Statement from RCP NY Branch: JUSTICE FOR SEAN BELL! 50 MORE REASONS -- WE NEED REVOLUTION
JUSTICE FOR SEAN BELL!
50 MORE REASONS --
WE NEED REVOLUTION
What do the police see when they see three young Black and Latino men in a Nissan Altima? A target. Doesn't matter if you have a PhD or work at McDonald's. It doesn't matter if you're doing something desperate to survive or if you are trying to stay off the streets.
Sean Bell was going to marry Nicole Paultre on November 25. They were getting ready to start a life together with their two young children, thinking of moving south, out of the city. Instead, Sean was killed when the police fired a rain of 50 bullets into his car as he and his friends drove away from his bachelor party. It doesn't matter what Sean Bell was doing--he and his friends were Driving While Black. One of the cops who shot into the car emptied his gun and reloaded and kept firing. Sean's two friends who survived, Trent Benefield and Joseph Guzman, were handcuffed to their hospital beds until outraged visitors intervened.
Why does this keep happening -- in New York and all over the country? Why does it happen with white cops, Black cops, Latino cops? Under white mayors, Black mayors, Latino mayors; with Democratic administrations, Republican administrations? Why does it keep happening -- under "America's Mayor" Rudy Giuliani who displayed nothing but contempt for Black people when he was the Mayor of New York and is now considered "viable" presidential material, and under the supposedly more "fair-minded" Mayor Bloomberg, who rushed to express "condolences"?
ENOUGH. We don't need condolences and justifications for crimes that are intolerable and inexcusable in the first place. We need this to stop. And there is only one way this will ever be ended for real: revolution. Such a revolution is possible, once the right conditions develop. Once there is a major, qualitative change in the nature of the objective situation, where all of society is in a profound crisis, owing fundamentally to the nature and workings of the system itself -- and along with that there is the emergence of a revolutionary people, numbering in the millions and millions, conscious of the need for revolutionary change and determined to fight for it.
Think about how we got here with our hearts are full of pain. We live under a capitalist system that first flourished in the "new world" of the Americas on the blood of slaves stolen from Africa and Native Americans sent to their deaths in silver mines. Children who didn't work hard enough in the mines had their hands cut off. Slaves who tried to escape had their achilles tendons cut so they couldn't try to walk away again -- but they could still work in the fields.
The blood of slaves flows down into the veins of modern-day global capitalism and imperialism -- joined by the blood of child prostitutes in Thailand and rug-weavers in Asia who never see daylight, joined by the blood of whole families and villages wiped out in Africa for lack of the AIDS drugs locked up by pharmaceutical companies calculating profit and loss balance sheets. Joined by the blood of 100s of 1000s of Iraqis killed in an American war and occupation to remake the world for this global capitalist empire. Bishop Lester Williams, who was going to marry Sean Bell and Nicole Paultre and now is burying Sean, called his death an execution, and said to the New York Times: "It's little Iraq, I'm sorry, especially toward the Blacks in the community. We don't feel protected."
This system is what the police exist to "serve and protect." They are nothing but modern-day slave-catchers for a system of profit based on the exploitation of people here and around the world who have nothing to lose and can only live through selling their work -- when they can get work. The master's whip has been replaced by the NYPD standard issue semi-automatic and they gun people down again and again, until it seems like we can't have any more tears left. This is why this keeps happening, no matter how many Black and Latino cops get hired and no matter how much "diversity training" they get and no matter how "sensitive" the mayor is.
Today, a "leaner and meaner" globalized American empire ships whole factories across the globe to more brutally use people in every corner of the world, and millions of Black people and others who can't be profitably exploited fill the prison growth industry in the US. Right-wing religious fanatics like Pat Robertson and others close to, or in, positions of power, contemplate Biblical punishment for those they consider a "stain" on society. Thousands died in Hurricane Katrina and thousands more were separated from families as they were removed from New Orleans -- not because of a natural disaster but because of a criminal regime. Meanwhile the President can now legally put anyone he decides is an "enemy combatant" in secret prisons, to be tortured, for the rest of their lives.
