Flood the phone lines! Nov. 13-14 ‘Call to Action’ for Durham freedom fighters – Workers World

14.11.17

Flood the phone lines! Nov. 13-14 ‘Call to Action’ for Durham freedom fighters – Workers World: Defend Durham, a community organization that has rallied around those who brought down the statue, issued an Aug. 9 statement on the recent dropping of charges for some. In part, they said: “We must remember that we cannot trust the system to change that which it upholds. This was merely representative of a lack of evidence, not an acquiescence of power. … We must continue to fight until the remaining [people charged] walk free, until no Confederate statues remain, until all institutions of white supremacy have been abolished.”

One of the defendants, Loan Tran, a member of Workers World Party, declared in a Nov. 12 Facebook post: “We won [the recent acquittals] because we organize and because we didn’t do anything wrong! Myself and 11 others are still facing ridiculous charges — among them two felony riot charges. … Let’s keep flooding the streets and the phone lines. Let’s indict this system for its true crimes — the countless evictions and cession of Black and Brown neighborhoods to developers; the unending murders of our people in the streets, in the jails, on the workplace, in detention centers; the total and unapologetic protection this system offers to the statues that literally enshrine and uphold white supremacy.”