Fight KKKourt Injustice: Flatbush

BROOKLYN, NY, December 3 — Progressive Labor Party rallied in the Flatbush neighborhood today in the wake of both the Mike Brown and Eric Garner no-indictment decisions. We had organized a small uprising here in response to the murder of 16-year-old Kimani “Kiki” Gray last year. Progressive Labor Party has been fighting against racism in Flatbush for five decades. Throughout our presence, we have been connecting the dots between racist cop murders and the need to carry the fight for justice all the way to communist revolution.
Across the country and around the world, workers and students are moving from calls for reform to raising slogans like “indict the system.”  As Obama rushes to purchase fifty thousand body cameras, the clear-as-day video evidence of the determined effort to take Eric Garner’s life by NYPD kkkops reveal the futility of such reforms to bring an end to racist murder. 
Our multiracial communist rallies started with just a handful of comrades. We were met with an overwhelmingly enthusiastic response. Dozens of workers and students, young and older, signed contact sheets and joined our picket lines chanting with all their might. On the night of the Eric Garner decision, we moved from corner to corner, pressing the limits of how long we could block traffic despite massive police presence. The cops were hesitant to make a move on us as the crowd of onlookers grew to hundreds of cheering supporters.
Every move we have made has been in unity with the families of Kyam Livingston and Shantel Davis, two young women murdered by the racist NYPD who joined us for both rallies. As these women have reminded us, the NYPD has taken their family members, but it has also created new families, extended families dedicated to the fight to end racist police murder once and for all. Thousands are in motion and millions are moved by that desire. PLP’s growing influence means more are understanding that only communist revolution can fulfill this aspiration. Join the communist contingent at the Day of Anger: Millions March on December 13 at 2 PM in Washington Square Park.