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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hands Up Don't Shoot <handsupdontshoot....@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 11:36 AM Subject: Protesters are back in the streets. Need help. Lives are at stake! (Literally) To: John Reimann <1999wild...@gmail.com> Fam, Writing to inform of you of a situation that is still evolving that requires immediate attention... St. Louis is under a heat advisory, the Workhouse has no a/c, heat inside rises to 115 degrees making it a death trap. Protesters are back in the streets protesting these inhumane conditions. You or I would be arrested for leaving a dog in a hot car. Police already under scrutiny for an overtime scandal and covering cameras mounted in the precinct responded with a heavy handed approach. Tempers are rising with the temperature in and outside the Workhouse. Protesters are gearing up for round 2 tonite and need your support. Police will try to shut this down, they do not want to deal with a potential situation of protests outside and a prison revolt inside, especially not as we approach the 3rd year anniversary of the murder of Michael Brown. I am writing to ask your support for bail, covert ops and first aid supplies. This situation could go from 10 to 100 very quickly and we cannot afford to be caught offguard. Please donate what you can today today to support this action http://www.handsupdontshoot.com/donate Mainstream media is trying to control the narrative. We will not allow them to like they did in Ferguson. Below are additional details... "LET'S DO THIS AGAIN! SHARE THIS EVENT WIDELY! INVITE FRIENDS! The police showed their true colors tonight (the 21st), brutalizing and macing protesters who merely want the city to address the current and ultimately inherently horrific conditions of the workhouse. Protecting a jail that really just needs to go. A/C is a minor victory compared to what needs to really be done. We shouldn't back down when our numbers are so big and the momentum is strong! If we stick together, we will close this place down once and for all. Join us for an emergency protest against current heatwave conditions of the workhouse on Saturday July 23rd at 7pm. Bring pots and pans to bang on, or anything that will make a loud noise so folks can hear us. It's going to be hot, but its the least we can do to support folks on the inside who are even hotter. BRING WATER. PARK AT THATCHER AND HALL ST. Our family, friends and others who are currently locked up awaiting trial or serving short sentences in the Workhouse are right now inside a literal tinder box because of the heat wave. Temperatures are reaching 105-115 inside and there is no air conditioning or ice to cool folks down. They are literally screaming for help from the windows. Shut down the workhouse, the torture has gone on long enough. The jails and prisons we so often find ourselves in are created to keep the poor separated. Breaking up families, gouging us out of our hard earned money that we give to our loved ones commissary so they can buy overpriced necessities inside, etc. And it's not just about a heatwave, it's also about the reality of the disparity of those who do and do not go to jail most often falls along the line of race and class. You rarely see the rich in such torture chambers. Those who can’t afford bail are left to cook inside, sometimes waiting years to see trial. These types of jails and prisons they lock us up in originate from the same people who would of justified slavery in the 1800s. Let’s break the separation and let people know on the inside that we aren’t gonna just forget them. -- Hands Up Don't Shoot! Network i...@handsupdontshoot.com Phone / SMS (314) 896-1483 -- "No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them." Asata Shakur Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com and // www.facebook.com/WorkersIntlNetwork?ref=stream _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
