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Stand Up for Dee Allen: Pack the Courtroom November 7

by Kim Rohrbach
On July 30, Black poet, student and activist Lamont (Dee) Allen was arrested by the SFPD and booked on trumped-up misdemeanor charges as a result of his participation in a counter-demonstration against the Minutemen -- a group whose thinly veiled white supremacist agenda should be vehemently opposed by EVERY resident of this so-called progressive city. Many of us love and respect Dee, and know him to be an upstanding and sensitive fellow of rare integrity. Yet, the San Francisco D.A.'s office, spurred primarily by the dishonest allegations of a single SFPD officer, is wasting time and public resources in bringing Dee to trial.
Dee's only "crime" is in repeatedly and unflinchingly demonstrating the courage to stand up for those who, like he, feel the brunt of this society's glaring hypocrisies and injustices on a daily basis. He needs us to stand up for him on November 7. Let's pack the court room!

The following organizations and a growing number of individuals (including but not limited to those listed below) support Dee and demand that the charges against him be dropped:

-La Raza Centro Legal
-The Gray Panthers, San Francisco Chapter
-The Idriss Stelley Action & Resource Center
-Education Not Incarceration, San Francisco Chapter
-San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness
-Black & Brown Equitable Drug Policies Coalition
-The Uhuru Solidarity Movement
-Deporten a la Migra
-The African People's Solidarity Committee
-St. Peter's Housing Committee
-Poor Magazine
-San Francisco Tenants Union
-Colored Ink
-The San Francisco Bay View
-Phil Horne, Civil Rights Attorney
-Modesto Anarcho
-HackBloc
-Avalon Autonomous Free State
-Committee In Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, San Francisco -Bay Area Bay Area Chapter
-Ben Rosenfeld, Civil Rights Attorney
-David Wills, San Francisco Artist, Entrepreneur, Homeowner and Father
-Ramsey Kanaan, Publisher, PM Press
-Cathy Bellin, Teacher
-Joey Cain
-Lee Doyle
-Tyler Curtis
-Joey Paxman
-David DeNeef
-Craig Hudson
-Andrej Grubacic
-Mitch Park
-....

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