{"article":{"id":197935,"heading":"Police in Riot Gear, Nightsticks Ready at MacArthur Park","author":"Lucy","created":"2007-05-03 17:20:35","modified":"2013-11-11 00:47:52","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:47:52","article":"

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<\/a> (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 <\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"Protest at LAPD headquarters to rally against the violence police inflicted on a peaceful crowd at MacArthur Park yesterday.","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2007\/05\/riotgear.jpg","filesize":"44.8 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2007\/05\/197935.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2007\/05\/riotgear.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2007\/05\/riotgear.jpgthumb.jpg","medium":"\/uploads\/2007\/05\/riotgear.jpgmid.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":198354,"heading":"POLICE ASSAULT MAYDAY 2007","article":"It is sad that with all the training LAPD officers and CROWD CONTROL special squads have had , they still act with a degree of incompetence similiar to those of SOUTH AFRICA. Thee police riot squad have done their best to make the LAPD look like the 1960's when civil rights had no meaning and the police had full total control of it's citizens by the use of fear. Maybe the weapons of mass destruction that president BUSH was looking for are the LAPD's own police force! With all the beatings they did on the MAYDAY POLICE ASSAULT, we wonder if other countries feel proud of their own POLICE?","author":"MAURICIO RUIZ","parent_id":197935,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2007-05-08 01:19:58","modified":"2007-05-08 01:19:58","fileurl":""}]}