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National Lawyers Guild – New York City Chapter (NLG-NYC) condemns police killing of sixteen-year old Kimani Gray; repression of protesters

For Immediate Release

March 19, 2013 – New York – The National Lawyers Guild – New York City Chapter (NLG-NYC) condemns the NYPD’s killing of sixteen-year old Kimani Gray on March 9, 2013 in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Mr. Gray was killed by seven bullets fired by two NYPD officers, both of whom have been sued repeatedly in the past for civil rights violations. The Chapter expresses our heartfelt condolences to the family of Mr. Gray at this time of tragic loss and continues to strive for the day when the children of New York City are protected from police killings and violence.

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Join us on Friday, September 9, 2011 at The Riverside Church for Attica is All of Us, an evening of music, performances and conversation to mark the 40th anniversary of the Attica Rebellion and Massacre and address mass incarceration and current prison struggles. Free and open to the public.

With…

• Attica Brothers, represented by:
  Joseph Harris
  Calvin “Hutch” Hutchinson
  William Anthony Maynard
  Melvin Muhammad
  Carlos Roche
  Al Hajji Sharif
• Asha Bandele, Drug Policy Alliance, Journalist
• Baba Amiri Baraka, African-American Poet Laureate, Pan-African Elder Statesman, & Community Activist
• Dhoruba Al-Mujahid Bin-Wahad, Consultant, Institute For Development of Pan-African Policy, Ghana, W. Africa
• Soffiyah Elijah, Executive Director, Correctional Association
• Elizabeth Fink, Attica Brothers Legal Defense
• Amy Goodman, Journalist, Author; Host and Executive Director, Democracy Now!
• Joseph “Jazz” Hayden, Campaign to End the New Jim Crow
• Jamal Joseph, former Black Panther; Chair, Columbia University’s School of the Arts Film division
• Cornel West, Professor, Public Intellectual & Activist and more….

Attica is All of Us
Friday, September 9, 2011
7-10 P.M. (doors open at 6:30 P.M.)
490 Riverside Drive New York, NY 10027
(Enter on Claremont Avenue)

Presented by Attica is All of Us and The Riverside Church Prison Ministry. In collaboration with the Campaign to End Jim Crow, The Culture Project and The Nation.

RSVP HERE

For more information on the Attica Prison Rebellion, click here.