Author: Struggle – La Lucha

  • Abolición del sistema policial racista

    Abolición del sistema policial racista

    Abolición del sistema policial racista

    Defensa de nuestro movimiento

    Organizarse para empoderar al pueblo

    Exigimos:

    • ¡La Abolición del sistema policial racista!
    • ¡La retirada de la Policía y Guardia Nacional ahora!
    • ¡Liberar a todos los arrestados y retirar todos los cargos!
    • ¡Alto a los toques de queda y la escalada de violencia policial!

    Las comunidades negras, latinas e indígenas deben tener el derecho y los recursos para crear y controlar sus propias organizaciones y así mantenerse a salvo.

    Desde Minneapolis hasta Los Ángeles, Atlanta, Nueva York, Chicago, Filadelfia, Dallas, Baltimore, Washington, D.C. e incluso internacionalmente, las personas en ciudades y pueblos han salido a las calles indignadas por la inhumanidad del terror policial racista.

    La policía y los vigilantes de EE. UU. han recibido una licencia para asesinar a negros, latinos, indígenas y pobres.  Las víctimas del terror policial deben tener derecho a defenderse a sí mismas, a sus familias y a sus hijos.

    Si bien los atroces asesinatos de George Floyd, Breonna Taylor y Ahmaud Arbery han provocado ira y dolor masivos a nivel nacional, es el racismo y la supremacía blanca integrales al sistema del capitalismo la causa subyacente de la rebelión.

    El capitalismo y el imperialismo le han fallado al pueblo

    El movimiento masivo en las calles de cada pueblo y ciudad también tiene lugar en el contexto del fracaso masivo del capitalismo para proteger a las personas del mortal coronavirus y su promoción imperialista de la pobreza y la guerra.

    La falta de atención médica, vivienda, alimentos e ingresos, ha profundizado el sufrimiento de la gran mayoría de los trabajadores.  Las personas negras, latinas y pobres han sufrido de manera desproporcionada, especialmente porque como trabajadores esenciales que son, se ven obligados a trabajar en condiciones inseguras sin el equipo de protección personal (EPP) adecuado.  La disparidad de las tasas de mortalidad es evidente.  El rechazo a abordar lo que es una sentencia cercana a la muerte para millones de prisioneros y trabajadores inmigrantes y sus familias encerrados en campos de detención y el desprecio insensible a los trabajadores de primera línea que están siendo sacrificados por ganancias, ha impulsado este nuevo movimiento.

    La comunidad no posee corporaciones, ni bancos, ni recintos policiales

    Surgen argumentos inútiles destinados a distorsionar y nublar los acontecimientos que rodean las rebeliones e insurrecciones para engañar, dividir y confundir a la gente.  Argumentos como “La gente está destruyendo sus propios barrios” son un ejemplo.

    Target, una cadena multimillonaria de tiendas cuyos trabajadores están mal pagados y explotados sin piedad, no es propiedad de la comunidad ni tampoco los bancos ni una docena de otros negocios.  Y los recintos policiales en las ciudades no son más que los puestos avanzados de un ejército de ocupación en comunidades negras y marrones.

    ¿Quién realmente saquea nuestras comunidades?

    Son los banqueros y los multimillonarios los responsables de las medidas de austeridad que han retirado la subvención de la educación, la atención médica y la vivienda en todas las ciudades importantes.  La crisis hipotecaria creada por estos mismos bancos estafó y robó millones a familias trabajadoras negras y latinas que perdieron sus hogares.  Las familias negras perdieron la mitad de su riqueza en esta crisis, según la Coalición Nacional de Vivienda de Bajos Ingresos.

    ¿Cuál es la verdadera fuente de violencia?

    ¿Cómo pueden los medios de comunicación y los políticos igualar la ruptura de ventanas, la quema de autos de policía y lo que describen como “saqueo”, con la profunda violencia supremacista blanca que es una parte cotidiana de la vida de las personas negras y oprimidas en este país?  ¿Qué pasa con la violencia de la pobreza que amenaza a los trabajadores y las personas pobres los 365 días del año?  ¿Qué pasa con las terribles condiciones que enfrentan los trabajadores inmigrantes y sus hijos en los campos de detención?

