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DESCRIPTION:EMERGENCY MEETING\nTo Plan a Week of Intensified Struggle \nAgainst Police 
 Murder (December 7th thru 14th)\n\nIntensify and Spread the 
 Struggle\nAgainst Police Murder and the New Jim Crow—\nGet Organized and 
 Go Higher!\n\nThe exoneration of the murderers of Eric Garner—an illegal 
 and inhuman public execution filmed for all to see—crosses a line even 
 for that empire conceived in slavery and genocide and sustained today by 
 oppression, violence and a grinding exploitation and destruction of this 
 planet’s people and resources. Watch the video, the full video, here. 
 Eric Garner, a father of six children working to support them, asserts his 
 dignity and humanity in a reasonable but determined way. In response, the 
 human tools of the American system slowly, methodically, and heartlessly 
 strangle him to death. Then, rather than try to revive him, they poke at 
 his lifeless body. \nWhat legitimacy does a system have which not only 
 generates a crime like this from those in authority, but refuses to punish 
 it and exonerates the culprits? What legitimacy does a system have whose 
 laws and rules have functioned for centuries to repress and condemn and 
 murder entire peoples? What legitimacy does a system have which offers no 
 future for millions of Black and Latino and Native American youth, and then 
 pens them in, locks them down and kills them off? What legitimacy does a 
 system have whose laws and rules have functioned to exploit and plunder and 
 rob, not only here but worldwide, not only in some so-called “isolated 
 instances” but against millions and yes tens of millions? None 
 whatsoever. If we were to tolerate this latest horrific outrage with 
 perhaps a few token protests, we would be complicit in the crimes. AND WE 
 MUST NOT AND WILL NOT BE!\nSo what has been done so far in protesting and 
 REFUSING to tolerate this, first in response to Ferguson and now the 
 unpunished murder of Eric Garner, has been crucially important and a 
 much-needed first step. The nightly outpourings, the walkouts, the actions 
 by athletes and artists, the disruptions of all kinds have been excellent 
 and needed and must continue. These actions have forced everyone in this 
 country to confront the reality of this epidemic of police brutality and 
 murder, of mass incarceration, of the criminalization of entire peoples. 
 They have compelled everyone in this country to confront what Bob Avakian 
 has called the “simple and basic truth” that “There would be no 
 United States as we know it today without slavery,” and that the legacy 
 of this slavery has continued and morphed into new forms of white supremacy 
 and remains central to this society. Whether people want to confront that 
 or not, they have been forced by the actions of those in the streets to do 
 so—and that in itself is an important accomplishment, and has shaken up 
 and shaken loose the conscience of millions. And these actions have shown 
 people to see that there is a movement arising that in fact will NOT 
 tolerate this and these actions have pulled increasing numbers of people 
 INTO that beginning-to-be-born movement. All this is still beginning, still 
 first steps in what must be a dogged and determined and hard fight—but 
 yes, the brave fighters for justice have accomplished a great deal.\nBut 
 now is certainly not the time to retreat or quiet down. Now is not the time 
 to fall for the honeyed words and empty promises of the oppressors, nor to 
 be misled by their slanders. Now is the time to intensify and to spread 
 this movement and the righteous actions taken so far. Still more people 
 must be involved—there are plenty of people who have not come out in 
 struggle yet, who must and should and can be won to come out. And these 
 actions themselves must become more determined in confronting the 
 business-as-usual of this empire. Organizing through Twitter and Facebook 
 has its definite strengths, but people also need to get together in person 
 and decide how to take this higher.\nWe call on people to organize meetings 
 this Sunday or sooner, drawing together as many people and groups as 
 possible, with as much diversity as possible. We support the impulse and 
 the talk of making next week an entire week of outrage, December 7th to the 
 14th, with widespread actions of different kinds each day, including 
 expressions within the very communities where these monsters-in-blue carry 
 out their sick crimes, drawing in justice-craving people from throughout 
 society. We endorse the march in DC next Saturday, called by Eric 
 Garner’s family, demanding justice—including the demand that there be a 
 federal prosecution of the murdering police in New York and Ferguson. This 
 march should be as broad and powerful as possible and should be echoed in 
 other cities, drawing in religious groups (there should be sermons on this 
 on the weekends of December 7 and 14), community organizations, and social 
 activism groups of all kinds. And there should also be creative actions 
 throughout the week of various kinds that give militant expression to 
 people’s determination to NOT live in a society where this kind of abuse 
 and murder can be carried out.\nWithin all this, and broader than all this, 
 we call on revolutionaries and all people who want to see fundamental 
 change to get out the special issue of REVOLUTION, along with the inserted 
 statement from Carl Dix on the murder of Eric Garner, far and wide. Pass 
 this out broadly and then take donations in buckets. Get this into new 
 places. The word of this struggle and the way to go deeper into 
 understanding the problem and learning about—and being part of—the 
 solution must be spread. And in everything, continue to get out posters 
 with key slogans.\nSee you on the front lines!\nFERGUSON IS 
 EVERYWHERE!!\nJUSTICE FOR MICHAEL BROWN AND ERIC GARNER!\nPOLICE MURDER AND 
 BRUTALITY MUST STOP!!\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/12/05/18765104.php
SUMMARY:Emergency Meeting to Plan a Week of Intensified Struggle Against Police Murder
LOCATION:St. Columba Catholic Church\n6401 San Pablo Ave (@ Alcatraz), Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/12/05/18765104.php
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