Carl Dix to Speak Sunday on Police Brutality, Police Murder, the Oppression of Black People and the Revolution We Need

Sunday, November 13th 4:00 PM
Silver's Delight All Natural Juice and Caribbean Restaurant
2879 East Point Drive, East Point, GA 30344
(1 Block from East Point MARTA Station in downtown East Point)


Fresh from the developing struggle to STOP "Stop and Frisk" in New York City, Carl Dix will be speaking in Atlanta on Sunday on Police Brutality, Police Murder, the Oppression of Black People and the Revolution We Need. Join us for this important forum. Bring your thinking and views into the conversation.

Here's an excerpt from a talk Carl Dix gave in Harlem on October 23rd:
From Up Against the Wall to Up in Their Faces . . . A Movement Has Begun to STOP "Stop and Frisk"

"...Black people in the U.S. have caught hell since the first African was dragged to these shores in slave chains. The forms of the oppression they were subjected to have changed, but the oppression has continued unchecked. Slavery was a key part of the economic foundation of the U.S., and it spawned laws, customs and ways of thinking that reflected and reinforced the domination of whites over Black people. And this has remained built into the very fabric of U.S. society, from slavery thru Jim Crow segregation and up to today's legalized discrimination, criminalization and mass incarceration. So we're challenging something that is very serious for the rulers of this country, and for us too.

"I mean, different people express it different ways. Cornel West said 'I want the young people to know that we're doing this because we love them.' That we don't view our youth as the problem. We don't see them as predators to be thrown in the prisons and caught up in the judicial system. And that's a very important sentiment to take. Myself, I come at this in terms of those youth need to step forward and join the emancipators of humanity and be the force that's gonna get rid of this imperialist system and the exploitation and oppression it brings down on humanity. And we can't have them trapped up in the criminal justice system and feeling like they can't act. We have to give them space to stand up, to raise their heads, to resist what's being done to them, but also to understand where it's coming from and join the fight to get rid of it. So this is a very important thing that we're embarking on..." Read On...


CARL DIX is a longtime revolutionary and a founding member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. In 1970 Carl was one of the Fort Lewis 6, six GIs who refused orders to go to Vietnam. He served 2 years in Leavenworth Military Penitentiary for his stand. In 1985 Carl initiated the Draw The Line statement, a powerful condemnation of the bombing of MOVE house in Philadelphia. In 1996, Carl was a founder of the October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality. Carl coordinated the Katrina hearings of the 2006 Bush Crimes Commission. Currently, Carl has engaged in several dialogues with Cornel West called, "In the Age of Obama: Police Terror, Incarceration, No Jobs, Mis-education- What Future for Our Youth?" The next Dialogue is scheduled for December 2nd at UC Berkeley.