Million Mail March for Chattanooga 3

[Ernesto <may19@pdq.net>]

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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). Simple.
Please cc mail to houstonabc@hotmail.com.

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PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY!

Contact for info:
Houston ABC-SG
P.O. Box 667233
Houston, TX 77266-7233
(713) 595-2103, ext. 7585
Toll-free: 1-877-875-2600, extension 807
info@houstonabc.org

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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