If you think Black people and those on the bottom of society have always caught hell and it couldn't get any worse, think again. A core of the ruling circles in this country is following the logic of genocide.
But slaves can resist and rebel and rise up. Empires can lose wars and empires can fall. And history has shown that the situation of millions of Black and other oppressed people is like a volcano at the foundation of the US empire. Where will liberation come from? Not from getting on our knees to imaginary gods. We need to start lifting our heads. We need massive political resistance to all the outrages of this system, we need to prepare minds and organize forces politically. This is how the ground would be prepared for a proletarian revolution that would have a serious chance of winning, a revolution with a backbone of millions, of all nationalities, with nothing to lose – a revolution that has an answer to this deeply hated, centuries-old oppression that this system can never have.
Think about what it would be like if the power of a revolutionary state was in the hands of the masses of people, and the state apparatus backed them up in doing away with every remnant of oppression. The people's police would handle any of these situations totally differently from the enforcers in this society. Our Chairman, Bob Avakian, has said that in a revolutionary socialist society, "We would sooner have one of our own people's police killed than go wantonly murder one of the masses. That's what you're supposed to do if you're actually trying to be a servant of the people. You go there and put your own life on the line, rather than just wantonly murder one of the people."
Such a revolution is possible. Many groups of people protest and rebel against things this system does, and these protests and rebellions should be supported and strengthened. Yet only those with nothing to lose but their chains can be the backbone of a struggle to actually overthrow this system and create a new system that will put an end to exploitation and help pave the way to a whole new world.
Such a revolution is possible. There is a political Party that can lead such a struggle, a political Party that speaks and acts for those with nothing to lose but their chains: the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. This party has the vision, the program, the leadership, and the organizational principles to unite those who must be united and enable them to do what must be done.
Such a revolution is possible. All those with a burning desire to see a drastic change for the better; all those who dare to dream and to act to bring about a completely new and better world: Support this Party, join this Party, spread its message and its organized strength, and prepare the ground for a revolutionary rising that has a solid base and a real chance of winning.
Check out the writings and works of Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist party. Read and distribute the RCP's "REVOLUTION" newspaper. Get organized with the revolutionary movement. Become an emancipator of humanity.
The Revolutionary Communist Party * New York Branch * November 29, 2006
Literature of the Revolutionary Communist Party and works of Bob Avakian available at: Revolution Books
revcom.us
bobavakian.net
-------------------------
Friday:
4 PM. Wake for Sean Bell. Join the Revolution contingent. Meet at 108th Ave and Merrick and go to the church one block away. Take E train to the last stop, then take a cab. See note below for more orientation and details.
7 PM. Funeral for Sean Bell.
Saturday
11 AM. New Black Panther Party is calling for a rallly. Meet at 94th Avenue and Liverpool. Take the D train to Sutphin exit and meet at the shrine for Sean Bell.
---------------
We are sending this out to invite all to take part in a REVOLUTION contingent at the funeral of Sean Bell. This contingent is of people who want to see the real solution of revolution happen at the soonest possible moment. People who read and want to spread Revolution newspaper because this is the lifeline of a revolutionary movement that has to grow, right now. People attracted to the leadership of Bob Avakian, including how he breaks down what a REVOLUTION is all about on his DVD: “Revolution – Why It’s Necessary – Why It’s Possible –What It’s All About”.
This REVOLUTION contingent will group up at 3:30 pm on Friday, 12/1, at the corner of Merrick and 108 Avenue, one block from the church. Anyone who wishes to join later than that can find us outside of the church with our banner. All who agree with what is said below are welcome to join. For more information, call Flaco at (917) 553-4704.
Directions: Sean Bell's funeral is tomorrow, Friday. The wake is from 4 to 7 pm, and the funeral is at 7 pm. It is at the Community Church of Christ in Jamaica, near where 108 Avenue crosses Merrick/167 Street. The nearest train is the E to Jamaica Center - last stop). It would be a long walk from there, so it's probably better to get a cab.
The 7 Talks (and Q&As) referred to are available as MP3 files on www.bobavakian.net. Revolution newspaper website is www.revcom.us.
This will be a somber and serious and determined presence. Not a “newspaper distribution team” (though we will do that as appropriate).
