Press Release - Chicago

Revcoms and others will seek restraining order to prevent Chicago police from attacking October 29 rally

October 24, 2016 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

 

Revcom.us/REVOLUTION received the following press release:

 

October 24, 2016
Press release
Contact: 773-329-5014

WHAT: Press conference
WHERE: City Hall (5th floor in front of Rahm Emanuel ’s office)
WHEN:  Tuesday, October 25, 11 am

On October 22, at the 21st Annual National Day of Protest against Police Brutality, Noche Diaz from the Revolution Club and 3 other Revcoms were arrested during a vicious attack on a peaceful march despite having a permit to march in the street on Michigan Avenue.  The permit had been enlarged to poster size for the benefit of the police. In addition, the application for the permit specifically said there would be no animals participating in the march, yet there were dozens of pigs allowed to be there!

On Tuesday, October 25 at 11 am, the Revcoms and other community representatives are going to City Hall to put the Mayor and the Chicago Police Department on notice that they will seek a restraining order against the CPD and the City to keep these hands off another downtown rally called for Saturday, October 29.* The rally is part of a “Get into the Revolution National Tour” which is going around the country organizing people to overthrow, don’t vote for, this system. Noche Diaz is part of this tour which also helped call and lead the demonstration on October 22.

Despite the attacks and arrests, the revolutionaries are determined to get the tour’s message out to everyone who is agonizing about the state of the world. They are especially taking the tour’s message and challenge to those on the bottom of society in communities in Chicago.  They are also reaching out to students on college campuses.

The rally on October 29 will be held in Grant Park at 1pm at Congress and Michigan—a central location chosen so that people from all over the city can come together—especially people from neighborhoods where people have been divided against each other and violence has been engendered and fomented by THIS SYSTEM—and hear the message of the tour about how to get out of this madness and fight the real enemy—“we need an actual revolution.”

 

* There is more than enough evidence for this restraining order against these notorious racist murderers of Black and Brown people—these cover-it-up with a code of silence while burying evidence—these permit shredders—also known as the Chicago Police Department.  Videos and photos show the vicious attack on the Oct 22 march, knocking people down and grabbing and trying to rip the lead banner which, ironically, says Stop Police Murder and Terror!  This banner is filled with pictures of people murdered by police, and the police hate it as witnessed by this and previous attempts to destroy it.  The Oct 22 march included family members of people killed by police, a man tortured by CPD as a teenager and then wrongfully convicted and sent away to prison for years, activists who are currently being prosecuted for what?—protesting police brutality!!! It can be amply demonstrated that the CPD has an animus to the revcoms as uncovered in their own documents in previous court cases of protesters.

 

 

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