Endorsements for October 22 - National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality,
Repression and The Criminalization of A Generation
Well, these people know it is:
Family Members
(People whose loved ones were killed or brutalized by police)
Skip Allen, father of Travis Allen murdered by Bellarie P.D.
Amaya Family in Memory of Lucilla "Chila" Amaya, killed by Union City Police, California, 3/7/98
Max Antoine, victim of police brutality, New Jersey
Iris Baez, Anthony Baez Foundation, New York
Bernell Butler, uncle of Tyisha Miller, shot to death by police in Riverside, CA
Milta Calderon, Parents Against Police Brutality, New York
Sonny Lee Carter, father of Jeremiah Mearday, victim of police brutality, Chicago
Hollace Cassel, son killed by SJPD '93, San Jose, CA
Loretta Cerbelli, mother of Kevin Cerbelli, New York, N.Y.
Aládé Djehuti-Mes, Charles Vaughn Sr. Foundation, son of Charles Vaughn Sr. who was killed by Seaside, CA. police
Donna Dymally, mother of Mark Fitsimmons, killed by LAPD on July 2, 1998
Ophelia R. Ealy, mother of Michael Randall Ealy murdered by Seattle police 12/27/98
Danny Garcia, Sr., brother of Mark Garcia, San Francisco
Arnetta Grable, mother of Lamar Grable, Detroit, Michigan
Rashidah Grinage, FAMLE, Husband and son, killed by Oakland police
Barbara J. Haggerty, mother of LaTanya Haggerty, Chicago
Cornelius Hall, FAMLE, Families Against Murder by Law Enforcement, San Francisco, son Jerrold Hall killed by BART police
Mildred Hamilton, mother of Michael Russell, Chicago
Nicholas Heyward Sr., Parents Against Police Brtality, New York
Gwendolyn Hogan, wife of Kelsey Hogan, Chicago
Richard Hogan, father of Kelsey Hogan, Chicago
Willie F. Horton Sr., father of Stephen Horton, Cleveland, Ohio
Erroll Maitland, Douglass Fischer Justice Project, New York
Genevieve Mitchell, Cleveland, Ohio
George Morris, father of Kevin Morris, Chicago
Bessie Perkins, mother of Frankie Perkins, Chicago
The Family of Michael Pipkins (victim of police murder), Cleveland, Ohio
Teresa J. Porter, community activist, survivor of police brutality along with her three sons, Seattle
Andree Smith, mother of Justin Smith, New York
Brian Smith, brother of Danny Ray Smith, murdered by L.A. Sheriffs at Twin Towers Jail, Los Angeles, CA
Mary Reed, mother of Leroy Reed, Chicago
Antonio Rosario, Parents Against Police Brutality, New York
Willi Rosenberg, Family of Richard Rosenberg, killed by Fremont police
Isaac Russ, father of Robert Russ, Chicago
Janice and Wayne Taylor, victims of police brutality, Tacoma, Washington
Janie Torres, sister of Jose Campos Torres murdered by Houston PD
Herman Vallery II, father of Lamar Grable, Detroit, Michigan
Yehohanan Reu Yisrael, survivor of police brutality, Seattle
Emma Young & Family, Tyron N. Salters Memorium, Greenville, S.C.
LaRhonda Young, Tyrone N. Salters Memorium, Greenville, S.C.
Natydre & Tyronovia Salters Young, father killed by sheriff deputy '98, Greenville, S.C.
Organizational Endorsements
Africans on The Move, Chicago
American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California American Friends Service Committee/ Immigration Law Enforcement Monitoring Project, Houston, Texas
Amnesty International, USA (National)
Amnesty International, Group #259, Chicago Amnesty International Group #576, Chicago South Suburbs
Amnesty International, Los Angeles
California Anti-Racist Action, Bay Area
Anti-Racist Action, Chicago
Asians For Mumia, New York
Audre Lorde Project, New York
Black on Black 2000, a community organization, Cleveland, Ohio
Brooklyn Green Party
CAAV Organizing Asian Communities, New York
Calles y Sueños, Chicago
Campaign to End the Death Penalty, Chicago
Casa Guatemala, Chicago
CAUSA
Celestial Arts Project, Seattle
Chicago Committee to Free Mumia Abu Jamal
Citywide Coaltion to Remove Guiliani, New York
Comite Exigimos Justicia, Chicago
Congress of Racial Equality (C.O.R.E.), California
Coordinadoora 2000
Coordinadora Internacional de Apoyo de Mexico Eviction Defense Network, San Francisco
FAMLE, Families Against Murder by Law Enforcement
Five Hundred Years Artists Collective, Seattle
Food Not Bombs, San Francisco
Food Not Bombs, San Jose
Gary Graham Coalition for Justice, Houston, TX
Guatemala Support Network, Houston, TX
Green Party of Seattle
Grupo de Apoyo a Immigrantes Latino Americano, TX
Houston Coalition to End the War Against Iraq, Houston, TX
Houston Peace Forum
Houstonians Against U.S. Military Intervention
Houstonians United for Mumia
Immigrant Pride Day Organizing Committee, San Francisco
Immigrant Rights Movement (MDI), San Francisco
International Longshore and Warehouseman's Union, Local #10
Justice for Pedro Orégon Coalition, Houston, Texas
Labor Militant, San Francisco
La Resistencia (National)
League of Filipino Students, Chicago
Los Angeles Catholic Worker, Los Angeles, CA
Lucrecia For Mayor Campaign, San Francisco
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement for Self-Determination, Greenville, S.C.
