Protests, Solidarity & Actions
The killing of Oscar Grant, an unarmed 22-year-old Black man, was a cold-blooded murder. It was a towering crime. This verdict is a slap on the wrist. It is another crime of the system.
Under the law, 2nd degree murder is the unjustified, intentional killing of a human being. Involuntary manslaughter is a much lesser offense, and carries a much lighter sentence. We saw the videos. From the beginning, the cops were the ones driving the action. Detained, lying face down, putting his hands behind his back while one cop kneeled on his neck, Oscar was shot in the back. Cold-blooded murder, a totally unjustified and brutal act.
Think about it: If this case did not involve police, the situation would be completely different.
Canadian police have arrested over 600 people in Toronto in a police crackdown on protests at the G20 summit. Riot police used batons, plastic bullets and tear gas for the first time in the city’s history. More than 19,000 security personnel were deployed in Toronto, and a nearly four-mile-long security wall was erected around the G20 summit site at the Toronto Convention Center. The security price tag for the summit is estimated at around $1 billion. Franklin Lopez of the Vancouver Media Co-op filed this report from the streets of Toronto.
For more information on the events that took place in Toronto visit:
G/8 G/20 Mobilization information: http://g20.torontomobilize.org/
The Toronto Media Cooperative: http://2010.mediacoop.ca/
Democracy Now recap the event: http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/28/toronto_police_arrest_over_600_in
Detainee information: http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/conditions-g20-dentention-centre-are-illegal-immoral-and-dangerous/3918
Youtube hip hop video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ninV5yx7FW4
The following is a call-out to any who could contribute ideas, contacts, or even material support to an event hoping to bring anarchy and empowerment to the kids of Chicago. Likewise, it's an invitation to anyone in the area who would like to help more directly.
It's time we started some real teenage rebellion instead of having it sold to us from Hot Topic. After some discussions and dropping intriguing hints to our friends, we kids in the Sort Sol Collective have decided on our plan: as an alternative to the massive consumerist, school-chaperoned(-policed) spectacle of alienation and intoxication that is school prom, we'll have a massive anarchist event put together by and for youth, to display the power we have (and what more we should have) over our own lives and extend a hand to our fellow teenagers who don't want to spend another day dying in a classroom in preparation for the same in a storefront or office, who could benefit from the knowledge and support of a community of people who've made it their explicit goal to combat these institutions.
Read more: Chicago: Organizing a Massive Anarchist Youth Liberation Event
This year we are breatheless in anticipating the unveiling of the most advanced technology in anarchist events yet. i8daysofanarchy launches on March 9th and ends on March 16th. It is in a variety of locations around the Bay Area.
We look forward to having you join us
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