WE WILL NOT REST

It is impossible to remain silent. As the New Year begins, the resolve to continue a "winter of resistance" remains strong. Along with the names of Eric Garner and Akai Gurley, we will carry into the New Year the memory of more than150 people who have been subjected to the tyranny of violence, in a country where racism and police brutality are pervasiveWe will hold their names high for the world to see.

Hundreds Will Gather in Rage and Sorrow
#CarryTheNames Into The New Year
#WeWillNotForget
Grand Central Station, NYC 
Monday, January 5, 2014, 5:00 pm 
Signs will be provided 
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Again and again, we "catch our breath" and take to the streets to demonstrate our collective outrage, at one Grand Jury decision after another not to indict a police officer for a brutal murder of an unarmed civilian. Officer Daniel Pantaleo choked Eric Garner to death, in broad daylight in NYC. All eyes can see, and all ears can hear Eric Garner plead "I can't breathe", over and over, until he loses consciousness.

Our path is clear. In "our moral certainty" we continue to stand in solidarity with those in resistance in New York City, in Ferguson and elsewhere, who fight for justice for the countless precious lives of their loved ones, tragically lost but not forgotten. 


Photo credit Jonathan Mehring

  Die-in at Grand Central Station, NYC December, 2014 
Photo credit Jonathan Mehring



WE WILL NOT BE SILENT is an artist/activist collective that has been in existence since 2006. Through the creative use of language embodied on shirts and emboldened on signs held up in public spaces, we respond to current social justice issues, encouraging creative, direct public actions where many people can participate.

 

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