[CAS-BHS] Re: CAS Graduates Organize March of Solidarity

[cas-bhs at lists.berkeleypta.org]

I am planning to wear black on Thursday in a show of solidarity with those
going to the courthouse in Jena.  Please join me and/or spread the word to
your advisories if you please.
--Leah


> From: Dharini Rasiah <drasiah at berkeley.k12.ca.us>
> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:29:02 -0700
> To: <cas-bhs at lists.berkeleypta.org>, Dan Appel <dappel at berkeley.k12.ca.us>,
> Amy Crawford <acrawford at berkeley.k12.ca.us>, Ana-Luisa Delgado
> <adelgado at berkeley.k12.ca.us>, Ana-Luisa Delgado <analuisa_delgado at yahoo.com>,
> Biko Eisen Martin <EM_Biko at yahoo.com>, Leah Katz <LeahKatz at earthlink.net>,
> Philip Halpern <philiphalpern at mac.com>, Ingrid Martinez
> <bookworm at troublemaker.com>, Michael McEvoy <mmcevoy at berkeley.k12.ca.us>,
> Hasmig Minassian <HMinassian at berkeley.k12.ca.us>, Dana Moran
> <dana_moran at berkeley.k12.ca.us>, Mary Murphy <mmurphy at berkeley.k12.ca.us>,
> Jessica Quindel <Jessica_Quindel at berkeley.k12.ca.us>, <jquindel79 at yahoo.com>,
> <rick-ayers at earthlink.net>, Antwi Akom <akom at sfsu.edu>
> Cc: nevaeh oppenheim <nevaehiyah at yahoo.com>
> Subject: CAS Graduates Organize March of Solidarity
> 
> Please participate in the following march, organized by CAS 2007 graduate
> Mahaliyah and CAS 2003 graduate Hannah Moore.  For more info, call
> 510-938-5044 or e-mail: nevaehiyah at yahoo.com.
> 
> MARCH OF SOLIDARITY
> in support of the "Free the Jena 6" campaign
> 
> Wednesday, September 19, 2007
> 
> WHERE: UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza to Downtown Oakland
> TIME: 5:30 PM at Sproul Plaza
>  
>  
> Family, Friends, and Comrades,
>  
> As many of you already know this Thursday has become a national day of
> solidarity for the Jena 6. The main rally will take place in San Francisco
> on the 20th beginning at 12 PM. For those of you who cannot make the 12
> o¹clock rally on Thursday, you have another option! Tomorrow evening we
> will engage in an event of active resistance toward the Jim Crow "justice²
> system in Jena, Louisiana. A group, mostly of UC Berkeley and Berkeley
> High students, will walk from the corner of Bancroft and Telegraph to
> Downtown Oakland in solidarity of the Jena 6. The march is ambitious on
> purpose, as it is evidently very long (according to US walking standards),
> but the point is to draw in as much media attention as possible to the
> case. It is truly scary how brilliant a job our mainstream media has done
> in keeping this case on the downlow. Please do what you can do show
> support, if you cannot march tomorrow do your part in spreading the word,
> if you can march we look forward to seeing you there! (Bring your walking
> shoes!) 
> 
> Thank you for your support!!
> 
> -Mahaliyah O.
>