**Appearance and demeanor really matters. DRESS CODE: all black with red armbands. Neat and clean. **
This contingent is for people to represent and spread to others what they are coming to learn and understand is a way forward out of the waking nightmare where people come out of their houses every morning wondering what will happen if they run into the NYPD or some other enforcer -- where these enforcers keep murdering people year after year, in city after city, whether the cops are white, Black, Latino, male, female. Whether the mayors are white, Black, Latino, etc. Whether the administration is Republican or Democrat. And where the military enforcers murder and brutalize people in Iraq and all over the world to extend this American best-of-all-systems. ENOUGH. No more justifications, no more "condolences." We've cried a river of tears and you would think there can't be any left. We need revolution and there is a leadership showing the way, leading people to be ready when the time is right (and only then) and showing how a new society can be way more liberating than even when revolutions held power before.
We need to be going to everyone we know in the neighborhoods, around the youth, on the campuses and asking them: **What are we going to do about this?** Are we going to be with the people right now, in a deeply painful, enraging moment, and bring to them the one hope of getting out of this?
This is what this REVOLUTION contingent is for. It is to convey and bring to people what they need more than anything: a party and a leader that is ready and willing to lead the way out of this, and people should get with this right now. People should take up the newspaper “Revolution” as the lifeline of this revolutionary movement that should grow right now -- right this minute. People should listen to clips of Bob Avakian’s 7 Talks (available at www.bobavakian.net) -- right now. Right this minute and into the night. People will be and should be in the streets after the funeral -- and then they should go sit down and talk, figure out how to spread this revolutionary movement among all the people who hate the way things are, deep down into their bones. NOW.
We will have a banner that says:
JUSTICE FOR SEAN BELL!
50 MORE REASONS--
WE NEED REVOLUTION
On www.bobavakian.net, click on and listen to Q&A no. 9 speaking about Black people and revolution in this country. Be prepared to cue up and listen to this with people wherever you go.
Also check out and use the segment of part 2 of the first talk - “Why We’re In The Situation We’re In Today and What To Do About It – A Thoroughly Rotten System and the Need for Revolution” - on "preliminary transformation" in discussions with people.
50 MORE REASONS --
WE NEED REVOLUTION
What do the police see when they see three young Black and Latino men in a Nissan Altima? A target. Doesn't matter if you have a PhD or work at McDonald's. It doesn't matter if you're doing something desperate to survive or if you are trying to stay off the streets.
Sean Bell was going to marry Nicole Paultre on November 25. They were getting ready to start a life together with their two young children, thinking of moving south, out of the city. Instead, Sean was killed when the police fired a rain of 50 bullets into his car as he and his friends drove away from his bachelor party. It doesn't matter what Sean Bell was doing--he and his friends were Driving While Black. One of the cops who shot into the car emptied his gun and reloaded and kept firing. Sean's two friends who survived, Trent Benefield and Joseph Guzman, were handcuffed to their hospital beds until outraged visitors intervened.
Why does this keep happening -- in New York and all over the country? Why does it happen with white cops, Black cops, Latino cops? Under white mayors, Black mayors, Latino mayors; with Democratic administrations, Republican administrations? Why does it keep happening -- under "America's Mayor" Rudy Giuliani who displayed nothing but contempt for Black people when he was the Mayor of New York and is now considered "viable" presidential material, and under the supposedly more "fair-minded" Mayor Bloomberg, who rushed to express "condolences"?
ENOUGH. We don't need condolences and justifications for crimes that are intolerable and inexcusable in the first place. We need this to stop. And there is only one way this will ever be ended for real: revolution. Such a revolution is possible, once the right conditions develop. Once there is a major, qualitative change in the nature of the objective situation, where all of society is in a profound crisis, owing fundamentally to the nature and workings of the system itself -- and along with that there is the emergence of a revolutionary people, numbering in the millions and millions, conscious of the need for revolutionary change and determined to fight for it.
Think about how we got here with our hearts are full of pain. We live under a capitalist system that first flourished in the "new world" of the Americas on the blood of slaves stolen from Africa and Native Americans sent to their deaths in silver mines. Children who didn't work hard enough in the mines had their hands cut off. Slaves who tried to escape had their achilles tendons cut so they couldn't try to walk away again -- but they could still work in the fields.
