[sudo-discuss] #96Hours of direct actions this MLK weekend

[Karissa McKelvey]

This is your chance to spend a few hours this weekend supporting local
movements in support of equality for all people with  #96Hours Direct
Action Weekend organized with support from the Anti Police Terror Project.

*Events*
Friday @ 4pm: Interfaith processional in remembrance of Black Lives
Oakland City Hall
https://www.facebook.com/events/738319126299522/

Saturday @ 6pm: Say their names
Oakland International Airport
https://www.facebook.com/events/1958174034406838/

Sunday @ 4:30pm:  San Francisco March for Tech Diversity and Equity
Location TBD
https://www.facebook.com/events/820417478080686/821227237999710/

Monday @ 11am: Second Annual March to Reclaim King's Radical Legacy
Oscar Grant Plaza
https://www.facebook.com/events/1541563859495909/

#96Hours event page
https://www.facebook.com/events/1637988586490486/

*Description*
“This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the
tranquilizing drug of gradualism” -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Over the last year, in the Bay Area alone, there have been dozens of police
murders. In San Francisco, we have most recently seen the brutal execution
of Mario Woods, in addition to police beating a disabled man in front of
the Twitter building and racist text messages exchanged between SFPD
on-duty officers.

In Oakland, we have seen 8 Black men murdered by police since only June of
2015. In fact, a recent graphic by Mapping Police Violence shows that in
2015, Oakland ranks third in police killings per million people in 60 of
America's largest cities. (https://www.facebook.com/
photo.php?fbid=10206329825138680&set=a.1214863845917.
33741.1058446890&type=3&theater)

Police are the shock troops of gentrification. Mayors give them a mandate:
make this city appealing to developers by any means necessary. City
Councils fund police and constantly seek to expand their numbers and their
powers. As a result, people of color are being pushed out of cities at
unprecedented rates, by an out of control rental market, increased police
occupation and terrorism against communities of color, as well as
crackdowns on those who dare protest these unjust policies.

A year ago, people across the country began taking to the streets in
unprecedented numbers; storming shopping centers, blocking streets and
highways, interrupting cultural events and public transit. And the people
SHUT IT DOWN. We SHUT IT DOWN because there is a state-sponsored war on
Black, Brown, and other marginalized peoples in the United States. WE SHUT
DOWN BUSINESS-AS-USUAL because business-as-usual is an out-of-control
epidemic of police terror.

Last year, in partnership with comrades and allies, APTP launched 96 Hours
of Direct Action in the Bay Area, and answered a national call to Reclaim
King’s Radical Legacy which we did through a march that brought over 7,000
people into the streets of Oakland. We believe it is important for our
movement to draw on King’s legacy to ground ourselves, to reinforce our
conviction and confidence in the tactics and strategy of disruptive direct
action.

A year later, while we are starting to have an impact, we also see that we
have a long long way to go. So this Martin Luther King Day weekend,
Oakland’s Anti Police-Terror Project* is calling on you to help us SHUT IT
DOWN - again. Together, we will unleash the vast creativity and organizing
capacity of our communities to produce a spectrum of disruptive and
creative activity. In the spirit of MLK, we want these to actions to
meaningfully interrupt business as usual whether that be with direct
action, teach-ins, concerts or prayer vigils and to do so with action logic
that links our resistance to fighting racism, economic injustice, and
imperialism. We want you to plan these actions independently, but together
we will coordinate collective support for these actions through a
spokescouncil so that they have maximal support and impact.

The weekend will once again culminate in a King Day march that embodies the
true spirit of King's resistance to capitalism, imperialism and racism:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1541563859495909/
RSVP and Invite your friends!

Check out the web site for more about APTP's vision: http://
www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/new-events/
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WE DEMAND:
The resignation of Mayor Libby Schaaf
The immediate termination of Chief Sean Whent
The immediate termination of Chief Greg Suhr
The immediate termination of the officers involved in the murders of
Richard Perkins, Mario Woods, Yuvette Henderson, Amilcar Lopez, Alex Nieto,
Demoriah Hogg and Richard Linyard
The immediate reallocation of city budgets: reduce police budgets and
reallocate those funds to provide for affordable housing that allows Black,
Brown and other people of color to remain in San Francisco and Oakland.

This year, we shut it down in the names of:
Yuvette Henderson
Nate Wilks
Richard Perkins
Richard Linyard
Demoriah Hogg
Yonas Alehegne
Amilcar Lopez
Mario Woods
Alex Nieto

#mlkshutitdown
#96hours
#reclaimMLK
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