Organize to empower workers and oppressed people to demand jobs, education & healthcare while fighting against racist police terror, sexism, LGBTQ and ableist oppression. Contact any of the groups mentioned from the right side-bar.

Feb2015

by on February 4, 2015

**THE CALL FOR A PEOPLES TRIBUNAL AGAINST POLICE REPRESSION AND VIOLENCE. Read Call.

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March 2015 International Working Women’s Day actions. Click for listing of actions in NYC, Balt, Chicago, Providence, Detroit or see right side-bar local links.

 

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**Weekend of Feb 21: actions against police brutality in honor of Malcolm X, who became a revolutionary because Black Lives Matter. 

In Harlem, the PPA & others will “walk in his footsteps,” meeting at 12 noon where Malcolm used to hold street meetings, and walk to the police precinct where he organized a protest against police brutality in 1957. For NYC details. Nationwide.

 

 

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6 Months Later-Black Lives Still Matter-The Uprising Continues-

HANDS UP/WE CAN’T BREATHE!

(Rally, Die-in/Sing In-Reading the NAMES).

Monday Jan 9, 2015. In NYC: 5pm Foley Square. FB Event.
See FergusonResponseNetwork for action in your area.
**Make February Black Futures Month. Actions all month, but especially:
-Feb 9: Six month anniversary of Michael Brown murder.
-Feb. 13: Black Love Day to closely coincide with Valentine’s Day.
-Feb. 21: a national day of shutdowns around police brutality in honor of Malcolm X.
-Feb. 26: Trayvon Martin Day who would have turned 20 years.
 

MLK2015

by on January 7, 2015
**Urgent: PPA statement on shooting of Brooklyn police (Espanol)

Continue to Reclaim the rebellious spirit of Dr. King & the movement that raised him.  

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See Resources for placards

Jan. 15: Day of mass resistance on actual date of birthday; Especially Peoples Power STRIKE AGAINST RACISMNo business as usual – Shut It down: Walk Out! Sick out! Don’t Go IN! FacebookEvent, NYC & Balt Local listings. Other actions on Fergusonresponse & FA/actions.
Jan. 18: Day of reflection with special emphasis on faith-based outreach.
Jan. 19: Day of direct and mass actions on the King holiday.  See esp. fergusonresponse for complete listing.

Let’s Make 2015 a “Year of Resistance” for Black Lives.

Continue the uprising: For future actions & reports & videos of past actions (from around the country), see esp: Fight Police Terror drop down, PPA FB & PPA FB Event. See also FergusonAction & FergusonResponseNetwork. Don’t miss the “I Can’t Breathe” anthem. Scroll down or see right side bars for other issues (Low Wage Workers; Water is a Right, etc.)

 

Statement on Shooting of Police In Brooklyn

by on December 21, 2014

Peoples Power Assembly Movement on shooting of police in Brooklyn

Don’t let this incident be used to crush the uprising!

The following statement was issued on Dec. 21.

The police have been desperately searching or waiting for some occurrence that they can use as a weapon to crush the most powerful, widespread, national mass uprising against racist police terror and murder since the 1960s.

Until yesterday, the frame-up of activists from #MillionsMarchNYC on Dec. 13 was the weapon. We demand immediate amnesty for those targeted activists accused of the alleged attacks on New York Police Department detectives on the Brooklyn Bridge.

But now, the police — and the powers that be who rule over society and whose interests the police “protect and serve” — have got a much bigger weapon. The Dec. 20 killing of NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, allegedly by Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who afterwards allegedly killed himself in a subway station, is NOW that weapon.

We underscore the word “allegedly” because all we know about what happened is what the police have told us.  And while at the moment we have no information that counters the police story, we always suspect whatever the police say because they lie all the time.

One of the reasons that many of us prefer the strategy of a mass, social and political uprising against the whole system, over individuals targeting police, is because history has shown that more often than not, when people engage in individual, random attacks on police, it’s used by the government, the police and the system to attack the movement with violence baiting, in order to justify ratcheting up repression against the masses.

That said, we also know that anger over police repression and murder is so deep that it should come as no surprise to anyone that somebody would, sooner or later, act on that burning rage. Especially when the so-called justice system demonstrates time after time after time that police can, and do, murder with impunity.

Neither do we forget that 99.9 percent of the violence comes from the police.

No repression against the movement

From this point on, the establishment media and all who benefit from or serve the system will insist that we forget that the police have been waging a racist, violent and deadly war against Black and Brown people, especially young people.
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Aiyana JonesThe new narrative coming from on high will be that the murders of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Akai
Eric GarnerGurley, Tamir Rice, Ramarley Graham, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, John Crawford III and thousands of other young people of color don’t matter

Tamir Rice anymore.

We are about to witness a no-holds-barred campaign to criminalize and break the powerful movement sparked by Ferguson, Mo., which every day has brought many thousands of people into the streets of citiesJohn Crawford and towns aAkai Gurleycross the country.

The rhetoric from rulers about “respecting the right to protest” will be replaced with “the protesters are guilty of murder” — and so the right to protest will be revoked.

Ramarley GrahamThe strength of the uprising has rocked the system and weakened the capacity of the police to crack down on the protests, which, after all, is the ultimate goal of the police. How else can they continue their war against Black and Brown people?

Let us not forget: It is the police who kill without mercy, without regret, without concern for the families of their victims. It is the police who function like a gang, alien and hostile to most of society that’s not privileged by class or race.

The only concern of the police is that their violence, their cover-ups and lies not be questioned.

The people who really value all life, who want a world free of repression, violence and all forms of injustice, are the people who have been marching with signs that say “Black Lives Matter.” It is within this tremendous new movement against police violence that genuine humanity and the understanding of the pain of those who must face the holidays without their slain loved ones are rooted.

Most importantly, we must not let what happened in Brooklyn on Dec. 20 be used to destroy, harm or shake this movement for justice. We demand no escalation of repression against the movement.

This movement is the hope of the future. The oppressors hate it and fear it. We must see that it is not set back.


 

Protest Dec 19

by on December 18, 2014
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***TAKE ACTION NOW: Protest outrageous pro-cop rally: Dec 19, 2014. 5pm. City Hall Park, NYC.

Sign on to & spread the Statement. 

Statement also at FB.

-Spread the word: FBEventNoThankYouNYPDFBPPAFB
#NoThankYouNYPD; #BlackLivesMatter; #ThisStopsToday

 

Week of Dec 13, 2014

by on December 8, 2014

STAND WITH FERGUSON.

END POLICE TERROR, NOW!

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CLICK for NYC actions week of Dec 20. **URGENT: See FB & #NoThankYouNYPD for responding to pro-cop rally Friday, Dec 19, 2014.

The uprising continues, expands:  Most updated report-back on the courageous & inspiring actions from around the country on PPA FB & PPA FB Event. Also check FergusonAction for ongoing actions & esp. FergusonActionNetwork.
 -NAN-called action in D.C. Sat Dec 13, 10:30 am. 
**See also NYC Local Actions.

(see Resources for placards in pic.)

 
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