October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality - New York
Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation! NO MORE STOLEN LIVES
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October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality - New York

 
October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality - New York

October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality - New York
Take part in planning for this year's National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132571221327&ref=mf

Subway: 1/2/3 to 14th St & 7th Ave, A/C/E/L to 14th St & 8th Ave, F/V to 14th St & 6th Ave; Bus: M5/6/7/9/14/20

(tell the sec...urity guart that you're there for the October 22nd Coalition meeting in room 709)Read More

Next Mobilization Meeting for the National Day of Protest 2009
On October 22nd: Wear Black! Fight Back!
Time:5:30PM Friday, October 9th
Location:Pratt Manhattan
October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality - New York

October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality - New York

Call for October 22, 2009: National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation
We don’t want to live like this! We resist! On October 22nd, wear black! Join our protest and fight back! NO MORE STOLEN LIVES! The year 2009 started off with at least six cases nationally of police killings and brutality on New Year’s Day. ...
October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality - New York

October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality - New York
Nicholas Naquan Heyward, Jr. was 13 years old when a housing police officer shot and killed him for playing cops and robbers in a stairwell in Gowanus Houses. The policeman who killed him was exonerated by the District Attorney and never faced any charges. This vigil will mark the date young Nicholas lost his life 15 y...ears ago.

Subway directions: F to Bergen St, 2/3/4/5 to Nevins St, A/G to Hoyt-Schermerhorn

http://nicholasheywardmemorialfoundation.org/upcoming.htmlRead More

Candlelight Vigil in memory of Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr.
called for by the family of Nicholas, Jr.
Time:6:00PM Sunday, September 27th
Location:Corner of Baltic Street and Hoyt Street (Look for the mural of Nicholas, Jr)
October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality - New York

October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality - New York
STEP OUT FOR THE 14th NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST TO STOP POLICE BRUTALITY, REPRESSION, AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF A GENERATION
October 22, 2009

4:30pm Rally and march from Washington Square Park (gather at the west side of the fountain) - youth and student convergence at Union Square at 3:00pm

6:30pm VOICES AGAINST POLICE BR...UTALITY
music * poetry * art * film * resistance
LGBT Community Center
208 West 13th Street (between Seventh and Eighth Avenues), Manhattan, NY
(1/2/3 to 14th St & 7th Ave, A/C/E/L to 14th St & 8th Ave, F/V to 14th St & 6th Ave, Buses: M5/6/7/9/14/20)

Read the National Call at http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=135253027450&ref=mf

Join community organizers, families of those killed by police, victims of police brutality and repression, artists, and many others to say NO MORE! Stop police brutality, repression and the criminalization of a generation! No more Stolen Lives!

Speaking at the National Day of Protest: the families of Stolen Lives Nicholas Heyward, Jr. (http://nicholasheywardmemorialfoundation.org), Malcolm Ferguson, Anthony Rosario and Hilton Vega, Timur Person, Corey Mickens, Ronald Battle, Gregory Chavis, Sean Bell (http://www.justiceforsean.net/), Randy Weaver, Basire Farrell, Jahqui Graham, and Oswaldo Sevilla Moran. Also: Lynne Stewart (http://www.lynnestewart.org), Carl Dix (http://comradecarl.blogspot.com), the mother of one of the New Jersey 4 (http://freenj4.wordpress.com), and representatives of Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (http://mxgm.org), Picture the Homeless (http://www.picturethehomeless.org), Families for Freedom (http://www.familiesforfreedom.org), Make the Road by Walking (http://www.maketheroad.org), People’s Organization for Progress (http://www.njpop.org), and World Can’t Wait (http://www.worldcantwait.net).

