Over the last weeks a great uprising has begun in Los Angeles.
People, beyond all categories, have risen up and with their rage, courage and creativity driven back, for a moment, the military and police henchmen of the American Democracy.
Why? Because those with power are fighting a war against the people who they ruthlessly exploit to get ever richer. ‘Immigration roundups’ snatch anyone who they think they can victimise into vehicles destined for prison camps and deportation.
The people in rebellion in LA decided to act, decided not to take this mass-kidnapping lying down.
What about us in South London?
Every day glass towers are being built to surround us while immigration raids target the people who get up at 4am to hoover them.
Every day we are crushed in the name of the bosses’ ‘progress’: squeezed, harassed, robbed, exhausted, and finally evicted and thrown out.
The multinational AECOM, running construction for the 2028 LA Olympics, in preparation for which the cops are now ‘cleaning up’ LA with bloody persecutions, is the same company who are designing the Elephant and Castle station expansion (serving the luxury developments) and the proposed Bakerloo line extension, for which we are currently being ‘cleaned up’ under the assumption that we won’t fight back.
Let us realise that the struggle in LA is also ours. It is the struggle to live with dignity, rather than at the mercy of economic and political bosses.
It is only in moments of refusal of and attack against the sterile plans of power that life and joy can be seized from the grey concrete cemetery of “progress”.
So, in solidarity with the LA rebellion, let’s spread the uprising everywhere!
SOUTH LONDON TO L.A.
LONG LIVE THE UPRISING
LET’S SPREAD THE REVOLT – FREEDOM FOR ALL!
DEMONSTRATION. SATURDAY 21ST JUNE
6pm East St Market (Walworth Road entrance) SE17 1EL
source: Act For Freedom