Triad Area NC October 22 Coalition

Join us tomorrow, Saturday 7/13 at 4pm. No More Stolen Lives!

As we're approaching the 25th anniversary of Amadou Diallo being shot to death by four NYPD officers, click on the link for a documentation of at least 380 Stolen Lives killed by NYPD since February 4, 1999 http://stolenlives.org/KilledsinceDiallo.pdf

Tune in Saturday, December 2nd at 3PM EST for another virtual national Stolen Lives Induction Ceremony at https://tinyurl.com/5xawrdm2, where families of these Stolen Lives will be speaking and presented with certificates:
❤️ Gary Hopkins, Jr, who was killed by Prince George County (MD) police November 27, 1999
❤️ Shaqur McNair, who was killed by Fayetteville (NC) police October 13, 2013
❤️ Andrew Kearse, who died in the back of a Schenectady (NY) police cruiser May 11, 2017
❤️ David Jaxon Page, who was killed by El Paso County (CO) SWAT under direction of Monument (CO) police September 29, 2019
❤️ Shayne Sutherland, who was killed by Stockton (CA) police on October 8, 2020
❤️ Robert Maness, who was killed by Anderson (SC) police on October 14, 2021
❤️ Eudes Pierre, who was killed by NYPD December 20, 2021
❤️ Andrew Jerome Washington III, who was killed by Jersey City Emergency Service Unit police August 27, 2023

Read about Induction Ceremonies here:http://stolenlives.org/SLICbrochure.pdf

Event page at: https://www.facebook.com/events/879942656875740

Donate if you can at https://www.gofundme.com/f/stolen-lives-induction-ceremony-2023

FISTS ACROSS AMERICA!

This year’s video is now up and streaming. Look on these faces and see the strength and determination. This is only a small taste of what we can do, the movement we can become. Thanks to all who contributed photos; let’s continue to build our powerful, diverse, and and determined movement to STOP police brutality once and for all!

FISTS ACROSS AMERICA 2023: Stand Up Against Police Violence and Terror! FISTS ACROSS AMERICA 2023: National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation. The October 22nd Coalition ...

Deadline for photos is next Sunday 10/15! Please send in your photos to [email protected] and include:
- At least one person with their fist up
- The name of your location (at least state) clearly visible – a hand-written sign is fine! If you can’t include that information on the photo, please include in the email text.
If your loved one was killed by law enforcement, please also include their name on the photo, your relationship to them, and any other details you would like.

Raise your fist and submit a photo to be a part of building for the 28th National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation on October 22, 2023!

To be included in the photo slideshow to be released on YouTube for this year’s protest, email a photo to [email protected] by October 15th that includes:
- At least one person with their fist up
- The name of your location (at least state) clearly visible – a hand-written sign is fine! If you can’t include that information on the photo, please include in the email text

If your loved one was killed by law enforcement, please also include their name on the photo, your relationship to them, and any other details you would like.

If you are a songwriter and/or musician and would like an original work of yours to be the soundtrack for the video slideshow, please email it to [email protected] in any of the following file formats: M4A, MP4, MP3, WAV, and AIFF

See last year's "Fists Across America" video that we hope to expand on this year: https://youtu.be/QOigNzLOk6k?si=SGUGopILLtqdvqWN

Read this year's Call for a National Day of Protest and list of actions and resources for actions at https://october22.org/

Some Stolen Lives families at the October 22 Coalition National Meeting in Minneapolis, MN:

Starting now!!

Stolen Lives Induction Ceremony
April 22, 2023
7PM
4200 Cedar Avenue, Minneapolis, MN

Register at https://forms.gle/A8nrYQuRN27Y5tUQ6 to attend in person or remotely ($25 fee to cover dinner costs for those attending in person, but no one turned away). For more information, email [email protected] and [email protected]

FAMILIES: register by 4/17/23 to be included in the program for the Stolen Lives Induction Ceremony
Donate toward the costs of the ceremony (dinner, registration for families, etc.) at https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=7P54XCUZF2UFS

Event page at https://www.facebook.com/events/246575781154242

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The Stolen Lives Induction Ceremony is a solemn, yet empowering occasion at which recent and past victims of police killings are formally inducted into the roster of the Stolen Lives Project. The Stolen Lives Induction Ceremony is both an affirmation of life and a call to action. It allows the Stolen Life, demonized by the powers-that-be, to be remembered the way they SHOULD be remembered: by those who love them – and for that truth to be shared with all those in attendance.

