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<p style="text-align: center;" align="left"><b><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">The Zimmerman
Verdict is a Reflection of the Times. WE CHARGE GENOCIDE!</span></b></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;" align="left"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">The People Must
ORGANIZE!</span></p>
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<p><span style="">Trayvon Martin was never going to get justice
from a courtroom of the United States government. Justice for Trayvon
and for
the hundreds of other Black women, men, and children executed by </span>someone
employed or protected by
the US government on a <span style="">daily basis
will only come from our people and the power we are able to wield
through the
strength of our organization and the resolve of our will. Zimmerman was
only
put on trial because millions of our people took to the streets in
early 2012
and threatened to disrupt the system. The trial was a means to divert
our
energies and return things to the status quo. </span></p>
<p><span style="">Obama’s statement that a “a jury has spoken”
encouraging what he called, “calm reflection”, is just another effort
to lure
Black people to sleep and keep us accepting the status quo. The status
quo of
white supremacy has never and will never work for Black people. As
W.E.B. DuBois stated, “a system cannot
fail those who it was never meant to protect.” White supremacy and the
systems
that support and reinforce it like capitalism, colonialism, and
patriarchy must
be defeated and dismantled. We must always keep this in mind and be
prepared in
concrete, organized ways to ensure that there will be no peace if there
is no
justice. <b><i>Now is the time for direct action in the form of
organized Boycott,
Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns that disrupt the status quo
systems
of the US government through massive non-compliant resistance</i></b>. </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">We must also be clear that the
Zimmerman verdict is a reflection of the
times. 17-year old Trayvon Martin was the 31<sup>st</sup> Black person
executed
by someone employed or protected by the state in 2012. As we
demonstrated in
Operation Ghetto Storm, 313 Black women, men, and children were
executed
without trials by the police, security guards or certified
“neighborhood
watchmen” in 2012. These extrajudicial killings have by no means
stopped or
slowed down, as witnessed by the execution of Kimani Gray and dozens
more Black
people in the first six months of 2013. With the Zimmerman verdict
justifying
and setting new precedent for the disposal of Black life, we should
expect the
number of extrajudicial killings to increase. It is now more imperative
than
ever for us to strengthen the organization of our communities and
defend
ourselves. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b>We must defend ourselves, and we
have every right to do so <i>by any means
necessary</i>.</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Black people are in a heightened
state of crisis. Since being brought to
the shores of North America as captives from European wars of
aggression we
have constantly battled one crisis after another. However, there are
times that
are more critical and intense than others. We are presently living
through one
of these super -critical periods. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">We have been hunted and killed in
cold blood by the US government in
increasing numbers and herded into prisons like cattle in record
numbers. The
facts presented in Operation Ghetto Storm: 2012 Annual Report on the
Extrajudicial Killing of Black People presents us with a deeper
understanding
of the utter disregard held for Black life within the United States. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">The continual practice of executing
Black people in the country without
pretense of a trial, jury, or judge is an integral part of the
government’s
current overall strategy of containing the Black community in a state
of
perpetual colonial subjugation and exploitation. The verdict in the
George
Zimmerman trial is a testament to the reality that the institutions of
the
United States uplift and are complicit in the ongoing genocide of Black
people. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">The only way we are going to defend
ourselves against these genocidal
challenges is to create a massive social movement. We need a movement
that
strategically takes on the systemic oppression and exploitation that
prevent
Black people from exercising self-determination and human rights. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">In order to fight effectively we
have to organize ourselves on a higher
level. One of the critical areas where we have to step up our
organizing
efforts to be qualitatively more effective is in the area of
self-defense. We
have to be clear that we cannot and should not count on our enemies –
like the
courts, and other forces of the US government or transnational
corporations - to
protect us. We have to protect ourselves. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b>The Malcolm X Grassroots
Movement
(MXGM) believes that an essential part of our Movement for survival
must be
Self-Defense Networks. </b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b>We think there are two types of
Networks
that we have to build:</b></p>
<br>
<p style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><b><i>New Afrikan or Black
Self-Defense
Networks</i></b> are alliances, coalitions, or united fronts of Black
organizations whose purpose is to defend the Black or New Afrikan
community
from external (the police, FBI, white terrorist organizations, etc.)
