Comrades, Seems like the same old shit. Dude downtown has a peeve against Bilal (and, by extension: LA--CAN <http://cangress.org/>, the homeless and the (mainly) migrant sweat shop minimum wage-workers serving the more and more (backed by their own civilian wanna-be cops and the real ones, the LAPD) aggressively yuppie yuppies and with them, their capitalist bosses
Gentrification it seems makes strange (but not to themselves)....I mean really strange, bedfellows. Dude went to cops and reported that he was threatened. Bilal in LA-CAN office all day. In Florida they shoot us and police won't file a complaint (at least initially as in the Zimmerman case) until we put pressure (*which is the only thing they understand*). In LA Bilal didn't have to shoot anybody, didn't have to maim any body. Didn't have to do shit. All he had to do was be himself, breathe, and have somebody say he did shit. You know, there's that old old adage by Anatole France: "The law in its majestic equality..." <http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/afrance.htm> There has never been a clearer presentation of the class relationships implicit in the very existence of political laws. Arrests downtown, made daily, in the main, so closely parallel France's parable that it is as uncanny as much as it is inhumane. We must defeat their laws. We must discuss and define our own. Now! More than ever: It is (transitional and transitioning): 'Socialism or Barbarism!" -- JAI RAC-LA [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
