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We Still Can’t Breathe: What’s Next for Black Lives Matter?

On May 25th, George Floyd suffocated to death with a Minneapolis Police Officer’s knee to his neck. Video of the murder clearly shows the police lied about Floyd resisting arrest. Murdered as someone who “looked like a suspect,” the events surrounding George Floyd’s death expose the casual yet deadly brutality of the police in America.
On top of police brutality, Coronavirus and unemployment are killing and affecting Black people at a higher rate than any other racial group. Police are given more funding while public education is gutted. Corporations like Amazon get tax breaks while affordable housing and social programs are starved of funding. The whole system is guilty.
We need to urgently build a movement that can win:
** Immediately arrest and charge the four officers involved in the murder of George Floyd.
** #JusticeforGeorgeFloyd – Mass coordinated protests and days of action that involve youth and working-class people, especially people of color, in the planning and mobilization.
** No trust in establishment politicians or Trump’s FBI – Launch an elected community-led restructuring of the police with real teeth, including hiring, firing, reviewing budget priorities, and the power to subpoena. Spread this nationally.
** Fund schools and affordable housing, not the police – Police violence is part and parcel of the capitalist system, which rests on structural racism and inequality. Immediately tax the rich to invest in public education, green jobs, Coronavirus relief, and permanently affordable social housing.
** The whole system is guilty – Malcolm X said: “You can’t have capitalism without racism.” To win lasting change, the fight against police racism and the corporate political establishment must be expanded into a fight against the capitalist system itself.
Join Socialist Alternative for this important discussion on which way forward for the new resurgence of Black Lives Matter.
Link: (https://josephwe27-254.my.webex.com/meet/josephwe27










When: Wed., Jun. 3, 2020 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
On May 25th, George Floyd suffocated to death with a Minneapolis Police Officer’s knee to his neck. Video of the murder clearly shows the police lied about Floyd resisting arrest. Murdered as someone who “looked like a suspect,” the events surrounding George Floyd’s death expose the casual yet deadly brutality of the police in America.
On top of police brutality, Coronavirus and unemployment are killing and affecting Black people at a higher rate than any other racial group. Police are given more funding while public education is gutted. Corporations like Amazon get tax breaks while affordable housing and social programs are starved of funding. The whole system is guilty.
We need to urgently build a movement that can win:
** Immediately arrest and charge the four officers involved in the murder of George Floyd.
** #JusticeforGeorgeFloyd – Mass coordinated protests and days of action that involve youth and working-class people, especially people of color, in the planning and mobilization.
** No trust in establishment politicians or Trump’s FBI – Launch an elected community-led restructuring of the police with real teeth, including hiring, firing, reviewing budget priorities, and the power to subpoena. Spread this nationally.
** Fund schools and affordable housing, not the police – Police violence is part and parcel of the capitalist system, which rests on structural racism and inequality. Immediately tax the rich to invest in public education, green jobs, Coronavirus relief, and permanently affordable social housing.
** The whole system is guilty – Malcolm X said: “You can’t have capitalism without racism.” To win lasting change, the fight against police racism and the corporate political establishment must be expanded into a fight against the capitalist system itself.
Join Socialist Alternative for this important discussion on which way forward for the new resurgence of Black Lives Matter.
Link: (https://josephwe27-254.my.webex.com/meet/josephwe27
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