    No se puede comparar una ventana rota con las vidas perdidas a manos de la policía o los asesinatos racistas.  Una ventana puede ser reparada.  La vida del hijo o la hija de una madre no puede ser devuelta.  Y sin protestas esos asesinatos continuarán.

    Es una hipocresía que los funcionarios del gobierno finjan estar preocupados por las pequeñas empresas o enfrentarlas contra los manifestantes y el movimiento.  El reciente paquete de estímulo fue un obsequio gigante para los multimillonarios, mientras que las pequeñas empresas comunitarias, particularmente las empresas negras, fueron francamente estafadas.  Nada se ha hecho durante la pandemia para ayudar a estas empresas.

    ¡Solidaridad contra la represión policial y militar!

    A medida que las personas arriesgan sus vidas tanto por la pandemia viral como por la pandemia del terror estatal racista que se ha intensificado con el despliegue de tropas militares, tanques y armas químicas, es de suma importancia que las organizaciones se unan para defender el derecho de la comunidad negra a protestar contra el terror amenazante por parte de la policía—una entidad creada originalmente con el objetivo de capturar esclavos fugitivos.

    Trump ha promovido el genocidio y ha pedido a los militares que eliminen el movimiento popular.  El Movimiento por las Vidas Negras ha abogado por la remoción inmediata de Trump.  El Partido Demócrata ha sido cómplice con su silencio, y peor aún, impuso toques de queda y ordenó a las tropas de la Guardia Nacional ingresar a nuestros vecindarios.

    Lo que se necesita es que nuestro movimiento se una fuerte y ​​solidariamente para defenderse y convertirse en una fuerza que pueda ganar estas demandas y abolir la causa raíz del asesinato policial y la represión estatal: el capitalismo, las guerras y el imperialismo.

    Contacto: Struggle for Socialism/ La Lucha por el Socialismo

    Socialist Unity Party/Partido de Socialismo Unido

    Struggle-La-Lucha.org

    Contacto nacional: in**@***************ha.com


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  • Abolish the racist police

    Abolish the racist police

    Abolish the racist police system

    Defend our movement 

    Organize for people’s power

    We demand:

    • Abolish the racist police system
    • Police and National Guard withdraw now
    • Release all arrestees — Drop all charges
    • End the curfews and escalation of violence by police
    • Black, Brown and Indigenous communities must have the right and resources to create and control their own entities to keep them safe

    From Minneapolis to Los Angeles, Atlanta, New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and even internationally, people in cities and towns have taken to the streets in outrage over the inhumanity of racist police terror. U.S. police and vigilantes have been given a license to murder Black, Brown, Indigenous and poor people. The victims of police terror must have the right to defend themselves, their families and their children.

    While the egregious murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery have ignited mass anger and pain nationally, it is the racism and white supremacy integral to the system of capitalism that is the underlying cause of the rebellion.

    Capitalism and imperialism have failed the people

    The massive movement in the streets in every town and city also takes place in the context of the massive failure of capitalism to protect people from the deadly coronavirus and its imperialist promotion of poverty and war.

    The lack of health care, housing, food and income has deepened suffering for the vast majority of workers. Black, Latinx and poor people have suffered disproportionately, especially as essential workers are forced to work in unsafe conditions without the proper personal protective equipment (PPE). The disparity of death rates is glaring. The refusal to address what is a near-death sentence for millions of prisoners and immigrant workers and their families locked up in detention camps and the callous disregard of frontline workers who are being sacrificed for profits has fueled this new movement.

    The community doesn’t own corporations, banks and police precincts

    Useless arguments emerge aimed at distorting and clouding the events surrounding rebellions and insurrections to both mislead, divide and confuse the people. Arguments like “People are destroying their own neighborhoods” are one example.