At Voices Against Police Brutality, experience various forms of artistic expression of protest against police brutality. There will be spoken word, hip hop, club, reggae, rock, soul, film, and other arts, with performances by: Chelsea Gregory (http://www.chelseagregory.com), Division X (http://www.myspace.com/divisionxrap), Final Outlaw (http://www.finaloutlaw.com), Ibrahim Siddiq (http://www.myspace.com/spokenworld), James Kennedy, Mahina Movement (http://mahinamovement.org), Ngoma (http://www.ngomazworld.com), N00dle N00dle (http://www.myspace.com/noodlenoodle), Regime Change (http://www.regimechangemusic.com), Ruben, Saint, and Sir Mask (http://www.myspace.com/sirmask).

Excerpts from the following films will be shown: “Enemy Alien” (http://www.lifeorliberty.org/enemy_alien.html by Konrad Aderer), “William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe” (http://www.disturbingtheuniverse.com by Sarah & Emily Kunstler), “If I Die Tonight” (http://ifidietonight.com by Seyi), "Every Mother's Son" (http://www.pbs.org/pov/everymothersson by Tami Gold & Kelly Anderson) and “Justifiable Homicide” (http://realityfilms.net/index.html by Jon Osman). Also, the video for Kongo's "Nou We" (http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=3832895 by Oneza and SidLocks).

There will also be an exhibit of Haitian arts. The Voices Against Police Brutality chapbook and a preview sampler of the Against Police Brutality mixtape CD will be released at the event.

An update of the Stolen Lives book (http://www.october22.org/StolenLivesCasesBook.html) will be released that day (the 2nd edition published in 1999 documents over 2000 cases nationwide in the 1990s).

If you or your organization would like to table at Voices Against Police Brutality, please contact Naima at 914-310-3391 or Nince@pratt.edu. Tabling for organizations has a $15/$10 sliding fee. If you would like to sell food and/or beverages, the tabling fee is $25. The event is free.

The October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation has been mobilizing every year since 1996 for a National Day of Protest on October 22nd, bringing together those under the gun and those not under the gun as a powerful voice to expose the epidemic of police brutality.

Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation!
No more Stolen Lives!
Wear Black, Fight Back!

http://october22-ny.org
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14th National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality
On October 22nd, wear black! Fight back!
Time:4:30PM Thursday, October 22nd
Location:Gather at Washington Square Park
October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality - New York

October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality - New York
The October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation has been mobilizing every year since 1996 for a National Day of Protest on October 22nd, bringing together those under the gun and those not under the gun as a powerful voice to expose the epidemic of police brutalit...y.

Take part in planning and building for this year's rally and march and art showcase (taking place at the LGBT Center) against police brutality. Also, if you are an artist, please consider contributing to this year's chapbook and mixtape projects http://october22-ny.org/calltoartists.html

Subway: 6 to Bleecker, F to Bway-Lafayette or N/R/W to Prince

http://october22-ny.org/Read More

Next Mobilization Meeting for the National Day of Protest 2009
On October 22nd: Wear Black! Fight Back!
Time:6:30PM Thursday, September 10th
Location:Center for Constitutional Rights, 6th floor
October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality - New York

October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality - New York
The October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation has been mobilizing every year since 1996 for a National Day of Protest on October 22nd, bringing together those under the gun and those not under the gun as a powerful voice to expose the epidemic of police brutalit...y. Join us at the next meeting to build and plan for this year’s National Day of Protest in New York City and/or contact us if you would like to get involved.

Subway: 6 to Bleecker, F to Bway-Lafayette or N/R/W to Prince

http://october22-ny.org/Read More

Next Mobilization Meeting for the National Day of Protest 2009
On October 22nd: Wear Black! Fight Back!
Time:6:30PM Friday, August 28th
Location:Center for Constitutional Rights, 6th floor
October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality - New York

October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality - New York
Nicholas Naquan Heyward, Jr. was 13 years old when a housing police officer shot and killed him for playing cops and robbers in a stairwell in Gowanus Houses. The cop who killed him was exonerated by the District Attorney and never faced any charges.

