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 No Justice for Rekia
"We, Advocates from the city of Chicago, have been observing the trial in the courtroom, and we believe the State's prosecutors are deliberately trying to engineer a verdict of "not guilty."
Once again this criminal justice system, with its rotten racist core, has refused to punish a police officer who wantonly and recklessly murdered Rekia Boyd.
In Chicago and in the Nation we are going to have to heighten the struggle to create laws that will empower the people to hold the police accountable. We need an all elected, all Civilian Police Accountability Council. We need more than a few dozen people in the streets.
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Color Blindness in the Age of Escalating Racism
Ted Pearson,
Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
The three analyses of the Chicago Mayoral election by Amisha Patel, John Nichols and Thomas A. Corfman (Portside April 9, 2015) are remarkable mainly for what they don't say. They accurately describe the coalition around the progressive candidate, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, as grassroots, including very important large industrial unions such as the Teachers, Transit Workers, and Service Employees. They note the historic quality of this coalition. But by their omissions they endanger the very coalition they are proclaiming.
Throughout the election campaign, and in these analyses, you would never know that Chicago is a city in which over half the population suffers under virtual military occupation...
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Stop Police Crimes Weekly Column - Final Shot Take 1
STOP & SHOOT
Steve Craig, Stop Police Crimes Organizing Committee, CAARPR
The unchecked power of the police has been further exposed in recent weeks, its raw racism revealed. It begins with the 'stop'. The cop decides who to stop with his or her observations, weighted with the targeting tool of racial profiling-cop as judge. The stop proceeds and suspicions or infractions confirmed, a broken tail-light, a loose cigarette, a half-smoked blunt-cop as jury. Reach for a wallet, a cell phone, raise your hands, resist or run. Cop fears are 'justified', and the shooting starts-cop as executioner. Another black or brown body lies still, dehumanized and defiled...
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Weekly Community Outreach - Stop Police Crimes in the Neighborhoods
When: EVERY Saturday 12p - 3p
Where: Various locations, see below
Come join us as we meet community members out in the neighborhoods. Every Saturday we are out on the corners listening and talking with folks about police crimes and the urgent need for community control of the police through an elected Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC) Come help us hand out CPAC organizing packets, gather signatures for the CPAC petition and support for the 'This Stops Today' Mass March on City Hall, Saturday August 29Each Saturday noon till 3pm, Stop Police Crimes has organizing tables are at the following locations,
53rd and Harper 63rd and King Drive 63rd and Cottage Grove 69th and the Dan Ryan 87th and the Dan Ryan 112th and Michigan Ave Pulaski and Madison
Call Frank Chapman 312.513-3795 or email: contact@naarpr.org for more information and to let us which table location you can help with.
HOW ELSE TO GET INVOLVED
* Tell your neighbors, friends, community organizations, church...
* Join us every Saturday out in the neighborhoods
* If you would like to arrange a CPAC info/community meeting on your
block, in your church or community center, contact us.
* Forward this newsletter
* Come to a meeting, Stop Police Crimes Organizing Committee meets
every Monday @ 6pm, 1325 S. Wabash Ave. Suite 105
CONTACT
Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
T 312 939-2750 email: contact@naarpr.org
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