JUSTICE FOR
TRAYVON
MARTIN
ASSEMBLIES
WEDNESDAY AUG
28
STOP THE WAR ON YOUTH OF
COLOR
JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON
MARTIN –
JAIL
ZIMMERMAN!
OVERTURN ‘STAND YOUR GROUND’ LAWS!
JOBS & EDUCATION
NOT MASS
INCARCERATION!
END RACIAL PROFILING
OF ALL FORMS!
STOP RACIST
POLICE TERROR INCLUDING
STOP-AND-FRISK!
IMMIGRANT
RIGHTS NOW
STOP
DEPORTATIONS!
A LIVING WAGE AND UNION RIGHTS
FOR LOW-WAGE AND ALL
WORKERS!
On Wed., August 28, after we’ve marched in
Washington on Aug. 24 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the great march
against racism in Washington, D.C., led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
the People’s Power Assembly Movement calls on activists across the U.S. to hold
local JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON MARTIN ASSEMBLIES, including rallies,
speak-outs, marches in public squares or in front of federal buildings or local
police headquarters.
One of the most memorable lines of Dr.
King’s famous “I Have A Dream” speech, delivered from the steps of the Lincoln
Monument to over a quarter of a million freedom marchers, was, “I have a dream
that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not
be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” The
Trayvon Martin verdict is only the most recent sign that Dr. King’s dream is
still a nightmare for Black and Brown youth.
There is a
racist war against Black & Brown youth
Youth of color are
routinely profiled by the police, security personnel and self-appointed
vigilantes like George Zimmerman. Trayvon Martin has become the face of the many
young people who have been stopped-and-frisked and sometimes beaten and killed
by the police. The police and the courts have created racially motivated drug
laws that have been used as an excuse to incarcerate a huge percentage of young
generations of Black and Brown youth. These same youth have the highest
unemployment rate, and the jobs they are forced to take are low-wage jobs
without benefits, rights or union representation. The anti-youth war also
includes massive cuts in education, including school closings in Black and Brown
communities. We must turn our anger over the lynching of Trayvon Martin into a
new nationwide struggle to stop the war against Black and Brown youth. This is
the best way to honor the legacy of the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on
Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Issued by the People’s Power Assembly
Movement
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