& Carl Dix Call for a Major National Manifestation Against Police Terror #RiseUpOctober 24 to STOP Police Terror Which Side Are You On? Come to ! October 22-24 Eric Garner...Michael Brown…Freddie Gray…Rekia Boyd…Andy Lopez…Tamir Rice One after another — and so many NO! THESE MURDERS BY hundreds of thousands of people to others, precious Black and Brown POLICE MUST STOP – NOW!! take to the streets to say these horrors lives — victims of police murder. We This demonstration will be resistance- must stop. think of their faces, and furiously ache based, uncompromising in spirit We aim to amplify the many forms of for justice. Over 1000 people a year and, at the same time, pluralistic resistance against police murder and killed by police – yet since 2005, less and diverse, involving hundreds of mass incarceration. More important, than 60 indictments, less than 25 thousands of people, reaching into we aim to change the whole social convictions! * (see footnote) every corner of this society and landscape, to the point where a Millions languish in prison, generation powerfully impacting the whole world. growing section of people all over take after generation, Black and Latino History has shown that no significant ever-increasing initiative and make it brothers and sisters. The spearpoint of change has been won without mass unmistakably clear that they refuse a whole matrix of oppression. determined resistance. to live in a society that sanctions this outrage, and where those who People have struggled, resisted, risen We refuse to be derailed by up. This must go on and go further do NOT feel this way are put on the promises of reform that are merely defensive. – all summer, in many different ways, that: promises. We refuse to be intensifying. intimidated by government repression Join us At the same time, these repeated or by threats from forces of open and outrages cry out for a major, national unrepentant racism and fascism. Saturday, October 24 manifestation this fall that states very We will respond to the urgency of in the streets of clearly: the political situation by mobilizing New York City

Members of the #RiseUpOctober Advisory Board are: Gina Belafonte, Carl Dix, Eve Ensler, Jamal Joseph, Arturo O’Farrill, Rev. Stephen Phelps, and Cornel West. Members of the Steering Committee: Nkosi Anderson, Nellie Hester Bailey, Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, Carl Dix, Alice Howell, James Lane, Rev. Jerome McCorry, Travis Morales, and Debra Sweet

Initiated by Alfricka Bennett, mother of Shaqur Kadiatou Diallo, cousin of Amadou Diallo, Maria Hamilton, mother of Dontre Carl Dix, McNair, killed by Fayetteville NC police, killed by NYPD, 2000 Hamilton, killed by WI police, 2013 Gloria Ditiway, mother of Darius Pinex, 2014 Revolutionary Communist Party & Art Blakey II, brother of Kiana Nicole killed by Chicago police, 2011 Nate Hamilton, brother of Dontre Dr. Cornel West, Blakey, killed by police in 1989 Yolanda Dozier, mother of Dwayne Ward, Hamilton, killed by Milwaukee WI police, author and educator Tanya Brown, mother of Brandon Jones, killed by Pittsburgh CA police, 2015 2014 Initiating Endorsers killed by police, 2015 Dionne Smith Downs & Carey Downs, Nicholas Heyward Sr., father of Nicholas Danika Chatman, mother of Kenneth parents James Rivera Jr., killed 2010 by Jr., killed by NYPD, 1994 include family members Harding,killed by PD, 2011 Stockton CA police Dorothy Holmes, mother of Ronald of those whose lives Felicia Christian, mother of Alexia Panzy Edwards, mother of Dakota Bright, Johnson killed by Chicago police, 2014 were taken by police: Christian, killed by Police, 2015 killed by Chicago PD, 2012 Alice Howell, grandmother of Justus Hannibal Saleem Ali, uncle of