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here is a list of actions this week. Come out and show your support, be a part of the modern day civil rights movement: December 8-14 WEEK of RESISTANCE -- SCHEDULE Intensify and Spread the Struggle against Police Murder and the New Jim Crow! This is a list of protests of various kinds so far for this week. This is not comprehensive. Please check Twitter and Facebook. MONDAY, December 8: Protest 5pm - State and Jackson. This was announced at the meeting today, we don’t know who called it. Check Twitter. TUESDAY, December 9: 6-8pm? (working on getting a venue). FORUM: “I Can’t Breathe” to share stories of people of color about : •Institutional racism; •Systems of oppression; •Police brutality Anyone who would like to speak, please email jthoughton@gmail WEDNESDAY, December 10: Call for high school students to organize actions: die-ins, walkouts. Here’s a call from students in Los Angeles last week on what you can do. revcom.us/i/363/LA-Rev-club-dec-3-flyer.pdf 5:30 pm “On International Human Rights Day Black & Brown Lives Matter Here & Abroad” protest at Congress/Michigan. facebook/events/982586638424724 2:45 pm Day of Action – End Mass Incarceration. 26th & California Cook County Courthouse and Jail. (meet at 24th and Calif at 2:45) Called by SOUL, IIRON and Organizing Catholics for Justice. https://facebook/events/1507708742838811 5pm Vigil – Chicago Theological Seminary, Hyde Park THURSDAY, December 11: 6 pm. Report back from “We Charge Genocide” on Chicago Police torture of Black youth presented to UN Torture Committee in Geneva, Switzerland in November. Roosevelt University. https://facebook/events/1502625336676345 FRIDAY, December 12: Protest Attorney General Eric Holder, 11 am. We demand justice for Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and ALL victims of police murder and terror. NO MORE!. Sheraton Towers. Holder’s speech to the IL Judges Association Convention starts at noon. Be there at 11 am, bring signs, “I Can’t Breathe” etc. Sheraton Chicago Hotel, 301 E. North Water Street (South of the River, East of Michigan – exact meeting spot to be announced). SATURDAY, December 13: 10:30 am Washington DC march called by Eric Garner’s family, demanding justice. If anyone or group is chartering busses from Chicago let us know and we will spread the information. 1 pm Chicago demonstration in support of DC protest (above). 1 pm State and Jackson. Community groups, churches, students, everyone should mobilize. Organize feeder marches from the South Side, West Side, and other places to converge at 1pm at State and Jackson SUNDAY (and FRIDAY & SATURDAY): Calling on even more faith communities to go into the street during or after worship services to disrupt traffic and business as usual. NO MORE to police murder. Today, Sun Dec 7 dozens of churches in Chicago walked out and protested on the South Side, West Side, and in Edgewater.