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DESCRIPTION:NO MORE STOLEN LIVES!\nMURDER BY POLICE MUST BE STOPPED!\nTAKE THE MOVEMENT 
 OF RESISTANCE TO POLICE TERROR TO A HIGHER LEVEL!\nBE PART OF REGIONAL 
 CONFERENCES OF THE STOP MASS INCARCERATION NETWORK\n\nPolice continue to 
 murder people all across the country without let up, and the whole system 
 continues to go into motion to exonerate these killer cops. The more the 
 truth of how widespread this horror is gets brought out into the open, the 
 more it calls into question the whole way this system carries out policing 
 and law enforcement. The horror of police getting away with murder 
 concentrates the genocidal assault of mass incarceration, police terror and 
 the criminalization of whole sections of people. All this is illegitimate 
 and unacceptable. It must be STOPPED! Stopping this is going to take a 
 movement of mass, defiant and determined resistance, one that ultimately 
 numbers in the millions. \n\nRise Up October contributed significantly to 
 building this kind of movement, impacting society in a major way, shining a 
 spotlight on police terror in the U.S. Quentin Tarantino spoke the truth at 
 Rise Up October, and didn't back down when police unions across the country 
 went on a rampage with threats targeting him. People stepped out to support 
 Tarantino, and his exposure of murders done by police spread the 
 reverberations of Rise Up October nationally and internationally. The storm 
 of protests that followed the release of the videos of police murdering 
 people in Chicago point to what needs to be done - People taking to the 
 streets and defiantly calling for these horrors to STOP! This has forced 
 the authorities there to defend the legitimacy of their system and its 
 brutality. We need to make these regional conferences a big step toward 
 forging the kind of resistance that can call into question the whole 
 criminal “injustice” system in this country.\n\nIn the 1960's, massive 
 movements of resistance developed opposing the oppression of Black people, 
 the war in Vietnam, the oppression of women, etc. A key element in the rise 
 of those movements were students throwing themselves into the struggles on 
 these fronts. The same needs to happen today to make the movement to STOP 
 police terror powerful enough to end this horror. The struggles against 
 racism that erupted on the campus of the University of Missouri and swept 
 all across the country shows the potential for this happening. We have to 
 take the campuses by storm, enlisting students in the fight to stop murder 
 by police.\n\nOur regional conferences will bring together the forces who 
 want to act to STOP police terror. A key focus has to be everyone who 
 participated in RiseUpOctober (RUO) and everyone who was impacted by it. 
 The conferences will put before people the need to take the movement to 
 STOP police terror to a higher level and that taking this struggle to the 
 campuses is a key part of doing that. AND the conferences will forge the 
 organization and make the plans, including fund raising plans, to take 
 these critical steps. This means forming SMIN chapters on campuses, joining 
 SMIN chapters where they exist or, in the case of organizations, 
 affiliating with SMIN.\n\nEach conference will develop a plan for the No 
 More Stolen Lives tour in their area which will include the following 
 elements. (See accompanying letter on the this tour.)\n* who will be on the 
 tour,\n* what campuses the tour will go to, \n* other events that can be 
 done as part of this tour (speaking in communities, at religious 
 institutions, media, etc.), \n* how these tours will be led, \n* how to 
 generate the funds needed to make these tours happen, and \n* how to leave 
 organization in the wake of the tour – SMIN chapters formed on campuses, 
 people joining SMIN chapters where they already exist and organizations 
 affiliating with SMIN.\n\nThe conferences will also make beginning plans 
 for the National Student Strike/ Day of Action in April and determine how 
 to build up to making that as powerful as possible.\n\nEach conference also 
 has to assess the situation in their region to determine what struggles 
 need to be taken up as part of taking the movement of resistance to police 
 terror to a higher level.\n\nAnd each conference will develop plans to 
 raise the funds necessary to make all this happen and form a working group 
 to spearhead the fund raising efforts and coordinate with the National 
 Office to make this happen.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/01/23/18782157.php
SUMMARY:Regional Conference of the Bay Area Stop Mass Incarceration Network
LOCATION:1st Congregational Church, 2701 Harrison @ 27th St, Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/01/23/18782157.php
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