Please join Nicholas Jr.'s family and friends on his birthday in the ...park that was named after him for the 15th Annual Day of Remembrance. All are invited to this community gathering for:
- Fun, food and activities
- Basketball Games (Brooklyn vs. Bronx!)
- Arts & crafts
- Face-painting
- Jay-Jay the Clown
- Exchanging toy guns for gifts
- Special guests
- Voter Registration
- 2pm Brooklyn Stolen Lives ceremony

*UPDATES:
- Performances by Ngoma, the Peace Poets and Moana of Mahina Movement!
- Double-dutch and hula hoops!
- Gowanus's own Wildcats Drill Team!

Subway directions: F/G to Bergen Street, A/C/G to Hoyt-Schermerhorn, 2/3/4/5 to Nevins Street

For more information or to donate to the event, please call Nicholas Heyward, Sr. at 718-855-3861

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The family of Nicholas Heyward, Jr. also invites all to participate in a candlelight vigil at the mural of Nicholas, Jr., on the corner of Baltic Street and Hoyt Street. This vigil will mark the date young Nicholas lost his life:

Sunday, September 27, 2009, at 6:00pm Corner of Baltic Street and Hoyt Street
Look for the mural of Nicholas, Jr.
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14TH ANNUAL NICHOLAS HEYWARD, JR. DAY OF REMEMBRANCE
called for by the Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr. Memorial Foundation Inc. (not October 22 Coalition, though we will be there!)
Time:1:00PM Saturday, August 22nd
Location:Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr. Park
October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality - New York

October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality - New York
Take part in the moving ceremony that honors the lives and families of people killed by law enforcement. The Stolen Lives Induction Ceremony is a solemn yet empowering event, where families and other loved ones of recent victims of police violence are joined and supported by other families of Stolen Lives and many oth...ers from all sections of the community. We come together to uphold the memories of those killed, and to affirm our resolve to continue and to escalate the struggle for justice and against the epidemic of police violence and murder.

Reception at 1:00pm.

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Updates on the program so far (as of 6.25.09):

Attending to receive certificates for their loved ones killed at the hands of law enforcement are the families of:
Timur Person (killed by NYPD December 13, 2006)
Ronald Battle (killed by NYPD September 28, 2007)
David Glowczenski (killed by Southhampton Village Police February 4, 2004)
Kenny Lazo (killed by Suffolk County police April 12, 2008)
Corey Mickens (killed by NYPD March 13, 2007)
Jayson Tirado (killed by NYPD October 21, 2007
Iman Morales (killed by NYPD September 24, 2008)
Ferrell Lee Hoover (killed by Essex County police December 8, 2005)
Warren Lee (killed by Essex County police October 12, 2006)
Ali Muslim Harris (killed by a retired NY police officer July 18, 2004)
Montique Smalls (killed by NYPD February 21, 2005)
Basire Farrell (killed by Newark police May 15, 2009)


Attending to support the families receiving certificates, are these Families of Stolen Lives who have attended Induction Ceremonies in the past:
Nicholas Heyward, Sr., father of Nicholas Heyward, Jr.
Juanita Young, mother of Malcolm Ferguson
Margarita Rosario, mother of Anthony Rosario, Jr./aunt of Hilton Vega
Jackie Nixon, aunt of Jamel Nixon
Mary Weaver, mother of Randy Weaver
Cynthia Howell, niece of Alberta Spruill
Danette Chavis, mother of Gregory Chavis
Loretta Cerbelli, mother of Kevin Cerbelli


Artists performing:
Ngoma
Imani Uzuri
Joyce Jones
Kongo
Peace Poets
Raging Grannies
Okai Musik

Plus, a photo exhibit by Lee GuestRead More

Stolen Lives Induction Ceremony
Since the last Stolen Lives Induction Ceremony in July 2006, police in New York and New Jersey have killed at least 70 more. These victims of brutal police cannot speak for themselves, but we can and we will.
Time:2:00PM Saturday, June 27th
Location:Pratt Manhattan, Room 213
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