NNIA Black Lives Matter Rally

Press Release

Rev. Floyd Harris, Jr. and International Network in Action present a "Black Lives Matter" Rally, Workshop, and Performances

When: March 5, 2015, from 9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. Pacific
Where: New Light for New Life Church of God
1106 W Woodward Ave, Fresno, CA 93706
Contact: Rev. Harris 

phone: (559)790-4277, or email: xyfloyd@aol.com
Theme: "No More Stolen Lives"

Co-sponsored by New Light for New Life Church of God, Fresno Cop Watch, "Human Rights Demand" Blogtalkradio channel, MaryLovesJustice, Idriss Stelley Foundation, Fresno Brown Berets, and other supporters as listed above. Learn more at the National Network in Action website at http://xyfloyd.wix.com/nnia >> Thank you for planning to attend and for sharing this invitation with your friends and online networks.

Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy. ~Proverbs 31:8-9

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Nancy Lockhart, Jennie Ruiz, and Dr. Seager on MaryLovesJustice Radio This Week

EXCITING NEWS!
(Be sure to see Jennie Ruiz's announcement. Hackers have tried to delete it)

Nancy Lockhart on "NNIA1"
Our guest on "NNIA1" this Friday night, June 19, is to be Nancy Lockhart, a noted human rights advocate in the area of criminal justice! Join us at 11pmEST by calling (818)572.2947. Lockhart's legal research and strong advocacy have engendered many successes for the People.

Nancy Lockhart, M.J. is a non attorney legal analyst with a sincere passion for researching and publicizing wrongful convictions and issues of grave injustices.

Lockhart is most notably recognized for her work in freeing The Scott Sisters, however; her resume encompasses numerous successful results. Lockhart holds a Master of Jurisprudence from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

As a former third generation public school teacher Lockhart followed the tradition of creating "outside the box" teaching strategies for students labeled learning disabled and emotionally disturbed. Her consciousness and disapproval of the "school to prison pipeline" led her to work with juvenile delinquents. As 1994, Reader's Digest DeWitt Wallace Fellow - Lockhart created strategies to integrate technology and writing in rural South Carolina.

In December of 2011, Lockhart published "Locked Up What To Do When Your AZZ Get's Locked Up" as a learning supplement and guidebook against mass incarceration. Her website is 

http://nancylockhart.blogspot.com/

Lockhart is available for interactive, community based legal education workshops.

Jennie Ruiz on "NNIA1"

SAD ANNIVERSARY - This week is the second anniversary of the police execution of Charlie Salinas, a troubled, unarmed Marine Corps veteran killed on June 15, 2012, in Sanger, California. His sister Jennie Ruiz will give an update on her family's justice quest on Saturday, June 20, 2015, at "NNIA1" channel on BlogTalkRadio. Call-in at 3pmEST to speak with Jennie, at 818.572.2947. Support her family, please, everyone who cares about ending police violence against people suffering from depression. See an entitled, "Sanger Police Officers Shoot and Kill an Unarmed Suicidal Marine Corps Vet." Thank you for sharing this announcement and plea to give Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill.

Excerpt from "CopBlock"
On June 15, 2012 my brother Charlie Salinas was gunned down like a dog by officers of the Sanger Police Department and Fresno County Sheriffs Department. He was depressed, drunk, and suicidal. He made a 911 call saying he wanted to die. Sanger Police Department obliged him. They surrounded him, and opened fire shooting at least 30 times, even shooting him as he lay on the ground dying.

http://www.copblock.org/24848/sanger-police-officers-shoot-and-kill-an-unarmed-suicidal-marine-corps-vet/

Dr. Stephen Seager on "Human Rights Demand"

Dr. Stephen B. Seager, a psychiatrist from CA, will be our guest on "Human Rights Demand" channel at BlogTalkRadio on Sun., Jun 21, at 6pmPST, where the call-in number is (347)857.3293. Dr. Seager is also a best-selling author and a movie producer. He wrote a book after working in a prison: “Behind the Gates of Gomorrah, a Year With the Criminally Insane."

Dr. Seager advocates for AOT programs giving subsistence assistance and mandatory treatment for people with serious mental illness, and he favors crisis intervention team (CIT) training for police officers and prison guards [so they will STOP their murders and cover-ups - Dr. Seager didn't say that; I did]. Now Dr. Seager is producing a movie featuring families of mentally ill people! Excellent. His website is
http://Stephenseagermd.com > Don't miss the show! Save the date!

