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</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3><b>We All Live in
Jena<br>
National Call to Action<br>
Monday, October 1<sup>st</sup>, 2007 at Noon, Central Time</b>.<br>
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Artist/ Activist <b>Mos Def</b> along with <b>M1</b>, Talib Kweli, the
<b>Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Sankofa Community Empowerment, Change
the Game, the National Hip Hop Political Convention, </b>and student
leaders from<b> 50 campuses</b> call for a <b>National Student
Walk-Out</b> to rally and show support for the <b>Jena 6</b>, who are
being denied their human rights by the Louisiana criminal justice
system.<br>
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<b>The Case of the Jena 6<br>
</b>Last fall, when two Black high school students sat under the
"white" tree on their campus, white students responded by
hanging nooses from the tree. When Black students protested the light
punishment for the students who hung the nooses, District Attorney Reed
Walters came to the school and told the students he could "take
[their] lives away with a stroke of [his] pen." Racial tension
continued to mount in Jena , and the District Attorney did nothing in
response to several egregious cases of violence and threats against black
students. But when a white student--who had been a vocal supporter of the
student’s who hung the nooses, taunted a black student, called several
black students "nigger"--sustained minor injuries from a school
fight, six black students were charged with second-degree attempted
murder. Last month, the first young man to be tried, Mychal Bell, was
convicted. He faced up to 22 years in prison for a school fight until the
Black people began to organize and his conviction was thrown out because
he was tried as an adult. However the DA and the Judge still refuse to
set a reasonable bail or to drop the charges in this case and Mychal is
still in jail!!<br><br>
Mos Def is asking students worldwide to assist in the fight against
racial injustice and show solidarity for these young people, who have
been treated unequally by the law. The prosecution of these young men
symbolizes a terrible miscarriage of justice, by punishing students who
opposed segregation in their schools and disregarding the threatening
acts of others who advocate it.<br>
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As students and activists we say enough is enough! What is happening in
Jena is happening all over this country. From Sean Bell to Mychal Bell,
the criminal justice system is killing and incarcerating us. We will not
be silent!<br><br>
<b><u>Demands<br>
</u></b>Judge J.P. Mauffray and District Attorney Reed Walters have
engaged in a string of egregious actions, the most recent of which was
the denial of bail for Bell on Friday. We call for: <br>
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</font>1. All charges against the Jena 6 be dropped<br>
2. The immediate release of Mychal Bell<br>
3. The United States Department of Justice to convene an immediate
inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the arrests and prosecutions
of the Jena 6; <br>
4. Judge Mauffray to be recused from presiding over Bell 's
juvenile court hearings or other proceedings; <br>
5. The Louisiana Office of Disciplinary Counsel to investigate Reed
Walters for unethical and possibly illegal conduct; <br>
6. The Louisiana Judiciary Commission investigate Judge Mauffray
for unethical conduct; and
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<li>The Jena School District superintendent to be removed from office.
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>For more info contact
info@mxgm.org<br>
To add your school to the list assata@pitt.edu or
spjlewis@hotmail.com<br><br>
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