Confronting the American Police State

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Protest of the police murder of James Boyd, a homeless man in Albuquerque, NM. Photo/Frida Salazar
Protest of the police murder of James Boyd, a homeless man in Albuquerque, NM.
Photo/Frida Salazar

The police murder of James Boyd is a wakeup call for the American people. As the economy automates and uses less human labor, the government is abandoning its responsibility to meet the needs of its people. Many become homeless, but instead of helping them, the system isolates, scapegoats, and attacks them. Police murder is the most violent and vicious form of that scapegoating. The homeless all across the country are in imminent danger from the escalating police state. When we defend them, and other victims of police violence, we defend ourselves. We must confront each and every attack on what liberty we have left, and we must recognize that we are in a fight for a new society. Today, the police are the street enforcers for the corporate dictatorship. We need a society where the people, not the corporations, are in charge. Contact us to order People’s Tribunes to distribute.”

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