    Target — a billion dollar chain store whose workers are low paid and mercilessly exploited — is not owned by the community any more than the banks or a dozen other businesses. And the police precincts in cities are nothing more than outposts of an occupation army in Black and Brown communities.

    Who really looted our communities? 

    It is the bankers and billionaires who are responsible for the austerity measures that have defunded education, health care and housing in every major city. The mortgage crisis created by these same banks ripped off and stole millions from Black and Latinx working-class families who lost their homes. Black families lost half their wealth in this crisis, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.

    What is the real source of violence?

    How can the media and politicians equate the breaking of windows, the burning of police cars and what they describe as “looting” with the deep white supremacist violence that is a daily part of the lives of Black and oppressed people in this country. What about the violence of poverty threatening workers and poor people 365 days of the year? What about the horrific conditions that immigrant workers and their children face in detention camps?

    You cannot compare a broken window with the lives lost to police or racist murders. A window can be repaired. A mother’s son or daughter’s life cannot be brought back. And without protests those murders will continue.

    It is hypocrisy for government officials to pretend to be concerned about small businesses or to pit them against protesters and the movement. The recent stimulus package was a giant giveaway to billionaires while small community businesses, particularly Black businesses, were frankly ripped off. Nothing has been done during the pandemic to assist these businesses.

    Solidarity against police and military repression!

    As people are risking their lives from both the viral pandemic and the pandemic of racist state terror that has escalated to military troops, tanks and chemical weapons, it is of utmost importance that organizations unite to defend the Black community’s right to protest the life-threatening terror by the police — an entity originally created for the purpose of capturing runaway slaves. 

    Trump has encouraged genocide and called for the military to put down the people’s movement. The Movement for Black Lives has advocated for Trump’s immediate removal. The Democratic Party has been complicit with its silence, or worse, imposed curfews and ordered National Guard troops into our neighborhoods. 

    Let our movement unite in strength and solidarity to defend itself and become a force that can win these demands and abolish the root cause of police murder and state repression: capitalism, war and imperialism. 

    Contact: Struggle for Socialism/La Lucha por el Socialismo
    Socialist Unity Party/ Partido de Socialismo Unido

    Struggle-La-Lucha.org

    National Contact: in**@***************ha.com


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  • Abolish the racist police

    Abolish the racist police

    Abolish the racist police system

    Defend our movement 

    Organize for people’s power

    We demand:

    • Abolish the racist police system
    • Police and National Guard withdraw now
    • Release all arrestees — Drop all charges
    • End the curfews and escalation of violence by police
    • Black, Brown and Indigenous communities must have the right and resources to create and control their own entities to keep them safe

    From Minneapolis to Los Angeles, Atlanta, New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and even internationally, people in cities and towns have taken to the streets in outrage over the inhumanity of racist police terror. U.S. police and vigilantes have been given a license to murder Black, Brown, Indigenous and poor people. The victims of police terror must have the right to defend themselves, their families and their children.

    While the egregious murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery have ignited mass anger and pain nationally, it is the racism and white supremacy integral to the system of capitalism that is the underlying cause of the rebellion.

    Capitalism and imperialism have failed the people

    The massive movement in the streets in every town and city also takes place in the context of the massive failure of capitalism to protect people from the deadly coronavirus and its imperialist promotion of poverty and war.

    The lack of health care, housing, food and income has deepened suffering for the vast majority of workers. Black, Latinx and poor people have suffered disproportionately, especially as essential workers are forced to work in unsafe conditions without the proper personal protective equipment (PPE). The disparity of death rates is glaring. The refusal to address what is a near-death sentence for millions of prisoners and immigrant workers and their families locked up in detention camps and the callous disregard of frontline workers who are being sacrificed for profits has fueled this new movement.

    The community doesn’t own corporations, banks and police precincts

    Useless arguments emerge aimed at distorting and clouding the events surrounding rebellions and insurrections to both mislead, divide and confuse the people. Arguments like “People are destroying their own neighborhoods” are one example.

