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- --- Houston ABC-SG <info@houstonabc.org> wrote:
> To: abcf-ern@egroups.com
> From: Houston ABC-SG <info@houstonabc.org>
> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 10:28:19 -0800 (PST)
> Reply-to: abcf-ern-owner@egroups.com
> Subject: [abcf-ern] Million Mail March for
> Chattanooga 3 - Write Now
>
> Million Mail March for Chattanooga 3 - WRITE NOW
>
> Houston ABC-SG is calling for all people concerned
> about police brutality to participate in a Million
> Mail March to Defend the Chattanooga 3, which goes
> from November 19 to December 31, 2000.
>
> The "Chattanooga 3" -- black activists Lorenzo
> Komboa Ervin, Damon McGee and Mikail Musa Muhammad
> -- are charged with violating Tennessee's disruption
> law. If convicted, Lorenzo, Damon and Mikail face up
> to a year in state prison. After many delays, they
> go to trial January 11.
>
> Lorenzo, Damon and Mikail helped to organize a
> protest at City Hall by over 150 people angry over
> the police killings of two black men, Montrail
> Collins on April 28, and Kevin McCullough on May 6,
> 1998. Collins and McCullough were two of the over 40
> predominantly black people who have been killed by
> Chattanooga police since 1980. No police have ever
> been prosecuted for these killings.
>
> Lorenzo, an organizer for Copwatch and a former
> member of the Black Panther Party, was promised he
> could address the City Council. However, when the
> scheduled time came for Lorenzo to speak, he was
> ignored. When he took over a microphone and began to
> read a statement denouncing police brutality, he was
> seized, beaten and arrested by police. Damon McGee
> and Mikail Musa Muhammad (Ralph R. Mitchell), who
> defended Lorenzo against the police, were also
> beaten and arrested.
>
> Of this call for action, Kom'boa said: "So the days
> of action you have proposed [are] exactly what we
> need to pressure authorities to stop this malicious
> prosecution. This case is definitely about more than
> the three of us in a small town in Tennessee. This
> case will be used as a precedent."
>
> WHAT MAIL-MARCHERS ARE REQUESTED TO DO:
>
> Please send an email to:
>
> Bill Cox - District Attorney General
> <Bill_Cox@hcda.cps.k12.tn.us>
>
> James Boney - Chief of Staff to Mayor Jon Kinsey
> <boney_james@mail.chattanooga.gov>
>
> Yusuf A. Hakeem - City Council Chairperson
> <hakeem_yusuf@mail.chattanooga.gov>
>
> And ask that all charges be dropped against the
> Chattanooga 3 -- Lorenzo Ervin, Damon McGee and
> Mikail Musa Muhammad (Ralph R. Mitchell).
>
> PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY!
>
> If you will be participating in or endorsing the
> event, or want to get involved in Houston ABC-SG,
> please get in touch!
>
>
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> Houston ABC-SG
> P.O. Box 667233
> Houston, TX 77266-7233
> (713) 595-2103, ext. 7585
> Toll-free: 1-877-875-2600, extension 807
> E-mail: info@houstonabc.org
> Web: www.houstonabc.org
>
>
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