[EE.UU.] FSP: "WHY OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SEEK TO SHUT DOWN THE BALTIMORE UPRISING"

Why Obama and the Democratic Party seek to shut down the Baltimore uprising

Speaker: Steve Strauss, Freedom Socialist Party

Steve lives in the Baltimore area and took part in the protests against the murder of Freddie Gray by Baltimore cops.

The Democratic Party is leading the way in trying to stop the U.S. movement against rampant police brutality and murder. Their representatives are blaming the victims of police brutality, physically forcing people off the streets, and promoting faith in the capitalist legal system.

Neither Democrats nor Republicans address the real crime: High unemployment, inadequate housing, and lack of quality healthcare in poor Black communities. Working people need funds for social services and jobs, not for an abusive militarized police force!

Racism and police abuse are built into how the capitalist system works. Until that system is replaced by socialism, we need elected civilian review boards that have the power to fire and discipline police. It is long past the time for community control of the police!

FSP - STATEMENT: "IT'S A THUGGISH SYSTEM - FROM BALTIMORE TO BAGHDAD"

The people of Baltimore are not thugs!
It’s a thuggish SYSTEM – from Baltimore to Baghdad!

The people of Baltimore — and the entire country — are justifiably angry at the racist cruelty of those in power and their armed occupying force — the Baltimore police.

It is outrageous that Freddie Gray died in police custody, arrested for the “crime” of running away from the cops, and now the city establishment refuses to make public how he died and who will be held accountable.

The anger did not begin with Gray’s murder. It is a normal response to a system that favors the super-rich, at the immense expense of the poor, and that uses racism to divide us. The fuel of poverty, urban decay, inadequately funded schools, and joblessness was already set. Freddie

Gray’s murder was the spark.