    Target — a billion dollar chain store whose workers are low paid and mercilessly exploited — is not owned by the community any more than the banks or a dozen other businesses. And the police precincts in cities are nothing more than outposts of an occupation army in Black and Brown communities.

    Who really looted our communities? 

    It is the bankers and billionaires who are responsible for the austerity measures that have defunded education, health care and housing in every major city. The mortgage crisis created by these same banks ripped off and stole millions from Black and Latinx working-class families who lost their homes. Black families lost half their wealth in this crisis, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.

    What is the real source of violence?

    How can the media and politicians equate the breaking of windows, the burning of police cars and what they describe as “looting” with the deep white supremacist violence that is a daily part of the lives of Black and oppressed people in this country. What about the violence of poverty threatening workers and poor people 365 days of the year? What about the horrific conditions that immigrant workers and their children face in detention camps?

    You cannot compare a broken window with the lives lost to police or racist murders. A window can be repaired. A mother’s son or daughter’s life cannot be brought back. And without protests those murders will continue.

    It is hypocrisy for government officials to pretend to be concerned about small businesses or to pit them against protesters and the movement. The recent stimulus package was a giant giveaway to billionaires while small community businesses, particularly Black businesses, were frankly ripped off. Nothing has been done during the pandemic to assist these businesses.

    Solidarity against police and military repression!

    As people are risking their lives from both the viral pandemic and the pandemic of racist state terror that has escalated to military troops, tanks and chemical weapons, it is of utmost importance that organizations unite to defend the Black community’s right to protest the life-threatening terror by the police — an entity originally created for the purpose of capturing runaway slaves. 

    Trump has encouraged genocide and called for the military to put down the people’s movement. The Movement for Black Lives has advocated for Trump’s immediate removal. The Democratic Party has been complicit with its silence, or worse, imposed curfews and ordered National Guard troops into our neighborhoods. 

    Let our movement unite in strength and solidarity to defend itself and become a force that can win these demands and abolish the root cause of police murder and state repression: capitalism, war and imperialism. 

    Contact: Struggle for Socialism/La Lucha por el Socialismo
    Socialist Unity Party/ Partido de Socialismo Unido

    Struggle-La-Lucha.org

    National Contact: in**@***************ha.com


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  • Los Angeles June 7: Community Car Caravan Against Police Terrorism!

    Los Angeles June 7: Community Car Caravan Against Police Terrorism!

    Sunday, June 7, 2020 at 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM PDT

    (el mensaje se repetirá en español)

    We call on the entire community to come out and join this car caravan to speak out against police terrorism in our communities. We are starting the caravan in Compton and ending in Downtown LA at LAPD Headquarters.

    We encourage you to place posters and messages on your cars (including on top so the helicopter cameras can see them) to show solidarity with the current protests that are happening across the country.

    The BEGINNING: In the spirit of Black Power and the fight against police terrorism, we are starting this car caravan at the resting place of Bunchy Carter, the historic Chairman of the Southern CA Chapter of the Black Panther Party.

    Route: We will cruise down Central Ave, going through Compton, Watts and South Central. We will honk our horns and speak to the people on the streets and ask them to join the caravan!

    The END: We will end the action in front of the LAPD Headquarters.

    This action will be organized and disciplined. We are in the middle of a pandemic and our peoples are being infected and dying at a disproportionate rate. We are asking everyone who participates to practice the following so that we can keep ourselves and our communities safe and healthy.

    1. Please only ride with people who you have been quarantined with
    2. Wear a mask and if possible glasses and gloves.

    Better safe than sorry!

    We acknowledge that not everyone has a car. We are trying our best to organize an action where as much of our communities can participate in the safest way possible during a pandemic.

    This event is being organized and/or endorsed by: Union del Barrio, Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice, Compton Girls Club, American Indian Movement- Southern CA, Frente Indigena de Organizaciones Binacionales (FIOB), Socialist Unity Party, Human Rights Alliance for Children and Refugee Families, Witness for Peace Southwest, Puerto Rican Alliance, Philippine-US Solidarity Organization, Patria Coffee, CodePink-LA

    If you organization wants to endorse this action, please contact us directly. Thank you!