At these ceremonies, families speak of their loved ones and their struggles for justice, their voices joined by community organizers and others in the fight against police violence, as well as artists who contribute their art and performance for healing, for strength, for empowerment. The ceremonies end with a pledge (see below) by all in attendance, as a (re)affirmation of our commitment to the struggle.

This ceremony is taking place during the weekend of the National Meeting for October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation. For more information on the meeting, see https://www.facebook.com/events/521968736763322.

THE STOLEN LIVES PLEDGE
I, _________, pledge that the life and the humanity of these Stolen Lives will not be forgotten. I pledge that their highest hopes and aspirations will live on in us, and that I will seek justice for these and all Stolen Lives. In this way I pledge that their memory will stay alive and will inspire us to fight for justice and a better world.
http://stolenlives.org/slic.html

Tonight's Stolen Lives Induction Ceremony (beginning 7PM CT) will be livestreamed from https://www.facebook.com/StolenLivesProject

Stolen Lives Induction Ceremony
April 22, 2023
7PM
4200 Cedar Avenue, Minneapolis, MN

Register at https://forms.gle/A8nrYQuRN27Y5tUQ6 to attend in person or remotely ($25 fee to cover dinner costs for those attending in person, but no one turned away). For more information, email [email protected] and [email protected]

FAMILIES: register by 4/17/23 to be included in the program for the Stolen Lives Induction Ceremony
Donate toward the costs of the ceremony (dinner, registration for families, etc.) at https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=7P54XCUZF2UFS

Event page at https://www.facebook.com/events/246575781154242

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The Stolen Lives Induction Ceremony is a solemn, yet empowering occasion at which recent and past victims of police killings are formally inducted into the roster of the Stolen Lives Project. The Stolen Lives Induction Ceremony is both an affirmation of life and a call to action. It allows the Stolen Life, demonized by the powers-that-be, to be remembered the way they SHOULD be remembered: by those who love them – and for that truth to be shared with all those in attendance.

At these ceremonies, families speak of their loved ones and their struggles for justice, their voices joined by community organizers and others in the fight against police violence, as well as artists who contribute their art and performance for healing, for strength, for empowerment. The ceremonies end with a pledge (see below) by all in attendance, as a (re)affirmation of our commitment to the struggle.

This ceremony is taking place during the weekend of the National Meeting for October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation. For more information on the meeting, see https://www.facebook.com/events/521968736763322.

THE STOLEN LIVES PLEDGE
I, _________, pledge that the life and the humanity of these Stolen Lives will not be forgotten. I pledge that their highest hopes and aspirations will live on in us, and that I will seek justice for these and all Stolen Lives. In this way I pledge that their memory will stay alive and will inspire us to fight for justice and a better world.
http://stolenlives.org/slic.html

Just in time for the April 21-23 national meeting of the October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, we have a high-quality recording of the Coalition’s position paper, “Fighting Police Terror in an Age of Fascism.”
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Fighting Police Terror in an Age of Fascism (audio of O22 Position Paper) Audio recording of the October 22 Coalition Position Paper: "Fighting Police Terror in an Age of Fascism: A Time of Urgency, a Time for Unity, and a Time to ...

Make it make sense! We KNOW why this always happens!!

MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: One was a 17 year old teenager out riding with his young friends. The other was a heavily-armed adult running amok on a historically Black campus, threatening law enforcement and behaving violently. One was arrested and allowed to post bond, and now walks free. The other was shot to death in front of his friends. Come on now. You know which one was which, and you know why. To make things worse, THE DAY BEFORE the armed white man was bonded out, the SAME DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE refused to bring charges against the police who murdered the UNARMED Nasanto “Duke” Crenshaw. THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE SENSE OF THIS is to understand that America was founded in, and is soaked in the blood of, violent white supremacy. As it is here in Guilty County, so it is all over Amerikkka. Black life means nothing to this system, even with Black cops and Black DAs in charge. We need broad, deep, and determined movement of resistance that’s out to STOP police terror. The October 22nd Coalition is building such a movement. JOIN US. #stoppoliceterror #ftp #nomorestolenlives #bluelivesmurder #o22

NEW STATEMENT FROM THE OCTOBER 22ND COALITION:
The Memphis Police Beating of Tyre Nichols: Another Outrageous Murder!
We Can Not Win on the Terms Set by This System


On January 10th, Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black father, son, photographer, and friend, died in a Memphis hospital, after being savagely beaten by five Memphis police officers following a traffic stop. On Friday, January 27th, Memphis police released an hour of footage showing the police attack on Nichols, one day after charging the five officers who beat him with murder.