Dr. Seager wrote: "I am so looking forward to this show. The neglect of the seriously mentally ill must stop. Their incarceration is a national disgrace. NAMI and SAMHSA have gone down the rabbit hole of anti-science and wishful thinking. Call in let's talk. Let's organize. Let's change things. It can be done. AOT. CIT. Advice to the police when dealing with a mentally ill person: 'Just don't shoot them.' Let's start there...Support the movie, 'MADNESS!: America's Mental Illness Treatment Tragedy.' Sept. first, we begin an Indiegogo fundraiser so that you can be part of this project. So that you can feel this is your movie. Your cause. And when the change comes, as it will, you can say, 'I helped do that. I wasn't afraid. I didn't waver. I stood up and I helped. All my very, very best.'"

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Justice for Tamir Rice: City Council Meeting, March 2 Rally

Justice Rally for Tamir Rice and Family
Where: Cleveland, OH City Council Meeting
March 2, 2015, 7:00 p.m.

From: "PunctureTheSilenceCLE" <puncturethesilencecle@gmail.com> via Don Bryant

An article in Saturday’s "Plain Dealer" states, “The city, in its response, wrote that Tamir’s death on Nov. 22 and all of the injuries his family claims in the suit ‘were directly and proximately caused by their own acts, not this Defendant.'"

The city is blaming a 12-yr. old boy, gunned down by police in 2 seconds, for his own murder. This is a slap in the face to the Rice family, every family who has lost a loved one to police murder, and all of those who are struggling to stop police murder of Black and Brown people. The policemen involved in Tamir’s and Tanisha’s deaths are still on the job. Mayor Jackson touts his interest and record in reform, yet he accepts no responsibility for this and other crimes. Does anyone think, with this response, police murder in Cleveland will stop?

The people at the Sardis Primitive Baptist Church last Wednesday expressed righteous outrage at the police and city officials. They are part of a rising voice that needs to be heard. When these are their conclusions, clearly the city is not listening.

This serves as a Call for an Immediate Response to an intolerable development -- Converge on City Council Meeting this Monday, March 2, at 7pm to demand Justice for Tamir, Tanisha, Malissa and Timothy.

Cleveland: 12-year-old's police shooting death his own fault (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/01/us/cleveland-responds-lawsuit-police-shooting-tamir-rice/

Shooting of Tamir Rice (Wikipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Tamir_Rice

Full Surveillance Video Released of Tamir Rice Shot by Police

http://youtu.be/sdAYPQd1H1A

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Webcast: U.N. CAT Examines USA Nov. 12 and 13

By: UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR)

GENEVA, Nov. 6, 2014 - The UN Committee against Torture is due to review the USA on 12 and 13 November in sessions that will be webcast live.

The USA is one of the 156 States parties to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and is required to undergo regular examinations of its record before the Committee of 10 independent experts. The Committee will engage in a dialogue with the US government delegation and also hear from NGOs.

Public sessions: 10:00-12:00 (04:00-06:00 EST) on 12 November, 15:00-18:00 (09:00-12:00 EST) on 13 November
Venue: Room XVII, Palais des Nations, Geneva. Live webcast:
http://www.treatybodywebcast.org/.

Among the possible issues to be discussed: extraterritorial application of the Convention; CIA’s secret detention, extraordinary rendition and interrogation programme; Guantanamo Bay detainees held indefinitely without charge or trial; investigation and prosecution of those responsible for torture or ill-treatment of detainees; immigration enforcement abuses; death penalty, alleged administration of untested lethal drugs; police brutality; prolonged solitary confinement; protection of prisoners against violence; sexual violence in US military.

Further information and the USA’s report are available at:

http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/SessionDetails1.aspx?SessionID=930&Lang=en

The Committee will publish its concluding observations here on Friday 28 November.

A news conference is scheduled for Friday 28 November at 14:00 at Palais des Nations in Geneva when the Committee will discuss its concluding observations on the USA and the other countries being reviewed – Sweden, Ukraine, Venezuela, Australia, Burundi, Croatia, and Kazakhstan.

To learn more about the Committee against Torture, please visit: 

http://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/cat/pages/catindex.aspx

Members and friends of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill ("AIMI") are asked to watch the webcast. You are invited to discuss it during broadcasts on "Human Rights Demand" channel on Nov. 12 and 13 (the time will be announced here). AIMI plans an action in International Court in 2015 involving up to 100 claimants of (i) persons with mental illness and/or drug/alcohol addictions, and (ii) people who were victimized by mentally ill people and/or drug/alcohol addicts who were denied timely, appropriate treatment. We seek restitution for and/or relief from police brutality, prison torture, long-term homelessness, and other discrimination against mentally disabled people in the USA. Visit the blog AIMI-HumanRights for more information at
http://AIMI-HumanRights.blogspot.com

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October 22 Coalition Demonstrations

The October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation has been mobilizing every year since 1996 for a National Day of Protest on October 22, bringing together those under the gun and those not under the gun as a powerful voice to expose the epidemic of police brutality.

