[kj] fascism at the World Series

[peter.west410]

Maybe people were disgusted that you used a persons death too further your
own warped cause

And your :Lost little boy just standing there enjoying the fresh-air Police
shoot me for target -practice stories are laughable.

 Is there a campaign I can join to stop Police using pepper-spray.(They
should use real bullets instead )
  PW





----- Original Message -----
From: <GregSlawson at aol.com>
To: <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 6:28 AM
Subject: [kj] fascism at the World Series


>      A half-dozen p members and friends went to Fenway Park (World Series)
to
> leaflet against the pigs for murdering by shooting a college student in
the
> eye with pepper spray bullets and killing her after Wed. night's Red Sox
> pennant win. There was a demo called by an ad-hoc coalition of groups
calling for an
> "angry protest" against police brutality. Aside from a couple of friends
(one
> who worked with us in the late 60s and one we met at the DNC the summer
> project who is interested in us) it was only a couple dozen anarchist
types and a
> few Sparts. They stood around on this lawn completely isolated and out of
view
> from the thousands of fans going to the game. After about an hour they
marched
> on the side of the street where there were few people, and then had a
vigil
> outside Fenway Park where the student had been killed. An activist
returning
> from the vigil said that most of the baseball crowd was indifferent.
>      Not wanting to waste time waiting, the p members went to the subway
stop
> to try to hand out our 1000 very well-written anti-police brutality
leaflets.
> The subway cops let us leaflet on the sidwalk outside the subway (although
> when we tried to leaflet down the street closer to the ballpark, the
Boston cops
> in riot gear started to gather around us). The response we got was far
from
> encouraging. Most people would not take the leaflet, even though crowds
were
> passing us by. A few nodded in agreement, and one guy said the cops would
"kill
> me if I took it". Several people were hostile, saying everything from "go
back
> to Russia", "get your head out of your ass", "the police are protecting
us"
> to  "why don't you go break some more windows" (actually no windows were
broken
> during the celebration--only a bank sign and a car that was burned) and
"she
> desrved it" (the student who was killed) and laughter at our sign that
said
> "Police Serve the Ruling Class not the Working Class". Two people gave
back the
> leaflet in disgust after looking briefly at the contents. These baseball
games
> seem to attrack a scary bunch of ultra-right wingers. I know all kinds of
> immigrants that are following and getting excited about the Sox, but the
people
> I've seen going to the games this week (tonight and on the subway last
week)
> just seem to be angry and fascist. These fans could not even criticize the
cops
> for killing a white college student who happened to be standing in a crowd
> that was celebrating outside Fenway Park. Interestingly, they just showed
on two
> news channels tonight another youth who got shot with pepper spray bullets
13
> times. He walked up to the cops with his arms raised to ask for help and
was
> shot with the pellets, and has a huge bloody scab on his face and large
yellow
> welts all over his stomache. Maybe the fans will say he deserved it too,
just
> for the crime of sitting on a steel girder along an outside wall of a
> ballpark. It seems like white people worship the cops, unless they've had
bad personal
> experiences with them. We've got a LONG way to go in winning these people.
>


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