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DESCRIPTION:Come hear Carl Dix, \nco-founder (with Dr. Cornel West) of the Stop Mass 
 Incarceration Network, speak about:\n\nPOLICE MURDER BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE 
 ALL THE DAMN TIME!\nWhy are they almost never punished for their 
 crimes?\nWhy does this happen, and what will it take for this to 
 end?\n\nDuring the last few months, powerful, beautiful and determined 
 protests have been dragging some of the reality of what it means to be 
 Black or Latino in Amerikkka out into the open for all to see. People in 
 Ferguson first stood up to say NO MORE to police murder. Many, many people, 
 all across the country and of different nationalities joined in determined 
 and defiant resistance to STOP BUSINESS AS USUAL in a system where the 
 USUAL BUSINESS is MURDER by POLICE. \n\nThe actions of the people have done 
 more than all the commissions, all the “conversations about race,” all 
 the “programs that (supposedly) ‘work,’” all the et cetera et 
 cetera blah blah blah bullshit of the past two decades. And they have 
 compelled tens of millions to confront one huge, taproot part of the 
 ugliness that is America: America’s ghoulish, horrific practice of using 
 people who are supposed to be “serving and protecting” to not just pen 
 in, lock down, abuse, humiliate, and brutally attack its Black and Latino 
 youth, as these heartless monsters do every hour of every day, but to 
 outright murder these youth… under “color of authority.” The people 
 have, in these past months, taken a big step toward stopping this. Obama, 
 once again, has it exactly wrong: righteous rebellion is precisely what 
 changes things.\n\nCarl Dix \ngrew up in an African-American working class 
 community of Baltimore, Maryland. While attending college, he was drafted 
 into the U.S. Army in 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War. In 1970, he 
 was one of six GI's who refused orders to go to Vietnam. This was the 
 largest mass refusal of orders to Vietnam during that war. Dix served two 
 years in Leavenworth Military Penitentiary. It was during his incarceration 
 that he became a revolutionary. After his release from Leavenworth, Dix 
 returned to Baltimore, Maryland, and worked and organized at the Bethlehem 
 Steel plant.\n\nIn 1985, Carl spearheaded the publication of the Draw The 
 Line Statement that condemned the bombing of the MOVE house in 
 Philadelphia, killing 11 people, 5 of them children. In 1996, he co-founded 
 the October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the 
 Criminalization of a Generation. In 2011, Carl, together with Dr. Cornel 
 West, co-founded the Stop Mass Incarceration Network and initiated a 
 campaign of civil disobedience to STOP “Stop and Frisk.” This campaign 
 took the effort to end that racist and illegitimate policy to a higher 
 level. In 2014, Carl and Cornel called for making October a Month of 
 Resistance to Mass Incarceration, Police Terror, Repression and the 
 Criminalization of a Generation.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/01/20/18767286.php
SUMMARY:Carl Dix - "Escalate the Struggle to Stop Police Murder!
LOCATION:College of Alameda, Webster and Atlantic, Alameda, 94501\nStudent Center (S 
 Building)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/01/20/18767286.php
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