FRIDAY: Speakout at Sanford Police Station — “WE SAY NO MORE”
ANNOUNCING 4pm, Friday speakout at the Sanford police station where Carl Dix and the BAsics Bus Tour will bring the “WE SAY NO MORE” banner, signed by hundreds throughout the region.
Carl Dix said, “We are in Sanford to draw a line, and are going to denounce any attempts to let Zimmerman walk. We will be doing this at a crucial time, when the message coming at people from all sides is ‘It’s time to get out of the streets and let the legal system work!’ The system was working when it let Trayvon’s killer walk the night of his murder. And it’s working now as stories turn up in the news portraying Zimmerman as the victim and dragging Trayvon’s reputation through the mud. We’ve seen over and over again cops and wanna be cops get off scot free for the murder of Black youth, and we are not going to let the system sweep this under the rug this time; we are saying no more. Now is a time to remain in the streets to have any chance to get justice for Trayvon and I call on everyone to join us and be part of delivering this message.”
“No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who have been condemned to an early death or a life of misery and brutality, whom the system has destined for oppression and oblivion even before they are born. I say no more of that.”
-Bob Avakian, BAsics 1:13
4pm, Friday, May 25, 2012
Sanford Police Station
815 West 13th Street, Sanford, FL
Getting Ready for the BAsics Bus Tour
This is the first piece from one of the BAsics Bus Tour volunteers. Volunteers will be blogging from the road in near-real-time. Stay tuned and share with others!
Getting Ready for the BAsics Bus Tour
From a correspondent
It was close to 2 am when a few of the other volunteers and I finally sat down to talk after a send off party for us as we head out to be part of the BAsics Bus Tour – we were already getting a feeling of what wrangling into the night was gonna be all about! The party was hosted by two young supporters of the revolution. It was an evening where people celebrated the BAsics Bus Tour and got involved in supporting it. It was just a taste of how lively debate and discussion is opened up when you bring BA into the mix. It also made a dramatic impact for those at the party to encounter this diverse group of people that have decided to get on a bus and go on tour with this, and the different types of people coming together in a myriad of ways to make this happen.
People came to this party who had never encountered the movement for revolution before, or who had come out in the streets protesting the murder of Trayvon Martin and were just starting to check it out, as well as veteran revolutionaries and volunteers getting on the bus. Food was served for $5 a plate, folks talked and hung out and then sat down together to hear more about the Tour and to hear from a couple of the volunteers.
