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DESCRIPTION:Tens of thousands of people, from all walks of life, have taken up the 
 struggle to put a stop to the racially targeted epidemic of police murder! 
 This movement must continue. It must spread. It must become more broad and 
 determined, in the next period and through the course of this next 
 year.\n\nAt this meeting we will assess this powerful resistance and make 
 plans for taking next steps to meet the challenge of stopping the entire 
 program of mass incarceration, police terror, repression and the 
 criminalization of entire generations.\n\n\nAGENDA:\n√ Assessing the 
 powerful resistance of the past 5 months\n√ making plans for taking next 
 steps to meet the challenge of  \n    stopping the entire program of mass 
 incarceration, police      terror,\n   repression and the criminalization 
 of entire generations.\n√ Including; Planning nationally school walkouts 
 around MLK day\n√ Plans for the 50 Anniversary of the assassination of 
 Malcolm X\n√ New plans for reaching out to Students, and faith 
 Communities\n√ Call to SMIN members: to Confront the Anti-Abortion Woman 
 Haters in San Francisco on January 24 \n√ Planning for National SMIN 
 Conference - Next Month (TBA)\n\n\nPlease Read This to Discuss:\n\n \n2014 
 was a momentous year. As summer turned to fall, long-suppressed outrage 
 burst into a massive struggle against police murder. The courageous, 
 defiant protest that erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, after the system 
 murdered Michael Brown, spread coast-to-coast after a grand jury exonerated 
 the cop who killed him. That, and new outbreaks of outrage and 
 resistance—as the system continued to murder Black people with 
 impunity—involved tens and even hundreds of thousands from all walks of 
 life. The struggle affected the thinking of tens of millions. “The whole 
 world was—and IS—watching!” A new spirit of resistance emerged and 
 caught fire.\n\n\nThousands of people and many different groups in the San 
 Francisco and East Bay Area played a big role in all of this, with daily 
 expressions of outrage from different groups and coming from different 
 places. Stop Mass Incarceration Network was proud to be in the thick of it. 
 In a system where murder by police is usual business, we took the streets 
 to bring this system - and its freeways, transit, businesses and 
 celebrations - to a screeching HALT! \nNO BUSINESS AS USUAL!!   \n\n\nAnd 
 on New Year's Eve, in a press conference on the steps of the San Francisco 
 Hall of "IN"justice, (attended by all the major networks) we, joining with 
 other groups, made it clear that 2014 is only the Beginning! \n2015!\nNO 
 NEW YEAR IN THE SAME OLD SYSTEM!\nWE CAN'T BREATHE!\nMany answered our call 
 to bring the spirit of resistance to police terror to the New Year 
 Celebration at the waterfront of San Francisco. 200,000 people in were in 
 attendance, and quite a few joined our march, chanting and carrying 
 banners.\nIf you couldn't make it, Click Here to Watch 
 Now\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?q3VaL93drH0&feature=youtu.be\n\nAnd,\n\nClick 
 here to see New Years' actions in New York, Seattle, L.A. and 
 elsewhere\n\nhttps://sites.google.com/site/weekofoutrage/home/rock-in-the-new-year/reports-1\n\n(Apologies 
 to conflicts with other meetings and events at this time)\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/01/07/18766523.php
SUMMARY:Stop Mass Incarceration Network 2015 kickoff Planning meeting
LOCATION:World Ground Coffee Community Room\n3726 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/01/07/18766523.php
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DTEND:20150111T000000Z
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