This is based on a posting from CSEW/UFT activist Marjorie Stamberg:
December
3 I just came back from a protest with thousands who marched from Union
Square to near Times Square.-We tried to protest outside the
Rockefeller tree lighting, but the cops had the streets blocked off and
were kettling the protesters at 46th and 6th.
The
whole UFT should be in the streets to protest this racist decision in
the choke-hold murder of Eric Garner. From Ferguson to NYC, these
decisions are a green light for official racist murder of black people
in this country.
Mrs.
Garner (Eric's wife) just spoke powerfully on NY1. When asked if she
would accept an apology from the cop who killed her husband with an
illegal choke-hold, she replied, "Absolutely not. The time to care about
Eric was when he said I can't breathe 11 times."
I signed my poster "UFT teacher" and it said: "Eric Garner, Michael Brown. Who's next? Stop Racist Police Killings"
From slavery to Jim Crow to present-day Ferguson and De Blasio's NYC, the whole racist system has got to go!
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Motion presented at UFT Delegate Assembly on November 18, by Marjorie Stamberg
SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF FERGUSON
WHEREAS, the governor of Missouri has declared a state of emergency, mobilized the National Guard and formed a unified police command in the St. Louis area prior to a grand jury verdict concerning the police officer who killed 17-year-old Michael Brown, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED, that the UFT affirms its solidarity with the people of Ferguson, Missouri, its opposition to racist repression and its rejection of any restrictions on the right to protest.
