NORTHAMPTON: Tuesday, Nov. 25, 5:30 pm,
City Hall, 210 Main
St
SPRINGFIELD: Day Of Announcement, 5pm,
Arise for Social
Justice, 467 State St - Bring Banners
& Wear Black
To America, Darren Wilson is Innocent. INDICT
AMERICA.
Darren Wilson was not indicted for the killing of
Michael Brown. Killer cops are viewed as law abiding citizens. Darren Wilson
says he was just doing his job. He’s right.
Richard Haste, Ramarley Graham’s murderer in New York,
claims he did nothing wrong. He’s right.
Cops who murder Black and brown people in the name of
America's law enforcement aren’t just innocent; they’re commended for a job well
done. INDICT AMERICA.
People in dozens of cities in the US are planning to
turn up in their own cities today to protest the verdict. JOIN US!
Black Lives Matter Boston
Special Role for Peace Movement in Struggle for Racial Justice
Over
fifty years ago the Rev. Martin Luther King said "Without Justice there can be
no peace". He devoted much of his life to what he later described as the
tripple threat of racism, poverty and militarism, including in his last year his
role as a leader ot the anti-war movement against the Vietnam war. Today a
black youth is 21 times more likely to be killed by police than a white youth in
America according to a ProPublica study. Civil rights activists who would oppose
this cruel fact face increasingly militarized police forces in most American
cities.
"The
senseless killing of Mike Brown is a movement moment for racial justice and
an opportunity to advance economic and social justice for all. We in the peace
movement have a special role to play in this struggle because our work is
global. Our work is for peace at home and peace abroad. We know that war and
militarism has no borders. If we are to have peace abroad we must confront
injustice, violence and the militarization of police in our own communities. We
must build peace at home.
"The struggle against violence and militarism in Ferguson
continues, as it does around the world.
"It
is our charge as peacemakers and justice-seekers to stand with the people of
Ferguson and all those who are victims of state violence as we make clear the
connections between the war at home and the wars abroad, such as the renewed
U.S. bombing of Iraq and Syria.”
-Michael
McPhearson, Veterans
for Peace Interim Executive Director; former National Coordinator, United for
Justice with Peace
 |
In solidarity,
John RatliffMassachusetts Peace Action Peace Economy Working Group |
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