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1998 - The epidemic of police brutality continues to intensify all across the U.S. Every year hundreds are shot down in cold blood, beaten to death or suffocated with pepper spray. Tens of thousands more every year suffer police abuse short of death. This brutality mostly targets Blacks, Latinos, and other people of color. But as the economic and social repression spawning this police violence deepens, it's spilling over into white working class neighborhoods. Often victims of police brutality are themselves jailed and charged with assault on a police officer. Hundreds of immigrants are killed or disappeared by the U.S. border patrol for trying to enter the country in search of work and survival. Immigrants who make it into the country are often victimized by the police and terrorized into silence by threats of deportation and worse. Who will stop police murder and brutality?
1998 - 1.7 million people are in prisons across the country, most of them young, Black or Latino, and most are in prison for non-violent offenses. Congress is debating lowering the execution age to fifteen and imprisoning juveniles with hardened adult offenders. A whole generation of our youth is being treated like criminals based on how they dress, their attitude, the color of their skin or where they live. Who will stop the criminalization of a generation?
1998 - Very basic legal rights, such as the right to challenge wrongful imprisonment, are being stripped away from our people. Surveillance cameras are popping up at intersections, on buildings, in parks, high schools and even public bathrooms as the right to privacy is slowly whittled away. All this hits poor and oppressed people hardest as the authorities flood their neighborhoods with police who set up roadblocks, demand to see ID and conduct warrantless searches. More than 100 overtly "political prisoners" languish in U.S. jails--people like Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier--simply because they dared to resist this brutality and repression. Who will stop this growing government repression?
Who will stop this? No one but us! People are already resisting in many ways. Parents and other family members of victims of police brutality are inspiring others with their resistance. Demonstrations and other forms of protest are on the rise. There has been just resistance to violent police suppression in St. Petersburg, FL, Chicago's Cabrini Green housing projects, and elsewhere. Many different kinds of people are getting involved in this fight--young people tired of being scapegoated for society's ills, ministers, lawyers, teachers, grassroots people and others. All this resistance needs to be brought together in a powerful movement that can say 'NO!' to the authorities' program of answering every problem with more cops and more prisons.
October 22, 1998, the third annual NDP, is just the day to do that. Last year, people in more than fifty cities across the U.S. took to the streets on October 22nd. The day was marked by youthfulness, determination, and great diversity, as people of many different races and backgrounds came together. If you have ever been a victim of police brutality, if you have lost a loved one, or if you are outraged when you read about someone being brutalized by the cops, then you need to be a part of NDP3. On this day we will rally more of those victimized by brutal, murdering cops to stand up and resist. And we will bring over to their side many more people from different backgrounds, people who normally are unaware of the naked terror police are given a green light to inflict on people in the ghettos and barrios, to stand together in the fight against police brutality.
October 22, 1998 will be a day of marches, rallies, cultural events, teach-ins and other forms of protest in cities across the U.S. and beyond. Many will wear black in memory of the victims of police violence and in solidarity with the protests. An updated edition of the book, Stolen Lives, will document additional cases of murder at the hands of the police. We urge all victims of police brutality and all who believe it must end - and end NOW - to join us in this critical fight for justice!
Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and The Criminalization of A Generation!
