October 1, Wednesday – Take the Pledge of Resistance to kickoff the October Month of Resistance to Mass Incarceration, Police Terror, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation!
8:30 am Manhattan Criminal Court, 100 Centre St.
10:00 am – 12 noon Vigil, 11 a.m press conference, reading of Pledge of Resistance on east side of City Hall on Park Row. We demand:
Bratton and “Broken Windows” Must Go Now!
Justice for Eric Garner! Indict the Killer Cops!
Stop the Repression of the Witnesses!
All Out for the October Month of Resistance to Mass Incarceration, Police Terror, Repression and the Criminalization of Generation!
4:30 pm Harlem State Office Building, corner of W. 125 St and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd.
A Pledge of Resistance
What kind of society do you want to live in?
Police brutality and police murder are daily occurrences, yet brutal murdering cops are almost never punished for their crimes;
Black and Latino people, especially the youth, are treated like criminals, guilty until proven innocent, if they can survive to prove their innocence;
This criminalization has led to 2.2 million people being warehoused in prison, a 500% increase over the past 30 years;
Tens of thousands of people in prison are subjected to the torture of long term solitary confinement;
Alongside this has risen a program of criminalizing and incarcerating undocumented immigrants;
The color of a person’s skin determines whether they live and how they live.
Today we pledge:
Black lives matter.
Latino lives matter.
All lives matter.
* Mass incarceration: WE SAY NO MORE!
* Police murder: WE SAY NO MORE!
* Torture in the prisons: WE SAY NO MORE!
* Criminalization of generations: WE SAY NO MORE!
* Attacks on immigrants: WE SAY NO MORE!
We will NOT be silent.
We WILL resist!
Until these shameful horrors really are… NO MORE!
Stop Mass Incarceration Network
c/o P.O. Box 941 Knickerbocker Station New York, NY 10002-0900 Email: stopmassincarceration@gmail.com Web: www.stopmassincarceration.org Twitter: @StopMassIncNet 347-979-SMIN (7646)