Madres Y Familias Unidas, Houston, Texas
National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools (NCACS), Board of Directors
National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights, New York
National Lawyers Guild, Chicago chapter
National Lawyers Guild, Fordham University chapter
National Lawyers Guild, Houston chapter
National Lawyers Guild, Police Accountability Project, New York
News and Letters Committees, Chicago
Northwest Leonard Peltier Support Network, Seattle, Tacoma
November Coalition, Colville, Washington
Open Hand Publishing, Seattle
Political Prisoners of War Coalition, Chicago
Prison Action Committee, Chicago
Redford Citizens Committee for Justice, Redford, Texas
Refuse and Resist! (National)
Reparations 2000 Coaltion, Seattle
Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (National)
Revolution Books, Chicago
Salvation Christian Ministries, Riverside, CA
San Francisco Frontlines Newspaper
San Jose Peace Center
Seattle Anti-War Collective
Seattle Mumia Defense Committee
Seattle Progressive Coalition
Silver Fox Coven, Seattle
South Asians Against Police Brutality and Racism, New York
Students for a Democratic Society, Berkeley chapter
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, Houston
Tyisha Miller Steering Committee, Riverside, CA
Veterans for Peace, Houston, TX
Video Activist Network, www.videoactivism. org
Vietnamese Residents' Association, San Francisco
Workers World Party - Houston branch
Zapatista Zolidarity Movement, Houston, Texas
Individuals
* noted when organization is for ID purposes only
Richard Aaron, Black Freedom Party, Seattle
Pam Africa, Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Philadelphia
Ramona Africa, MOVE organization, Philadelphia
Asif Allah, Youth Peace/War Resisters League, New York
Abayemi Azikiwe, Pan-African News Wire
Akile, Los Angeles, CA
Najee Ali, Project Islamic Hope, Los Angeles
Bihal Mafundi Ali, Los Angeles, CA
Nathaniel Ali, National Association of Brothers and Sisters In and Out, L.A., CA
Artis, the Spoonman, Pt. Townsend, WA.
34 people at a meeting of the Black Defense League (BDL) , Los Angeles, CA.
Molefi Askani, Activist, Greenville, S. C.
Susan Bandes, DePaul Law School, Chicago
James Bell, San Francisco
Mollie Bell, community - activist, Straight out of Compton Black Defense League (BDL), L.A., CA.
Wallace "Gator" Bradley, United in Peace, Inc.
Reverend Richard Byrd, Christ Unity Center , Los Angeles, CA
Pastor Dewayne Butler, Uncle of Tyisha Miller, Pastor of Bright Light Full
Eriberto Campos, Little Village Community Council, Chicago
Reverend Marget Chappel, Freedom Missionary Church of Seattle
Roma Cho, artist, Seattle
William Craig, Seattle
Tim Crowley*, Free Speech Seattle
Jose B. Cuellar, Dr. Loco's Rockin' Jalapeno Band, San Francisco, CA
Ron Daniels, Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Rights, NY
Rosylin Dean & Alan Traugott, San Jose
Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
Aaron Dixon, Seattle
Marvin Dixon, former member Black Panther Party, Oakland
Lisa Duardo, FACTS -- Families Against California's Three Strikes*
Andre English, East Coast Regional Coordinator Student/Youth Network Oct. 22
Martin Espada, poet/professor
Doctor Donald Evans, Sr., Chair of the Prison Industrial Complex Committee of the Francis "Sissy" Farenthold, Houston
Melvin Farmer, Three Strikes Coalition, author of New Slave Ship
Herman Ferguson, Malcolm X Commemoration Committee, New York
Billie J. Franklin, Imani Dance Company, Greenville, S.C .
Anitra Freeman, founder of Streetwrites, Seattle
Ron Gibson, Church of God in Christ, Riverside, CA. *
Stacey Maya Gray, Law Office , New York
Joe S. Greene, Federal Way, WA.
Quetzal Guerra, West Coast Regional Coordinator Student /Youth Network Oct. 22
Edwin Habacon, BAYAN International - USA
Larry Halstead, Tyisha Miller Steering Committee, Riverside, CA.
