Re: Fw: SF CHAPTER NAACP GENERAL MEETING/ question

[Iolm...@cs.com]

Dear Sister Lynnette,

Thank you for sending this to us, we forwarded to our list serves.

We remain puzzled by one thing.

Please do not take this as inflammatory. Since you work closely with Rev. Brown, mayne you can forward this to him to bring some needed and urgent light on the following matter

Rev Brown officiated the funeral sevice  for Disabled Balck Youth Police Victim  Cammerin Boyd in May 2004 at 3rd Baptist Church, attended by Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, and many community leaders as well as concerned SF Residents.

The same week, Rev, Brown also attended the Justice4CammerinBoyd press conference at City Hall, while Mayor Newsome ducked the press and was seen furtively leaving City Hall  through a back door.

We are saddened at the fact that Rev. Amos Brown  has not come to the federal trial currently going on at the Federal Building in support of Marylon Boyd and her grieving family for the past week.
His spiritual and emotional support is critically needed, for Marylon but also for all of us in attendance.

Although Rev. Brown  stated when talking to my friend Rev. Wayne Jones, (director of "Pastors Against Injustice") calling him from Roanoke on my suggestion, "Who is mesha Irizarry ? I am the only one doing anything about police brutality in San Francisco". Rev. Jones was pained by the response, and asled me why I had suggested the connection in the first place. All I could reckon and conveyed to him is that Rev, Brown is a busy man fighting on many fronts, and possibly would not remember our previous encounters,
(although we have been keynote speakers  at many conjoint  events, and were together guests  last year on a show about the SF Bayview Videotapes on KLWA, which I did not share with Wayne out of respect for Rev, Brown).

We do not currenty seem to see any challenge on police violence and killings  from our local NAACP, in spite of
6 murders of Black and Brown Unarmed Sister and Brothers of Color in SF,

since the execution of Cammerin Boyd by PD,
Jim Crow style on District 5 Plantation, not to mention, just to cite a few:

* Attempted murder of Gina Hinton, Black, Unarmed

* Attempted PD murder on 19 yr .BlackTyrelle Taylor, (exibit in court: a gun from the Vietnam war, non functional = Unarmed)

* Brutalization , hospitalization, and bribe attempt  to buy the silence of disabled  Black Muslim  Mahdi Gallespie, Unarmed

* Racial profiling of Marlon Crump, Black, Unarmed.

* Recent brutalization of  student Lee Ratcliff II, young Black cousin of publisher Willie Ratcliff, Unarmed

* Permanently disabling brutalization of Veteran Hermano Morris  Perez, Portorican Laborer, Unarmed

* Racial Profiling of Brian Spears, Black, exonerated in 2006, Unarmed

* False indictment of Royce Miller, Black Youth, Unarmed while the DA and Inpector Kervin Silas protect an known informant who has been bragging about the murder of Snookie Danner.

RIP

Gus Rugley,                  Black, Unarmed
Craig Holden,                Black, Unarmed
Karen Eklund,               Latina, Urnarmed
Asa Sullivan,                 Black, Unarmed
Big O Lefiti,                   Samoan, Unarmed
Herbert Tyrone Watts,  Black, Unarmed

[ISF set up and moderates the websites and petitions for all individuals and families stated as above, available upon request,
Everytime a new site is set up and publicized, we routinely forward the links to AACPRB (African American Community Policing Relations Board) executive team, so surely the information, news and updates on these cases are readily  available]


If Violence is a health issue,
police violence is a health issue that impacts many lives, and many of us are waiting for our local NAACP to spell it out, and take action.
as many other chapters such as LA amd on the East Coast have done so widely and efficiently  for the past few years.

The sweeping, lethal use of anabolic steroids by PD all across the nation,
the silence of the City about any intent to adopt  the recently won Oakland PD Random Mandatory Drug Testing policy, is a health issue.

I hope that neither of you  will feel defensive reading this. Our constituencies and clients  want to know, and respectfully await a response from Rev. Brown at his  earliest convenience

As you know, ISF provides direct services to Victims, families and survivors of police misconduct, on a daily basis, in the trenches, on our 24 HR crisis line that receives over 400 calls a month, on the street, through home visits  and at our location on 3rd Street.

We have served 1082 clients,  family members and Social/Racial Justice activists since 2003, locally and nationwide. 92 % of our clients are Poor People of Color.

Please let me know what your thoughts are on this Sister Lynnette, and respectfully urge Rev. Brown to elaborate on the above.

Hopefully this is just a misunderstanding on our part, and can be healed.

In Unity and Respect
meshá Mongé-Irizarry


Director of :

*    `Idriss Stelley Foundation
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeo9ewi/idrissstelleyfoundation/
*     Education not Incarceration SF Chapter
*     SF_Village_Voice Community Radio, 100.5 f.m.


SF Bayview National Black Newspaper reporter.

Host of
*     SF Bayview CEDP (Campaign to end the death penalty,and Save Kevin Copper Campaign)
Member of :
*     SF AACPRB (African American Community Policing Relations Board, South East Branch)

*     YEFAB (Youth Empowerment Funding Advisory Board, SF)
*     Hurricane Relief Board
*     BlackBrownUnity National Movement
*     Bay Area Racial Justice Brigade
*     We_Are_The_Ones_We-Have_Been_Waiting_For Movement  (honoring
     a 1000 Women who  
     make a substantial difference in our Peaceful World, spearheaded by Dorinda
     Moreno, Mother of the Xicano Moratorium).
SF Bayview National Black Newspaper reporter.
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San Francisco Chapter
NAACP General Meeting
Sunday, August 26, 2007
3:00 PM
@ Third Baptist Church
1399 McAllister Street
S.F., CA

Educational / Back to school report
Chappie Grice

Issue concerning our communities
Violence a health crisis
Amos C. Brown, President

Please come to the meeting and bring others with you, so that we shall be energized to fight for justice, save our youth, become politically astute and empowered, and save the day for all oppressed and disenfranchised people.

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