Tues 4/28: Chicago Action in Solidarity with Baltimore

Black Youth Project 100 Chicago Chapter | byp100.org | @BYP_100

MEDIA ALERT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CHICAGO Baltimore Solidarity Action
Tuesday, 4/28
6PM, 3510 S Michigan


                   ///////////   Tues 4/28: Chicago Emergency Action in Solidarity with Baltimore   ///////////

Chicago 4/28 -- Local organizers are calling for a solidarity demonstration with the people of Baltimore on Tuesday, April  28, at 6PM at Chicago Police Department Headquarters, 3510 South Michigan Avenue.

Join BYP 100, We Charge Genocide, The Chicago Light Brigade, Black Lives Matter: Chicago, Chicago Socialists - ISO, #LetUsBreathe Collective & many more tomorrow for an emergency action at CPD HQ to protest, to learn, to join together, to continue loving one another by fighting for each other's lives.

Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1848370672054274/

Too many names have been turned into hashtags. What is happening in Baltimore is not an isolated event. This did not start today, or yesterday or last month or with Ferguson or with Rodney King. You cannot critique how Black people & people of color deal with the anguish, the frustration, the trauma, the death we experience everyday at the hands of the state, especially if you have never joined in the fight to end this oppression.

The police militarization and murder, the racist and systemic violence, the trauma and denied justice are happening in your backyards. Just days ago the judicial system that we are told to have faith in let Dante Servin walk free after acknowledging he did kill Rekia Boyd.

We do this for Rekia Boyd, Freddie Gray, Dominique Franklin, Mya Hall, a trans woman who was killed by Baltimore police March 30. We do this to have symmetry in the cemetery. To value every life taken.

Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) is an activist member-based organization of Black 18-35 year olds, dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all Black people. We do this through building a network focused on transformative leadership development, direct action organizing, advocacy and education using a Black queer feminist lens. We are an organization affiliated with the Black Youth Project.