[Peace] Fwd: Natl Day of Action: SHUT IT DOWN FOR FREDDIE GREY ON MAY DAY - FRI, MAY 1!

[Debra Schrishuhn]

Might add this element to May Day events.
Deb

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From: Debra Schrishuhn <deb at pdamerica.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 06:17:35 -0500
Subject: Fwd: Natl Day of Action: SHUT IT DOWN FOR FREDDIE GREY ON MAY
DAY - FRI, MAY 1!
To: Debra Schrishuhn <deb.pdamerica at gmail.com>

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From: Jeanne Marie Dauray <jeanne at pdamerica.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 02:15:00 -0500
Subject: Fwd: Natl Day of Action: SHUT IT DOWN FOR FREDDIE GREY ON MAY
DAY - FRI, MAY 1!
To: PDA Staff <staff at pdamerica.org>

Forwarding this on....





*Jeanne Marie DaurayProgressive Democrats of AmericaNational Issue Teams
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From: Baltimore People's Power Assembly <actioncenter at solidarityweb.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 6:44 PM
Subject: Natl Day of Action: SHUT IT DOWN FOR FREDDIE GREY ON MAY DAY -
FRI, MAY 1!
To: jeanne at pdamerica.org


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*AN URGENT CALL FROM BALTIMORE*

Issued by the BALTIMORE PEOPLES POWER ASSEMBLY


*National call to mobilize in cities across the U.S. and around the world
for: BLACK LIVES MATTER MAY DAY, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2015*

Every eight hours a police or vigilante murder occurs in the U.S against a
person of color especially the youth!

We demand:

*SHUT IT DOWN FOR FREDDIE GREY ON MAY DAY -  FRIDAY, MAY 1ST!*

*TURN UP & STAND WITH THE PEOPLE OF BALTIMORE!*

*AMNESTY FOR ALL ARRESTED PROTESTERS!*

*JAIL KILLER COPS NOW!  END RACIST POLICE VIOLENCE NOW!*

*#BLACKLIVESMATTER #BROWNLIVESMATTER*

*JUSTICE FOR FREDDIE GREY & ALL FAMILIES IMPACTED BY POLICE TERROR AROUND
THE COUNTRY!  *

*STAND WITH BALTIMORE ON MAY DAY!*

Facebook Event Page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1584670348457501/

Greetings sisters and brothers from the streets of Baltimore:

As we draft this appeal the city of Baltimore is being occupied by a
regional mobilization of police and the National Guard. The mass outrage
over the slaughter of Freddie Grey has grown from protest to resistance.
Baltimore is the "new" Ferguson, and we need the intervention of all who
have participated in the Black Lives Matter Movement on a national level
and we need it now.

No police have been arrested for the murder of Freddie Grey.

No explanation for his death has been given except to say that it’s a
“mystery!”

More than 300 people have been arrested for resistance – while the cops are
still free and on paid leave.

*We are calling on activists to turn this Friday, May 1st 2015, into BLACK
LIVES MATTER MAY DAY.*

We realize that May Day is just a few days away. However, if you can
organize to take it to the streets, the highways and the bridges in the
same way that you did last fall and winter, it would make a world of
difference in the struggle for justice at this critical moment.

We applaud the longshore and warehouse workers union (ILWU) Local 10 in
Oakland, Calif., as well as the longshore workers in Charleston, South
Carolina for plans to shut the docks down on May Day in solidarity with
struggle against racist police violence.

We believe that it’s important that the movement rise up again on May Day,
International Workers Day. The young Black and Brown people who are being
murdered by the police may not look like some dated stereotype of a worker,
but they are part of the working class.  You should not have to have a job
or be in a union to qualify as being in the working class.   It’s time to
get beyond outmoded notions about who is and who is not in the working
class. The truth is that the fastest growing demographic in the working
class are unemployed or underemployed people of color, many of them
undocumented migrant workers, women, LGBTQ people and those with
disabilities.  If the Black Lives Matter movement can rise up again this
May Day, it might just be the beginning of something bigger; a game
change that broadens the movement, as well as the way people think.

On Sat. May 2nd, we call upon all who are able to come to Baltimore.  For
more information, please go to the Peoples Power Assemblies Facebook page
for updates.

The Baltimore Peoples Power Assembly needs funds to help cover the cost of
flyers, posters, banners, signs, water and supplies.  Every donation helps
regardless of size.  Please go to:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=66U3G8YMX57ZQ

We thank you in advance!

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