[Wednesday, Mar 17 @ 07:00 PM]
The Campaign to Demilitarize the Police
Wednesday, Mar 17 @ 07:00 PM
377 East 10th Street betw. Avenues B and C, Manhattan, NY
The NYPD are preparing to turn the protests against the Republican National Convention at the end of August into a full-scale attack on our civil rights - especially the First Amendment.
The Campaign to Demilitarize the Police is a coalition of New Yorkers who are determined not to let this happen.
We're holding our next meeting on Wed., Mar. 17 at 7pm, at 377 East 10th Street betw. Avenues B and C in Manhattan. We're going to be mapping out a strategy that will carry our efforts through the RNC to demand and achieve the following changes in NYPD policy toward mass protests:
Full disclosure and civilian representation in NYPD planning for the RNC 2004.
No NYPD use of chemical weapons such as tear gas and CS gas - outlawed as weapons of war under the Geneva Convention.
An end to antagonistic NYPD use of interlocking metal barricades, preventing people from reaching demonstration sites by providing false information, unwarranted searches, seizures and destruction of personal property, aggressive mounted police attacks, and denial of freedom of movement - all of which serve to spread panic and anger among demonstrators.
An end to harmful and invasive surveillance of protesters - including monitoring of telephone and computer activity, facial recognition scanning, etc. - under the guise of the so-called "war on terrorism." An end to harassment and preemptive arrests.
We need your ideas, skills, and help to get us there! The NYPD spin machine is already at work, as Chief Ray Kelly promises 1,000 arrests a day during the convention; as the NYPD smears peaceful anti-RNC activists as violent thugs; and as the NYPD shakes down Congress for tens of millions of dollars in special appropriations for "security" during the convention.
PLEASE ATTEND ON WED. THE 17TH!
Web Site:
http://demilitarizethepolice.netfirms.com/I'm sure there will be undercover cops at this meeting today.
I agree that the police should not use tear gas on them.
They should use hot lead. .38s, .45s, .00 Buck, 0 Buck, deer slugs, No. 4 shot.
Do not even bury the bast##ds, just haul them to the landfill and let the buzzards eat them.