PEOPLES MOVEMENT
It is my hope that someday these causes will be eliminated that a better society is established for all.
Another World Is Possible.
A Mother’s Outrage: Resist Racist Policing
On Saturday, February 4, 2012, the community of the South Bronx showed solidarity and support for the family’s and victims of recent police brutality attacks, Jateik Reed and Ramarley Graham. The protesters marched from 161st Street and Third Avenue, to the 42nd Precinct where the public let officers know how upset they were about the officers only being subjected to desk duty pending an investigation of their crimes. From there, the march took an unexpected turn when protesters took Third Avenue as they marched toward Reed’s block to show solidarity with his family and friends.
Ramarley Graham, 18 years old, lost his life after a Narcotics officer fired a single shot to Ramarley’s chest, causing him to collapse in his grandmother’s bathroom; she was nearby when the incident occurred. Jateik Reed, 19 years old, can be seen as officers abuse and beat him, push, kick, and struck him with a baton as he lay on the sidewalk. After he was arrested, he was charged with assaulting an officer, menacing harassment, and possession of cocaine and marijuana. He is currently being detained at Rikers Island on $15,000 bail. A witness of the incident said that officers beat Reed so badly, “His face was black and blue and his eyes were sealed shut from being swollen.”
Through this march and rally, the community wants to let the officers guilty of such atrocities know they will be held accountable for their crimes against humanity.
Occupy The Bronx Members and Supporters held a General Assembly at the Hunts Point Section of the Bronx. Followed by a march through the community to a Stop and Frisk teach-in seeking to (Un)Occupy The Bronx from the NYPD, then to the 41st precinct condemning NYPD practices and racial profiling.
Occupy The Bronx seeking to (un)occupy the bronx from the nypd starting with a speakout then march to local police precients.
Occupy The Bronx seeking to (un)occupy the bronx from the nypd starting with a speakout then march to local police precients.
#OccupyWallStreet Convening 9 a.m. Sixth Avenue and Canal Street.
New York, NY — We are a global movement that is reclaiming our humanity and our future. We have stepped into a revitalizing civic process, realizing that we cannot fix our crises isolated from one another. We need collective action, and we need civic space. We are creating that civic space.
To occupy is to embody the spirit of liberation that we wish to manifest in our society. It is to exercise our freedom to assemble. We are creating space for community, values, ideas, and a level of meaningful dialogue that is absent in the present discourse.
Liberated space is breaking free of isolation, breaking down the walls that literally and figuratively separate us from one another. It is a new focus on community, trust, love and hope. We occupy to create a vision of equality, liberty and social justice onto the blank paving stones of public parks, in the silent hallways of abandoned schools, banks, and beyond. Public space plays a crucial role in this civic process and encourages open, transparent organizing in our movement. As we have seen in Liberty Square, outdoor space invites people to listen, speak, share, learn, and act.
Last night, billionaire Michael Bloomberg sent a massive police force to evict members of the public from Liberty Square—home of Occupy Wall Street for the past two months. People who were part of a dynamic civic process were beaten and pepper-sprayed, their personal property destroyed.
Supporters of this rapidly growing movement were mobilized in the middle of the night, making phone calls, taking the streets en masse, and planning next steps. Americans and people around the world are appalled at Bloomberg’s treatment of people who peacefully assemble. We are appalled, but not deterred. Liberty Square was dispersed, but its spirit not defeated. Today we are stronger than we were yesterday. Tomorrow we will be stronger still. We are breaking free of the fear that constricts and confines us. We occupy to liberate.
We move forward in the grand tradition of the transformative social movements that have defined American history. We stand on the shoulders of those who have struggled before us, and we pick up where others have left off. We are creating a better society for us all.
Occupy Wall Street has renewed a sense of hope. It has revived a belief in community and awakened a revolutionary spirit too long silenced. Join us as we liberate space and build a movement. 9 a.m. Tuesday morning at Sixth Avenue and Canal we continue.
