Police in Riot Gear, Nightsticks Ready at MacArthur Park

by Lucy Thursday, May. 03, 2007 at 10:20 AM

Protest at LAPD headquarters to rally against the violence police inflicted on a peaceful crowd at MacArthur Park yesterday.

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Union Del Barrio and the Frente Contra las Redadas (Front Against the Raids), a coalition of over 40 Latino, Asian, White and African-American community and student organizations will denounce the brutal and RACIST POLICY BRUTALITY against unarmed defenseless families

This Coalition is comprised of the following organizations: the American Friends Service Committee-San Diego, African People's Socialist Party, Alianza Nueva Nacion, Assoc. of Raza Educators, Barrio Defense Committee (San Jose), Brown Berets de South Central, Bus Riders Union, Chapinas Unidas, Comite de Mujeres Patricia Marin, Comite Pro Democracia en Mexico, Committee on Raza Rights (Oxnard), Coordinadora Estudiantil de la Raza, Danza Azteca Cuatemoc, FIOB (Frente Indigena de Organizaciones Binacionales), FMLN- Los Angeles (Frente Farabundo Marti de Liberación Nacional), Guatemalan Social Network for Justice and Peace, Homies Unidos, MEChA de Santee, Movimiento de Liberación Nacional, NICANA (Nicaraguan American National Assoc.), Puerto Rican Alliance, Raza Graduate Student Assoc. of UCLA, Raza Rights Coalition- San Diego, School of the America's Watch-LA, South Asian Network, Somos Raza, Union Del Barrio

The central objectives will be:
1) To publicly DENOUNCE the racist police attacks against migrant families
2) To publicly announce a new HOTLINE phone number that the public can call to report a raid.


Contact: Ron Gochez mexicanotucla@aol.com (email for phone #)

What: Organizations to DENOUNCE POLICE BRUTALITY at May Day March

Where: LAPD HEADQUARTERS
150 N. Los Angeles St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

When: Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Time: 5:00 P.M.


Also, take action by phone:
NISN Statement on LAPD Brutally Attacks May Day Immigrant Marchers at McArthur Park

National Immigrant Solidarity Network, ActionLA Coalition
Statement on LAPD Brutally Attacks May Day Immigrant Marchers at McArthur Park