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Open Letter from the #Frisco5 to San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee
We are the Frisco Five and we have offered our lives for the city we love.
[Hunger striker Sellassie at SF City Hall on May 3. Sellassie was hospitalized the following day. Photo by Davey D.]
May 2
We know you are hoping that we are just a passing fancy who will grow tired and wither away. That is what you have experienced in the past. We aren’t going anywhere. This time is different.
We are rejecting the little crumbs that you have offered in the form of COPS reviews and empty reforms propped up by your token community. We would rather go without than taste the sour garbage you offer as appeasement.
On countless news interviews you say that you are concerned for our health and well being. If that were true then you would have fired Chief Suhr. Heather Fong was forced out for less. If you truly cared about the people of this city, you would not hide and hope we go away so that your puppet masters can do their will in our city.
You say you care about the homeless and the minority communities of San Francisco and then you aid in their evictions and tear down their tents in the lashing rain in the middle of the night. Our tents and growing hunger are symbolic of the every day horror that your citizens, our community, face as a result of your policies. Policies that only benefit the 1%.
The next time you look at yourself in the mirror look long and hard and decide to do the right thing. We’ll be going to City Hall at 2pm tomorrow. That gives you over 24 hours to make the decision and announce that you have fired Chief Suhr.
We have decided to lay down our bodies for the love of our community and in solidarity with our fallen brothers. If there is any humanity left in you then you will hear our cry and do what is right. If you are not willing to do the right thing, then you must resign.
Our lives are in your hands,
The Frisco Five
May 2
We know you are hoping that we are just a passing fancy who will grow tired and wither away. That is what you have experienced in the past. We aren’t going anywhere. This time is different.
We are rejecting the little crumbs that you have offered in the form of COPS reviews and empty reforms propped up by your token community. We would rather go without than taste the sour garbage you offer as appeasement.
On countless news interviews you say that you are concerned for our health and well being. If that were true then you would have fired Chief Suhr. Heather Fong was forced out for less. If you truly cared about the people of this city, you would not hide and hope we go away so that your puppet masters can do their will in our city.
You say you care about the homeless and the minority communities of San Francisco and then you aid in their evictions and tear down their tents in the lashing rain in the middle of the night. Our tents and growing hunger are symbolic of the every day horror that your citizens, our community, face as a result of your policies. Policies that only benefit the 1%.
The next time you look at yourself in the mirror look long and hard and decide to do the right thing. We’ll be going to City Hall at 2pm tomorrow. That gives you over 24 hours to make the decision and announce that you have fired Chief Suhr.
We have decided to lay down our bodies for the love of our community and in solidarity with our fallen brothers. If there is any humanity left in you then you will hear our cry and do what is right. If you are not willing to do the right thing, then you must resign.
Our lives are in your hands,
The Frisco Five
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After many demonstrations, a 16 day hunger strike, a protest inside City Hall on Friday, 5/6/16 and a picket line of some 200 outside SF City Hall, walking all 4 blocks around it, and virtually closing City Hall, and 45,000 online at Ustream on 5/9/16, the San Francisco Democratic Party insists that its fascist police chief will not resign. The only answer to that is to change your voter registration today to Peace & Freedom or Green, the only 2 anti-police state parties on the ballot.
So long as this city gives 80% of its vote to the leading Democrat on the November ballot, we will have police killings and thugs like Police Chief Suhr in office. Let us march to the polls this November with a combined total of 80% registrations for Peace & Freedom and the Green Party to finally put an end to the entire death squad police department, costing us $576 million a year, and transfer ALL of that money to the housing and social services departments.
You can still register for the June 7 election, until May 23, and that includes changing your party registration. You can vote every weekday at the City Hall Registrar on a vote-by-mail ballot, and sign up to be a permanent vote-by-mail (absentee) voter so you never forget to vote and you can vote in the comfort of your home within 30 days of election day. You can also register online at https://covr.sos.ca.gov/?language=en-US.
For more information on the only pro peace, labor and environment parties, as well as anti-police state, anti-prisons, anti-death penalty parties, see:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home
http://www.votepsl.org/ (Gloria LaRiva for President) (Be sure to read her serious socialist program.)
and
http://www.cagreens.org/
http://www.gp.org/
http://www.jill2016.com/ (Jill Stein for President)
ALL ABOARD THE PEACE & FREEDOM-GREEN PARTY FREEDOM TRAIN!
So long as this city gives 80% of its vote to the leading Democrat on the November ballot, we will have police killings and thugs like Police Chief Suhr in office. Let us march to the polls this November with a combined total of 80% registrations for Peace & Freedom and the Green Party to finally put an end to the entire death squad police department, costing us $576 million a year, and transfer ALL of that money to the housing and social services departments.
You can still register for the June 7 election, until May 23, and that includes changing your party registration. You can vote every weekday at the City Hall Registrar on a vote-by-mail ballot, and sign up to be a permanent vote-by-mail (absentee) voter so you never forget to vote and you can vote in the comfort of your home within 30 days of election day. You can also register online at https://covr.sos.ca.gov/?language=en-US.
For more information on the only pro peace, labor and environment parties, as well as anti-police state, anti-prisons, anti-death penalty parties, see:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home
http://www.votepsl.org/ (Gloria LaRiva for President) (Be sure to read her serious socialist program.)
and
http://www.cagreens.org/
http://www.gp.org/
http://www.jill2016.com/ (Jill Stein for President)
ALL ABOARD THE PEACE & FREEDOM-GREEN PARTY FREEDOM TRAIN!
See http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/86639972 for huge crowd at City Hall on 5/9/16 picketing to demand police chief Suhr be fired. It became a 4 block around City Hall picketline.
For more information:
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/86639972
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