October 22nd - A Day Against Police Brutality and the Criminalization of a Generation The October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation has been mobilizing every year since 1996 for a National Day of Protest on October 22nd, bringing together those under the gun and those not under the gun as a powerful voice to expose the epidemic of police brutality. The Coalition works on the Stolen Lives Project also, which documents cases of killings by law enforcement nationwide.

GDC Endorsed - learn more at www.OCTOBER22.org - hook up with other local organizers of this event. October 22, 2008, is the 13th National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation. We ask you to endorse this call for action. Check www.october22.org for events in your area. Write to info@october22.org to become part of organizing an event in your area on October 22nd. Why do we need to act on October 22nd, 2008? The current economic crisis looms large in people’s thinking, and the media talks endlessly about the upcoming elections, as if nothing else is happening in the world. Meanwhile, attention is diverted from the increasing incidents of repression and violence towards people in certain neighborhoods, towards immigrants, and towards political dissent. Verdicts from the court system in recent years have clearly established that all the police need to do is invoke the "terrorism" word, or say that they “thought” there might be a danger, and they get a free pass to raid, beat, bomb, gas and arrest.