Jennifer Harbury, San Francisco
Will Harrell, National Lawyers Guild, National Police Accountability Project, NY
Margot Harry, author of Attention MOVE ! This is America
Jesse Heiwa*, NYC Queers for Racial and Economic Justice, and OUT FM radio
Jennifer Henderson, South Asians Against Police Brutality and Racism, New York
Ray Hill, KPFT "Prison Show", Houston, TX
David Hilliard, Huey P. Newton Foundation, Oakland
Fred Ho, musician
Danny Hoch, performer
Lauren Hodges, actress, Los Angeles, CA
Norman Hodgett, L.I.C., New York
John Hoffman, author, agitator, Seattle
Gloria House, Professor Emerita, Wayne State University, Detroit
Jorge Jacques, Comite de Base de Maywood, California -- Partido Revolucionario Democracia
Jahara, National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America
Rev. Jakes, Christian Council on Urban Affairs
Terelle Jerricks, Nommo Magazine -- The African Peoples Magazine at University of California, Los Angeles
Reverend Anna Vernice Johnson, Salvation Christian Ministries, Riverside, CA
Ivory Johnson, Gospel One Music, Pacoima, CA
Joey Johnson, supporter of the Revolutionary Communist Party, U.S.A.
Charlotte Kasl, Ph.D., psychotherapist, author, social activist, San Francisco
Dedon Kamathu, All African Peoples Revolutionary Party, Los Angeles
Celes King, Congress of Racial Equality , Los Angel
James Lafferty, National Lawyers Guild, Los Angeles
Brenda Laosebikan, Entrepreneur/Activist, Greenville, South Carolina
Louis Malik, Malik's Books, Los Angeles, CA
Eric Mar, Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights, CA
Jaime Martínez, Secretary, IUE-AFL-CIO, District 11, San Antonio, TX
Keith Antar Mason, Hittite Empire poet
David Meyerhof, Burbank, CA.
Bradley McCallum, artist, Collaborative Urban Sculpture, NY
Charles McNally, Students for a Democratic Society, Berkeley
Travis Morales, member La Resistencia, supporter Revolutionary Communist Party
Maryam Namazie, Committee for Humanitarian Assistance to Iranian Refugees (CHAIR) and International Federation of Iranian Refugees (FIR), New York
Tom Nelson, Novato, CA
Efia Nwangaza, Attorney, Greenville, S.C.
Michael Novick, People against Racist Terror, Los Angeles, CA
Janis Pass, Washington D.C.
Keith Pavlik, National People's Campaign, San Francisco
John Pilgrim, teacher in San Francisco United School District
Clarence Potter, Activist, Greenville, S.C.
Sister Helen Prejean, author, Dead Man Walking
Ellmore Richmond Jr., Power Pack Center for Social and Economic Justice, Los Angeles
Matthew Rinaldi, National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco
Leola Robinson, Mothers for the Future, Greenville, S.C.
Rev. Robinson-Gaithers, Faith United Methodist Church, Los Angeles
Edith Rogers, United Black Coalition, Mereno Valley, CA
Robert Rockwell, Refuse and Resist!
Doug Russell, Texas
Angela Sanbrano, CARECEN, Los Angeles, CA.
Victoria Schneider, Victoria Foundation, San Francisco
Mable Settlage, CAPA -- Coalition against Police Abuse, L.A. *
KL Shannon, Seattle
Reverend Joseph Sims, Faith Temple Church, Riverside, CA
Tolbert Smey, Oakland
Gerald Smith, Copwatch (Berkeley)
Ralph Smith, spokesman, CORE - Congress of Racial Equality, Riverside, CA
Pamela Stanley, New York
Charlene Stone, Ashville, N.C.
Dwayne J. Stowe, Stolen Tears Publishing, New York
Lennox Sweeney, San Jose
Mario Tafur, Los Angeles
Nkechi Taifa, Director, Equal Justice Program , Howard University School of Law
Jacqueline Terry, New York
Carl W. Thomas, attorney for Louima, New York
Curtis Wade, Tyisha Miller Steering Committee, L.A.
Lissa Washington, Black Radical Congress, L.A. *
Lee Williams, Oakland
Standish E. Willis, Chair of Chicago Conference of Black Lawyers
Reverend Jesse Wilson Jr., Tyisha Miller Steering Committee
Lynne Wilson, Attorney, executive board of National Police Accountability Project of the National Lawyers Guild, Seattle
Rebecca Wolfram, Chicago
King Worthington, Berkeley City Council, CA
Gary Wood, SJ Citizen Tribunal, SJ Human Rights Defense Committee, San Jose
Quanell X, New Black Muslim Movement, Houston, TX
Rev. S. Michael Yasutake, Executive Director of Chicago Interfaith Prisoners of Conscience Project
The above lists the endorsers of the Oct. 22 National Day of Protest
October 22 Coalition
P.O. Box 2627 , New York, NY 10009
http://www.october22.org
212-477-8062
[posted 10/11/99]
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