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POLICE TERROR MUST BE STOPPED!

Atlanta Area Conference Call to Organize/Support the “No More Stolen Lives Tour to Stop Police Terror! Sunday, February 21, 7pm CALL IN TO JOIN- 712-770-4010 ENTER PASSCODE: 845-469#

JOIN US for a Conference Call to join in the conversation and be a part of bringing this tour and its message to the campuses in Atlanta and around the country! FAMILIES OF VICTIMS, FIGHTERS FOR JUSTICE, STUDENTS–anyone that wants bring this to A HALT! are encouraged to be on the call.

FAMILIES OF VICTIMS, FIGHTERS FOR JUSTICE, STUDENTS–anyone that wants bring this to A HALT! are encouraged to be on the call. LEARN MORE ABOUT THE MOVEMENT TO STOP POLICE TERROR stoppoliceterror.org

The focus of this tour is to take the message Police Terror Must Be STOPPED and our challenge, Which Side Are You On? to college campuses. (The tours will also do events at religious institutions and in communities, but the campuses are key.) Think of the important struggles of the 1960’s and how students taking them up was a key element in how they became part of a wave of massive resistance that rocked the whole system back on its heels. When the students decided they needed to take a stand on these key social issues, it made a huge difference. The same thing needs to happen to STOP police terror, and these tours need to be part of making campuses a key front in the fight to stop it. Basically the students and others who are at the tour events need to come away from them feeling challenged to join in acting to stop murder by police.

These tours will include a combination of organizers, people whose loved ones have been murdered by police and students who can together powerfully bring our message to students and others. They will put before people that police getting away with murder is a widespread, systemic problem that must be stopped. And that everybody who hates injustice needs to be a part of stopping it. (Again, there is no neutrality or middle ground in this fight – Which Side Are You On?) Those whose loved ones have been murdered by police have an important role in delivering this message. They have been dragged into this fight by law enforcement having murdered their loved ones. They can bring alive the devastation murder by police is inflicting on too many families and too many communities. And their declaration that they’re going to do all they can to be part of stopping this horror can give powerful weight to our moral challenge.

These tours will be done regionally. Each conference will do several things to make them happen:

1. Identify a combination of organizers, people whose loved ones have been murdered by police and students who can together powerfully deliver the message that Police Terror Must STOP – Which Side Are You On?

2. Identify key campuses the tour needs to go to and begin reaching out to individuals and organizations on those campuses to set up the tour coming there, making priorities based on where there has been struggle over white supremacy, and where people were involved in RiseUpOctober.

3. Set up an organizing team for the tour that will set up the tour stops, orient the crews that go on the tour, raise the money needed to make this happen, coordinate media work around the tour, etc. This organizing team will be in touch with the SMIN national office, reporting on developments, spreading lessons from the tour in its area and posing questions they are encountering.

Organizers with the Atlanta SMIN chapter will be traveling to Charlotte, North Carolina this weekend to participate in an important conference taking place regionally in conjunction with gatherings across the country.

If you are in the Georgia/North Carolina area and you want to attend the conference, please email us at [email protected] We invite you to join us in North Carolina and/or catch a ride with others traveling to the conference.

LET’S ORGANIZE TO STOP POLICE TERROR!

Killer Cops Walk Free! Justice for Tamir Rice! Indict, Convict and Send the Killer Cops to Jail! Rise Up!Which Side Are You On? 

Wednesday, December 30 at 3:30 pm Five Points MARTA Station (Peachtree St. across from Underground Atlanta)

Petitioning DeKalb County District Attorney Robert James

Charge the Cops Who Killed Kevin Davis and Anthony Hill 

These are undisputed facts:

On December 29th, 2014, Kevin Davis, 44, called 911 after his girlfriend had been stabbed. When police arrived at the apartment, DeKalb County Police Officer Joseph Pitts shot and killed Kevin's dog and then shot Kevin. They arrested Kevin and took him to the hospital, where he died two days later. Police did not allow Kevin's family to see him in the hospital before he died.

On March 9th, 2015, Anthony Hill, 27, naked and unarmed, was shot and killed at his apartment complex by DeKalb County Police Officer Robert Olsen. Anthony suffered from mental illness and was disoriented at the time he was confronted by Officer Olsen. Olsen shot and killed Anthony shortly after arriving on the scene despite having multiple non-lethal options.

The DeKalb County Civil Grand Jury decided on Thursday, October 29th to recommend no charges be brought against Officer Pitts and were split on whether to recommend charges for Officer Olsen. Both officers were allowed to testify in front of the Grand Jury on their own behalf without cross-examination. Georgia is the only state that affords such a privilege to police, one not granted to private citizens. A recent investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found that not one of the 171 police shootings in Georgia since 2010 has gone to trial.

DeKalb County District Attorney Robert James has the full power and authority to bring criminal charges against both officers. The families of Kevin Davis and Anthony Hill have been crying out for justice ever since their loved ones were killed by the DeKalb County Police. We demand that DA Robert James file criminal charges now! Justice for Kevin Davis and Anthony Hill! No more green light for police murder! Killer cops should be indicted, convicted and sent to jail!

Please add your voice by signing this petition and contacting District Attorney Robert James at (404) 371-2561, email [email protected], Facebook Robert James DeKalb DA.

TAKE A STAND to STOP POLICE TERROR! BUS LEAVES TOMORROW (Friday) Reserve your seat on the BUS today!

Call,purchase your ticket online, or email us TONIGHT!

  We are chartering a bus to transport people from Atlanta to NYC for the #RiseUpOctober National Protest to Stop Police Terror and Murder in New York City on October 24. 

Leaving Atlanta 5:30 PM Friday Oct. 23rd from Inman Park United Methodist Church, 1015 Edgewood Avenue, half a block from the Inman Park MARTA Station. Returning to Atlanta Sunday Oct. 25th by mid-afternoon

   For people who can't afford the full price:

Reserve your seat for $25

   Raise money from your organizations, family, friends. We're also raising money for "scholarships" so no one is prevented from going due to lack of funds.

   Purchase tickets or reserve seats online at stopmassincarcerationatl.org

   Call 678-435-9570

Email [email protected]

CLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT ON THE #RISEUPOCTOBER BUS

Read the Interview...

 “This injustice has taken genocidal proportions”: Why Cornel West and Carl Dix are rising up against police brutality

Rise Up October Press Conference in Manhattan, NYC October 19, 2015 with initiators Carl Dix, Cornel West & others

October 22, 2015 20th National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation

Read coverage of O22 protests around the country at stopmassincarceration.net

Rise Up October to Stop Police Terror has been taken up by people of all walks of life – to be in New York 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

SHARE THIS VIDEO WITH EVERYONE & DONATE NOW TO HELP THESE FAMILIES BE HEARD!

Carl Dix is the co-founder of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network and a representative of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. Read his recent piece in Revolution Newspaper, "Authorities Greasing Skids to Exonerate Tamir's Murderers!"

Cornel West is the co-founder of Stop Mass Incarceration Network & a prominent & provocative democratic intellectual. Listen & Share his PSA calling for #RiseUpOctober

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There is still time to RESERVE YOUR SEAT on the #RISEUPOCTOBER BUS! 

Buy your tickets online by clicking HERE or email [email protected] to make arrangements! Don’t wait any longer! Join the thousands in NYC to SAY: NO MORE! to Police Terror! 

Visit the National #RiseUpOctober Site to see events going on around the country