The Coalition also works on the Stolen Lives Project, which documents cases of killings by law enforcement nationwide. The second edition of the Stolen Lives book documents over 2000 cases in the 1990s alone. Volunteers are needed to help with the research and editing of cases since then. Please contact oct22national@gmail.com for more information.

Contact October 22 Coalition:
Address: P.O. Box 2627, New York, NY 10009
E-mail: oct22national@gmail.com
To donate, write tax-deductible checks out to "IFCO/October 22"

Atlanta, GA

4:00PM Demonstration and speakout at Woodruff Park 

(Edgewood and Peachtree), followed by a march

~ stopmassincarcerationatl@gmail.com or

~ 770-861-3339

~ oct22atl@yahoo.com

from:		MaryLovesJustice Neal marylovesjustice@gmail.com
to:		oct22national@gmail.com,  stopmassincarcerationatl@gmail.com,  October 22nd Coalition ,  Mary Neal
date:		Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:46 AM
subject:		Oct 22 - Stop Police Violence Against the Mentally Ill
mailed-by:		gmail.com

I helped to advertise the October 22 Coalition meetings today in two of my blogs:
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/oct-22-coalition-against-police.html
http://hreventsbymlj.blogspot.com/2014/10/october-22-coalition-demonstrations.html

As the director of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill, I certainly looked forward to the October 22 Coalition protest in Atlanta today. Unfortunately, my elderly mother is unwell and I may not be able to attend. Therefore, I ask that organizers please be mindful that over 50 percent of police violence victims are people with a history of mental illness. They are attacked and often killed by police in their homes, on our streets, and behind bars. The mentally ill also comprise over half of America's prisoners: 1.25 million sick people are wrongly incarcerated rather than treated in their communities or mental hospitals. Budgets for mental health care were cut in order to arrest sick people and start America's private jail and prison system. In Atlanta, homeless shelters are being closed so that more of these people will be arrested than before. Two homeless shelters already closed, and the Atlanta Task Force, which houses some 900 people, is fighting in court to survive. Mercenary people want the prime Midtown Atlanta property where the Task Force sits, and prison investors want the homeless jailed.

In 2014, we were made aware of numerous murders against people with mental illness, including Jerome Murdough, who was baked to death in Rikers Island, Darren Rainey, who was boiled to death in Dade County Correctional Facility, and too many more to name. Recently, Milwaukee's police chief fired an officer who picked a fight with a mentally ill teenager in the park then shot him 14 TIMES. Police aggression is directed mostly at black people and the mentally ill of any race. We need to talk about this and make sure everyone is aware of the numerous assaults on society's most vulnerable members. As usual, the victims are mostly people who are black, brown, or poor.

I would be grateful if you mention the fact that most victims of police violence and brutality behind bars are also mentally ill people. There are approximately 80,000 inmates in cruel solitary confinement today, and over 60 percent of them are mentally ill. Approximately 80 percent of inmates in SHU are black. There seems to be no attempt on the government's part to end torture of American prisoners. In fact, Solitary Watch revealed that in the U.S. report to the United Nations that will be filed in November denies that solitary confinement is systemically used against juveniles and the mentally ill in America.

These are a few of the concerns that I wanted to address today at the October 22 Coalition protest in Atlanta, but I must ask that you do this instead. Please don't let oppression of our people who experience mental disabilities go without mention. AIMI plans an International Court action for 2015, when we will take such murders as my own disabled brother suffered before the United Nations and the world. Learn about it at http://aimi-humanrights.blogspot.com

I am very grateful to the sponsors and organizers of the October 22 Day of Remembrance and protest against police violence. It means a great deal to me as the sister of a man who was secretly arrested for 18 days and murdered in jail, especially since Larry Neal's murder was covered-up. Cover-ups of jailhouse murders are possible to a greater degree than murders that happen in public where people film police violence. I am thankful that due to many news reports, especially by the Miami Herald, many jailhouse murders of mentally ill people and others are being revealed to a greater extent than before despite cover-ups.

Please send me a report after today's protests in Atlanta. See more information in the four links below, the final one being to my brother's website. Blessings.

Milwaukee Police Chief Fired Officer Who Shot Man in Park
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/milwaukee-police-fire-officer-shot-man-park-26224595
UN investigates US Systemic Prison Torture
http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2014/10/un-investigates-usa-re-systemic-prison.html
2 years later, Florida keeps lid on prison death details
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/article1966016.html

Wrongful Death of Larry Neal

http://WrongfulDeathofLarryNeal.com

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Send your community service announcements to the MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com

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