The blood of slaves flows down into the veins of modern-day global capitalism and imperialism -- joined by the blood of child prostitutes in Thailand and rug-weavers in Asia who never see daylight, joined by the blood of whole families and villages wiped out in Africa for lack of the AIDS drugs locked up by pharmaceutical companies calculating profit and loss balance sheets. Joined by the blood of 100s of 1000s of Iraqis killed in an American war and occupation to remake the world for this global capitalist empire. Bishop Lester Williams, who was going to marry Sean Bell and Nicole Paultre and now is burying Sean, called his death an execution, and said to the New York Times: "It's little Iraq, I'm sorry, especially toward the Blacks in the community. We don't feel protected."
This system is what the police exist to "serve and protect." They are nothing but modern-day slave-catchers for a system of profit based on the exploitation of people here and around the world who have nothing to lose and can only live through selling their work -- when they can get work. The master's whip has been replaced by the NYPD standard issue semi-automatic and they gun people down again and again, until it seems like we can't have any more tears left. This is why this keeps happening, no matter how many Black and Latino cops get hired and no matter how much "diversity training" they get and no matter how "sensitive" the mayor is.
Today, a "leaner and meaner" globalized American empire ships whole factories across the globe to more brutally use people in every corner of the world, and millions of Black people and others who can't be profitably exploited fill the prison growth industry in the US. Right-wing religious fanatics like Pat Robertson and others close to, or in, positions of power, contemplate Biblical punishment for those they consider a "stain" on society. Thousands died in Hurricane Katrina and thousands more were separated from families as they were removed from New Orleans -- not because of a natural disaster but because of a criminal regime. Meanwhile the President can now legally put anyone he decides is an "enemy combatant" in secret prisons, to be tortured, for the rest of their lives.
If you think Black people and those on the bottom of society have always caught hell and it couldn't get any worse, think again. A core of the ruling circles in this country is following the logic of genocide.
But slaves can resist and rebel and rise up. Empires can lose wars and empires can fall. And history has shown that the situation of millions of Black and other oppressed people is like a volcano at the foundation of the US empire. Where will liberation come from? Not from getting on our knees to imaginary gods. We need to start lifting our heads. We need massive political resistance to all the outrages of this system, we need to prepare minds and organize forces politically. This is how the ground would be prepared for a proletarian revolution that would have a serious chance of winning, a revolution with a backbone of millions, of all nationalities, with nothing to lose – a revolution that has an answer to this deeply hated, centuries-old oppression that this system can never have.
Think about what it would be like if the power of a revolutionary state was in the hands of the masses of people, and the state apparatus backed them up in doing away with every remnant of oppression. The people's police would handle any of these situations totally differently from the enforcers in this society. Our Chairman, Bob Avakian, has said that in a revolutionary socialist society, "We would sooner have one of our own people's police killed than go wantonly murder one of the masses. That's what you're supposed to do if you're actually trying to be a servant of the people. You go there and put your own life on the line, rather than just wantonly murder one of the people."
Such a revolution is possible. Many groups of people protest and rebel against things this system does, and these protests and rebellions should be supported and strengthened. Yet only those with nothing to lose but their chains can be the backbone of a struggle to actually overthrow this system and create a new system that will put an end to exploitation and help pave the way to a whole new world.
Such a revolution is possible. There is a political Party that can lead such a struggle, a political Party that speaks and acts for those with nothing to lose but their chains: the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. This party has the vision, the program, the leadership, and the organizational principles to unite those who must be united and enable them to do what must be done.
Such a revolution is possible. All those with a burning desire to see a drastic change for the better; all those who dare to dream and to act to bring about a completely new and better world: Support this Party, join this Party, spread its message and its organized strength, and prepare the ground for a revolutionary rising that has a solid base and a real chance of winning.
Check out the writings and works of Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist party. Read and distribute the RCP's "REVOLUTION" newspaper. Get organized with the revolutionary movement. Become an emancipator of humanity.
