state violence

 
ANNOUNCING THE FIRST "FUCK THE POLICE" MARCH IN AUSTIN TEXAS FTP1 This event was called by various Anarchists and radicals in Austin Texas This event was explicitly Anti-Police and Anti-Capitalist. This event was created in response to the call for solidarity put out by the citizens of Oakland who have been participating in these marches for several weeks now. No longer can we ignore this call. We did not create a facebook event for this march because we recognize that facebook alienates the participants in these demonstrations by giving law enforcement and city officials a list of participants and organizers that end up becoming targets. FTP1 Austin was the first of many FTP marches that will be planned in the coming weeks. We gather in the spirit of open revolt against the racist police state that we live in, and understand that there is no excuse for Austin to sit back and remain passive while our comrades around the world face violent state repression. There is no excuse to continue to sit back and let the racist Austin Police Department along with every other facet of law enforcement private or public to brutalize and murder children in the most marginalized communities in our area. There are no borders in this struggle. To quote our friends in the bay area - "Please do not consume the images from the Bay as you would the images of overseas rioting or as a netflix subscription. Our hell is yours, and so too is our struggle." We hold our friends in Oakland in the highest regard; their actions have been an inspiration to all of us. Produced for Austin Indymedia by Jeff Zavala. This is a zgraphix production. http://zgraphix.org