MEDIA ADVISORY
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT:
December 2, 2014 Karen
Ramspacher
Showing Up for Racial Justice
646-567-7737
PROTEST AT U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE DEMANDING
JUSTICE FOR MICHAEL BROWN AND
ERIC GARNER AND
AN END TO RACIST POLICING IN
THE UNITED STATES
IN SOLIDARITY WITH PEOPLE OF
COLOR IN FERGUSON AND NATIONWIDE
#shutitdown
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, STARTING
AT 5:00 PM
FROM FOLEY SQUARE, MANHATTAN,
TO ONE ST. ANDREWS PLAZA
WHAT: Mass Protest at the Office of the U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District
to demand justice for Michael Brown, justice for Eric Garner, and immediate
federal action against racist policing in the U.S. -- including arresting
police perpetrators for civil rights violations, pursuing pattern-and-practice
lawsuits, and dissolving local out-of-control police departments.
WHY: Black
lives matter. What
happened in Ferguson is not the exception but the rule in a system based on
white supremacy. Black
Americans need federal protection from local law enforcement “sworn to serve
and protect.”
WHO: New
Yorkers Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)
WHEN: 5:00
PM TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2
WHERE: the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District
from Foley
Square (Thomas Paine Park) to One St. Andrews Plaza
(corner
of Duane Street and Cardinal Hayes Place)
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