Our Enemies in Blue: Why is the NYPD After Me?

OUR ENEMIES IN BLUE:

with Mary Black, Alfredo Carrasquillo, Joseph "Jazz" Hayden, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Reverend Bernard Walker

Wednesday. February 22. 6:30PM.

Harlem School of the Arts

645 St. Nicholas Ave. (btwn 141st and 145th)

The racist practices of the NYPD are nothing new. But in recent weeks and months, the NYPD's brutality has been exposed to the world: from a New York Times editorial by a young black man who is one of the hundreds of thousands stopped and frisked each year because of the color of his skin, to the videos of the beating and pepper-spraying of peaceful Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, and recent revelations that the NYPD showed its officers the Islamophobic "Third Jihad" film featuring Comissioner Ray Kelly.

And more and more people are standing up, from the outburst of anger after the NYPD's beating of Jateik Reed and murder of Ramarley Graham, a growing movement against stop and frisk, marches against NYPD brutality, and in defense of Jazz Hayden, who is standing up to retaliation from the NYPD for his tireless efforts in documenting and exposing their harrassment of Black and Brown people in Harlem.

Join us for a discussion of the struggle against NYPD racism and brutality, the role of the police in our society, and what we can do to change it.

Mary Black is a Harlem mom speaking out against her son's victimization by stop & frisk.

Alfredo Carrasquillo is an organizer with VOCAL-NY

Jazz Hayden is a member of the Campaign to End the New Jim Crow and the recent victim of an illegal stop and frisk retaliatory arrest.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a member of the International Socialist Organization and an activist for housing justice.

Rev. Bernard Walker is the father of Jateik Reed, victim of police brutality in the Bronx.

Sponsored by the International Socialist Organization (Uptown and Bronx Branches)

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