[IMC-bristol] Fwd: Seventh International Day Against Police Brutality

[Always Shariff]

Hi,
Sorry if I is cluttering your mailbox with this. But I thought it is something
important to all of us.
Thankyou
Always
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--- John O <mojuk@mojuk.org.uk> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 06:33:21 +0000
> To: Recipient List Suppressed:;
> From: John O <mojuk@mojuk.org.uk>
> Subject:  Seventh International Day Against Police Brutality
> 
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>      Miscarriages of JusticeUK (MOJUK)
>                mojuk@mojuk.org.uk
>             http://www.mojuk.org.uk
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> Seventh International Day Against Police Brutality
> 
> Saturday March 15th 2003
> 
> Police = Legal Terror!
> Down With Police States Everywhere!
> Organise the International Day Against Police Brutality!
> 
>       March 15, 2003, marks the seventh year of this international day
> of protest and solidarity against police brutality. It first began in
> 1997 as an initiative of the Black Flag collective in Switzerland
> along with the help of 'le Collective Opposé à la Brutalité
> Policière' (COBP-Montreal). Since its first year, the International
> Day Against Police Brutality (IDAPB) has been a success. This date
> was chosen because on March 15th, two children, aged 11 and 12, were
> beaten by the Swiss police.
> 
>       This day is also an opportunity to create and strengthen an
> indispensable international solidarity against the ever-increasing
> collaboration amongst global police forces. The IDAPB is one step in
> ending the isolation of groups and individuals who, engaged in this
> struggle, are subjected to daily repression.
> 
>       The police, the right arm of the State, abuse their power on a
> daily basis and exercise violence with total impunity. Within the
> police brotherhood, the complicity of silence eradicates the
> possibility of one police officer's innocence. Everywhere they
> continuously violate the very laws that they are supposed to uphold.
> The police check I.D. without reason, ticket, harass, steal, spy,
> beat, deport, arrest, imprison, torture and kill. Their primary
> targets are "the undesirables of society": the poor, the homeless,
> Indigenous peoples, people of colour, immigrants and persons with
> irregular status ("illegal immigrants" and people working
> under-the-table), sex workers, activists and student activists, the
> marginalised, organised workers, queer, gender-based and feminist
> activists and people who question and don't accept the legitimacy of
> the authorities.
> 
>      In response to the breadth and depth of anti-capitalist
> globalization demonstrations opposing the fortress of capitalism, the
> widening gap between the rich and the poor, the deepening of poverty,
> the generalised misery and deterioration of living conditions,
> governments invest in their police forces, in order to maintain, at
> whatever cost, law and order for 'social peace'.
> 
>       The reactionary security craze following the September 11 events
> in the U.S. gave free reign to world governments to create new
> fascist anti-terrorist and racist anti-immigration  laws. Systematic
> surveillance of all means of communication, tougher border controls
> (if not their closure) and total discretionary powers to all police
> forces directly affect all "undesirables" (the 'dangerous' class).
> 
>       Facing a global police state, we have the responsibility to act
> and support all victims of State force. We urgently invite you to
> participate in the International Day Against Police Brutality
> (IDAPB). Until now, this event has taken place in several forms:
> street theatre, murals, publications, demonstrations, conferences,
> postering, workshops, exhibitions, radio and television shows and
> other cultural events. Some groups have organised more than one
> activity while others have formed coalitions. All collectives or
> individuals decide on what type of action, depending on the political
> climate of their country, the energy and willingness of people to
> organise an event, the resources available, etc. The key thing is the
> imagination and the creativity of the people involved.
> 
> Police = Legal Terror!
> Down With Police States Everywhere!
> Organise the International Day Against Police Brutality!
> 
> Some suggestions and needs:
> 
> * If you can't organise for March 15th, try to organise as close to
> the date as possible.
> * If you can't or don't want to participate, please spread and
> forward this message.
> * We need more languages, so any translation of the message is very
> much appreciated. Could you please send the translations to the below
> email addresses, so that we can publish them on our web sites.
> * If you organise anything, can you please let us know, in order to
> strengthen solidarity and to be able to build a publication about
> this world-wide event.
> * For questions, commentaries, or to find out more about
> COBP-Montréal and COPB-Vancouver please contact us and visit our web
> sites.
> 
> COBP-Montréal
> c/o The Alternative Bookshop
> 2035 St-Laurent, 2nd floor
> Montreal, Quebec
> H2X 2T3
> 
> seahorse@globetrotter.net
> 
> E-mail: cobp@hotmail.com  or cobp@tao.ca
> http://www.tao.ca/~cobp/bar.html
> 
> COPB-Vancouver
> E-mail: copb-van@resist.ca


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