RALLY AND OPEN MIC SPEAK OUT AGAINST POLICE, CORRECTIONS AND PRIVATE SECURITY VIOLENCE
FOLLOWED BY MARCH
DON’T BE A SPECTATOR, MAKE YOUR OWN PLANS – BRING YOUR OWN BANNERS, ART, SNACKS, LITERATURE, STORIES, ETC. TO SHARE
The past few years have seen a huge expansion of policing powers now just locally but nationally. New facilities to house larger garrisons of police forces, new urban warfare and crowd control training facility, new drones, new facial recognition and AI analytics, new public-private partnerships for surveillance to turn every inch of our neighborhoods into their own micro police states with every citizen deputized as its eyes and ears – a breeding ground for a thousand new George Zimmermans and a thousand new Trayvon Martins.
We find it critically important to situate the struggle against police in our own neighborhoods because that is where it plays out every day. New high tech security towers from Live View Technologies with facial, body and vehicle recognition and AI Analytics (plus the eternal nuisance of their ever flashing lights and loud speakers we can hear from our homes) provided by OPD to businesses who bring in more and more armed security guards to threaten, harass and beat the shit out of people for everything from being homeless, “looking suspicious”, or shoplifting to makes ends meet in a worsening cost of living crisis while these companies makes record profits.
As such we have chosen to open the day with a get-together and open mic on police, corrections and private security violence so that we can share space, share our stories, meet each other and plan to the future, followed by a march through the west side to highlight various locations and businesses and their connections to private and state security violence.
Ultimately, social crises are getting worse for us, while for the state and the business classes they are an opportunity for new – and more brutal – forms of capital accumulation. They manage it to the degree they stave off widespread revolt but they know all too well they cannot solve a homelessness crisis, of cost of living crisis, a police violence crisis because these are ultimately the crises of a stratified society at war with itself and to ultimately solve these the police, the state, the business and landed classes would have to do the one thing they are incapable of and that only we can do – destroy them.
We claim M15 as they do in other parts of the world and open it up to other potential rebels who dream of a different world to come together on our own terms and dream and act together.
submitted anonymously –
MARCH 15TH INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST POLICE
5PM AT YAUGER PARK
RALLY AND OPEN MIC SPEAK OUT AGAINST POLICE, CORRECTIONS AND PRIVATE SECURITY VIOLENCE
FOLLOWED BY MARCH
DON’T BE A SPECTATOR, MAKE YOUR OWN PLANS – BRING YOUR OWN BANNERS, ART, SNACKS, LITERATURE, STORIES, ETC. TO SHARE
The past few years have seen a huge expansion of policing powers now just locally but nationally. New facilities to house larger garrisons of police forces, new urban warfare and crowd control training facility, new drones, new facial recognition and AI analytics, new public-private partnerships for surveillance to turn every inch of our neighborhoods into their own micro police states with every citizen deputized as its eyes and ears – a breeding ground for a thousand new George Zimmermans and a thousand new Trayvon Martins.
We find it critically important to situate the struggle against police in our own neighborhoods because that is where it plays out every day. New high tech security towers from Live View Technologies with facial, body and vehicle recognition and AI Analytics (plus the eternal nuisance of their ever flashing lights and loud speakers we can hear from our homes) provided by OPD to businesses who bring in more and more armed security guards to threaten, harass and beat the shit out of people for everything from being homeless, “looking suspicious”, or shoplifting to makes ends meet in a worsening cost of living crisis while these companies makes record profits.
As such we have chosen to open the day with a get-together and open mic on police, corrections and private security violence so that we can share space, share our stories, meet each other and plan to the future, followed by a march through the west side to highlight various locations and businesses and their connections to private and state security violence.
Ultimately, social crises are getting worse for us, while for the state and the business classes they are an opportunity for new – and more brutal – forms of capital accumulation. They manage it to the degree they stave off widespread revolt but they know all too well they cannot solve a homelessness crisis, of cost of living crisis, a police violence crisis because these are ultimately the crises of a stratified society at war with itself and to ultimately solve these the police, the state, the business and landed classes would have to do the one thing they are incapable of and that only we can do – destroy them.
We claim M15 as they do in other parts of the world and open it up to other potential rebels who dream of a different world to come together on our own terms and dream and act together.
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