Attached please find a flier for the speak-out being organized for Wednesday,
September 3 at Hunter.
Please print out (labor donated), post and distribute it widely.
The text is reproduced below:
HUNTER SPEAK-OUTAgainst Racist Repressionfrom Ferguson to New York
Wednesday, September 3rd, 1-3 p.m.Outside the Hunter West building
The Internationalist
clubs invite students, faculty and campus workers, union members, clubs and
organizations to speak out and show that we stand in solidarity with the
besieged African American population of Ferguson, Missouri, with Eric Garner’s
family here in NYC, and with those targeted by racist police repression all
across
the country.
Outrage
over the murder of Michael Brown and the occupation in Missouri has caused a
national crisis for U.S. rulers, as military/police occupation has not silenced
the people of Ferguson or stopped their courageous resistance.
At
CUNY and everywhere, young people are debating what to do and why it keeps
happening. Tens of thousands have protested around the country, chanting Eric
Garner’s parting words, “This stops here,” and “Hands up, don’t shoot.”
(Michael Brown was gunned down with his hands raised, pleading with the cop to
stop firing.)
For many,
connections keep getting clearer. The economic crisis continues; deportations
skyrocket; imperialist wars keep spreading, fueling police-state repression “at
home” and militarization here at CUNY. Over and over, events show that claims
of “change” under Obama or de Blasio/Bratton (and their fellow Democrat,
Missouri Gov. Nixon) are deceptions in the service of an oppressive system. The
name of that system is capitalism. In this country born from slavery, it is
racist to the core. This can’t be reformed away. Standing for black liberation
through socialist revolution, CUNY Internationalists are helping spread the
call today to oppose the military/police occupation in Missouri by mobilizing
labor/black/immigrant power and youth opposed to racist repression nationwide.
What do you think? Events from Ferguson
to New York challenge us all to speak out and make our opposition to racist
opposition heard, loud and clear. Come
to the speakout on Wednesday, September 3rd, outside Hunter West!
For more information:
cunyinternationalists@xxxxxxxxx
Attachment:
Hunter speakout 3 Sept 2014 flier - 2.pdf
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