ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! - - A MARCH OF STOLEN LIVES!


2009—a year in which we're promised "change we can believe in." But as the year is ushered in, everything is much too much the same.


2009 was barely 2 hours old when 22 year old Oscar Grant was executed with a shot to his back. While fully complying with BART Transit police, with one officer kneeling on Oscar's neck, another stood over him, unholstered and aimed his gun and fired point blank. This cold-blooded murder was witnessed by dozens of onlookers, and captured on video and seen all over the country.

An hour later and halfway across the country, Adolph Grimes, also 22, died in a hail of 48 bullets, 12 in his back, by New Orleans police. He was sitting in his car in front of his grandmother's house.
On New Year's Eve, Robbie Tolan, a promising professional baseball player, was shot in the chest, after protesting his mother being thrown against the wall of her home by police in Bellaire, a suburb of Houston. His baseball dreams are over.

Three young Black men shot, 2 dead, in 24 hours. How many others were shot, tasered or beaten to death by police in this same period, murders that did not make it into the news? The Stolen Lives Project of the Oct 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality has documented over 2000 people killed by police and La Migra in the 1990's alone. And these are only the cases the Coalition was able to uncover thru its own efforts! There is a nationwide epidemic of police brutality and murder being unleashed upon our people by the whole system that rules over us. In the time that we are told the society is now "post racial" – these killings are overwhelmingly, but not exclusively, against young people of color. And the numbers of stolen lives are on the rise.

Most killer cops are never charged for their criminal acts, even when their victims were unarmed and doing nothing wrong. In the few cases when cops who kill people are prosecuted, they are, almost Always, let off by the courts.

Like the New York cops who fired 50 shots, killing Sean Bell, on his wedding night. ACQUITTED! The 41 bullets fired into unarmed Amadou Diallo by other New York cops. Again AQUITTED! And the Riverside sheriffs who fired 51 bullets into Tyisha Miller, killing her while she was unconscious in her parked car. NEVER CHARGED ! Or another Bart police officer, who in 1992, fired a shotgun into the back of the head of 19 year old, and unarmed, Jerrold Hall. NEVER CHARGED !

The cop who murdered Oscar Grant was only finally arrested and charged with murder after righteous and long suffering anger and injury at the hands of police, burst through the levee of patience and suffering silence.

WE SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH !!!!


WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS. WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT BRUTALITY AND MURDER BY POLICE. WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS. WE REFUSE TO LET OUR YOUTH TO BE TREATED AS LESS THAN ANIMALS. THIS IS 2009, NOT THE TIME OF SLAVERY, OR OF THE KKK NIGHTRIDERS. TIMES SHOULD BE LONG PAST WHEN POLICE CAN COME INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOODS TO MURDER, ABUSE OR TERRORIZE OUR PEOPLE AND GET AWAY WITH IT.


EVERYONE WHO IS FED UP WITH THIS MURDER AND BRUTALITY, JOIN WITH US IN A MARCH OF STOLEN LIVES IN OAKLAND, FEBRUARY 6, TO SAY BOLDLY AND LOUDLY!!!!!!

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ! THE WHOLE DAMN SYSTEM IS GUILTY !
END POLICE MURDER NOW ! JUSTICE FOR OSCAR GRANT
CONVICT THE MURDERING COP AND ALL HIS ACCOMPLICES!
THE PEOPLES' ANGER IS JUSTIFIED! DROP ALL CHARGES AGAINST DEMONSTRATORS !


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MONDAY, JANUARY 19th
11:00am CONVERGENCE followed by SHOE THROWING AT THE WHITE HOUSE

Why Shoe Bush?

Our president stood in a nation he had illegally invaded and occupied, where his actions had caused over 1.2 million deaths, 5 million people forced out of their homes, millions more deprived of electricity or clean water and afraid to walk the streets. He stood smiling in a nation he had transformed into a living hell, a place where everyone had seen loved ones and neighbors killed. And when Muntadar Al-Zeidi threw two shoes at him, our president remarked "I don't know what his beef is."

But billions of people around the world believed that the pretended obliviousness of George W. Bush to the pain and suffering he was inflicting had gone on as long as they could stand if not much longer, and Al-Zeidi became a hero overnight. His two shoes punctured the Bush veil of separation, the distance Bush pretends to imagine exists between his decisions and the human limbs scattered in the sand of his colony. And while the U.S. media pretended to wonder whether the water torture was "really" torture, the United States and its puppet government in Iraq inflicted on Al-Zeidi one of the more commonly employed torture techniques of the Bush regime: they beat him and broke his bones.

In an ideal world, it would be enough to present the evidence of crimes for Bush, Cheney, and their criminal subordinates to be prosecuted and convicted. In this world, we've presented that evidence ( http://afterdowningstreet.org/keydocuments ) for years, and we are still in a climate in which Bush and Cheney blissfully admit their crimes, apparently believing that they render prosecution less likely by declaring their own crimes acceptable. While lies may take hold more easily the bigger they are, big lies also collapse quickly, as when a child points to a naked emperor, or a journalist throws his shoes.

We have a president-elect who can save himself from engaging in criminal wars and occupations, in torture and other war crimes, in warrantless spying and other violations of our Constitution, only by prosecuting the actions of his predecessor. Not to prosecute is itself a crime. If we are going to persuade the president elect, we must first persuade the U.S. media, and the U.S. media is not attracted by facts and information. The U.S. media is attracted by throwing shoes.

Bush's last act is expected to be the unprecedented pardoning of crimes he authorized. This has never before been done, and to do so is to drop all claim to being a nation of laws. Thanks to the example set by Al-Zeidi, since emulated by people all over the world, we will know exactly how to make our response visible when those pardons come.

–David Swanson

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