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My name is Arturo Castillon,

My name is Arturo Castillon, I wrote it that way, not "anonymous", you pinche gringo. That statistic is completely arbitrary, it has nothing to do with the specific problems we face in Philly, anyways that just means that more people are getting caught and thrown in jail, not that violence is being reduced in any significant way. Im going to make it very clear for all you spineless liberal cabrones out there: the police are never going to improve our lives, only we can do that by taking back control of our communities and our destinies our selves. We will never have peace if we rely on the police to enforce it, or by relying on neocolonial puppets like Nutter and Ramsey (white power in a black face anyone?) whose main concern is protecting the interests of their own class and power. They do this by increasingly making it harder for the poorest sectors of society, also the most revolutionary, to arm themselves, by giving the racist police more power than us in controlling our own communities, by aiding the gentrification of our neighborhoods, by criminalizing us, by constantly and violently reminding us that we do not have any power over our lives, and that the overseers know whats best, not us. Now, this may sound scary and intimidating to those who have a stake in the established order of things and who want the way power is distributed to stay the same. But it is not "radicalism for radicalisms sake", it is a realistic, not an opportunistic, analysis of what is going on and what it is going to take for us to live in peaceful communities where we can self-manage our own affairs and democratically administer policies that affect us through means of coordination and cooperation, not police invasion and militarization.

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