To anyone with any semblance of humanity, the videos are horrifying and heart-wrenching. To anyone with a sense of justice, the murder of another unarmed Black person should be cause to want to upend this whole system of racism, brutality, and murder, which reforms never seem to touch. Police body cameras, far from bringing “accountability,” only show police brutality from more angles, and Black officers can and do kill with impunity because they play a role in the service of a racist system.

Protests took place Friday night across the country in reaction to the release of the video in New York City, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Detroit, and elsewhere. In Memphis itself, hundreds of protesters shut down the I-55 bridge over the Mississippi River between Memphis and West Memphis. It is crucial that all who are outraged support, build, and expand on these protests.

“This happens again, and again, and again, and it must be stopped,” said Carl Dix, co-founder of the October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation, in a video statement released on Friday evening via the NYC Revolution Club. “They’ve told us for decades that if we just got more Black politicians in office, get Black police chiefs, and more Black police, we could end this. In Memphis it was five Black cops who did this, and the chief was a Black female. That is not a way out.”

Nearly three years ago, this country saw a beautiful and powerful uprising throughout the summer of 2020 against racist police terror which unleashed people in ways not seen in decades. People from all walks of life, and most especially those people under the gun of daily police violence with their unyielding determination, shut down cities and towns and forced a halt, however temporary, to “business as usual.” The system was shaken to its core at the prospect of broad sections of society, crossing all kinds of social lines, uniting against the racism and oppression at the heart of this system.

But the system, divided as it is in a bitter struggle between the insurgent fascism of the Republican Party and the stagnant and complicit Democratic Party, has found common cause to stifle such uprisings out of fear that our protest will become too powerful. As the October 22nd Coalition put forward in our position paper, “Fighting Police Terror in an Age of Fascism,” “We are now in an untenable situation where we mainly have an energized, violent, and proudly bigoted movement toward fascism led by the Republican Party on the one hand, and an infighting, turf-defending, and splintered movement beholden to the Democratic Party and its funders on the other.”

The October 22nd Coalition aims to unite all justice-seeking people, from families and loved ones of Stolen Lives, to people living daily under the gun of police terror, to people on campuses and in other communities, and refuse to concede our power in the streets to police repression or fascist terrorists. We must resist attempts to drag the righteous uprisings of the people down dead-end channels led by pro-system reformists, while refusing to let the differences among the people overshadow the fundamental difference between the people and this illegitimate, violent, and racist system.

This Spring, the October 22nd Coalition will be hosting a national meeting to build upon these plans and elaborate a way forward characterized by an inviting and determined militancy to see an end to all these horrors. Contact us ASAP to find out more.

Justice for Tyre Nichols and All Stolen Lives!
Rise Up in Protest!
No Good Cops in a Racist System!
Indict, Convict, Send the Killer Cops to Jail! The Whole Damn System Is Guilty as Hell!

The Triad Area October 22nd Coalition united with families and activists to organize a powerful Stolen Lives contingent in the MLK Day parade on Monday. From The Stop Mass Incarceration Network newsletter:
“One chant in particular that got taken up quickly was the one that caught fire during the incipient uprising following the murder of Mike Brown in Ferguson, MO: HANDS UP / DONT SHOOT! I think it’s important for people to realize that no matter how much the movement may have ebbed since the uprising of 2020 following the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, that police brutality is still very deeply felt in the Black community, and the resistance that it has sparked still resonates in a way that refuses to be suppressed. The potential for broader, deeper, and even more widespread resistance exists, and it’s on everyone with a conscience to encourage it and nurture it into vibrant, unstoppable life.”

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Fatima Rhynes (Jarvis Hayes’s mom), Jessie Barber (Gil Barber's mom), and Tenicka Shannon (Fred Cox's mom), standing also for Alfricka Bennett and her son Shaqur McNair who couldn’t be here today

Edit: Parade starts at 11am

Greensboro Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade Monday 1/16
JOIN US!!

October 22nd Coalition has been asked to be part of the parade. We’re going to commemorate Stolen Lives with a truck with names and pictures of local people killed by law enforcement and the Stolen Lives banner. People will march with signs, names and more.

O22 will have a leaflet to go out to the people watching and you are invited to join in on handing it out, and/or bring any supportive literature you wish to distribute, also banners and signs you have to display along the route.

ASSEMBLE: between 9-10am at the Benbow Shopping Center at South end of MLK Drive right off I 85. Park on a side street and the truck with the Stolen Lives banner and posters will be close by in back of the center.