    ====================

    Hacemos un llamado a toda la comunidad para que se una a esta caravana de automóviles para denunciar el terrorismo policial en nuestras comunidades. Estamos comenzando la caravana en Compton y vamos a terminar en el centro de Los Ángeles en la sede del LAPD.

    Recomendamos que pongan carteles y mensajes en sus automóviles (incluso en la parte superior para que las cámaras de los helicópteros puedan verlos) para mostrar solidaridad con las protestas actuales que están ocurriendo en todo el país.

    EL COMIENZO: En el espíritu del Poder Negro y la lucha contra el terrorismo policial, estamos comenzando esta caravana de autos en el lugar de descanso de Bunchy Carter, el lider historico del Capítulo del Sur de California del Partido de las Panteras Negras.

    Ruta: Navegaremos por Central Ave, pasando por Compton, Watts y el Sur Central. Vamos a tocar el claxon y hablaremos con la gente en las calles y les pediremos que se unan a la caravana.

    FIN: finalizaremos la acción en frente a la sede de LAPD.

    Esta acción será organizada y disciplinada. Estamos en medio de una pandemia y nuestros pueblos están siendo infectados y estan muriendo a un ritmo desproporcionado. Estamos pidiendo a todos los que participen que practiquen lo siguiente para que podamos mantenernos seguros y saludables a nosotros mismos y a nuestras comunidades.

    1. Por favor, solo viaje con personas que han estado en cuarentena con ustedes
    2. Use una máscara y si es posible lentes y guantes.

    ¡Más vale prevenir que lamentar!

    Reconocemos que no todos tenemos carros. Estamos haciendo todo lo posible para organizar una acción donde la mayor parte de nuestras comunidades puedan participar de la manera más segura posible durante una pandemia.

    Si su organización desea respaldar esta acción, contáctenos directamente. ¡Gracias!

     

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  • Baltimore joins national protests: Stop Police Terror & Racism!

    Baltimore joins national protests: Stop Police Terror & Racism!

    Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT

    Peoples Power Assembly
    2011 N Charles St, Baltimore

    Baltimore Joins National Protests to Stop Police Terror, Racism, and Repression

    The Peoples Power Assembly is joining with the (NAARPR) National Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression and the Movement for Black Lives for national protests this Saturday
    ___________________________________________________________________

    We are continuing to amplify the call for justice for all victims of police terror! At this minute our movement is under attack.

    We demand:
    Cops and National Guard out of our streets!
    Release all those arrested! Lift the curfews!
    End the violent attacks, including the use of tear gas, rubber bullets, and concussion grenades!
    ___________________________________________________________________

    This protest will be a march AND a car caravan. If you are driving, gather in the parking lot across the street from 2011 N Charles St.
    ___________________________________________________________________

    Please wear a mask and remember to social distance (6 feet apart)!

    #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #JusticeForBreonnaTaylor #JusticeForAhmaudArbery #BaltimoreProtest

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  • Palestinians express solidarity with U.S. people confronting racism

    Palestinians express solidarity with U.S. people confronting racism

     

    The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) expressed its support for people in the U.S. confronting the injustice and racism practiced by the U.S. government in various cities and towns in the United States.

    This statement came in response to the repression against those protesting the deliberate killing of a Black citizen by the police in the city of Minneapolis, reflecting the racist character and right-wing policies of the Trump administration, which fuels racism and contradicts all its claims of defending freedom and democracy.

    The Front noted that the U.S. government’s use of its contradictory claims to defend democracy and equality in all countries of the world, and to use this as an entry point to interfere in the internal affairs of countries, such as accusing China of destabilizing Hong Kong, no longer fools anyone. The practices of the U.S. administration and Trump are made clear by the brutal methods of repression used against demonstrators opposing racist policies toward Black people in the U.S.

