Revolution #248, October 23, 2011
Friday, October 21, Cornel West, Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party, and others will be carrying out a nonviolent civil disobedience action in Harlem to "STOP Stop and Frisk." Every day, the NYPD "stop and frisk" more than 1,900 people. More than 85 percent are Black or Latino. They are humiliated, brutalized, or worse. It's wrong, illegal, and intolerable.
Revolution newspapercalls on photographers to document this important civil disobedience protest. People around the U.S. and the world need to see this courageous action against this great injustice. You can play an important role in this history-making event. Think of the Freedom Riders in the early 1960s who stepped forward, in the face of violent reactionary attacks, determined to bring an end to Jim Crow segregation—and think of how these photographs from the Civil Rights Movement woke up, inspired, and mobilized people all over the world to be part of changing the course of history.
Time/location:
1 pm rally at the Harlem State Office Building, 163 West 125th St., just east of Adam Clayton Powell Blvd.
1:30 pm march to NYPD 28th Precinct at West 123rd and Frederick Douglass Blvd.
We also call on you to take photos at the October 22 National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and Criminalization of a Generation, which is taking place in many cities across the U.S.
Check time/location info for the various cities at october22.org or revcom.us.
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How to get photos to Revolution:
- Zip your photos and email to revcomphotos@yahoo.com. Pick your best photos, or send them in several emails, to deal with the limits on email sizes.
- Load your photos up on sites such as Flickr or Photobucket, and notify us atrevocomphotos@yahoo.com about how to access them.
Photo requirements:
Optimal size for each image is about 1.5 mg. If you want to rez down your files, please let us know in an attached note that larger sizes are available and how and when you can be reached to provide them. Cell phones do not produce images with high enough resolution to print.
Please make sure that we have a way to contact you (email and/or phone) and, if we publish your photos, how you would like us to credit them. Please provide caption information, including date, location, and what is happening in the picture. This info can be sent in a text file enclosed with a zipped file of photos, and/or in a separate email.
