From: Redguard <redguard@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 8:57 PM
Subject: [** MAOIST_REVOLUTION **] Media Alert: Call for Solidarity with British Uprising and Against Police Terror in London; NYC Protest Mon. Aug. 15 [2 Attachments]
Bail Out the People Movement
c/o Solidarity Center
55 W 17th St, New York, NY 10011
212-633-6646
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 12, 2011
CONTACT: TONY MURPHY
IMANI HENRY (212) 633-6646
Bail Out the People Movement Issues National Call for Solidarity with British Uprising and Against Police Terror in London
New York Protest on Mon. August 15, 4:30 – 6 pm, at British Consulate-General, 845 Third Ave.
We demand:
- JUSTICE FOR MARK DUGGAN - JAIL THE KILLER COPS
- FREEDOM & AMNESTY FOR THE 2000 WHO HAVE BEEN ARRESTED
- STOP THE WITCH HUNT AGAINST YOUTH & END RACIST POLICE VIOLENCE
- JOBS & EDUCATION - NOT JAIL & AUSTERITY - Make Cameron's government and big business create jobs, restore vital services, and rebuild affected communities
The streets of London and other British cities erupted in rebellion earlier this week, following the police killing of a young Black man and father of three, Mark Duggan, in the Tottenham area on August 4.
Many thousands of youths of all colors and nationalities took to the streets in angry protest, not only at the killing of Mark Duggan, but at rampant police brutality, high unemployment, and brutal cuts to education and social services.
Today a smear campaign is well underway in the media and halls of power in both Britain and the United States. The youth are labeled "criminals" and "looters," while authorities downplay the crimes of the London police, who first claimed to have shot Duggan in self-defense, only to have their lies exposed by ballistics tests and eyewitnesses.
Larry Holmes, a national coordinator of the Bail Out the People Movement, said, "We have seen endless footage of burning cars and people taking consumer goods from shattered storefronts during the nights of August 6-9. Meanwhile, there has been little coverage of the massacre of 85 civilians, including 33 children, in the town of Zlitan, Libya, by NATO forces overnight August 8. Britain, like the U.S., is central to that war of unbridled aggression against a sovereign African country.
"Who are the real looters?" asked Holmes. "In Britain, like the U.S., banks and big business were bailed out of their economic crisis and the war machine rolls on - while workers, students and the unemployed, especially youths and people of color, are expected to shoulder the burden of cutbacks and high unemployment."
An unprecedented wave of repression is underway. Close to 2,000 people have been arrested so far, and Scotland Yard has begun raiding homes of suspected "rioters." Some 16,000 riot police occupy London's streets.
Prime Minister David Cameron and other establishment politicians are whipping up a lynch-mob atmosphere against rebel youths, urging people to turn in those they recognize from security camera footage broadcast over the major media.
"In conditions of deepening poverty, joblessness and racist repression, it is inevitable that people will rise up," Larry Holmes concluded. "What happened in London could happen tomorrow in New York, Los Angeles or any other U.S. city."
The Bail Out the People Movements calls on progressives and people of conscience to stand with the people of Britain against state repression. BOPM is urging activists to organize protests at British consulates, BBC News offices and other sites in cities across North America.
In New York, a protest is planned on
Monday, August 15, from 4:30-6:00 pm
at the British Consulate-General,
845 Third Avenue between 51 and 52 Sts. in Manhattan.
(Take 4 or 6 train to 51st St., E or M train to Lexington Ave. / 53rd St.)
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Bail Out the People Movement
c/o Solidarity Center
55 W 17th St, New York, NY 10011
212-633-6646
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