“We Can’t Breathe” Political NYE | SF

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Rock In the New Year with Resistance to Police Murder because there is No New Year Under this Old System.

If you think that police murder must stop, be out in the streets with that message on New Year’s Eve. Say in a loud, clear voice—No New Year Under this Old System And—We Can’t Breathe. Bring your whistles and blow them loudly. Bring your signs and banners. Figure out imaginative ways to say “No More” to all these horrors.

On New Year’s Eve, as the clock winds down on 2014, the powers that be will hope to be ringing in a new year that carries forward business as usual. That must not be allowed to go down because business as usual in Amerikkka includes wanton police murder of Black people. The refusal of grand juries in Ferguson and Staten Island to indict the cops who murdered Michael Brown and Eric Garner made this clear. So the powerful, beautiful and necessary outpourings that have disrupted this society’s normal routine must continue and escalate on New Year’s Eve and into the New Year.

We should live in a society where those who are entrusted with public safety would sooner risk their own lives than kill or injure an innocent person. But in this society, cops who brutalize and murder are given the benefit of the doubt and are almost never punished in any way for their crimes. This is illegitimate and unacceptable. It must be stopped, and it’s up to us to stop it. On New Year’s Eve, we must act in many different ways to do just that.

And if you think that torture, that violence against women and attacks on women’s rights, that attacks on immigrants and the pillaging of the environment of the planet, that U.S. wars for empire and attacks on people for who they love and how they love and more must be stopped.

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