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On Father’s Day Before the Silent March Against Stop-And-Frisk, Rev. Al Sharpton to Speak at a Black Church in Harlem
—!!!MEDIA ADVISORY!!!MEDIA ADVISORY!!!MEDIA ADVISORY
ON FATHER’S DAY BEFORE THE SILENT MARCH AGAINST STOP-AND-FRISK, REV. AL SHARPTON TO SPEAK AT A BLACK CHURCH IN HARLEM—
REV. SHARPTON TO ANSWER MAYOR BLOOMBERG WHO SPOKE AT A BLACK CHURCH LAST SUNDAY ABOUT STOP-AND-FRISK & IS RUMORED TO BE SPEAKING AGAIN TO BLACK CONGREGANTS
WHO:
Reverend Al Sharpton, President of National Action Network (NAN) and one of the conveners of the March against racial profiling and stop-and-frisk policing
WHERE:
First Corinthian Baptist Church
Pastor Michael A. Walrond Jr.
1912 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd.
(between 115th St & St Nicholas Ave)
WHEN:
FATHER’S DAY – Sunday, June 17, 2012
12 :00 p.m. (Noon)
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Civil Rights, Labor and Faith Leaders Convene Massive Coalition for Silent March on Father’s Day to End NYC Stop-and-Frisk Policy
110th Street at Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10029
Press Address/Availability Begins at 2:00 pm
Silent March Steps off at 3:00 pm
WHO: National Action Network President Rev. Al Sharpton, NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous, NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman; 1199SEIU President George Gresham; NY State NAACP President Hazel Dukes; Trayvon Martin Family Attorney Benjamin Crump; New York City elected officials; Representative from Communities United for Police Reform (CPR); victims of stop-and-frisk; representatives of hundreds of organizations throughout the region; thousands of protesters from across New York City
WHAT: The March: On Sunday, June 17th, a diverse coalition of 299 organizations will march silently down Fifth Ave. in New York City to call for an end to stop-and-frisk policing. Under Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s policy, hundreds of thousands of innocent people are stopped, interrogated and humiliated by the NYPD each year simply for walking down the street. The police employ racial profiling on a daily basis, and the large majority of those stopped are black or Latino. More information, including the complete list of participating groups, is available at www.silentmarchnyc.org.
Press Address/Availability: In keeping with the theme of the silent march, a single statement will be read on behalf of the entire coalition by a victim of racial profiling. Representatives of the coalition and elected officials will be available to speak with the press immediately following the address.
WHERE:
New York, NY 10029
WHEN:
Press Address/Availability begins at 2:00pm
March begins at 3:00pm
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A list of all endorsing organizations follows:
CONVENERS:
National Action Network, 1199SEIU, NAACP, NYCLU
Endorsing organizations:
100 Blacks in Law Enforcement
1199SEIU
ACT UP
AFCSME DC-37
African Services Committee
AIDS United
Ali Forney Center for Homeless LGBT Youth
Alliance for a Just Society
Alliance for Immigrants Rights and Reform, MI
Amalgamated Bank
American Buddhist Confederation
ANSWER Coalition – NYC
APICHA Community Health Center
Arab Muslim American Federation
Arab-American Association of NY
Asian American Federation
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Asian Americans for Equality
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
Aspira
Association of Indians in America – New York Chapter
Auburn Seminary
Audre Lorde Project
Bai Sha Group
Bail Out the People Movement
Bangladesh League of America New York
Bella Abzug Leadership Institute
B’nai Jeshurn
Bronx Defenders
Brooklyn Bangladeshi Business Association
Brooklyn Community Pride Center
Brooklyn For Peace
CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities
Campaign for Peace and Democracy
Campaign to End the New Jim Crow
Campaign to Stop the False Arrests
CASA de Maryland
CAUSA Oregon
Center for Community Change
Center for Constitutional Rights
Center for Popular Democracy
Center for Race, Crime and Justice at John Jay College
CenterLink
Center on Halsted
Chhaya CDC
Child Welfare Organizing Project
Children’s Defense Fund
Chinatown Partnership Youth Initiatives
Christian Universal Temple Baptist Church
Citizen Action of New York
Civil Aid Services
Coalition for Asian American Children and Families
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
CODEPINK Women for Peace
Color of Change
Colorado Anti-Violence Project
Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition
Committee for Hispanic Children and Families
Common Cause/NY
Communities United for Police Reform
Community Board No. 2, Manhattan
Community Board 10, Manhattan
Community United Against Violence (CUAV)
Concord Baptist Church of Christ
Congregation Beit Simchat Torah
Congregation Beth Elohim
CONNECT, Inc.
Cooper Square Committee
Council of School Supervisors and Administrators (CSA)
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY)
Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility
Criminal Justice Clinic of Pace Law School
CUNY Dominican Library
CUNY LGBT Task Force
CUSH
CWA Local 1180
DRUM – Desis Rising Up & Moving
Director, Taller Boricua
Drug Policy Alliance
East Side Democratic Club
Eastern Vietnam Cambodia Laos Chinese Descent Association
Empire State Pride Agenda
Eugencio Maria de Hostos Community College
Executive Director and Founder, Tepeyac
Families For Freedom
Family Equality Council
Family Health Project
Federation of Indians Associations
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Fesabeelillah Service of NYC Inc.
