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  Date / Time: 2/11/2009 6:48 PM UTC

  Please forward and distribute widely --POCC + Troy Davis' Sister Speaks 2/11 + More!
  

  POCC + Troy Davis' Sister Speaks 2/11 + More!
  

  
  
  As protests over the brutal police murder of Oscar Grant III continue in Oakland--and as Oakland imposes a week-day youth curfew which will be directed mainly against young people of color--two events in the San Francisco Bay Area this week will shine a spotlight on racism, police brutality and terrorism, and the death penalty --
  
  1. POLICE TERRORISM -- MARTINA CORREIA, sister of Troy Davis, an innocent man on Georgia's death row, and FRED HAMPTON JR, Chairman of the Prisoners of Conscience Committee (POCC) and a victim of police terror, will speak in West Oakland this Wednesday.
  
  7 pm, Wednesday, February 11th, at THE BLACK DOT, 1195 West Pine Street, Oakland
  
  This event is sponsored by the POCC, and will be hosted by journalist JR, of Block Report Radio, Flashpoints, and the SF Bay View, and the Minister of Information of the POCC.
  
  NOTE: Martina will also be interviewed on Hard Knock Radio, KPFA, 94.1 FM, on Wednesday Feb 11.
  
  
  2. RALLY AGAINST RACISM -- The ILWU (longshore workers), the union that shut down all the ports on the West Coast to free death-row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal in 1999, is sponsoring:
  
  Racism, Repression and Rebellion: The Lessons of Labor Defense
  
  12 Noon, Saturday, 14 February 2009 at the ILWU Local 10 Hall,
  400 North Point (at Mason) near Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco
  FREE ADMISSION More info: (510) 501-7080
  
  SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
  
  ANGELA DAVIS UC Santa Cruz Professor, former Black Panther, witch-hunted by FBI,
  
  MARTINA CORREIA Sister of Troy Davis on Georgia's death row, and
  
  Rev Cecil Williams Glide Memorial Church, Robert R Bryan lead attorney for Mumia Abu-Jamal,
  on Pennsylvania death row, Gerald Smith former Black Panther, Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Pierre LaBossiere founding member, Haiti Action Committee, JR Prisoners of Conscience Committee, Minister of Information, and Richard Brown former Black Panther, San Francisco 8.
  
  Cultural presentations by Jack Hirschman, SF Poet Laureate; Tayo Aluko, Nigerian actor portraying Paul Robeson: and Upsurge! Jazz/Poetry Music
  
  
  ILWU was born out of the militant 1934 strike in which police killed two strikers in San Francisco, shooting them in the back. Still today police are banned from membership in Local 10. The union has a legacy of defending those under attack by the government, in particular reds and blacks, from Harry Bridges and Paul Robeson, to Angela Davis, Mumia Abu-Jamal and Troy Davis. For Black History Month, Local 10 is organizing this rally to teach the lessons of the need for unity of action to defend against government repression and racist profiling. These lessons are never more necessary than today, as evidenced by the brutal murder by BART police of Oscar Grant, who was lying face-down when shot.
  
  Racism, Repression and Rebellion: The Lessons of Labor Defense
  
  12 Noon, Saturday, 14 February 2009 at the ILWU Local 10 Hall,
  400 North Point (at Mason) near Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco
  FREE ADMISSION More info: (510) 501-7080
  
  this flyer sent by:
  The Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
  PO Box 16222 Oakland CA 94610 (510) 763-2347 LACFreeMumia@aol.com
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