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Subject: FYI: Call for Twin Cities Solidarity with the Jena Six
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:12:07 -0500 (CDT)
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A Call for Community Solidarity with the Jena Six
The massive protests against the gross injustice being inflicted on the six
Black youths, who have come to be know as the Jena Six, has captured the
attention of the world and exposed in bold relief the ongoing reality of
institutional racism and discrimination in the U.S. before the eyes of world
public opinion.
The fight of the six, their families and thousands of supporters resonates
widely because millions of working people and people of color are all too
familiar -- through their own experience-- of the inequality and
institutional discrimination of the U.S. "justice" system.
A mere glance at some the statistics reaffirms the reality that we already
know. Black men are seven times more likely than whites to be imprisoned.
Black people make up 41 percent of the prison population, but only 13
percent of the population. And the situation for Latinos and Native
Americans is not much different.
What makes the Jena Six case different is that thousands of ordinary people
from around the country have responded to this injustice with active
solidarity. In addition to the thousands who marched in Jena there have been
solidarity actions across the country. Last week 1500 people attended a
protest at Howard University. And in Chicago, 500 people attended a protest
meeting called by Rev. Al Sharpton. The meeting featured the mother of one
of the Six Melissa Bell.
It's in this spirit of solidarity that the undersigned are issuing this
emergency call for a meeting to organize a mass community protest meeting in
solidarity with the Jena Six. We want to take up the call issued by the
families of the six to demand :
Drop All Charges Now!
The meeting will take place
Thursday, September 27th 7:00pm at the Minneapolis Urban League 1313 Penn
Avenue North in Minneapolis.
For more information please call either Shvonne Johnson at 612-227-0296,
Chris Nisan at 651-387-4388, or Cheryl Morgan Spencer at 612-302-3100.
We hope you can attend.
In solidarity,
Shvonne Johnson,
College of St. Catherine Outreach Coordinator,
Nathanial Khaliq,
President, St. Paul NAACP
Activist,
Rose Brewer
Professor, Afro-American Studies, Uof Mn
Cheryl Wilson,Organizing Project of African-American Churches
Chris Nisan, Activist, Activist MICAH
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