Stop police murder, shut it down April 14, 2015.

1. • of a Generation

2. In 2015 nearly 2.5 million people
are locked up in U.S. prisons.
• That is 25% of all people imprisoned in the world!

3. 60% of those prisoners are Black and Latino,
among them, hundreds of thousands of women.

4. Growth of the prison population
• From 300,000 in the 1970s
– it’s about 1000% higher
today.
• The numbers of women in
prison have increased
800% in the past 30 years.
• Along with this the
epidemic of police
brutality and murder.
• This is the criminalization
of youth!

5. 2.5 million in prison + 7.0 million
on probation or parole + millions
of families members =
The outrageous math of
MASS INCARCERATION
32% of Black men 20 to 29 years
old are in prison, on parole or on
probation on any given day!

6. Millions of immigrants have been detained and
deported – including young children

7. Black and Latino youth of
this country have a target
on their backs.

8. Mass incarceration, police terror,
criminalization = a slow genocide.
Stolen Lives – 1000s killed by police

9. HOW DID WE
GET HERE?

10. The struggle of
Black people for
Civil Rights and
liberation in the
1960s
Awoke the country,
especially the youth and
put resistance and
revolution in the hearts
of millions.

11. Anti-war soldiers
Farmworkers
It was the catalyst for powerful
movements of . . .
Students and Veterans
Women
Chicano youth
Black Liberation

12. The response of the Nixon regime was to find a way to
crush the resistance of the Black community without
appearing too obvious about it. Thus began
the “war on drugs” . . .

13. Under Reagan the “War on Drugs”
was fully implemented. Mass
incarceration did not arise from an
epidemic of crime – it has grown
beside the militarization of police and
the criminalization of whole peoples.

14. In the 1980s and
1990s factories in
the U.S. were shut
down and
production moved
to other, low wage
countries. Millions
of people in the
inner city were left
with no jobs, no
future except . . .

15. • What we now know as the
New Jim Crow:
• Mass incarceration
• Police terror
• Criminalization

16. School cutbacks, privatization of education, children
treated as criminals – even tried in adult courts =
school as a pipeline to prison.
Prison spending
School spending

17. The construction of
super max prisons, the
so-called Special
Housing Units (SHU) and
long periods of solitary
confinement.
10s of thousands of U.S.
prisoners are kept,
sometimes for years, in
conditions the United
Nations describes as
TORTURE.

18. Immigration detention in
the U.S. has grown fast. In
2011, the Department of
Homeland Security held
429,000 immigrants in
over 250 facilities across
the country
Obama has earned the title
“Deporter-in-Chief” having
deported 2 million
immigrants, including
children from Central
America put on a fast track
to deportation.

19. Militarization: Police & the Border
Border Patrol agents have
increased in number from
9,800 in 2001 to 21,400 in
2012
In 2014 the United States army
gave away 13,000 armored
trucks to the Department of
Homeland Security which then
gave them to local police forces
across the U.S.

20. • Many of the conditions for genocide –
isolation & demonization of certain groups,
brutality & criminalization & massive
incarceration – already exist.
• Genocide does not require a master plan but a
build up of oppression and brutality that goes
unchallenged.
• A slow Genocide could become a fast one.
• The slide toward such horrors must be
stopped with RESISTANCE!

21. • Two major hunger
strikes in 2011 and
2013 led by
prisoners in the
Special Housing Unit
at Pelican Bay prison
in California were
joined by more than
30,000 prisoners
around the state and
country
RESISTANCE!

22. • Powerful protests to STOP “Stop & Frisk”
mobilized thousands in New York, forcing the
government to take a step back. RESISTANCE!

23. .
Important outbreaks of struggle in
the wake of the murders of Oscar
Grant in Oakland, Trayvon Martin in
Florida and Andy Lopez in Santa
Rosa, California.
RESISTANCE!

24. Struggles have broken out in response to the
police murders of ---
Eric Garner, New York
Alejandro Nieto, San Francisco
Omar Obrego, Los Angeles
Ezell Ford, Los Angeles
Carlos Mejia, Salinas, California
Yanira Serrano, Half Moon Bay, California
James Boyd, Albuquerque, New Mexico
John Crawford III, Beavercreek, Ohio
And many more police murders across the
country – RESISTANCE!

