Redwood Curtain Antifa

Posted on April 10, 2012 by nycautonomousantifa

NEW YORK CITY
WEDNESDAY, April 11st 2012
6PM @ Foley Square

FB event: facebook.com/events/393935157297190

Last week Immigration Custom and Enforcement arrested over 3,000 undocumented people nation wide, over 140 in New York. ICE justifies these actions by claiming they are “cleaning the nation” from undocumented people who have criminal records.

All undocumented and Black people are vilified. We do not have legal or equal access to employment, public assistance, medical treatment, or safe living conditions. Therefore WE are often times pushed towards non-legal means to providing for ourselves and our loved ones.

In a country where:

1. police and their wanna-bes are protected at the expense of Black lives,

2. prisons are filled with mostly Black and Latino men,

3. our communities and the borders are heavily patrolled by the same people who gun us down,

4. a Black trans woman is incarcerated for self-defense for allegedly killing a neo-Nazi who broke a glass bottle on her head, and an armed man kills a Black teenager and walks free,

5. there are more Black men in prisons now then there were total Slaves in the 1850s

it is clear that ‘citizenship’ and ‘criminal’ are categories that allow the US government to continuously function as a systemically racist institution.

This demo is to show solidarity and support for all people affected by the ICE raids, the Police, and Department of Corrections. This is for all of us- with or without papers, in or outside cells. We will not sit in compliance with these violent acts that seek to separate our communities further as “good” citizens and “bad” criminals.

Free CeceMcDonald! Justice for Ramarely Graham an Trayvon Martin!

Off the borders and fuck the police!