FIGHT BACK: Families Against Police Terror

National conference organized to fight police brutality: FIGHT BACK

 

With our very own Reggie Buggs, VP of U.R.G.E.N.T. as a panelist on "Strategies for Moving Forward"

 

Saturday, June 1, 2013

 

RIVERSIDE CHURCH

South Hall 120th St. & Claremont Ave. 

Harlem, New York

12pm-10pm

2 panels and live music

1st panel 1:00-3:30 p.m. 

"Voices of Resistance" 

 

2nd panel  4:00-6:30 

"Strategies for Moving Forward"

 

8:00- 10:00 p.m. LIVE PERFORMANCES by The Welfare Poets & Aidge 

The full schedule is as follows:

12:00 p.m.- 1:00 p.m. Welcome
1:00- 3:30 p.m. "Voices of Resistance" Panel (MC- Brian Jones)

• Ramona Africa, MOVE Organization, Survivor of 1985 Bombing of MOVE, Philadelphia, Pa. 
• Danette Chavis, Mother of 19-year-old Gregory Chavis, left to bleed to death after being shot by the NYPD on October 9, 2004
• Mark Clements, torture victim of Jon Burge, Chicago police chief and wrongfully convicted & incarcerated for 28 years in Chicago, Illinois
• Natasha Davis, sister of 23-year old Shantel Davis, shot by the Brooklyn NYPD on June 14, 2012, while sitting in a car
• Askia Sabur, police brutality victim in Philadelphia on September 3, 2010, Askia Coalition Against Police Brutality
• Fred Bryant, father of Keaton Otis, murdered by the police on May 12, 2010 in Portland, OR
• Margarita Rosario, mother of Anthony Rosario, murdered by the NYPD in the Bronx along with his cousin Hilton Vega, on January 12, 1995.
• Juanita Young, mother of Malcolm Ferguson, shot point-blank by undercover NYPD in the Bronx, on March 1, 2000.

3:30- 4:00 BREAK

4:00 - 6:30 "Strategies for Moving Forward" Panel (MC- Amir Amma)

• Frank Graham and Constance Malcolm, parents of Ramarley Graham, killed in his home in the Bronx on February 2, 2012, by the NYPD
• Jack Bryson, father of two sons who were with Oscar Grant when he was murdered on an Oakland, CA, subway platform by police on January 1, 2009
• Adam & Jeralynn Blueford, parents of 18-year-old Alan Blueford, murdered on May 6, 2012 by Oakland police
• Yusef Salaam, one of the Central Park Five wrongfully convicted of rape in New York’s Central Park in 1989
• Rev. C.D. Witherspoon, President, SCLC Baltimore Chapter, Organizer, Baltimore Peoples Power Assembly
• Reggie Buggs, Vice President of activist group U.R.G.E.N.T. Garfield, New Jersey

6:30- 8:00 p.m. BREAK

8:00- 10:00 p.m. LIVE PERFORMANCES by The Welfare Poets & Aidge!!

Hosted by: Campaign to End the New Jim Crow
Endorsed by: Campaign to End the Death Penalty, Haymarket Books, International Socialist Organization, Justice Committee, Parents Against Police Brutality, Stop & Frisk Freedom Fighters, Socialist Alternative (list in formation – contact jonessa@rowan.edu to endorse)