The Revolutionary Communist Party * New York Branch * November 29, 2006
Literature of the Revolutionary Communist Party and works of Bob Avakian available at: Revolution Books
revcom.us
bobavakian.net
-------------------------
Friday:
4 PM. Wake for Sean Bell. Join the Revolution contingent. Meet at 108th Ave and Merrick and go to the church one block away. Take E train to the last stop, then take a cab. See note below for more orientation and details.
7 PM. Funeral for Sean Bell.
Saturday
11 AM. New Black Panther Party is calling for a rallly. Meet at 94th Avenue and Liverpool. Take the D train to Sutphin exit and meet at the shrine for Sean Bell.
---------------
We are sending this out to invite all to take part in a REVOLUTION contingent at the funeral of Sean Bell. This contingent is of people who want to see the real solution of revolution happen at the soonest possible moment. People who read and want to spread Revolution newspaper because this is the lifeline of a revolutionary movement that has to grow, right now. People attracted to the leadership of Bob Avakian, including how he breaks down what a REVOLUTION is all about on his DVD: “Revolution – Why It’s Necessary – Why It’s Possible –What It’s All About”.
This REVOLUTION contingent will group up at 3:30 pm on Friday, 12/1, at the corner of Merrick and 108 Avenue, one block from the church. Anyone who wishes to join later than that can find us outside of the church with our banner. All who agree with what is said below are welcome to join. For more information, call Flaco at (917) 553-4704.
Directions: Sean Bell's funeral is tomorrow, Friday. The wake is from 4 to 7 pm, and the funeral is at 7 pm. It is at the Community Church of Christ in Jamaica, near where 108 Avenue crosses Merrick/167 Street. The nearest train is the E to Jamaica Center - last stop). It would be a long walk from there, so it's probably better to get a cab.
The 7 Talks (and Q&As) referred to are available as MP3 files on www.bobavakian.net. Revolution newspaper website is www.revcom.us.
This will be a somber and serious and determined presence. Not a “newspaper distribution team” (though we will do that as appropriate).
**Appearance and demeanor really matters. DRESS CODE: all black with red armbands. Neat and clean. **
This contingent is for people to represent and spread to others what they are coming to learn and understand is a way forward out of the waking nightmare where people come out of their houses every morning wondering what will happen if they run into the NYPD or some other enforcer -- where these enforcers keep murdering people year after year, in city after city, whether the cops are white, Black, Latino, male, female. Whether the mayors are white, Black, Latino, etc. Whether the administration is Republican or Democrat. And where the military enforcers murder and brutalize people in Iraq and all over the world to extend this American best-of-all-systems. ENOUGH. No more justifications, no more "condolences." We've cried a river of tears and you would think there can't be any left. We need revolution and there is a leadership showing the way, leading people to be ready when the time is right (and only then) and showing how a new society can be way more liberating than even when revolutions held power before.
We need to be going to everyone we know in the neighborhoods, around the youth, on the campuses and asking them: **What are we going to do about this?** Are we going to be with the people right now, in a deeply painful, enraging moment, and bring to them the one hope of getting out of this?
This is what this REVOLUTION contingent is for. It is to convey and bring to people what they need more than anything: a party and a leader that is ready and willing to lead the way out of this, and people should get with this right now. People should take up the newspaper “Revolution” as the lifeline of this revolutionary movement that should grow right now -- right this minute. People should listen to clips of Bob Avakian’s 7 Talks (available at www.bobavakian.net) -- right now. Right this minute and into the night. People will be and should be in the streets after the funeral -- and then they should go sit down and talk, figure out how to spread this revolutionary movement among all the people who hate the way things are, deep down into their bones. NOW.
We will have a banner that says:
JUSTICE FOR SEAN BELL!
50 MORE REASONS--
WE NEED REVOLUTION
On www.bobavakian.net, click on and listen to Q&A no. 9 speaking about Black people and revolution in this country. Be prepared to cue up and listen to this with people wherever you go.
Also check out and use the segment of part 2 of the first talk - “Why We’re In The Situation We’re In Today and What To Do About It – A Thoroughly Rotten System and the Need for Revolution” - on "preliminary transformation" in discussions with people.
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