Anjustine Lucius Christian, granfather of Alexia Pamela Fields, mother of Donte Jordan, Howell, killed by Zion IL police, 2015 Hunter, killed by Memphis TN police, 2013 Christian, killed by Atlanta Police, 2015 killed by Long Beach CA Police, 2013 LaToya Howell, mother of Justus Howell, Iris Baez, mother of Anthony Baez, killed Family of Alfontish “NuNu” Cockerham, Miracle Fletcher, family member of killed by Zion IL police, 2015 by NYPD, 1994 killed by Chicago PD, June 15, 2015 Joetavius Stafford, killed by MARTA Atlanta Andrea Irwin, mother of Tony Robinson Hawa Bah, mother of Mohammed Bah, Lanna Covarrubius, sister of Daniel Isaac GA police, 2011 Jr., killed by Madison WI police, 2015 killed by NYPD, 2012 Covarrubias, killed by Lakewood, WA Yohana Flores, daughter of Ernesto Sharon Irwin, grandmother of Tony Jessie Barber, mother of Gilbert Barber, police, 2015 Flores, killed by San Bernardino CA Robinston Jr., killed by Madison WI police, killed by Guilford County, NC police, 2001 John Crawford, Jr., father of John Sheriffs, 2015 2015 Collier Baggett, grandmother of Jimmell Crawford III, killed by Beavercreek OH Latanya Goldsby, counsin of Tamir Rice, Mesha Izarry, mother of Idriss Stelley, Cannon, 13, shot 8 times by Chicago police, 2014 killed by Cleveland police, 2014 killed by San Francisco Police Department, police, survived, 2011 L’Sana DJahspora, father of Cinque ‘Q’ Ruben Gonzalez, brother of Hector 2001 Steven Benjamin, brother of Jayvis DJahspora, executed by Jackson, TN Morejon, killed by Long Beach CA Police, Cephus Uncle Bobby Johnson, uncle of Benjamin, killed by Avondale Estates police 2014 2015 Oscar Grant, killed by transit police, 2009, Police (GA), 2013 Kim Daniels, sister of man killed by Kimberly Griffin, mother of Kimoni Davis, Oakland CA; Love Not Blood Campaign NYPD, 1983 killed by Hanging Rock OH police, 2015 Continues on the back Clarence Jones, father of Brandon Jones, Terri Thaxton, sister of Michael Nida, killed Rev. J. Alfred Smith, Jr.; Senior Pastor, Aleah Holland RN killed by Cleveland police, 2015 by Downey CA Police, 2011 Allen Temple Baptist Church, Oakland CA Immortal Technique Mertilla Jones, grandmother of Aiyana Valencia Tucker, sister of Alexia Christian, Father Richard Smith, St. John the International Concerned Family and Monay Stanley Jones, aged 7, killed by killed by Atlanta Police, 2015 Evangelist Episcopal Church, CA Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal Detroit MI police, 2010 Laurie Valdez, partner of Antonio Guzman Jan Thompson, EqUUal Inclusion Team Martese Johnson, student/activist Tawanda Jones, sister of Tyrone West Lopez, killed by San Jose State University of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Los University of Virginia* killed by Baltimore police in 2013 PD, 2014 Angeles Jamal Joseph, Artistic Director New Andrew Joseph, father of Andrew Joseph Sharon Watkins, mother of Phillip Watkins, Sarah Thompson, Executive Director, Heritage Theatre Group, Professor, III, 14, died in custody, Tampa FL killed by San Jose CA PD, 2015 Christian Peacemaker Teams* * Alicia Kirkman, mother of 17 year old Donna Marie Wicks, mother of Kevin E. Rev. Cleven Wardlow Jr., Roberts Temple Eric Mar, Supervisor, City & County of San Angelo Miller killed by Cleveland OH police Wicks, killed by Inglewood, CA Police, 2008 Church of God in Christ, Chicago IL Francisco* Cynthia Lane, mother of Roshad Cadine Williams, sister of O’Shaine Evans, Rev. Frank Wulf, Pastor, University of Marie Martin, retired nurse and teacher, McIntosh, 19, killed by police killed by San Francisco PD, 2014 Southern CA United University Church relative in solitary confinement in CA prison Joshua Lopez, nephew of John Collado, Barbara, Eric, Rick & Rita Williams, Basir Mchawi, Family & Friends of Dr. killed by NYPD 2012 siblings of John T. Williams, killed by Seattle More Initiating Endorsers: Mutulu Shakur Gabrielle McCarter, husband of minister police 2010 Jeff Adachi, San Francisco Public The Mission and Social Justice killed by Jasper TX sheriffs, 2011 Juanita Young, mother of Malcolm Defender* Commission of the Riverside Church, Freddie McGee, father of Freddie Latrise Ferguson, killed by NYPD 2000 Pam Africa, International Concerned New York City Wilson, killed by Chicago PD 2007 Initiating Faith Leaders: Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal Travis Morales, Stop Mass Incarceration Yolanda McNair, mother of Adaisha Miller, Ramona Africa, MOVE Network - NYC Steering Committee killed by off-duty Detroit police officer Rev. Nicolas Alexander, Do The Word Gbenga Akinnagbe, actor Jessica Care Moore, Black Women Rock! Kareem Morad, cousin of Feras Morad, Ministries Charles Alexander, Director, Academic National Lawyers Guild, Detroit killed by Long Beach CA Police, 2015 Imam A. Abdul Bagi, Islamic Leadership Advancement Program (AAP), UCLA* Michigan Chapter Cindy Angie Morejon, sister in-law of Council, Jamaica NY Edward Asner, actor New Abolitionist Movement (NYC) Hector Morejon, killed by Long Beach CA Imam Al-Hajj Talib Abdur-Rashid, The Alternative Banking, Efia Nwangaza, Stop Mass Incarceration Police, 2015 Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood, NYC Rafael Angulo, Clinical Professor, Field Natl Steering Committee; Malcolm X Christopher Muhammad, cousin of Tamir Nkosi Anderson, MDiv, Educator / Activist Education, USC School of Social Work Center; MXP Community Radio Rice, killed by Cleveland OH police, 2014 Rev. John Buehrens; Sr Minister, First William Ayers, Movement Reimagining Occu-Evolve Syreeta Myers, mother of VonDerrit Myers Unitarian-Universalist Church, San Change PopularResistance.org Jr., killed by police in St. Louis, 2014 Francisco*, Past President, Unitarian Luis Barrios, Professor John Jay College Puncture the Silence, Cleveland OH VonDerrit Deondray Myers Sr. father of Universalist Association* of Criminal Justice* William P. Quigley, Law professor, Director VonDerrit Myers Jr., killed by police in St. Robert Brashear, West Park Presbyterian Nellie Hester Bailey of the Law Clinic. Gillis Long Poverty Law Louis, 2014 Church, New York City Medea Benjamin, co-founder, CODEPINK Center at Loyola University New Orleans* Angela Naggie, mother of O’Shaine Rev. Richard Meri Ka Ra Byrd, KRST Big Apple Coffee Party Mary Ratcliff, Editor, San Francisco Evans, killed by San Francisco PD, 2014 Unity Center, Los Angeles Herb Boyd BayView Newspaper Edith Obdulio Oliva. father of Carlos James H. Cone, Charles Augustus Briggs Dante Boykin Boots Riley, The Coup Oliva-Sola, killed by LA Sheriffs, September Distinguished Professor of Systematic Brandi W. Catanese, Prof. of African , mother of Casey 2013 Theology, Union Theological Seminary* American Studies - U.C. Berkeley* Sheehan, killed in unjust U.S. war on Iraq, Reginald Owens, father of Na’im Rev. Julian “J.Kwest” DeShazier, Noam Chomsky, Professor (ret.), MIT* 2004 Owens,and stepfather of Khiel Cappin, University Church Chicago Jahmal Cleveland (AKA J-Duce); Music Jill Stein, Presidential candidate, 2016 for killed by NYPD Mike Greene, Lead pastor, Highland Hills Donator the Green Party Erica Parker, sister of Dante Parker, United Methodist, Cedar Hill, TX Ray Laforest, Haitian Labor Organizer, Lynne Stewart & Ralph Poynter, murdered by San Bernardino Sheriffs, 2014 Rev. Gregg L. Greer, President, Freedom Board Member of WBAI lynnstewart.org First International, IL Rick Perez; Family of Pedie Perez, Shot King Downing, Ferguson Legal