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Drop the Charges on Noche Diaz and the Puerto Rican People’s Parade 7!
Hands Off the Revolution Club! We Have the Right to Lift Our Heads!
Seven
members of the Revolution Club Chicago, including Noche Diaz of the
National Get Organized for an ACTUAL Revolution Tour, are facing trial
this fall, stemming from an illegitimate mass arrest by the Chicago
Police Department at the 2018 Puerto Rican People’s Parade. The
Revolution Club members were surrounded and violently arrested for
speaking with people, at a public parade, about the crimes of this
system and getting organized for revolution. This arrest is part of a
pattern of very similar illegal arrests, as well as ongoing harassment,
physical interference and attempted intimidation by the Chicago police
of the Revolution Club for speaking in public places. All seven are
charged with interfering with a police officer, a misdemeanor charge
that carries possibly a year in jail. In addition, Noche is charged with
a sound ordinance violation and disorderly conduct, which carry
hundreds of dollars in fines.
 At
the Puerto Rican People’s Parade in 2018, the Revolution Club was set
up along the parade route where vendors line the streets playing music
and selling flags and food. The Revolution Club banner said, “This
System Cannot Be Reformed, It Must Be Overthrown,” and there were
posterboard displays of the crimes of this system, including the
criminal actions of the Trump/Pence regime that caused the deaths of
thousands of people in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Members of the
Revolution Club were passing out flyers with the message of how a real
revolution is the way out of this mess and can actually be made, calling
on people to be part of getting organized for revolution. And they had
scheduled a film showing in the park for later that evening, the 2017
speech by Bob Avakian, “The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! In the Name of
Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America, A Better World IS Possible.” Read more here
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