NYPD Forearms Woman Rep of National Lawyers Guild (Green Hat)

On September 22, 2011, CUNY law students participated in the march for Troy Davis. Green hats were worn by the law students to represent the National Lawyers Guild. At 0:04 seconds of this video, a woman representative is aggressively forearmed in the head and neck and pushed out of the frame by an NYPD officer.

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When Eric Holder took his position as Attorney General, he began his term with a strong speech addressing the United States as a "Nation of Cowards" regarding the issue of race. Now when the time comes to address real issues surrounding race like the execution of Troy Davis and the mass incarceration of Black men, Holder and the Department of Justice have been frighteningly quiet.

Michelle Alexander, Author of The New Jim Crow, discusses the New Jim Crow during the panel discussion and talks with Joseph "Jazz" Hayden of allthingsharlem.com about the importance of movement building.  Watch Videos

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Not a word from President Obama on the Troy Davis case. But be sure he'll make time to pardon another Turkey this Thanksgiving.

After halting his execution in a last minute reprieve on Wednesday night, the Supreme Court of the United States refused to consider Troy Davis's request for a stay of execution.

He was murdered by the state of Georgia, a little after 11 pm, Wednesday night.

Hundreds turned out in Harlem on Wednesday before the final decision came in. We vowed that we would rally tomorrow in Union Square at 5.

For everyone who is heart-broken...
For everyone who is outraged...
For everyone who has been touched by Troy's case...

Please come.

Troy may be lost but his fight goes on. FORWARD THIS MESSAGE, and don't let his state-sanctioned murder pass in silence.

"We Are All Troy Davis"

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Join the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, New York, on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=107530109270596

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A letter from Troy Davis:

To All:

I want to thank all of you for your efforts and dedication to Human Rights and Human Kindness, in the past year I have experienced such emotion, joy, sadness and never ending faith. It is because of all of you that I am alive today, as I look at my sister Martina I am marveled by the love she has for me and of course I worry about her and her health, but as she tells me she is the eldest and she will not back down from this fight to save my life and prove to the world that I am innocent of this terrible crime.

As I look at my mail from across the globe, from places I have never ever dreamed I would know about and people speaking languages and expressing cultures and religions I could only hope to one day see first hand. I am humbled by the emotion that fills my heart with overwhelming, overflowing Joy. I can’t even explain the insurgence of emotion I feel when I try to express the strength I draw from you all, it compounds my faith and it shows me yet again that this is not a case about the death penalty, this is not a case about Troy Davis, this is a case about Justice and the Human Spirit to see Justice prevail.

I cannot answer all of your letters but I do read them all, I cannot see you all but I can imagine your faces, I cannot hear you speak but your letters take me to the far reaches of the world, I cannot touch you physically but I feel your warmth everyday I exist.

So Thank you and remember I am in a place where execution can only destroy your physical form but because of my faith in God, my family and all of you I have been spiritually free for some time and no matter what happens in the days, weeks to come, this Movement to end the death penalty, to seek true justice, to expose a system that fails to protect the innocent must be accelerated. There are so many more Troy Davis’. This fight to end the death penalty is not won or lost through me but through our strength to move forward and save every innocent person in captivity around the globe. We need to dismantle this Unjust system city by city, state by state and country by country.

I can’t wait to Stand with you, no matter if that is in physical or spiritual form, I will one day be announcing,

“I AM TROY DAVIS, and I AM FREE!”

Never Stop Fighting for Justice and We will Win!

Photographs: Getty Images

Once again the agencies of the criminal injustice system are consistent in their resolve to assert their power of life and death. 22 years after conviction their determination to murder this black man even though he poses no threat to anyone.

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Please sign the petiton from the Chatham County District Attorney: Request that Troy Davis Death Warrant be Withdrawn

From: https://occupywallst.org/ 

Our Mission

On the 17th of September, we want to see 20,000 people to flood into lower Manhattan, set up beds, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months.

Like our brothers and sisters in Egypt, Greece, Spain, and Iceland, we plan to use the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic of mass occupation to restore democracy in America. We also encourage the use of nonviolence to achieve our ends and maximize the safety of all participants.

Who is Occupy Wall Street?

Occupy Wall Street is leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%.

The original call for this occupation was published by Adbusters in July; since then, many individuals across the country have stepped up to organize this event, such as the people of the NYC General Assembly and US Day of Rage. There'll also be similar occupations in the near future such as October2011 in Freedom Plaza, Washington D.C.

#OccupyWallStreet

The Attica Prison Uprising: Forty Years Later

Watch this informational video about the Attica Prison Rebellion from The Nation Magazine.

This video features Allthingsharlem.com's founder Joseph "Jazz" Hayden. 

The niggerazation of America...courage is in short supply...a spineless Democratic Party...poverty and truth telling...the counter revolution is winning." Cornel West discusses Attica, its history, and the current state of affairs in the United States.

Amiri Baraka recites his famous and controversial poem on 9/11, entitled, Somebody Blew Up America.

Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, asks a panel to respond to what were loud cheers heard in support of the Death penalty at the September 7, 2011 Republican debate on MSNBC.  Joseph "Jazz" Hayden responds to the question asking how does a "Christian Nation" who follows Christ support the death penalty, which is the same thing used to crucify Jesus.

Dhoruba Al-Mujahid Bin-Wahad explains that we live in a police state.
He addresses the importance of recognizing that we live in a police state and that we need to decentralize public safety of public safety. Also that we need community control of our communities.

What happened to me at the parade: City councilman Jumaane Williams explains how he wound up cuffed

BY: Jumaane Williams

NY Daily News - Labor Day is typically a joyous time for me and the Caribbean community of New York City. This year, it turned chaotic for many, including for myself and a close colleague.

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Former inmates will talk about bloody riots as 40th anniversary nears

By: Clem Richardson

NY Daily News - Forty years later, the Attica prison riot remains the bloodiest clash of its kind in American history. Twenty-nine inmates and a total of 10 guards and civilian employees were killed after Gov. Nelson Rockefeller ordered State Department of Correction guards and New York State troopers to storm the upstate New York facility to restore order on Sept. 13, 1971.  

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