25. FERGUSON!
Took Resistance to a new level.
Justice for Michael Brown!

26. The defiant ones of Ferguson woke the
country.

27. Thousands took to the
streets to stop the
murder of Black and
Brown people at the
hands of the police

28. They blocked
highways and
bridges . . .

29. Marched
through malls
– stopped
business as
usual . . .
Mall of the Americas

30. Held die-ins
everywhere
Philadelphia
Los Angeles
Medical Students
White coats for Black Lives
At 70 Medical schools:

31. From athletes
to symphony
halls . . .

32. Standing against injustice

33. This was a rising
long past due & a
real advance in the
struggle to stop
these outrages!

34. But the horrors have not ended
And our people are still being murdered:
Tamir Rice (12) Cleveland
John Crawford III (25) Dayton
Camaron Tillman (14) Louisiana
Laquan McDonald (17) Chicago
Carey Smith-Viramontes (18) Long Beach
Jeffrey Holden (18) Kansas City
Miguel Benton (19) Georgia
Levi Weaver (18) Georgia
Karen Cifuentes (19) Oklahoma
Sergio Ramos (18) Dallas
Rashad McIntosh (19) Chicago
Diana Showman (19) San Jose
Dillan McGrae (18) Jackson, Tennessee
Antonio Zambrano Montes (35) Pasco, Washington
AND MANY, MANY MORE since Ferguson . . .

35. Like Antonio
Zambrano Montes,
a farmworker in
Pasco, Washington
executed by three
police on February
10, 2015.

36. Arrests, repression
and lies -- the
“powers that be” . . .
want to shut
down the
protests.

37. Heavy charges and fines
have been placed against
some protesters, for
example the BART
protesters in Oakland,
Noche Diaz in New York.

38. Proposals from the halls of power want to
criminalize protests as a form of “terrorism”.

39. The media has used the killing
of two Brooklyn police to turn
reality upside down and
portray police as the “real
victims”. Murdered police are
victims of “senseless killings”
while killings by police of
Black and brown youth are
always justified.
“One was a newlywed, the other a
dad of two sons who had just
celebrated his 40th birthday a
week ago.”
Portraits emerged of the two -
officers slain in a senseless
Brooklyn ambush Sunday, men
who were liked and respected . . . “
-- New York Post

40. We are now at a crossroads . . .
Which way will we go?
Passivity in the face of
more brutality and murder?
Or take the struggle to a
new level!!

41. Carl Dix: A revolutionary
Communist
Cornel West: A revolutionary
Christian activist.
Carl Dix and Cornel West who helped initiate the
Stop Mass Incarceration Network
Have initiated a call to
make April 14, 2015 a
day to take our
movement back!
NO WORK! NO SCHOOL!
NO BUSINESS AS USUAL!

42. DEMANDS FOR APRIL 14
THE MURDER OF BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE BY THE
POLICE MUST STOP.
JUSTICE FOR ALL VICTIMS OF BRUTAL, MURDERING
POLICE.
INDICT, CONVICT AND SEND KILLER COPS TO JAIL,
THE WHOLE DAMN SYSTEM IS GUILTY AS HELL.
STOP THE REPRESSION TARGETING THE PROTESTS –
DROP ALL THE CHARGES AGAINST ALL THOSE
ARRESTED.

43. All of us must act on April 14 to
declare loudly:
We will not go back!
Stop the police murder of our
people!

44. Spread the Stop Mass Incarceration
Pledge of Resistance:
Today we pledge:
Black lives matter. Latino lives matter. All lives matter.
• Mass incarceration: WE SAY NO MORE!
• Police murder: WE SAY NO MORE!
• Torture in the prisons: WE SAY NO MORE!
• Criminalization of generations: WE SAY NO MORE!
• Attacks on immigrants: WE SAY NO MORE!
We will NOT be silent. We WILL resist!
Until these shameful horrors really are... NO MORE

45. The murdered youths
of Mexico (Ayotzinapa)
and the U.S. (Ferguson)
are victims of the same
criminal system.
Mexico City, summer 2014
Washington DC
summer2014

46. Links to STOP MASS INCARCERATION materials
Carl Dix on No Business as Usual April 14 Video
Alice Walker’s poem “Gather”
Alice Walker's Garden
Stop Mass Incarceration pledge of resistance Poster
Revolution newspaper Website
Uncle Bobby and the Pledge of Resistance Video
Stopmassincarceration.net Website