Today, on this Day of Outrage at the Murder of Trayvon
Martin, we received the following statement in an email:
INTO THE STREETS TODAY CALLING FOR
JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON
STANDING UP ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY
SAYING NO TO MASS INCARCERATION
ON APRIL 19TH!
By Carl Dix & Clyde Young
Today is a day to be outraged. Trayvon
Martin, 17 years old
with his whole life stretched ahead of him, is
dead, gunned
down by a vigilante wannabe cop who saw his Black skin and
decided that this youth was "up to no good" and "suspicious."
And we must be clear; this murder is no isolated incident. It
is only the latest in a seemingly never ending chain of horrific
crimes this system has brought down on Black people since
the very 1st
African was dragged to these shores in slave
chains-From outright
slavery to Jim Crow segregation and lynch
mob terror to police brutality
and a new Jim Crow of mass
incarceration. This shit is built into the fabric of US society.
It is no damned good, and it must be ended!
And
let's be clear, it will take nothing short of revolution.,
millions
and millions of people rising up to overturn this
bloodsucking
capitalist/imperialist system and building a
totally different and far
better system in its place to end this
brutal oppression and everything
else foul that humanity is
forced to endure-the degradation women
endure, the wars
for empire, the government spying, the ravaging of the
environment and everything else. This kind of revolution
can't happen with people and conditions as they are today,
but conditions and people can change. And those who see
the need for revolution must seize on the openings in
today's situation to accelerate changing things.
This means "Fighting the Power, and Transforming the
People, For Revolution! Building
a real fight for justice for
Trayvon, and building real resistance to
the horrific injustice
of mass incarceration-the 2.4 million people
warehoused in
prison, the racial profiling that catches people up in the
criminal injustice system, the torture like conditions people
face in
prison and the badge of shame and dishonor that the
formerly
incarcerated are forced to wear after they've served
their sentences. And
bringing to people the truth that things
don't have to be this way,
and helping people see that all
these outrages stem from a common
source and how it all
could be ended and something much better brought
into
being-thru revolution, communist revolution.
April
19th, the National Day of Resistance to Mass Incarceration,
is aimed
at making a big leap in the level of resistance to mass
incarceration. It
will be a day when students in colleges and
high schools hold rallies,
teach ins and walk outs, when they
take to the streets refusing to
suffer being criminalized in
silence. A day when they are
joined by many others from
many different backgrounds and political
perspectives to
say NO TO MASS INCARCERATION! A day when
youth and
others bear witness to abusive policing by telling their
stories
of how the cops have brutalized and jacked them up, and
of how
they have murdered their friends and loved ones. A
day when those in prison find the ways to raise their voices
as part of exposing the injustice of all this. And
it must be
a day that impacts all of society, challenging the way too
many people accept all this as what's needed to combat
crime and
inspiring many more people to take to the streets
in resistance to this
injustice. This is what we're doing thru
taking to the
streets today, and what we must do thru
bringing people into the streets
on April 19th to say NO
to mass incarceration.
April 19th has everything to do with the murder of Trayvon
Martin. The
racial profiling George Zimmerman acted on in
targeting Trayvon
reflects the way the whole damned system
treats our youth like
criminals. This is the pipeline to the
racially targeted
mass incarceration that has millions of
people in this country caught up
in the criminal justice system.
We must stay in the
streets, fighting for justice for Trayvon,
and we must carry then thru
next week to standing up and
saying NO to mass incarceration on April
19th and beyond.
Carl Dix & Clyde Young are revolutionary communists. Both
of them did time in prison in the 1960's, and they are among
the
issuers of the Call for the April 19th National Day of
Resistance to
Mass Incarceration.
For more information on April 19th, people can go to
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Thurs., April 19th