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Make checks or M.O.s payable to IFCO/Oct 22nd. Endorsement list as of 9/14/98
Richard Aaron, Black Freedom Party, Seattle;
Ahmad Mubarak Abdullbad, Sons of Africa;
Ramona Africa, August 8th Justice for MOVE Committee;
Muhammad Ahmad, Professor, Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, OH;
Adjoa A. Aiyetoro, NCBL, Washington, D.C.;
Abdul Alkalimat, Black Radical Congress;
Iman Najee Ali, Project Islamic Hope, Los Angeles;
Hector Alvarado, Comite Pro-Uno, Maywood, CA;
Adrian Alvarez, Association Latino Americano de Jardineros;
Anti Racist Action: Albany, NY; Columbus, OH; Athens, OH;
Hampton Beach, VA; New York, NY;
Richmond, VA; San Diego, CA;
Eden Ariadne, Davenport, WA;
Vojo Kofi Badu, Talk Radio, Cleveland, OH;
Iris Baez, Anthony Baez Foundation, Bronx, NY;
BAYAN International, U.S.A.;
Eric Bobo, Cypress Hill;
Boots, the Coup, Oakland, CA;
Rev. A.C. Bonilla, 2nd Christian Church, Bronx, NY;
Wallace "Gator" Bradley, United in Peace, Inc., Chicago;
Tanya Brannan, Purple Berets, Santa Rosa, CA;
Timothy Brown, Bryn Mawr, PA;
Virginia Burns, Human Rights Coalition of Indiana, South Bend, IN;
Rev. Richard (Meri Ka Ra) Byrd, Christ Unity Center;
Renisha Campbell, Chicago, IL;
Judge Jean Murrell Capers, retired, Cleveland, OH;
Charles Carney, Chicago Interfaith Prisoners of Conscience, IL;
Brother London Carter, Focus Youth Gang Service, Los Angeles;
Sonny Lee Carter, father of Jeremiah Mearday, victim of police
brutality, Chicago, IL;
Ralph Carter, Pittsburgh, PA;
Omowale Clay, December 12th Movement, New York;
Kathleen Cleaver, Connecticut;
Rick Clemmons, People's Tribune;
Coalition Against Police Brutality, New York;
Lee Stuart Cox, Families to Amend California Three Strikes/F.A.C.T.S,
Los Angeles chapter;
Doris Davis, Tillery, North Carolina;
Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party;
Dennis Dixon, Networking for Democracy;
Maria Dooley, Los Angeles;
Pastor Doug Dorman, Long Beach Truth Ministry, Los Angeles;
King Downing, Newark, NJ;
Stephen Durham, Freedom Socialist Party, New York;
Donna J. Fitzsimmons-Dymally, mother of Marc Fitzsimmons, shot to death
by police, Los Angeles;
Jennifer Eddy, Long Beach City;
Andre English, The Black Caucus, Stony Brook, NY;
Donald Erickson, Synapses, Chicago, IL;
Rev. Shearwood Fleming, Sr., Venice, CA;
Bernard C. Fowler, artist, Chicago;
Janicton Fraue, ADA, Ann Arbor MI;
Anitra Freeman, Catalina singer and songwriter;
Louis Freese, Cypress Hill;
Rev. M. Andrew Robinson Gaither, Faith United Methodist Church, Los
Angeles;
Daniel Garcia, Mark Garcia Fund, San Francisco, CA;
Ruthie Gilmore, California Prison Focus, Oakland, CA;
Rev. Larry Gotts, St. Peters-in-the-Bronx Lutheran Church, New York;
Arnetta Grable, mother of victim of police brutality, Detroit;
Charla Greene, Abolition Road, Vineburg, CA;
Ron Hampton, National Black Police Association, Washington, D.C.;
Henry Hardee, Chicago, IL;
Margo Harry, author of "Attention, Move! This is America", New York;
Herman Harvey, son killed by police, Los Angeles;
Margo Heights, Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti-Imperialist,
Seattle, WA;
Mia Herndon, Atlanta, GA;
Reginald Hill, Free Eviction Zone, Cambridge;
Fred Ho, composer/musician, Brooklyn, NY;
John Hoffman, author, agitator, Seattle;
Willie Horton, Sr., Black on Black 2000, Cleveland, OH;
Gloria House, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI;
Debra Howse, WK. Committee of Minnesota;
Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, New York;
Ellis Jefferson, Homeless Activist;
