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<font face="Arial"><big><font color="#990000"><b><big><big>Come Out
Against Racism!</big></big></b></font><br>
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</big></font><img alt="" src="cid:part1.07010903.00080302@gmail.com"
align="left" height="233" width="350"><font face="Arial"><big><big><b>Stop
Racial Profiling and Police Brutality!<br>
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Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Was Right!<br>
</b></big></big></font><font face="Arial"><big><big><b><small><small><small><small> </small></small></small></small></b></big></big></font><br>
<font face="Arial"><big><big><b>The Cambridge Cops Must Apologize!<br>
</b></big></big></font><font face="Arial"><big><big><b><small><small><small><small> </small></small></small></small></b></big></big></font><br>
<font face="Arial"><big><big><b>Youth Need Jobs & Schools - Not
Jails!<br>
</b></big></big></font><font face="Arial"><big><big><b><small><small><small><small> </small></small></small></small></b></big></big></font><br>
<font face="Arial"><big><big><b>Demand a Justice Department
Investigation <br>
of Racial Profiling Across the US</b></big></big><br>
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<font color="#990000"><b><big><big><big>Wednesday, July 29</big></big></big></b></font><br>
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<b><big>5:00 pm - Gather<br>
5:30 pm - Press Conference<br>
6-8:00 pm - Police Review and Advisory Board Special Meeting</big></b><br>
<br>
<b><big>Cambridge City Hall, Sullivan Chamber </big></b><br>
795 Mass. Ave., Cambridge<br>
(one block from Central Square Red Line T)</font><br>
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The arrest of Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. by a Cambridge police
officer after showing two forms of identification after he, along with
a Black limo driver, had unjammed the lock to the front door of Gates'
own house in a predominantly white, upscale neighborhood known as
"Harvard Square" has brought the struggle against racism to the front
pages of newspapers throughout the US and around the world. <br>
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The Cambridge Police Department and their racist allies have worked
overtime to slander and vilify Prof. Gates. But his only crime was in
fact to resist the racist arrogance of the Cambridge Police and not
acquiesce to their racist and unjust treatment of him. <b>The torrent
of racist vitriol targeting Prof. Gates as well as the absolute racist
arrogance displayed by the Cambridge Police Department in demanding
that Pres. Obama and Gov. Patrick apologize for expressing support for
Prof. Gates, cannot go unanswered!</b> It is time for all poor and
working people, and particularly whites, to come out against these
racist attacks and stand foursquare in 100% solidarity with Professor
Gates and against racial profiling and police brutality.<br>
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Cambridge, Harvard University and Boston are seen around the world as
bastions of liberalism, hotbeds of progressive ideas and prestigious
places from which cutting-edge research emanates. But the racial
profiling and arrest of Prof. Gates have re-raised the question of how
much has changed since the 1970s when, in the wake of court-ordered
busing for desegregation, white racist mobs were stoning buses carrying
Black school children and attacking Black people on the streets and in
their homes.<br>
<br>
<b>Gates was Right! The Cambridge Police Department was Wrong!</b><br>
<br>
Racial profiling is another expression of institutionalized racism. In
the U.S., racial profiling and police brutality have become an
unfortunate reality of life for people of color, especially youth. It
doesn't matter whether it occurs in the inner city, a small town, or an
upper-middle class suburb.<br>
<br>
In a 2004 report entitled "Threat and Humiliation: Racial Profiling,
Domestic Security and Human Rights in the United States," Amnesty
International documented that in a year-long investigation, an
estimated 32 million people had been racially profiled--the vast
majority of them from nationally oppressed groups. One can only imagine
how much these numbers have increased over the last five years, not
only for those born in the U.S. but also for immigrants. Since 9/11
there has been a corresponding increase in racial profiling targeting
the Arab and Muslim communities. <br>
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The police have been, by far, the most feared perpetrators of racial
profiling, and understandably so. Police harassment and brutality is an
epidemic. According to a 2008 report by the Washington, D.C. based
Campaign for Youth Justice entitled ”Critical Condition: African
American Youth in the Justice System” African American youth make up 30
percent of youth arrested while they represent only 17 percent of the
overall youth population. Additionally, African American youth are 62
percent of the total number of youth prosecuted in the adult criminal
system and are nine times more likely than white youth to receive an
adult prison sentence. <br>
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One only needs to remember how the Somerville 5 (5 Black youth from
Somerville who were arrested on racist frame up charges by the Medford
Police) or the Jena 6 were treated. Not to
mention the racism that followed the devastation of the 9th Ward in New
Orleans as a result of hurricane Katrina.<br>
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As the economic crisis deepens the ruling class will use all means at
its disposal to foster artificial divisions between white workers and
Black, Latina/o, and immigrant workers. It is our responsibility to
build a movement based on anti-racist, class-wide solidarity--as
workers of all nationalities are losing their jobs, homes, health care
and pensions in rapid numbers; and as the economic crisis becomes even
more acute.</font><br>
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