Every Monday the Stop Police Crimes Organizing Committee meets at 6pm at 

 1325 S. Wabash, Suite 105. Come and bring someone with you.
 

 BLACK FRIDAY: A NEW STAGE IN THE 

 STRUGGLE TO STOP POLICE CRIMES 

 Frank Chapman 
 Chicago Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression  

 The mass, corporate controlled media has consistently  focused on violence and looting in Ferguson. On  November 24, 2014 CNN news showed a picture of a  burning building for several hours but did not show  people conducting organized protests. However, since  the grand jury refused to indict Darren Wilson the media  has been forced to acknowledge that there is in deed a  movement a foot.

 On Black Friday a new stage in the struggle for justice for Michael Brown's family emerged  calling not only for mass protests nationwide but also boycotts and the interruption of  commerce.
 

 In Ferguson, the epicenter of the struggle, the movement under the bold leadership of our  youth did have sit-ins (die-ins) that closed down large malls and awakened large sections of the  population to the racist injustice perpetrated against the Brown family. The issue of police  crimes against the people is front and center in Ferguson. The Brown Family put out a call  saying, "Let's not just make noise, let's make a difference". Here's how the struggle to make a  difference went.
 

 In Oakland, CA protestors chained themselves to a train at a Bay Area Rapid Transit stop,  forcing officials to close down the station. This had reprecussions throughout the system.
 

 In Chicago African American youth led a sit-in (die-in), teach-in demonstration while occupying  City Hall for the entire working day on Thanksgiving eve and then protested/marched on Black  Friday.
 

 In Seattle and all across the U.S.A. protestors disruppted Black Friday shopping while chanting,  "If we don't get justice, they don't get profits".
 

 Old groups like the Malcolm X Grass Roots Movement, Organization of Black Struggle,  NAACP, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, some of the UAW locals, the Arab American Action  Network, the Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and others stand united with new  group formations like Lost Voices, Tribe X and We Charge Genocide to demand justice and  people empowerment.
 

 All this represents a new stage, trend and direction in the struggle to stop police crimes that is    both spontaneous and organized. And most importantly the new direction is under the  leadership of Black youth that recognizes political struggle as a means for achieving its goals.

 Given these developments it is incumbent upon our organization to continue to fight back and  build a mass movement for enacting a Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC) here in  Chicago. We must stay focused and not get lost in the sauce of the moment. This means that  we will have to engage in intense mobilization and organizing of our communities at the grass
 roots level, I'm talking door by door, block by block and neighborhood by neighborhood. We  must continue to engage those communities that are under seige and victims of police crimes;  we must continue assisting them in having a greater organized presence in our struggle.
 

 This makes our Monday meetings night  very special right now. Come and bring someone with  you. 
 

 Read about the Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC) 

  For more information contact:

  Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression