Funding for schools is being cut while prison construction grows. Eighth, to free political prisoners like Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier and Steve Kubby. Ninth, to avenge Amadou Diallo, Don Scott, and Peter McWilliams, all murdered by the police or the criminal justice system. Eleventh, because the United States government is increasingly violating human rights at home and abroad, including using torture and illegal detentions, as documented by Amnesty International . Twelfth, to get out in the streets and form coalitions with other groups fighting the system.
Police abuse is systemic and frequently encouraged by headline hungry prosecutors and politicians.
Fifteenth, because, unfortunately, the police have managed to get themselves on the wrong side of every major struggle for freedom in the history of this country. Sixteenth, because the police protect corporate elites. It was the police who were lined up in the streets defending corporate elites and their puppets at Seattle, Philadelphia, Washington DC and Los Angeles in 1999-2000. At the same time, the police do not enforce laws against corporate crime . The more repressive the state gets, the more people will resist.