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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

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Stop Police Terror: #RiseUpOctober

Chicago, October 22, 2015

Rise Up in New York City Oct 22-23-24

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

Sunday October 18 by midnight: $4,000 challenge from physicians:

Confronting the cancer of racism, silence is intolerable if we wish to remain human. Since the founding of our nation, this malignancy has been eating away at our pretensions of democracy. The reason for its persistence is not merely a cultural and social legacy of slavery. It relates to a system of governance that appropriates wealth to a few while ignoring the dire needs of the many who produce the wealth. As Dr. Martin Luther King, in his memorable speech at the Riverside Church in New York City nearly 40 years ago stated, "The time comes when silence is betrayal''

Bernard Lown, M.D. (winner 1985 Nobel Prize for Peace)

We are physicians who join with Dr. Lown in this match challenge. With love and solidarity with these Stolen Lives families who have suffered so much and are so courageous. Rise Up October!

DONATE NOW!

As part of #RiseUpOctober

National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of Generations

Thursday, October 22

12:00 noon

James R. Thompson Center Plaza

(Clark & Randolph)

Chicago

A Public Reading and Remembrance: A Demand for Justice

Join with families whose loved ones have been murdered by the police and many others on October 22 to "Say Their Names."

THEN MARCH FOR JUSTICE

Bring banners and posters of those whose lives were stolen by police. Bring drums and whistles.

For more information:

Stop Mass Incarceration Network - Chicago

StopMassIncarcerationChicago@gmail.com * (312) 933-9586

www.facebook.com/SMINChicago

@StopMassIncChi

stopmassincarceration.net

Join, invite friends and share the Facebook event for Oct. 22

WANTED:

100 donors to give $100

100 donors to give $10

Let's meet this goal by October 22!

Rise Up October - STOP Police Terror is calling people from all walks of life to be in NYC October 22-24. Families of those whose lives have been stolen by the police have stepped forward to join this Call.Their powerful stories of what the system has done to them, and their cries for justice - not just for their own loved ones, but for what is happening all over this country - need to be heard right in the heart of New York City.

Iris- Margarita

Iris Baez, mother of Anthony Baez, killed by NYPD in 1994, and Margarita Rosario, whose son Anthony Rosario, and nephew Hilton Vega were killed by NYPD

Match Their Courage

It takes real courage to speak out ... when your loved one who has just been murdered by the police is also being demonized ... when the authorities and the media spin the narrative in order to justify murder by police.

It takes real courage to stand tall when how you raised a child or handled a mental illness episode is questioned as if somehow you were responsible for the police murdering your loved one.

Joshua Lopez, whose uncle John Collado was killed by NYPD in 2012; Nicholas Heyward Sr, whose son Nicholas Jr was killed by NYPC in 1994; Juanita Young, whose son Malcolm Ferguson was killed by NYPD in 20

It takes real courage to not give up when the police manufacture evidence, intimidate and arrest witnesses or commit legally sanctioned murder by repeating the words that they were afraid of your loved one because of the color of their skin... to not give up when there is never any justice.

It takes real courage to speak out when the police literally come to funerals and memorials to threaten you as you bury your loved one... when the police arrest your other children, when they can come after your family in a thousand "legal" ways.

Yohanna Flores, whose father Ernesto was killed by San Bernardino County CA Sheriffs in 2015

It takes real courage to speak out when doing so means reliving over and over the awful reality that your loved ones life was stolen by the police who acted as judge, jury and executioner. When you have no time to grieve privately ... when you can't sleep at night.

Read their stories...and match their courage

Needed now:

100 donors to make a small sacrifice & donate $100

100 more donors to give $1

See you in the streets October 22-24 to Rise Up Together

GETTING TO NEW YORK ON OCTOBER 24

Bus tickets from Chicago to NYC are on sale now at http://bpt.me/2342104

Tickets are $140 round trip on a chartered bus. You can buy an individual ticket, blocks of tickets for groups, and you can DONATE to provide tickets for young, unemployed, and low-income people.

If you don't have the full amount for a bus ticket now, you can donate $25 now, to reserve a seat on the bus, and pay in full by October 22.

Gather at 3:30 pm on Friday, October 23, at Overflow Coffee Bar, 1550 S. State, Chicago. Bus leaves at 4:00 pm. Return on Sunday, October 25 at 2:00 pm. Information on buses: call 312-933-9586, email Stop Mass Incarceration Network Chicago or go to the website, to get on the bus and make sure no one is left behind who wants to go!

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