February 26, 2013 –
Take to the Streets, Wear Hoodies and Show Your Outrage!
WE ARE ALL STILL TRAYVON!
New York
HARLEM: 3:00 PM Gather at 135 & St. Nicholas Avenue DOWNTOWN: 4:00 PM Gather at Union Square South, 14th Street & Broadway |
Los Angeles, CA at 4 pm
Leimert Park Crenshaw Blvd. & Vernon Ave. 213-840-5348 |
New Haven, CT at 5 pm
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WHAT YOU CAN DO:
1) SPREAD THE CALL! Print out the complete call, and flyers, and post them everywhere. [Click here for national flyer download.] [Click here for Southern California flyer download.] [Click here for NYC b/w flyer download] [Click here for NYC color flyer download.] Check out the video invitation from Carl Dix: http://tiny.cc/mtndsw . Use the hashtags #WeAreAllStillTrayvon and #JusticeForTrayvon and get the word out on Twitter, instagram, tumblr, and blogs. If you have a large following on social media, lend your voice to the effort--tweet, post, or make a youtube about the call for national resistance on February 26th! There are some sample tweets and posts below. sample tweets: • ON FEB 26, Wherever you are, all across the nation, wear your hoodie, take the streets, show your outrage!#WeAreAllStillTrayvon • Being young, latin or black should not be a crime, we’re under attack! Wear your hoodies, take to the streets on 2/26!#justicefortrayvon • It took us in the streets to get Zimmerman put on trial. ON 2/26, show that#WeAreAllStillTrayvon! http://www.youtu.be/jggerNJc3Qs • From #stopandfrisk to #trayvon, black & latino youth aren’t criminals-the SYSTEM criminalizes black & latino youth!#weareallstilltrayvon 2). INVITE OTHERS TO ATTEND! Make sure your attending to the event page on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/events/304101073046294. Share the event on your Facebook wall, and promote it on your friend's and other popular fan pages! Click to attend the event, INVITE your entire list of friends, and urge them to attend--if we all do this, the presence of the event can exponentially grow and go viral on FB. Forward this email to your contacts, or write a personalized email to friends and colleagues telling why you are stepping out, and why it's important to act on February 26th. 3) REACH OUT! There's a tremendous base for this to resonate in society. Just do a simple search for #Trayvon on google, twitter, instagram, or tumblr, and check it out for yourself! Find celebrities or public figures or blogs with large followings who are tweeting or posting images related to Trayvon and contact them through email, twitter, social media, mutual colleagues, and exhaust all other avenues to reach them and urge them to act on February 26th-who knows who you might know! For example: Jamie Foxx, Lupe Fiasco, Chuck D, Russell Simmons, Toure, Dwayne Wade, etc. 4) MAKE PLANS for February 26th, and send them to Stop Mass Incarceration Network at: [email protected], or tweet us @stopmassincnet so we can post them. There are already gatherings in New York City at Union Square and St. Nicholas Park, and Los Angeles at Leimert Park, so organize your student organization, union, community group, church/mosque/temple, or class to wear hoodies, take pictures, and take the streets on February 26th. No matter what you do, be bold and creative--and be sure let us know your plans! 5) TAKE PICTURES of yourselves and your friends in hoodies and send them to [email protected], or @stopmassincnet; post on them on your blog or profile--Be sure to use the hashtags! #weareallstilltrayvon #justicefortrayvon #hoodiesup 6) VIEW AND SPREAD THE YOUTUBE for February 26 from Carl Dix a. Create a youtube of your own calling on others to step out on February 26th! 7) ...And most importantly, on February 26th, wherever you are -- Take to the Streets, Wear Hoodies and Show Your Outrage! What is needed is mass resistance, to keep this system from working, to foment resistance around the unjust criminalization of black and latino youth. Wherever you are, Organize a field trip, join with your colleagues after work, gather and take the streets! |
February 26th WE ARE ALL STILL TRAYVON MARTIN!
Contribute to the Permanent Memorial for Trayvon Martin One year ago Trayvon Martin was murdered by George Zimmerman, a racist vigilante and wanna-be cop. As rage poured into the streets of this country demanding his arrest, people also went to Sanford to participate in demonstrations. Many people from the local area and many others from around the country placed items at a memorial people had erected outside the condominium complex where Trayvon was murdered. The memorial grew over time with pictures of Trayvon, written messages, small stuffed animals, skittles, Arizona ice tea, silk flowers, signs, etc. This memorial became a place where people from all over the world paid respect to Trayvon and kept the indignation of his murder alive. However, the city of Sanford had another plan-- to sweep the murder of Trayvon Martin under the rug! Citing complaints from residents, they took the memorial down. The people in Sanford were determined to keep it up and erected another one, and the city took it down again. This battle over the memorial continued five times. Recently, the Goldsboro Historical Museum of Sanford, a museum located in an incorporated Black city that was taken over by Sanford in the early 1900’s, set up the permanent home for Trayvon’s memorial at its Welcome Center across the street. The city gave them the original contents of the first memorial. This memorial can be an important way people can remember Trayvon and express the rage so many of us felt when we heard of his murder and of the authorities letting his killer go free immediately after the murder. On the occasion of the first anniversary of Trayvon’s murder, we are calling on people from all over to send letters, pictures and other items to be included in this memorial and to contribute money to support it. Send items and donations to: Goldsboro Welcome Center 1211 Historic Goldsboro Blvd. Sanford, Florida 32771 Make checks or money order to: Goldsboro Museum Booster Club earmark: Trayvon Martin Memorial Site Mailing address above |
TAKE THE BULLS EYE OFF THE BACKS OF OUR YOUTH!
One year ago on February 26, 2012, we were all horrified by the vigilante murder of Trayvon. As we learned that the police came upon Zimmerman standing over Trayvon’s dead body and walked him into and out of the police station, setting him free, we were further horrified. Many of us participated in the protests that forced the state of Florida to re-arrest Zimmerman and charge him for his crimes. As parents and other relatives of police murder victims we have a special perspective on all this. We have seen how the poison of racial profiling has been employed to steal the lives of our murdered our loved ones. We have seen police officers justify killing unarmed, innocent people by saying the color of their skin was enough to treat them like they were criminals, guilty until proven innocent. Our loved ones didn’t survive to prove their innocence. If you were to search the globe of innocent human lives murdered by police you will see No Justice in a single case, which is why we say the Whole Damn System Is Guilty, and we are taking a collective stand to Stop This! We call on everyone to come out on February 26 to say NO MORE to authorities getting away with putting a bulls-eye on the backs of Black and Latino youth. Take to the streets, wear hoodies and act in other ways. If we don’t do this, the courts in Florida might work the way the cops did last year and let Zimmerman walk free again. But if we do act in this way, it will send a message that we refuse to suffer this abuse any longer in silence. It will strengthen the struggle for justice for Trayvon, and for all the other victims of the police and racist vigilantes. Signed: Cephus "Uncle Bobby" Johnson, uncle of Oscar Grant Juanita Young, mother of Malcolm Ferguson Nicholas Heyward Sr., father of Nicholas Jr. The above statement marking the killing of Trayvon Martin is initiated by parents of Stolen Lives, Juanita Young and Nicholas Heyward Sr. Please help circulate to other parents of Stolen Lives. Their signatures are welcomed and needed. The Stop Mass Incarceration Network ([email protected]) will be the point of contact for this statement. |