Long live Shaka Sankofa/Gary Graham!

TURN THE EXECUTION OF SHAKA SANKOFA (GARY GRAHAM)  INTO A SUMMER OF RESISTANCE

What the execution of Shaka Sankofa (aka Gary Graham) shows is  what many have known all along: that this system is inherently racist, it is incurably barbaric.  This shows once again that capitalism has no answer for working people or for young people.

Rule by the rich ... and the death penalty for the poor.   

This so-called "democratic" system is ruled by the rich, the bankers and the CEOs.  It's democracy for the rich -- and the death penalty for the poor.  All this system has to offer is police, prisons and more racist repression, politically and economically, for poor and working people while rich white men determine the fate of poor people like Shaka Sankofa.

 How many millionaires or billionaires do you know of that languish on death row?   Not a one.  Prisons are concentration camps for the poor.  

Blacks and whites are murder victims of an equal rate but 82 percent of all executions involve the murder of white people.   Only six white people have been executed for killing Blacks since 1977, the year the death penalty was reinstated according to Amnesty International.  The U.S. executes more juveniles than any other industrialized country.   

The real criminals are hidden on Wall Street.    

They're riding around in chauffeured limousines and trading billions in stocks while people are homeless outside their penthouse apartments.  They are the ones investing billions of dollars into building the repressive prison industrial complex to help satisfy their greed for more profits.  These are the class interests that George Bush and Al Gore truly represent.

Working people need jobs, health care, child care and education.  And we're not going to get it from either of the big business candidates. There's an election coming up so that we can "choose" who will oppress us for the next four years.   History has shown that independent mass movements win social justice, not capitalist elections.   

Build the movement against capitalism.  

What young people and working people really need is to build a  movement against this system -- against capitalism -- because it is  beyond reform.  We need to build a different type of society based on meeting the real needs of people instead of profit for a few millionaires and billionaires.  The execution of Shaka was an attempt to kill the growing anti-death penalty movement but this atrocity will have the opposite impact on the movement.  The U.S. can no longer hide the fact that it is the number one human rights violator in the world.

Bush with the ruling class behind him can execute Shaka Sankofa, but they can't kill his voice or his spirit. His heroic defiance and his revolutionary example will continue to be an inspiration to our movement.

Long live Shaka Sankofa!   

Turn the execution of Shaka Sankofa into a summer and a lifetime of  united resistance.    

Death Row must go!

 Converge on the Republican and Democratic Conventions this summer to say:  
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!
Fight back against police terror!
Shut down the prison-industrial complex!
End the racist death penalty!
Shut down capitalism!

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