Copwatch organizing mass march against Police Violence

[floyd britton]

Date: Friday, June 26, 2009 Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm Location: Union Park Street: Ashland and Lake City/Town: Chicago, IL   Marching on the 1968 Chicago Riot Cop Reunion seriously, riot cops from the DNC are gonna have a party   The Chicago lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police (the cop union that thinks of itself like the Masons) will be hosting a 1968 Riot Cop Reunion. Officers who cracked heads at the Democratic Convention (and at the Division Street riots of 1966, and possibly murdered Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark) will be hobnobbing with today's police who are still occupying our communities and phalanxing our rallies. We're organizing hundreds of Chicagoans to rally and march, to speak from personal experience about violence of the Chicago police in the 1960s, as well as their violence today. We will be marching to the FOP lodge, and have filed for a permit to see if we can't make it a bit safer for everyone attending (although we will rally and march, permit or none). Bring your friends, make effigies and dolls of riot police, and help us let these cops who celebrate their sadistic violence know: We can't forgit, because we're still livin it! Note: This is during Critical Mass. If you are going to the Mass, we already have growing commitments to make sure it rides by and makes a stop at our rally, and/or ends there. The Chicago Soul Music Festival will also be going on at Union Park, so before and after, you can go by to get shake your groove thing.       gcep (wont be in chicago for evah!)