Defense Sankofa.org and killed by Richmond CA police 2014 Pastor Paul A. Hutson, Joshua House South Bronx Community Congress Ministries, St. Louis, MO Committee, NYC Hertencia Petersen, aunt of Akai Gurley, CODEPINK Michael Gene Sullivan, Collective killed by NYPD, 2014 Rev. Philip C. Jacobs, Rector, Trinity member, San Francisco Mime Troupe (&) Episcopal Church, Canton MA Marsha Coleman-Abedayo Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir Rice, killed , professor, UCLA & Author of “Freedomland” Reverend Robert L. Jeffrey, Seattle WA Kimberle Crenshaw by Cleveland OH police, 2014 Columbia University School of Law* Debra Sweet, Director, World Can’t Wait Theodore (Ted) Jennings Jr., Chicago Margarita Rosario, mother of Anthony Betty Davis, New Abolitionist Movement Victor Toro Ramirez, Coalicion 1ero de Rosario, aunt of Hilton Vega, killed by Theological Seminary* Professor of Biblical mayo del Bronx and Philosophical Theology , Clinical Prof (ret) NYPD 1995 Northwestern Univ School of Law Josmar Trujillo, New Yorkers Against Chris Silva, brother of David Silva, beat to Rev. Nelson Johnson, Beloved Bratton Community Center, Greensboro, NC Eve Ensler, V-Day; author, playright: The death by Bakersfield CA police, 2013 Vagina Monologues Aleta Alston Toure’, Stop Mass Andree Penix Smith, mother of Justin Bruce Knotts, Unitarian Universalist United Incarceration Network Natl Steering Nations Office* Jodie Evans, co-founder, CODEPINK Smith, killed by Tulsa OK police Shepard Fairey, artist Committee, Southern Movement Crystal Smith, mother of Carey Smith- Danilo Lachapel, Evangelica Española Alliance, The New Jim Crow Del Bronx Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition Viramontes, killed by Long Beach CA Charles Gaines Movement, Free Marissa NOW (FMN), Police, 2014 ; Editor, Tikkun; #BlackWomensLivesMatter Chair, The Interfaith and Secular- Darryle Gatlin, Adjunct Professor of Shannon Smith, aunt of Carey Smith- Afrikana Studies, Cal State University, Raymond Turner, Upsurge! NYC Viramontes, killed by Long Beach CA Humanist-Welcoming Network of Spiritual Universal Zulu Nation, NYC Progressives Northridge Police, 2014 NY Greens, Stop the Drug Maru Mora Villalpando, Latino Advocacy, Rev. Jerome McCorry, Stop Mass Paul Gilmore, Teresa Smith, mother of James Smith, War Seattle WA brutally beaten by police and mauled by Incarceration Natl Steering Committee, Paul Von Blum, Senior Lecturer African JMcCorrySpeaks Ministries Granny Peace Brigade police canine of Stockton CA PD Green Party of New York State American Studies & Communication Theresa Smith, mother of Caesar Cruz, Gus Newport, National Council of Elders, Studies, UCLA former Mayor of Berkeley CA Carl Hart, Author of High Price: A murdered by Anaheim CA Police, 2009 Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery James Vrettos, Professor John Jay College Calvert Stewart, father of Gilbert A. Barber, Rev. David Carl Olson, Minister, First of Criminal Justice* Unitarian Church of Baltimore That Challenges Everything You Know killed by Guilford County NC Sheriffs, 2001 about Drugs and Society; Professor, Alice Walker Martinez Sutton, brother of Rekia Boyd, Rev. Stephen H. Phelps, Member, Victor Wallis, and Democracy Presbytery of New York City* Columbia University* killed by Chicago police, 2012 , Catholic Worker, NYC Michael W. Warren, attorney Matt Seargeant, Chino United Methodist Martha Hennessy Jean Thaxton, mother of Michael Nida, * Institutions for identification only Church, CA Jack Heyman; retired ILWU Local 10, killed by Downey CA Police, 2011 Transport Workers Solidarity Committee Some of the more than 500 endorsers As of September 25, 2015

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