber bullets 
 because they are life threatening. Activists have found themselves hauled 
 into court because of their protests of police brutality. Examples of this 
 include the Barber family and their supporters in North Carolina and Efia 
 Nwangaza in South Carolina.\n*	For those who have traditionally suffered 
 the brunt of police brutality, harassment and murder—youth from certain 
 neighborhoods, immigrants desperately crossing the border to be able to 
 live, people from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender 
 communities—these new repressive laws give law enforcement agents the 
 green light to come down on them even more viciously.\n\nEveryone who is 
 opposed to such injustice should join us in the streets and in resistance 
 in other ways on October 22, 2002, the 7th annual National Day of Protest 
 to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a 
 Generation.\n\nWe must do this for Patrick Dorismond, Anthony Rosario, 
 Tyisha Miller, Lamar Grable, Gil Barber, Idriss Stelley, for all of the 
 2,000 cases detailed in the Stolen Lives book, and for the many others whom 
 we don’t even know yet whose lives have been stolen by those who are 
 sworn to protect and serve. Those killed by law enforcement can no longer 
 speak for themselves—so we must speak, and act, for them.\n\nWe must also 
 do this for ourselves. We are the survivors of those whose lives have been 
 stolen by law enforcement, and we are also at risk.\n\nWe must do this for 
 Mumia Abu-Jamal, political prisoner still sitting on death row in 
 Pennsylvania, and for Leonard Peltier, another political prisoner, who 
 consistently speak out against police brutality and repression from behind 
 bars.\n\nWe must do this for the youth of the communities who have always 
 been under the gun, even before September 11th. In Black and Latino 
 communities cops stop and frisk, beat up, jail or even murder youth for 
 nothing more than being young and dressed in the style popular among urban 
 youth. This brutality also spills over into the suburbs where police harass 
 youth who don’t seem to fit in. BEING YOUNG AND NOT GOING ALONG WITH THE 
 STATUS QUO IS NOT A CRIME!\n\nWe must stand up on October 22nd because, as 
 Frederick Douglass said, the limits of what an oppressor will do to the 
 people is set by the limits of what those people will accept. We must speak 
 out on October 22nd. By uniting and stepping out to fight back, we can beat 
 back some of the vicious attacks coming down on us. We are building a 
 movement that is advancing the fight against injustice despite rising 
 odds.\n\nJOIN US, STOP POLICE BRUTALITY, REPRESSION, AND THE 
 CRIMINALIZATION OF A GENERATION!\n\nOCTOBER 22nd WEAR BLACK!\n\nposted by 
 Richard Lai\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/12213.php
SUMMARY:The Call for a National Day of Protest on October 22nd, 2002
LOCATION:Meet at l4th and Broadway	and march to the Rally	at 5 p.m.	at City Hall, 
 Frank Ogawa Plaza
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