"The platform also called for an immediate end to police brutality and murder of black people." [View all]

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A lot of you probably know that there will be a silent march in NYC this Sunday, Fathers' Day, in protest of Stop And Frisk. Occupy Wall Street will be live blogging it. I'm still trying to find out if there will be solidarity events in other locations.

Ben Jealous of the NAACP has taken Bloomberg and the whole racist, Constitution shredding, establishment on and I hope we see support for him and for this fight all over this country. I read last night that 35 LGBT organizations have endorsed this protest so it looks like, constituencies that have been singled out for police harassment are taking this to heart and stepping up in support.

Reading around this morning, I found this story about an LAPD attack on Black Panther offices. It happened just a few days after the FBI and the Chicago PD killed Fred Hampton.

Black Panthers to Gather to Commemorate 'Victory' at 41st & Central
L.A. Watts Times, News Feature, Thandisizwe Chimurenga, Dec 8, 2009



Dec. 8, 2009, marks the 40th anniversary of the Los Angeles Police Department's shootout at the Southern California Black Panther Party's headquarters.

Local members of the party will honor those who survived the altercation with a program at 6 p.m. at the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research at 6120 S. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles.

Entitled "Victory: A Day of Remembering," the program will include eyewitness accounts from members involved in the shootout, as well as a viewing of the film "41st and Central" by filmmaker Gregory Everett.

The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP), co-founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, was a community-based organization with a platform that called for a number of rights and liberties for black people, including free healthcare, full employment, decent housing, and decent education. The platform also called for an immediate end to police brutality and murder of black people.

http://www.labeez.org/2009/12/black-panthers-to-gather-to-commemorate-victory-at-41st-central.php

This has been a long fight and maybe it will never be over. The operations of NYPD today are very similar if not identical to operations when COINTELPRO was being conducted in the 60s, with the Federal security apparatus funding, advising and arming police departments against their own citizens. Back to the future.

But I hope people try to find a way to support the march on Sunday, to support Ben Jealous and to force an end to Stop & Frisk.