Tuesday, June 28: NYC Support Rally to #ShutDownRikers!
June 21, 2016 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
From Stop Mass Incarceration Network:
Clark (left) and Miles (right) with Attorney Kenneth Gilbert.
Join Clark Kissinger & Miles Solay; the Stop Mass Incarceration Network and...
Mary Buser, author Lockdown on Rikers: Shocking Stories of Abuse & Injustice at New York's Notorious Jail
James Lane, Green Party New York State
Lynne Stewart, Attorney & former political prisoner
Sunsara Taylor, Revolution newspaper, and organizer of #ShutDownRikers action where she, Clark, Miles & 13 others were arrested
Music by Wallace VilleFranche & JamNoPeanut
This is a potluck & donations for legal expenses will be collected.
Tuesday, June 28, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Project Reach, 39 Eldridge Street 4th Floor, Chinatown,
between Hester and Canal Streets.
How: D train to Grand Street / F train to East B'way
Facebook Event
Stand with Clark Kissinger and Miles Solay!
WHAT? 8 out of 10 Rikers correction officers, including a captain & former vice chief of security convicted on serious charges of beating, or ordering the beating of Jamal Lightfoot at Rikers in 2012? Jamal had testified in April that "“Basically it was open season for them to do what they wanted."
There is no way freedom fighters who protested the abuse & violence against prisoners at Rikers should be facing a year at Rikers as punishment.
And yet, Clark Kissinger & Miles Solay are set for trial Tuesday July 12 on the charge of "obstructing government administration." As Miles said this, in light of more proof that the system is killing people at Rikers, "Our charges should be thrown out."
Come out to a support rally and organizing action on June 28 to mobilize for the July 12 trial for the #ShutDownRikers freedom fighters. This is a potluck & donations for legal expenses will be collected.
You are needed to get behind the #ShutDownRikers freedom fighters Clark Kissinger and Miles Solay (who were among over 15 peeps who conducted nonviolent civil disobedience that closed access to Rikers for several hours in October 23, 2015 as part of the #RiseUpOctober campaign), and in that process, to indict and call for the shut down of Rikers Island.
To volunteer for this event: Call 929-249-7996 or write nyc@stopmassincarceration.net.
Sign and spread the petition for Clark Kissinger and Miles Solay here!
Sign up to attend the trial Tuesday July 12
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