A-Infos (en) March for Justice in D.C.- Against Police Brutality

[CLaw7MAn@webtv.net (Mike Steindel)]

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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! National Emergency March for Justice - Against Police Brutality 
Saturday, April 3, 1999
Washington, D.C.
12:00 Noon - 4:00 PM 
Honorary Chairperson: 

Rev. Walter Fauntroy, President, National Black Leadership Roundtable 

Assemble: 
at 10:00 at the Mall on G Street, NW, between 9th and 10th Street at the
Martin Luther King, Jr. Library 

March: 
at 12:00 down 10th Street past the Justice Department to Constitution
Avenue to the West Front of the Capitol for a 

Rally:
Against Police Brutality at 2:00 
The Program will include: 

o Presentations from family members and victims of police brutality 

o Representatives of civil rights and human rights organizations 

o Poetry readings, freedom songs and sounds of the struggle 
Call 1-900-226-5715 ext. 184: 

o For further information on the March 

o To enlist in Gideon's Army of registered and organized voters 

o To support the March financially 
Call 1-800-764-0235: 

o To report a recent incident of police brutality 

o If you are organizing buses or special contingents 

Endorsers (list in formation): 
Amnesty International - Anthony Baez Foundation - Asian American Legal
Defense and Education Fund - Association of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW
Local 2325 - CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities - Center for Democratic
Renewal 
- Coalition Against Police Abuse - Ella Baker Center for Human
Rights/Bay Area Police Watch - Guinean Association of America, Inc. -
International Socialist Organization - Jews for Racial and Economic
Justice - Lesbian and Gay Anti-Violence Project - MADRE - Malcolm X
Grassroots Movement - Movement for Change - National Action Network -
National Black Police Association - National Coalition for Police
Accountability - National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights - National
Conference of Black Lawyers - National Lawyers Guild - National Lawyers
Guild-NYC chapter - New York City Police Watch - October 22nd Coalition
- Pan African Project - Parents Against Police Brutality - Racial
Justice Working Group of the National Council of Churches - Refuse and
Resist - NY chapter - South Carolina Malcolm X Grassroots Movement for
Self-Determination - Southern Organizing Committee for Social and
Economic Justice - United Committee to Save Nigeria - United Concerned
Christians at Work - William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice -
Women for Justice 

The National Emergency March for Justice is an Initiative of the Center
for Constitutional Rights, 
Ron Daniels, Executive Director 
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THE CALL FOR A 
NATIONAL EMERGENCY MARCH FOR JUSTICE - AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY 

The police murder of Amadou Diallo, a 22 year unarmed immigrant from
Guinea, West Africa, by four officers of the NYPD, who fired 41 shots at
Diallo, 19 of which fatally pierced his body, has provoked a firestorm
of anger and outrage nationally and internationally. As tragic as the
Diallo murder is, however, it is simply the tip of the iceberg of an
epidemic of police brutality and misconduct which is wreaking havoc on
Blacks, Latinos, Asians and other people of color in the ghettos,
barrios, reservations and neighborhoods. 

All across this nation the families of victims of police violence are
crying out, demanding justice because scores of young people of color
are being terrorized and are dying needlessly at the hands of police
authorities whom we have entrusted with the responsibility of protecting
our communities. The crisis between communities of color and the police
has become a National Emergency 

- the bitter harvest of more than two decades of misguided public
policies which place more priority on massive and aggressive policing,
tougher sentencing and more prisons over investment in social, economic
and racial justice. 

The Center for Constitutional Rights is calling upon grassroots
organizations and advocacy groups, public interest legal institutions,
civil rights and human rights organizations, labor and religious
organizations and leaders, civic and fraternal orders, all people of
goodwill, and most importantly youth and families of victims of police
brutality to journey to Washington D.C., Saturday, April 3, 1999, Martin
Luther King Memorial Weekend, for a National Emergency March for Justice
to proclaim to this nation and the world -- 

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! 

We demand immediate action from the President, Attorney General and
Congress of the United States: 

1. President Clinton should immediately speak out on this issue and
empower a national commission to investigate the epidemic of police
brutality and misconduct which is afflicting communities of color and
poor communities across the nation. 

2. Attorney General Janet Reno, under the provisions of the Omnibus
Crime Bill of 1994, should issue a directive to the Justice Department
to intensify pattern and practices investigations in communities with a
high incidence of complaints of police brutality. In addition, we call
on the Attorney General to press for the expedited investigation of
ongoing civil rights cases and to hear appeals for the re-opening of
cases which may not have received appropriate priority. 

3. The House Judiciary Committee should immediately convene formal
hearings to take testimony on the scope and breadth of police brutality
and misconduct and formulate recommendations for legislation
accordingly. 

4. The Congress of the United States Should: 
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funds for the Justice Department to systematically collect data on
police brutality as mandated by the Omnibus Crime Bill of 1994. 

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provide for independent federal prosecutors to investigate allegations
of police misconduct where the use of illegal choke holds or deadly
force results in the injury or death of the victim -- The Jonny Gammage
Law. 

Finally, in memory of all those who have been victimized or died at the
hands of the police, we pledge to keep the pressure on, to mobilize and
organize to crystallize a new national movement to take back our
communities and fight for social, economic and racial justice, putting
America and the world on notice that as long as there is no justice for
people of color, the disadvantaged and the dispossessed, there will be
no peace. 
No justice, No peace! Get on the Bus! 

Buses are being organized from: 
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 =A0 New York City
=A0 =A0 New Jersey
=A0 =A0 Philadelphia
=A0 =A0 Ohio
=A0 =A0 North Carolina
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Call the hotline for more information: 1-800-764-0235 

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