The Peoples Power Assembly is joining with the (NAARPR) National Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression and the Movement for Black Lives for national protests this Saturday
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We are continuing to amplify the call for justice for all victims of police terror! At this minute our movement is under attack.
We demand:
Cops and National Guard out of our streets!
Release all those arrested! Lift the curfews!
End the violent attacks, including the use of tear gas, rubber bullets, and concussion grenades!
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This protest will be a march AND a car caravan. If you are driving, gather in the parking lot across the street from 2011 N Charles St.
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Please wear a mask and remember to social distance (6 feet apart)!
Following the enormous #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd protest on Saturday, May 30, the Peoples Power Assembly has called for another march, demanding justice for all victims of racist police terror and the disbanding of the Baltimore City Police Department. The demonstration will also call for amnesty and the release of all arrested protestors, as it is everyone’s democratic right to protest injustice.
WHAT:March and caravan demonstration to protest racist murder, to demand the disbanding of the Baltimore City Police Department, and for amnesty for protesters
WHEN: Monday June 1, 2020; 6pm
WHERE:The march and caravan will begin in Douglas Homes at 247 N. Dallas Street and end at the Baltimore City Police headquarters at 601 E. Fayette Street.
The recently refounded National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression calls upon all its members, comrades, friends and allies to join in a national day of protest on May 30ᵗʰ, 2020 at 3:00 PM EST.
We as a movement have been agitated into taking mass, united action not by the pandemic alone but even more significantly by the Federal Government and the financial lords and barons of Wall Street who, driven by their own greed and lust for political power, are willing to sacrifice the lives, health, safety and wellbeing of the people; who deem their profits and their continuing plunder of the national treasury of our nation more important than the lives of the people.
We will be protesting to stop the racist murder and violence that this administration has willfully unleashed. Not only is the government standing by as COVID-19 ravages African American, Latinx and Indigenous communities—inciting mass Black death with their calls to reopen the economy, but the police and racist vigilantes continue to brazenly hunt and kill Black folks while they sleep in their beds and on open roads in broad daylight. We are protesting the murders of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia and Breonna Taylor in Louisville because they are outrages that demand justice. This lynch style, racist terrorism must stop, and perpetrators must be punished.
We are calling for this united action to protest genocidal policies of government that have allowed city and county jails, federal and state prisons, juvenile detention jails, and Immigrant detention centers to become hot beds for COVID-19 infections and death camps for millions. Who are the human beings incarcerated in these so-called correctional facilities?
They are overwhelmingly oppressed Black and Brown people, LGBTQ and Trans people and poor white, working class people. They come to jails and prisons in large part from the 140 million poor people living in America. They cannot voluntarily social distance themselves. Their confinement prevents them from taking action to protect themselves from death-causing infections. Their continued imprisonment under these circumstances is an act of genocide.
We must help them. The prisoners of Cook County jail in Chicago managed to write on one of the windows of the jail: HELP WE MATTER 2.
Plea from prisoners of Cook County jail in Chicago.
We are calling this united action to help protect all prisoners from COVID infections and death by demanding that all prisoners be liberated from the death camps that U.S. prisons have become. We demand that the President, Governors and Mayors, Prosecutors and Judges take immediate steps to depopulate jails, prisons and Immigrant detention centers and juvenile facilities.
We are calling this united action to demand the immediate release of all political prisoners and the wrongfully convicted survivors of torture immediately. These prisoners can be released by pardons, commutation of sentences, paroles, furloughs, signature bonds and prosecutors dropping charges and judges granting probations. The federal and state governments have plenty of means for meeting our demands and no reason to deny them other than greed and profiteering off of private prisons and prison labor, the still legal form of slavery under the 13ᵗʰ Amendment.
We will mobilize for car caravan protests and social distancing protests throughout the country. In united action we will standup, fightback and resist to exist. We will not now or ever stand in silence in the face of the crimes of government perpetrated against oppressed peoples and the working class. We must make certain that there is resistance throughout the land in order to have a new and better world after we overcome this pandemic.
Justice for George Floyd!
Justice for Breonna Taylor!
Justice for Ahmaud Arbery!
Black Lives Matter!
Release the Prisoners! Free Them All!
Marlyn Barnes would have been 32 years old this Thursday, if he had not died in custody at the Harford County Detention Center. The jail claims he committed suicide, but his family has not gotten the answers they need from the authorities and they continue to fight for truth and justice in his case. The number of suicide deaths at Harford County are alarming, just this past month another prisoner allegedly died as a result of suicide.
Marlyn’s family and the Peoples Power Assembly and Prisoners Solidarity Committee have continued to press for answers and in the midst of this pandemic and to amplify the demands of prisoners locked up Maryland jails who have demanded PPE, adequate showers, soap, hand sanitizer and much more.
We have joined the national movement in demanding #FreeThemAll.
You can help by joining the Thursday, May 14, car caravan at 4 pm from the Harriet Tubman Solidarity Center, to the local City Jail Complex and then to Marlyn Barnes’ neighborhood in West Baltimore. We will then participate in a 32 minute caravan to represent how old Barnes would be if he was alive today.
