event details posted by: UhuruNews begins: Aug 4, 12:00 pm ends: Aug 4, 2:00 pm location: D.A.'s Office, Juniper @ Market

 
What: Protest Demonstration and Press Conference
When: Monday, August 4 at Noon
Where:  The D.A.’s Office, Juniper and Market, Philadelphia, PA
Contact: Harris Daniels, 857-233-7508
 
On Monday, August 4 at noon, a demonstration will be held at the D.A.’s Office at Juniper and Market, targeting District Attorney Lynne Abraham, who has handed out more death sentences to African people than any other D.A. in the United States. 

The Philadelphia D.A.'s office has refused to bring murder charges against the police who murdered Abede Isaac who was a party-goer shot through a wall by police at a New Year's party this January 1st, and Timothy Goode, shot in the back by police, the grand-nephew of Wilson Goode Sr. who dropped the bomb on the MOVE organization and murdered eleven African children, women and men on May 14th 1985.  Then-judge Lynne Abraham issued the false warrants that facilitated that murderous attack on the African community of Philadelphia.

According to protest organizer Ajamu Bandele of the African People’s Socialist Party, “The African community in Philadelphia faces the highest imprisonment and poverty rates in the U.S., and we recognize that these conditions are imposed by the U.S. government and carried out daily by the Nutter administration.”
 
Calling for support from the white community, Alison Hoehne of the African People’s Solidarity Committee states,
“We are urging the white community to speak out against the escalation of attacks against the black community in Philadelphia where the police murdered 22 people in 2006 alone – no police have been prosecuted. City funds should go to education and economic development, not police and prisons."
 

The demonstration is part of the Uhuru Summer Against State Terror Campaign, which demands an end the public policy of police containment and unjust imprisonment of African people, and calls for real economic development in the African community of Philadelphia.  The demonstration is sponsored by the Uhuru Movement, an international organization working to defend the democratic rights of African people. The group is holding actions throughout the country to expose and push back police violence, discriminatory prosecutions and unjust imprisonment. For more information, visit www.inpdum.org

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