Anna Johnson, Seattle;
Joey Johnson, supporter of the RCP, Los Angeles;
Emma Jones, mother of Malik Jones killed by police, New Haven,
CT;
Alan L. Joplin, Davenport, IN;
Marsha Jordan, student, Chicago, IL;
L. Joshua, Champaign, IL;
Mark A. Kaiser, Attorney, OH;
Dedon Kamathu, All African People's Revolutionary Party, Los Angeles;
J. J. Kaufmann, Honolulu, HI;
Yu Kikumura Support Committee, New York;
James Lafferty, National Lawyers Guild, Los Angeles;
Reynald LaForest, DC 1707, AFSCME, New York;
La Resistencia, Houston, Los Angeles, San Diego and El Paso;
Rev. Eddie Lopez, La Resurreccion United Methodist Church, Bronx, NY;
Rev. Tomas Lopez, Los Angeles;
Sister Delores Lytle, 8th Day Center for Justice, Chicago;
Errol Maitland, Douglas Fischer Justice Project, Brooklyn, NY;
Mario, poet, Chicago;
John Martinez, "Radio Chicano/a", KPFK 90.7 FM Pacifica Radio, Los
Angeles;
Lucas Martinez, Los Angeles;
Muntu Matsimela, N.Y. Metro BRC, Brooklyn, NY;
Brian Matuszewski, ARA Toledo, OH;
Keith Mitchell, Student Liberation Action Movement, Hunter College, NY;
Nadine Mondestin, Black International Service Committee, Montreal,
CANADA;
National Child Rights Alliance/Youth Liberation Alliance, Ellenville,
NY;
Kamaria Ngozi, CrossRoad Support Network, Chicago, IL;
Michael Novick, People against Racist Terror, Los Angeles
Akono G. Olatungi, Temple of African Colonial Liberation, IN;
Chrys Ostrander, Spokane, WA;
Elizabeth R. OuYang, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund,
New York;
Derrick Parker, Low Income People Organizing For Power, Duluth, MN;
Peace Heathens, Seattle;
Leonard Peltier, Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, Lawrence, KS;
People's College of Law;
Marcia Price, New York BRC, New York;
Amon Ra, Cleveland, OH;
Yehohanan Reu, Seattle;
Beverly Reed, Chicago, IL;
Refuse and Resist!;
Gary Redding, Concerned Citizens of Tillery, NC;
Juan Reyna, 500 Years Committee, Cleveland, OH;
Sandra Rivers, New York;
Robert Rockwell, National Secretary, Refuse and Resist!;
Esperanza Rodriguez, Los Angeles;
Aaron Rogers, Chicago, IL;
Antonio Sanjurjo-manso, son Ralph murdered by Washington State police;
Samantha Scott, Los Angeles;
Seattle Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador;
Rafael A. Sencion, Congreso Nacional Dominicano, New York;
Fred Sequeira, Brooklyn, NY;
Kukuiyah Siddiq, Blacktown Newspaper, Chicago;
Stephen Spencer, Chicago;
Lennox Sweeney, San Jose Food Not Bombs, San Jose, CA;
Kerwin So, Berkeley, CA;
Caryl Sortwell, Neighbors Against Police Brutality, Chicago, IL;
Joffre Stewart, Chicago, IL;
David Tatro, Seattle CISPES;
Zenobia Thompson, LOC BRC, St. Louis, MO;
Delbert L. Tibbs, Moratorium vs. the Death Penalty, Chicago, IL;
Tom Big Warrior, Historykeeper, Traditionalist United Eastern Lenape
Nation;
Young Warriors and Women of the Lenape Nation;
Monique Washington, Community Advocates for Educational Excellence, New
York;
Juanita Webster, DSA & BRC, New York;
Cornell West;
Lynne Wilson, Attorney and author of "Pepper Spray Madness" , Seattle,
WA;
Farrell Winter, Graton, CA;
Pamela Wrenn, Univeral House of Refuge: Men and Women in Prison
Ministries, Chicago;
Funky Wordsmyths, Chicago, IL;
David Wong Support Committee, New York;
Workers World, Los Angeles;
Judith G. Wright, Catholic Worker House of San Jose, CA;
Victor Validum, Democratic Socialists of America, New York;
Kenny X, Black Panther Party, Chicago, IL;
Emily Woo Yamasaki, Radical Women, New York;
Rev. S. Michael Yasutake, Evanston, IL;
Michael Zinzun, Los Angeles, CA.
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