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Date:

June 15

Time:

9:00 am — 5:00 pm 

Event Cat­e­go­ry:

2020-06 (JUNE), Dates, Invi­ta­tions (ARCHIVE), Lava space, Venues

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Venue

Lava space

4134 Lan­cast­er Ave

Philadel­phia, PA, Unit­ed States, 19104

Fol­low­ing the mur­der of George Floyd by the Min­neapo­lis Police, cities and towns across the coun­try, led by Black youth, rose up in anger and in grief and the sys­temic racism that has had it’s knee on the neck of Black peo­ple for 500 years. 

This year’s upris­ing caught the atten­tion of nation and the world in an unprece­dent­ed way, lead­ing to the intro­duc­tion of reforms, reduc­tions in police bud­gets and the removal of mon­u­ments that have long stood as painful reminders to the endur­ing exis­tence of white supremacy. 

While some will argue that prop­er­ty destruc­tion has no place in move­ments for social jus­tice, we know that with­out images of burn­ing police sta­tions and dam­aged store fronts, this move­ment would not have achieved the atten­tion that it has. 

Fur­ther­more, the prop­er­ty that was “loot­ed” dur­ing the upris­ing is incom­pa­ra­ble to what is owed to Black Amer­i­ca after cen­turies of plun­der­ing life and labor. 

Philadel­phia Dis­trict Attor­ney Lar­ry Kras­ner ran on a plat­form of revers­ing decades of racist “tough on crime” style pros­e­cu­tion. As a defense attor­ney rep­re­sent­ing peo­ple arrest­ed at Occu­py Philly and the 2000 RNC, he knew that dis­tin­guish­ing between “good” and “bad” pro­test­ers only serves to help the sys­tem under­mine move­ments for social and racial justice. 

Lar­ry Kras­ner knows this, but appar­ent­ly he needs a reminder. On Mon­day, June 15th, call the DA’s office to remind his of why he was elect­ed and how we can sup­port the glob­al move­ment for Black life. 

Tell DA Lar­ry Kras­ner to drop the charges against EVERYONE arrest­ed dur­ing this mon­th’s anti-police bru­tal­i­ty protests. 

Phone num­ber: 215–686-8000
Email: DA_East@phila.gov
DA_Central@phila.gov
DA_Northwest@phila.gov
DA_South@phila.gov
DA_Southwest@phila.gov
DA_Northeast@phila.gov