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Demand justice for Sean Bell! Fill the streets today 4/25 at 5:30pm Jail racist killer cops!
Apr 25, 2008
Focus: Consumer Rights
Action Request: Protest
Location: United States

**Please forward widely to friends, family members, activists and social networking sites**

Demand justice for Sean Bell!
Jail racist killer cops!


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Sean Bell with his fiancee Nicole Paultre

Rally and community speak-out
Today, April 25, 5:30pm
in front of Queen's DA office:
125-01 Queens Blvd
(bet. Hoover Ave & 82nd Ave)
E/F train to Union Turnpike
Called by the People's Justice Coalition

The ANSWER Coalition calls on all its members, supporters, and friends in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut area to join with thousands of other people in New York City today for a mass demonstration against the outrageous acquittal of the three police officers who murdered Sean Bell. They killed Bell in a hail of gunfire the night before his wedding. This is one more example of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) being allowed to commit murder in the Black and Latino community with impunity. The police in New York operate like an occupation army granting themselves the right to function as judge, jury, and executioner. It would take days to recite all the names of those killed by police murder.

Judge Arther Cooperman, who found the police officers not guilty today, gained notoriety when he sentenced a New York man who was convicted of $22, to "15 years to life" in prison.

Our coalition stands against war and racism. The two are connected. We are fighting against racism and injustice at home, and the racist war against the Arab people in the Middle East.

Today's verdict has provoked mass outrage throughout the Black community in New York City and among all people who believe in justice. Sean Bell was unarmed as were his companions when he died in a hail of 50 gunshots. One police officer, Michael Oliver, fired 31 shots, stopping to reload in the middle before resuming to fire against the unarmed men. The movement for real change against racism and war is being built in the streets. Join us today and spread the word.



A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
http://www.answercoalition.org/
info@internationalanswer.org
National Office in Washington DC: 202-544-3389
New York City: 212-694-8720
Los Angeles: 213-251-1025
San Francisco: 415-821-6545
Chicago: 773-463-0311
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Posted: Apr 25, 2008 12:02pm
Blackwater above the law? Maybe not...
Oct 5, 2007
Focus: Peace
Action Request: Petition
Location: United States
TrueMajorityACTION

House has voted to hold mercenaries responsible

Now it's up to the Senate to decide

Blackwater

Tell your Senators that it's time to hold contractors accountable for their actions.

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After listening all week to the shocking abuses committed in Iraq by Blackwater, the House came together and overwhelmingly passed a bill that would bring some accountability to all armed private contractors working overseas.1

Now it's the Senate's turn to take action. But they must do it now by the same solid, veto-proof margin as the House, because the White House is opposed to accountability for these private contractors. 

     Tell your Senators to act quickly and support accountability for these hired guns.

     http://act.truemajorityaction.org/t/50/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1194

The White House said yesterday that it had 'grave concerns' about the bill, claiming that it would conflict with 'national security activities and operations'.2 The fact is that if we're going to preach the rule of law in Iraq, we can't be above it.

An astounding 120,000 "private security contractors" are in Iraq, 48,000 of them working as combat soldiers.3 They get paid far more than real soldiers, their deaths are not included in the official casualty counts, and they are essentially accountable to no one. The Senate has a chance to change this, but they have to act swiftly. Tell your Senators to support accountability for these hired guns today.

Laws exist for a reason,

Ben Kroetz
TrueMajorityAction.org Online Organizer

P.S. Here's the shocking account of what happened in Baghdad on September 16th that brought Blackwater's actions to light.

1. "House Bill Would Allow Prosecution of Contractors," New York Times, October 4, 2007

2. Ibid.

3. U.S. GAO Report

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Posted: Oct 5, 2007 1:16pm
TELL CONGRESS IT'S TIME FOR MORE THAN LIP SERVICE ON BURMA
Oct 3, 2007
Focus: Human Rights
Action Request: Petition
Location: United States
TELL CONGRESS IT'S TIME FOR MORE THAN LIP SERVICE ON BURMA
 
On October 2, 2007, taking a break from honorary renaming of Post Offices, the House of Representative dusted off and quickly passed (413-2) a concurrent resolution on Burma, which had been languishing in inactivity.
 
Sadly, that resolution doesn't actually DO anything, and makes no reference whatsoever to the massacres of the last week or the ongoing horrors taking place in that country now.
 
 
We have documentary evidence of the Burma military junta machine gunning peaceful civilian demonstrators, including the murder of foreign journalists in cold blood. There are credible reports of people being burned alive in government crematoriums. There are widespread accounts of EMPTY monasteries, and thousands of monks being herded into concentration camps in remote parts of the country,
bodies dumped in the jungles, pictures of monks floating face down in the rivers and more. The ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) expressed "revulsion", and that was BEFORE most of the above reports. You can see the brutal oppression from space. [The action page above is heavily annotated with links to all the factual sources.]
 
And none of this, NONE of it was even mentioned in the House
resolution passed today. Congress must immediately
 
1) Declare the military dictatorship in Burma to be a terrorist
organization. They were sure quick enough to do that for the Iran Revolutionary guard, who have been shown by no evidence to do any of the above things. People who go into houses of worship to murder religious devotees ARE terrorists. Remember when we were told Saddam was murdering his own people, 15 YEARS after the fact. These massacres are going on NOW!
 
2) Act to freeze the assets of the military junta and urge all
international banks to bar any monetary transfers in the interim. Our government was sure quick enough to do that to try to stop Al Qaeda. Similar actions were taken against North Korea by banning the importation of luxury goods and the like, a successful example of application of diplomatic pressure, and
 
3) Call for an international peace keeping force under the aegis of the U.N. to protect the people of Burma and the monasteries in particular, and to allow under its umbrella real fact finding of the crimes against humanity committed there. If Japan can send
peacekeepers to Iraq they can certainly be persuaded to do so where, where they are already demanding for an accounting for the murder of their journalist. Are not the members of the ASEAN repulsed enough to participate? Let this be an example of how the world is supposed to react to tragic events like these, by acting THROUGH the U.N.
 
 
But what Congress had done is nothing more than an empty gesture. Nowhere in the concurrent resolution is there a single tooth. The military strongman in Burma is said to be stubborn. The world must stand up to that monstrous bully, and do so in a way that stands in clear contrast to everything that was done WRONG in Iraq, where the phony coalition of the willing was mostly blackmailed into participation. Burma needs a protection force, not an offensive force. If Congress can vote 413-2 to say anything about Burma, can not a majority be found to call for real action?
 
Write Congress now using the action page above. Tell them they must do more.
 
Is it said that China and India among others are doing too much
business with Burma to rock the boat. Would not a country of free people also sell they resources on the world market? It's time to pressure the corporations and let them know that we the people will no longer tolerate murderous business as usual.
 
Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this message to everyone else you know.
 
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