New speakers! Family Members and Activists Speak Out

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Lee Wengraf

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Jun 21, 2012, 12:25:20 PM6/21/12
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A Flatbush activist and protest organizer for Shantel Davis, killed by the NYPD last week, will be joining the panel
 
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Note new speaker and larger location at Riverside Church
Family Members and Activists Speak Out:
The Fight Against Police Violence

SATURDAY, JUNE 23 at 6 PM
The Riverside Church
Assembly Hall
490 Riverside Drive, New York

Speakers

KENNETH CHAMBERLAIN, JR

Son of Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., 68-year old man killed by White Plains police after he accidentally set off his medical alert pendant, when police broke down his door, hurled a racial epithet, tasered him and shot him twice in the chest. 

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.

 

CHEVON MESSIAH
East Flatbush community activist and protest organizer for Shantel Davis who was gunned down by NYPD June 14th, 2012 

 

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 Resisting Racist Policing, NYC Labor Against War, Stop Stop and Frisk, The New Press, Urban Rebuilding Initiative, VOCAL-NY.


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