Family Members and Activists Speak Out: The Fight Against Police Violence

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Jun 12, 2012, 10:03:32 AM6/12/12
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**with updated speakers and endorsers - please spread widely**

Family Members and Activists Speak Out:

The Fight Against Police Violence
SATURDAY, JUNE 23
6 PM

The Riverside Church, Room 9T
490 Riverside Drive, New York

Speakers

DANETTE CHAVIS
Mother of Gregory Chavis, left to bleed to death by police after suffering a gun shot wound on October 9, 2004. 

LAVERNE DOBBINSON
Mother of Tamon Robinson, who was tragically run down by an NYPD police cruiser and died six days later on April 18, 2012. 

JENNIFER GONZALEZ
Partner of Kenny Lazo, beaten to death by police on April 12, 2008. 

BRIAN JONES
Educator; actor; member, International Socialist Organization. Contributing author to the book, Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation

CONSTANCE MALCOLM
Mother of 18-year old Ramarley Graham, killed by police on Feb 2, 2012, in his Bronx home in front of his grandmother and 6-year old brother.

Endorsers (list in formation): American Friends Service Committee (NY office), Campaign to End the New Jim Crow, Correctional Association of NY, DecoloNYC, Families Against Stop & Frisk, Free Mumia Coalition NYC, International Socialist Organization, Haymarket Books, Labor for Palestine, Mission & Social Justice of The Riverside Church, Mothers Resist Racist Policing, NYC Labor Against War, Stop Stop and Frisk, Urban Rebuilding Initiative, VOCAL-NY.


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