and
internal (agent infiltration, intra-communal violence, etc.) threats to
its
safety and security. </p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><b><i>People’s Self-Defense
Networks</i></b>
are multi-national (or multi-ethnic and/or racial) alliances,
coalitions, or
united fronts whose purpose is to defend their communities against
mutual
enemies and threats and advance a common agenda based on shared
interests,
hopes, and aspirations. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b>Oppressed peoples and
communities can and will only be secure in this
country when they are organized to defend themselves against the
aggressions of
the government and the forces of white supremacy and capitalist
exploitation</b>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b>The <i>Every 28 Hours</i>
Campaign
proposes a model for organizing:</b></p>
<br>
<ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">The formation of<b> Black
Self-Defense Networks</b> to defend our people and combat police
terrorism. These Networks should seek to build Copwatch programs,
engage in mass rights based education trainings for the community,
serve as first responders to acts of Police Terrorism, and help
coordinate mass resistance to these acts via mass mobilizations and
direct action. These Networks should also be encouraged to engage in
offensive campaigns, such as referendums to institute Police Control
Boards.</li>
</ol>
<ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="2" type="1">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">The formation of <b>People’s
Self-Defense Networks</b> to defend the lives and interests of all
oppressed peoples’ and exploited classes against various forms of state
terrorism. These People’s Self-Defense Networks would work as
multi-national alliances to engage in a broad manner all of the tasks
mentioned above to defend oppressed peoples and targeted communities,
such as LGBTQ2GNC communities, against institutionalized racism, white
supremacy, institutionalized sexism, patriarchy and state repression be
it racial profiling, gender profiling, stop and frisk, mass
incarceration, or mass deportations.</li>
</ol>
<ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="3" type="1">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Waging campaigns for local
referendums to institute <b>Police Control mechanisms</b> – i.e.
community based structures that have the power to hire, fire, subpoena,
and discipline the police on the local level. And waging massive,
non-compliant campaigns of resistance employing <b>BDS (boycott,
divestment, and sanction) strategies and tactics</b> on statewide,
regional, and national levels. </li>
</ol>
<ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="4" type="1">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Forming <b>People’s Assemblies</b>,
on local, citywide, and regional levels to engage in program and demand
development initiatives that will enable the people to engage in the
broad implementation of people’s programs for self-defense and mutual
aid.</li>
</ol>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">The <b>Malcolm X Grassroots
Movement</b> (<b>MXGM</b>)
and the <i>Every 28 Hours</i> <i>Campaign</i> seeks to strengthen
organizing
initiatives within Black or New Afrikan communities for self-defense,
by
presenting these initiatives with a comprehensive analytical framework
and
practical organizing tools to ground and unite them.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">MXGM offers to Black and other
oppressed communities three resources 1) <b>Operation
Ghetto Storm</b>, a full report on the 2012 extra judicial killings; 2)
<b>Let Your Motto Be Resistance</b>, an
organizing handbook for self-defense; and 3) <b>We Charge Genocide
Again!</b>, a curriculum for the <i>Every 28 Hours Campaign</i>, to
further this
objective</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b>Links:</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b>Operation Ghetto Storm: 2012
Annual Report on the Extrajudicial Killing of Black People</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><a
href="http://mxgm.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Operation-Ghetto-Storm.pdf"
target="_blank"><b>http://mxgm.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Operation-Ghetto-Storm.pdf</b></a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b>Let Your Motto Be Resistance</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><a
href="http://mxgm.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Self-Defense-Manual-MERGED.pdf"
target="_blank"><b>http://mxgm.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Self-Defense-Manual-MERGED.pdf</b></a><span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><b>We Charge Genocide Again! </b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><a
href="http://mxgm.org/we-charge-genocide-again-new-curriculum-on-every-28-hours-report/"
target="_blank"><b>http://mxgm.org/we-charge-genocide-again-new-curriculum-on-every-28-hours-report/</b></a><span><b>
</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">For more information on these
resources or trainings please contact Kali Akuno at <a
href="mailto:kaliakuno@mxgm.org" target="_blank">kaliakuno@mxgm.org</a>.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">For coalition building and
Self-Defense
Networks please contact Taliba Obuya at <a
href="mailto:taliba@mxgm.org" target="_blank">taliba@mxgm.org</a>. </p>
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