    The Popular Front concluded by stating that it is not surprising for a country like the United States, which has a strategic alliance with the Zionist entity [Israel], to intersect with it in the discrimination, racism and repression that embodies its treatment of Palestinians.

    Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
    Central Information Department
    June 1, 2020

    Translation by Greg Butterfield

    Source: PFLP.ps

  • San Diego June 1: No More Blue on Black

    San Diego June 1: No More Blue on Black

    Monday, June 1, 2020 at 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT

    1401 Broadway, San Diego

    The police are never going to stop killing people until the public comes to grips with the reality that they are not bound by law to protect them. The reason they get away with murdering citizens is they are acting at the behest of the private interests who brought them into existence. Blacks and other people of color (poc) have long been the open targets of racist law enforcement policies like stop-and-frisk and humiliating and often deadly tactics like the one applied against George Floyd.

    Reform will not work! The foundation of policing in America being intricately tied to private interests means the only way to end police violence once and for all is to ABOLISH KILLER COPS in our communities and to take an interest in organizing community “peace patrols” and employing medical and mental care professionals who originate from or now live in those oppressed communities.

    In order to achieve this goal takes serious commitment and organization far beyond protesting. Protests are extremely important for a number of reasons, one of which is to create awareness to the general public that a problem exists. They also put the ruling elite on notice that the public is waking up. But in order to halt police violence in our communities, social, economic and political organizing is the ONLY solution.

    George Floyds’ murder and the overall callous disregard shown for his well being by law enforcement shows yet again why the “Black Lives Matter” slogan is so appropriate. America has never shown Black people and POC’s that our lives matter and we should make 2020 the year that becomes no longer acceptable at any level.

    Police Chief Nisleit sent condolences to George Floyds’ family, claiming to want to work “to build trust, establish clear policies, ensure consistent training, maintain open and honest dialog with our communities…”…all while he has killer cops Ben Downing, Devion Johnson and Johnathon McCarthy on his payroll! Jail Downing, Johnson and McCarthy and ALL killer cops!!!

    Come to let law enforcement in San Diego we are not going to stand for police violence in our communities! Bring your creative but angry protest signs, noise makers and/or drums and join protests around the country in calling for JUSTICE FOR GEORGE FLOYD!! JAIL ALL KILLER COPS!!!

    {{{{ Never comply with “orders” to incriminate yourself. Never comply with orders to participate in your own humiliation. Never comply with unlawful commands designed to entrap you. It is your duty to yourself, your family, community and people to defend yourself against aggression of all manner from all sources, including law enforcement. }}}}

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  • Justice for George Floyd from Minneapolis to NYC – Black Power Rally, Brooklyn June 1st

    Justice for George Floyd from Minneapolis to NYC – Black Power Rally, Brooklyn June 1st

    Justice for the police murder of George Floyd and the constant brutality, murder, and oppression of ALL Black People. Let’s do our work in the streets. Stay the course… Never Give Up.

    JOIN US ON MONDAY, JUNE 1, 2020 AT 5PM FOR A ‘BLACK POWER RALLY’ ON FULTON ST (Harriet Tubman Blvd) & NOSTRAND AVE, BROOKLYN NY.

    #D12THMOVEMENT, D12M.COM
    NO JUSTICE! NO PEACE! WHOSE STREETS? OUR STREETS!

  • Minnesota: Jail All 4 Killer Cops NOW!

    Minnesota: Jail All 4 Killer Cops NOW!

    Monday, June 1, 2020 at 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM CDT

    Minnesota Governor’s Residence
    Saint Paul, Minnesota 55105

    Come together in peaceful but powerful protest with community organizations from across the Twin Cities to demand the arrest of the four MPD officers to killed George Floyd be jailed immediately and to demand Governor Walz appoint a special prosecutor not affiliated with the Hennepin County Attorneyś office or the Attorney General’s office because we have no faith in these agencies to vigorously prosecute police officers, given their past failures.

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