The message from Hunger Striking prisoners across California this week is clear: Support from people on the outside is more important than ever.
http://justice4alanblueford.org/
END RACIAL PROFILING!
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition www.justice4alanblueford.org
The Blueford Family and the Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition wish to extend a special invitation to all families who have been victimized or lost a loved one to police brutality. Please march together with the Bluefords and our communities to show our resistance and to say NO to this illegal and reprehensible violence from law enforcement.
This march will occur on Saturday, November 10, at Noon, starting at 14th & Broadway, Oscar Grant Plaza, in downtown Oakland (12th/14th St BART). We will rally and march including a brief stop at the Oakland Police Department Headquarters, returning back to Oscar Grant Plaza for a gathering (~ 1.5 mi).
Stand up for your rights. We are all leaders. Stay present.
We are here as community to be aware of each other and take care of one another.
The system that criminalizes one of us has the potential to criminalize us all.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS & HOW TO EXERCISE THEM
Each of us has the right to free speech, to travel and to assemble (1st Amendment to the Constitution). Nevertheless, the police or Sheriff may give people a hard time. Do not ask cops for legal advice. Officers are allowed to LIE, and they do. Even if you are on parole or probation, you never have to speak to a cop.
You never have to speak to or answer an officer, so don't!
It is always a better idea to continue chanting with everyone else.
►If a cop approaches, ask “Am I free to go?” If they don't tell you that you must stay or that you're detained, calmly walk away. Even if you are being detained, do not answer questions.
►If an officer questions, threatens, detains, or arrests you at any time, you can say the magic words: “I choose to remain silent. I want to see a lawyer.” Then remain silent. These words and the refusal to talk to any law officer is protected by the 5th Amendment. Officers are not supposed to ask you questions once you have said you want to see a lawyer.* They will often try to intimidate you into talking. The safest words are the magic words.
►Remaining silent. If you do speak to the officers, follow it up with the magic words and nothing else. *After you have said you want to see a lawyer, officers are only permitted to ask your name and address. You can continue to remain silent. If an officer tries to search you or your property, clearly say “I do not consent to a search.” Stay calm, even if the cop searches anyway. Say the magic words.
►The magic words protect you from police questions & conversation. Police are trained to get you to talk and give up your rights.
►You are not required to “keep moving”; only to make sure people can get by (that you’re not blocking their passage)
If ARRESTED, say the Magic Words:
“I choose to remain silent. I want to see a lawyer.”
January 1st, 2012: Oscar Grant 3rd Anniversary Memorial March and Rally
Stand Up to the Watchdogs of the 1%--Your Local Police Department!
excerpt of letter from prisoner at CCI Tehachapi; July 21, 2011
They truly don't care and they are perfectly content in watching us pass rather than admit fault and make changes to a policy that is brutal and baseless. I can’t take my medication anymore because I have to take it with food… I asked for help and they just ignored me.
Demanding Justice for Derrick Jones By Francois Hughes December 15, 2010
OAKLAND, Calif.--Some 75 protesters gathered at a City Council meeting on December 14 to protest the killing of Derrick Jones and the inaction of the city government in the face of racist police murder. Video and Photo
END BORDER MILITARIZATION CONTINGENT
DEMANDING DIGNITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS FOR INDIGENOUS & MIGRANT COMMUNITIES
O'odham Solidarity Across Borders Collective sends you greetings from occupied O'odham lands,
from People for a Human Rights Sanctuary:
POOR PEOPLE'S MARCH FOR HUMAN RIGHTS! Saturday, September 12th in Eureka
Poor People's March for Human Rights
followed by a speak-out Celebration with food and music!
March together for HUMAN RIGHTS: safe shelter, healthy food, healthcare, and dignity FOR ALL.
Oscar Grant, 22, was murdered in cold blood by BART police just two hours into the new year. He was the loving father of a 4-year-old daughter, a fact he told the police just as he was shot.
Video of BART cop murdering Oscar
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Public Service Announcement
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Join Redwood Curtain CopWatch for two Days of Action Against Police
Brutality.