Message us here to find us, OR you can meet O22 ppl (with posters) in the parking lot between the two main buildings with Wrenn agency and the Salon.

The parade starts moving at 11 am.

This Saturday, December 3, 2022 at 3PM ET, tune in and support families of those killed by law enforcement at the third virtual national Stolen Lives Induction Ceremony at https://youtu.be/sbAECNEh0OY


stolenlives.org

Listen to the loved ones of those killed by U.S. law enforcement this Saturday (12/3) at 3PM ET, livestreamed at https://youtu.be/sbAECNEh0OY

Please donate if you can and/or share the link to those who can: https://www.gofundme.com/f/stolen-lives-induction-ceremony-2022

The Stolen Lives Induction Ceremony is a solemn, yet empowering occasion at which recent and past victims of police killings are formally inducted into the roster of the Stolen Lives Project. The Stolen Lives Induction Ceremony is both an affirmation of life and a call to action. It allows the Stolen Life, demonized by the powers-that-be, to be remembered the way they should be remembered: by those who love them – and for that truth to be shared with all those in attendance.

At these ceremonies, families speak of their loved ones and their struggles for justice, their voices joined by community organizers and others in the fight against police violence, as well as artists who contribute their art and performance for healing, for strength, for empowerment.

https://www.facebook.com/StolenLivesProject/posts/pfbid02bMozNuzzALDcHPN3teDfAJdVnWjhkiWhaUZa3tUKD5csF5WZ9CdowuN572hY1ygtl

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Greensboro’s National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation 2022: A Major Step in Rebuilding the Movement

Organizers of Greensboro’s NDP action on October 22 were thrilled with this year’s event. While we have put together larger events in the past, the level of commitment and participation from this year’s organizers was significant and inspiring. First of all, the whole event was steeped in solemnity and history due to the fact that we held the event very close to where a young NC A&T State University student named Darryl Howerton gunned down by cops in 1994, and had a very powerful statement delivered to us from his mother Brenda, which was introduced by a longtime Greensboro revolutionary and O22 activist, and powerfully read by a well-known poet and spoken-word performer.

We also had a statement delivered to us from the mother of Gilbert Barber, a young black man who was shot to death in High Point North Carolina in 2001, and who’s family has long been a source of support for stolen lives families around the country. And we also had an original song called, “Black Lives Matter Anthem“ performed by a local activist who had been spurred into activism after receiving a beating at the hands of staff at the Guilford County Jail. We also got some great participation from a local nonprofit that provides harm reduction services to residents to mitigate the effects of drug use, who made the necessary connection between this system’s “War on Drugs” and racialized mass incarceration.

A powerful call for unity across racial, class, and political lines was put forward by a veteran activist from the Charlotte area who came to join Greensboro’s NDP action, who also called on us to remember Charlotte area stolen lives such as Jonathan Ferrell. A legendary local producer of a long time cable access show spoke eloquently about the importance of opposing the fascist attacks coming down from on high, such as the attacks on abortion rights, same-sex marriage, and in*******al marriage that are brewing at the level of the supreme court. And Triad Area O22’s NDP organizer also called to mind NC stolen lives Shaqur McNair, Fred Cox, and Jarvis Hayes, whose families had been in touch with O22 organizers in the lead up to this year’s NDP, and helped to publicize the event through leafleting and on social media.

We were even treated to a partial reunion of members of the Cakalak Thunder drum corps, who years ago were an essential feature of peoples protest in Greensboro. Activists representing the Greensboro Revolutionary Socialists also mobilized for NDP this year, and turned out their membership.

What made this year particularly special was the high level of leadership shown by the participants. No one was there as a mere spectator. It was a significant advance over the past two years, which were hampered by demobilization due to COVID and sectarianism. The day was a real focal point for some of the most committed organizers and activists in the struggle to stop police brutality in the state.

The “Fists Across America” video is out now…watch and share!

Fists Across America: Stop Police Brutality! Fists Across America is a photo campaign to help build for the 27th National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a...

At least thirty cities are taking part in this year’s National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation! See the comment below for the local info.

Message from Andree Smith, mother of Justin Smith, killed by Tulsa, OK police, August 14, 1998:
"The National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation (NDP) 2022 marks the 27th year of nationwide protests against the epidemic of police violence and killings and mass incarceration. If you can not join the public protests being held throughout the world but wish to show solidarity for acknowledging the pain suffered by the families of police brutality victims, PLEASE WEAR BLACK IN SOLIDARITY THIS AND EVERY OCTOBER 22."
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New poster for the Greensboro protest...contact us ASAP to help get these up where people can see them!