PRESS
RELEASE
CONTACT
:
LA
Currier
781-492-3552
# ENDINJUSTICE
WHAT: A
PRESS CONFERENCE AND COMMUNITY
GATHERING TO LAUNCH A NATIONAL CAMPAIGN OF MILITARY VETERANS, VICTIMS AND
SURVIVORS OF POLICE BRUTALITY, EX-POLICE
AND CORRECTIONS OFFICERS, ACTIVISTS,
CLERGY, EXONEREES AND CONCERNED CITIZENS,
WHO ARE IN SUPPORT OF COLIN
KAEPERNICK, THE NFL PLAYERS,
AND THE TAKING BACK THEIR MESSAGE: WE HAVE
AN UNDENIABLE
AND URGENT NEED FOR POLICE REFORM (ON STREETS AND IN PRISONS),
CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM, AND AN END TO RACIAL INJUSTICE.
WHEN: OCTOBER
23RD 2:00 – 3:15 PM
WHERE: MADISON PARK HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL FIELD, ROXBURY, MA
(CORNER OF RUGGLES ST.
& DEWITT DRIVE * RAIN OR SHINE
* )
WHO: Jamele Dozier, uncle of “DJ” Danroy Henry, who was
killed by police in upstate NY, and whose story will be featured in a 48
Hours special by James Brown; Darneese Carnes, Boston resident who,
with her son, survived an attack by BPD;
Lynn Currier, Director of Haitkaah Social Justice project, who
missed being killed by a concussion grenade thrown by police in Standing Rock,
SD; Savina Martin, US Army Veteran and Tri-Chair of The Poor People’s
Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival; Ernest Partin Jr, Disabled US Air Force
Veteran, who was injured and honorably discharged from Lebanon and Grenada era;
Charles Muhammad, former police officer and DOC officer; Lucas
Currier, youth activist of Native, African and European American decent; Kevin
Peterson, New Democracy Coalition; Darrell Jones, activist and
entrepreneur, recently released from prison after 32 years served for a
wrongful conviction; Cassandra Bensahih, Coordinator of Massachusetts
Against Solitary Confinement; Brother Larry Muhammad, The Nation of
Islam,,Mosque11, Dorchester, MA; Bishop Fillipe Teixeira, St. Frances of
Assisi, Brockton, MA
SPONSORS: Haitkaah
Social Justice Project, Veterans For Peace, New Democracy Coalition, The
Massachusetts 6, Massachusetts Against Solitary Confinement, Dorchester People
for Peace
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