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Title: Free the Eight former Black Panthers DEMO
START DATE: 3/13/2007
START TIME: 6:00 PM
Duration: 2 Hours
Location: south los angeles
Location Details:
Leimert Park, 43rd Place at Crenshaw Blvd., Los Angeles
Event Topic: political prisoners
Event Type: demonstration
Contact Name: Unity Mission to Free the Eight
Contact Email:
Contact Phone: (310) 495-0299
DESCRIPTION:
What: Rally and March to Free the Eight former Black Panthers
Where: Leimert Park, 43rd Place at Crenshaw Blvd., Los Angeles
When: Tuesday, March 13, at 6:00 PM
Who: Sponsored by Unity Mission to Free the Eight (Black Riders Liberation Party, Jericho Amnesty Coalition, Puerto Rican Alliance, Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional, Asians for Jericho and Mumia, Union del Barrio, All African Peoples Revolutionary Party, Anti-Racist Action, Anarchist Black Cross Federation, Critical Resistance, IAC, MUDP)

The Unity Mission to Free the Eight will hold a press conference and rally on Tuesday, March 13, to support the demand to drop the charges against the San Francisco Eight, former Black Panthers recently charged with murder and conspiracy in a 35-year old case based on torture of the accused and of the only witness for the state. The rally will begin at 6:00 PM in Leimert Park, at the corner of 43rd Place and Crenshaw Blvd. in south LA, and continue with a march on the sidewalks up to Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. and back.

The case, which was already thrown out of court once in the 1970s because of the proof of torture and coerced statements carried out by the New Orleans police under the supervision of the FBI, SFPD, LAPD and NYPD, is seen as the continuation of the COINTELPRO attack on the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in the 1960s and 70s into the era of the USA PATRIOT Act and legalized torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Recent disclosures of new FBI illegalities similar to the black bag jobs, torture, and psychological warfare it carried out under COINTELPRO underline the importance of defending the Eight and defeating this new attempt to criminalize dissent and resistance.

Following up on the Tuesday march and rally, the Unity Mission to Free the Eight will be participating in the Jericho Amnesty contingent in the March 17 anti-war protest, commencing at noon on Hollywood and Vine. On Sunday, March 18, the Unity Mission to Free the Eight will be holding a follow-up meeting at 2:00 PM at 253 W. Martin Luther King Blvd. (between Broadway and Broadway Place). In April, there will be a showing of the film \"Legacy of Torture: The War Against the Black Liberation Movement,\" a documentary about the case based on interviews with five of the former Panthers who were imprisoned last year for refusing to testify to a grand jury witch-hunt.

For more information, call 310-495-0299, or check www.geocities.com/jerichoamnestycoalitionla
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