Stop Police and Prison Brutality from Iraq to Oakland!

What:
Noon Rally to Protest U.S. Police and Prison Brutality from Iraq to Oakland and the Attack on Carijama Festival by Oakland Police Department

When and Where:
Thursday, June 3, 2004, noon at the Oakland City Jail, 611 Broadway, Oakland

Contact:
Bakari Olatunji, 510-304-2078

On Thursday, June 3rd at the Oakland City Jail at 611 Broadway in Oakland at 12 noon the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement and the African People’s Solidarity Committee will hold a rally followed by a press conference to denounce U.S. prison and jail brutality from Iraq to Oakland and to denounce the attack on the Carijama Festival on Monday by the Oakland Police Department.

States Bakari Olatunji, Oakland president of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement, "The fact that so many of the military police carrying out the terrible torture and assaults on the Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib got their training and practice of abuse in U.S. prisons is no surprise to the African community. “

Continues Olatunji, “We know about the torture at places like Pelican Bay in California, the Security Housing Unit (SHU) programs of sensory deprivation at places like Corcoran and Pelican Bay and we also experience the inhumane practices right here in Oakland. A policy of police containment of the African community and brutality inside the Oakland jail enforces the ethnic cleansing of our community through an imposed drug economy and lack of economic development in our own interest.”

The International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement and the African People's Solidarity Committee denounce the attack on the Carijama festival-goers, who were teargassed on Monday as part of a policy of police containment of the black community led by Oakland mayor Jerry Brown.

Support economic development and justice for the African community of Oakland and for the Iraqi people! Open the jails & let the Iraqis and Africans out!


For more information, contact Bakari Olatunji at 510-304-2078