FIERCE
Florida Immigrant Coalition
FMLN-NY
Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People’s Movement
Free Mumia Coalition
Freedom Forum
Freedom Socialist Party
Gamaliel Foundation
Gay City News
Gay Men’s Health Crisis
Gay USA
GLAAD
GLID (Gay & Lesbian Independent Democrats)
GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network)
GMAD (Gay Men of African Descent)
Granny Peace Brigade
Gray Panthers, NYC Network
Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition
GroupG3
Harlem Pride, Inc
Havaar: Iranian Initiative Against War, Sanctions and State Repression
Hotel Chinese Association of New York
Housing Works, Inc.
Hoy Ping Hong Hing Association
Human Rights Campaign
Humanist Center
IBEW Local 3
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights
Immigration Equality
Immigrant Worker Justice, Occupy Wall Street
Independent Viewpoints
Integrity NYC Metro
Institute for Juvenile Justice Reform and Alternatives
Interfaith Center of NY
Interim Director, Puerto Rican Studies Institute at Hunter College
International Action Center
International Socialist Organization
Islamic Circle of North America
Islamic Council of North America
Islamic Metro Leadership Council
Japanese American Citizen’s League – NYC Chapter
Jews Against Islamophobia
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
Jews Say No
Jewish Fund for Social Justice/ Bend the Arc
Jewish Labor Committee
Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club
Judson Memorial Church
July 26 Coalition
Justice Committee
Kolot Chayeinu
Korean American Association of Greater New York
Laborers Local 79
La Fuente
Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn
Lambda Legal
Latino Commission on AIDS
LatinoJustice PRLDEF
LCLAA
Legal Aid Society
Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club of Queens (LGDCQ)
LGBT Faith Leaders of African Descent
Life Support National, Inc.
Make the Road NY
Make the Road NY – GLOBE
Malaysian American Association
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
MAN UP! INC.
Marijuana Arrests Research Project
Marriage Equality USA
Mass. Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition
May 1st Coalition Workers and Immigrant Rights Coalition
Men Elevating Leadership for Youth
Men of All Colors Together/NY
Metropolitan Community Church of New York
Middle Collegiate Church
Minkwon Center for Community Action
Muhammadi Interfaith Center
Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA)
Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition
Muslim Consultative Network
Muslim Peace Coalition, USA
NAACP
NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
NAACP NY Metro
NAACP Tri-State
NAN Tri-State
National Action Network
National Black Justice Coalition
National Coalition of Anti-Violence Projects
National Coalition To Protect Civil Freedoms
National Education Association (NEA)
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
National Institute for Latino Policy (NiLP)
National Korean American Service and Education Consortium
National Latino Officers Association
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
National Puerto Rican Forum
National Stonewall Democrats
New Immigrant Community Empowerment
New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA)
New York Association of Black Psychologists, Inc.
New York Chinese Cultural Center
New York City Anti-Violence Project
New York City Mission Society
New York Communities for Change
New York Immigration Coalition
New York LGBT Community Center
New York Metro Area Postal Union, APWU
New York State Nurses Association
New York Task Force on Political Prisoners
New York Trans Rights Organization (NYTRO)
NICE – New Immigrant Community Empowerment
Northern Manhattan Neighbors for Peace and Justice
Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition
NYC Central Labor Council
NYC Chapter of US Labor Against the War
NYC Coalition for Educational Justice
National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs
NYC Latino Clergy United for Justice
NYC Progressive Caucus
NY Civil Liberties Union
Occupy Faith
Occupy Hartford
Occupy Judaism
Occupy Wall Street Global Justice Working Group
One America
Organization of Chinese Americans – NY (OCA-NY)
Pakistan Community Center
Pakistan USA
Parent Leadership Project/Center for Immigrant Families
Peace Action NY
Peace & Justice Center of Sonoma County (CA)
People’s Justice for Community Control and Police Accountability
Perwakrin
Philippine Forum /Bayanihan Community Center
Picture the Homeless
Pineros y Campesinos de Noroeste
Police Reform Organizing Project
Progressive Democrats of America
Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains
Project Salam
Promise Arizona
Prospect Heights Democrats for Reform
Prospect Heights Shul
PSC-CUNY
Publisher of DTM
Queens Pride House
Queer Rising
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QAIA)
Queers for Economic Justice
Rabbis for Human Rights-North America
Raha: Iranian Feminist Collective
Retail Action Project
RWDSU
SafeSpace Program @RU12? Community Center
SEIU 32BJ
SEVA
Sistas & Brothers United
Socialist Workers Party Campaign
South Asia Solidarity Initiative
Solidarity with Iran
South Asian Youth Action (SAYA)
Southeast Queens County Young Democrats
St. Marks Church in the Bowery
St. Philip’s Episcopal Church
Stonewall Democratic Club of NYC
Stop Stop and Frisk
Street Vendor Project – Urban Justice Center
Streetwise and Safe (SAS)
Students United for a Free CUNY
Take Back Our City
Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition
TLDEF (Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund)
The Black Institute
The Fortune Society
The Middle Church
The Muslim Center of Bay Shore
Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund
Turning Point for Women and Families
TWU Local 100
UAW 2325
UAW Region 9A
UFT
United for Justice with Peace, Boston
United for Peace and Justice
United Fujianese American Association
United Hindu Cultural Council of USA NA Inc
United NY
United National Antiwar Coalition
United Parents Against Lead (UPAL)
Univ. of Pittsburgh Chapter of National Society of Black Engineers
UPROSE
Urban Justice Center
USA Fuzhou San Shan Association
Venceremos Brigade
Veterans For Peace – NYC Chapter 34
VOCES de la Frontera
VOCAL-NY
Violence Intervention Program
War Resister’s League
Women in Islam Inc
Workers United
Working Families Party
Workman’s Circle
Young Korean American Network (yKAN)
Youth Ministries for Peace & Justice
YWCA Queens