- Thursday, July 21 at 7 PM - 9 PM
From Baton Rouge to Boston, communities around the nation — and the world — have taken to the streets in protest of the racist police murders of #AltonSterling and #PhilandoCastile and in solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter. Once again our streets ring with the challenge "Who do you protect? Who do you serve?" as the movement raises the question of the police and their role in society.
According to The Counted, at least 574 Americans have been executed by the police in 2016 so far — with Black and Native people brutalized and killed at nearly 3 times the rate of whites.
The police were invented to repress and control oppressed and exploited people — not to keep us safe. From their beginning as a force to quellstrikes, urban riots, and the threat of slave insurrection, the police have always existed primarily as enforcers for the 1% and defenders of their property.
Join the Boston ISO for a discussion about the origins of the police and their relationship to racism, class and capitalism.
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Free childcare available if reserved before July 19. Please reserve childcare by emailing contact@bostonsocialism.or
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SPEAKER: Dr. Khury Petersen-Smith is a Boston-based activist, researcher, and educator. He has been involved in struggles against racism and in solidarity with Palestine, participating in a relief convoy to Gaza in summer 2009. Khury also focuses on US imperialism and participated in a peace delegation to Occupied Iraq in 2004.
According to The Counted, at least 574 Americans have been executed by the police in 2016 so far — with Black and Native people brutalized and killed at nearly 3 times the rate of whites.
The police were invented to repress and control oppressed and exploited people — not to keep us safe. From their beginning as a force to quellstrikes, urban riots, and the threat of slave insurrection, the police have always existed primarily as enforcers for the 1% and defenders of their property.
Join the Boston ISO for a discussion about the origins of the police and their relationship to racism, class and capitalism.
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Free childcare available if reserved before July 19. Please reserve childcare by emailing contact@bostonsocialism.or
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SPEAKER: Dr. Khury Petersen-Smith is a Boston-based activist, researcher, and educator. He has been involved in struggles against racism and in solidarity with Palestine, participating in a relief convoy to Gaza in summer 2009. Khury also focuses on US imperialism and participated in a peace delegation to Occupied Iraq in 2004.
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