Let’s show his family and the prisoners still locked up that we care. SIGN UP AND SHARE WITH FRIENDS. This is important; even if you can’t actually physically participate, it helps to share, post to Facebook, twitter, Instagram, to increase awareness and build support.
We will also have signs calling for Justice for Ahmaud Arbery!
If you can drive or come – here are the instructions:
Gather and stage ourselves at 20th and N. Charles Streets, Baltimore, MD 21218 at 4 pm to decorate cars and get signs. Wear your mask or scarf and physical distance; please be safe.
We will have a lead car, proceed and leave no later than 4:45 pm, and drive with our lights on similar to a funeral procession.
It’s helpful if you are able to fill out the google form: CLICK HERE FOR FORM
Thank you so much on behalf of the Barnes family.
Stay safe and huge distancing hug from the Peoples Power Assembly
Peoples Power Assembly Condemns Blue Angels and Thunderbirds Fly Over
Our front line workers whether they are nurses, nursing assistants, doctors, hospital janitorial staff or warehouse, grocery, farm, food processing, sanitation, or postal workers need personal protective equipment, full paid sick leave, hazard pay, and safe working conditions–not a $60,000 an hour salute .
People are suffering in Baltimore. Food insecurity is a reality for families and individuals; unemployment insurance payments have yet to be processed, and teachers and children do not yet have the necessary resources and tools for remote learning.
The problems of the homeless remain unsolved. Jails and detention centers are steadily becoming death camps. Immigrant and migrant workers have been effectively shut out of even meager benefits.
It has also been pointed out that the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds flight pattern focuses on the white wealthy areas of Baltimore and disregards the Black community.
The close to trillion dollar Pentagon budget has siphoned off badly needed funds for our cities and towns. This pandemic underscores more than ever the need for global solidarity not war and racism, including sanctions which starve and hold people hostage.
ACTION CAMPAIGN TO SUPPORT FRONT LINE WORKERS & MAY DAY
The Peoples Power Assembly is calling for a week of action to show support for all of the workers who are on the front lines keeping us safe. They include not only hospital workers, nurses, aides, and doctors, but also grocery, warehouse, Amazon, delivery workers, bus drivers, sanitation, postal, FedEx, fast food & restaurant, farm workers, factory, construction and many others. We salute and thank all of these workers who are risking their lives in this pandemic!
THANK YOU WORKERS TUESDAY LAUNCH
The week’s launch will begin on Tuesday, April 28th, “Workers Memorial Day” which was designated by unions to commemorate workers who lost their lives on the job and to promote safe work conditions. The week will culminate with a safe “car caravan” on May 1st, May Day, International Workers Day. Sign up on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2520217834960946/
Here is a list of things that we will be doing.
We invite everyone to join us in any way that you are able.
Tuesday, April 28th, “Workers Memorial Day” press virtual press conference to give voice to workers in our city and state.
Wednesday, April 29, Special speak out by an Amazon immigrant worker and other Amazon workers! Time and details to be announced. Call: 410-218-4835.
Thursday, April 30, we will hold an appreciation clap, music & signs at shift change at a local hospital to demonstrate our appreciation — Call 410-218-4835 for details (when and where). We will wear masks, do social distancing, and have no more than ten persons at a site.
Strike — Don’t die for Trump, bankers or billionaires!
No work, shopping or paying rent
Workers and community groups across the country are calling for a general strike. This means that on May Day, International Workers Day, we do not work, shop or pay rent. If you are able please plan ahead to stay home on Friday, May 1st.
Many essential workers, including hospital workers, grocery, warehouse (Amazon), delivery workers, bus drivers, postal, teachers and FedEx workers and many others are being forced to work without adequate protection. Workers have a right to refuse unsafe work conditions; and in this case it’s a matter of life and death. Send a message to bosses everywhere that our lives are more important than their profits.
OUR DEMANDS:
1. Adequate PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) for all workers including hospital, grocery, delivery drivers, food and restaurant, retail, sanitation workers, farm workers, bus drivers, postal workers, construction workers;
2. Declare grocery, delivery drivers, food, warehouse workers, farm workers, etc as essential so that they can have priority in obtaining PPE.
3. Hazard pay for all, no worker should be paid next to nothing to risk their lives during this pandemic;
4. Full sick pay for all, including older workers and those who have vulnerable health conditions who should be allowed to take sick leave to preserve their life and health.
5. Proper safety precautions including plastic barriers at cash registers, social distancing, and adequate sanitation;
6. COVID testing for all!
7. Free healthcare for all
8. Guaranteed $2,000 a month income for all unemployed workers including gig workers and self-employed .
9. Relief fund for migrant workers who have been excluded from other funds.
10. Cancel rents, mortgages & utility bills.
11. Prisoners are workers too; protect and release prisoners and ICE detainees
12. Say NO to racism,war and bigotry of all kinds during this pandemic. We need solidarity with each other to fight the virus
