{"article":{"id":246953,"heading":"July 23 Public Memorial for Geronimo Prat","author":"Pratt's Family","created":"2011-07-15 14:17:08","modified":"2013-11-11 01:06:29","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 08:06:29","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>A public memorial for former Black Panther Party leader Geronimo ji-Jaga Pratt will be held Saturday, July 23 at 11 a.m. at the Agape International Spiritual Center, 5700 Buckingham Parkway, Culver City. <br><br> Speakers will include Pratt&rsquo;s attorneys Stuart Hanlon, Shawn C. Holly and Kathleen Cleaver. Other scheduled speakers are U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters and former Panthers Wayne Pharr, Roland Freeman and Mubarakart. <br><br> Pratt, the target of the notorious FBI COINTELPRO program, served 27 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit. His conviction was overturned in 1997. He won a $4.5 million judgment against the City of Los Angeles and the FBI after his release. He had been splitting his time between his childhood home in Morgan City, Louisiana and a community founded by former Panther  Pete O'Neal outside Arusha, Tanzania in East Africa. He died there in June of malaria. <br><br>   <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"5700 Buckingham Parkway, Culver City","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"A public memorial for former Black Panther Party leader Geronimo ji-Jaga Pratt will be held Saturday, July 23 at 11 a.m. at the Agape International Spiritual Center, 5700 Buckingham Parkway, Culver City.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2011\/07\/t1larg.pratt.gi.jpg","filesize":"48.7 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2011\/07\/246953.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2011\/07\/t1larg.pratt.gi.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2011\/07\/t1larg.pratt.gi.jpgthumb.jpg","medium":"\/uploads\/2011\/07\/t1larg.pratt.gi.jpgmid.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}