As we approach Black History Month 2013, more Black people are in prison, in jail, or on probation or parole than there were slaves in the U.S. Day after day after day, the police stop-and-frisk, harass, railroad into prison, beat down, and murder Blacks and Latinos, especially the youth, with impunity.
¡Basta Ya! Join with the Stop Mass Incarceration Network and others across the country in taking to the streets on the anniversaries of the racist vigilante lynching of Trayvon and the NYPD murder of Ramarley. These atrocities are the direct result of the decades-long criminalization and demonization of our youth that paints them as criminal thugs that deserve whatever they get. You can make a difference in opening the eyes of millions and bringing them into the struggle to stop the criminal outrage of the slow genocide of mass incarceration, police murder of Black and Latino people, and the criminalization and demonization of our youth. Stopping Stop-and-Frisk became a major social battle in the fall of 2011 when 80+ people were arrested for putting their bodies on the line in a campaign of mass non-violent civil disobedience at three NYPD precincts with some of the highest rates of Stop-and-Frisk in NYC. Thousands were drawn into the struggle as they saw people acting in defiance of the crime of Stop-and-Frisk.
