[Ppnews] Freedom for Romaine “Chip” Fitzgerald Long Awaited

[Political Prisoner News]

For Immediate Release
To:                Various Media Outlets
Date:             September 7, 2007
From:             Hujambo Public Relations Network
Contact:         Emani Dawson-Bey
                     [562] 310-6162

                     freechipfitzgerald at yahoo.com



Freedom for Romaine “Chip” Fitzgerald Long Awaited

“Longest-Held Black Panther Party Political Prisoner in U.S.”

  Imperial, California.  At 1:30 p.m. on 
September 26, 2007, Romaine “Chip” Fitzgerald 
will once again go before the California Board of 
Parole Hearings­after 38 years of unjust incarceration!

Chip, imprisoned since 1969, is serving a life 
sentence for a crime he did not commit.  Factual 
government public files have exposed that the FBI 
and other policing agencies had strategic orders 
to neutralize and destroy the Black Panther Party 
after then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover issued 
his infamous dictum, in 1968, that “the Black 
Panther Party was the greatest threat to the 
internal security of the United States.”  As part 
of that campaign, many Party leaders were 
assassinated and falsely imprisoned.  Chip Fitzgerald was one of them.
Chip’s many supporters include Compton, 
California, City Attorney LeGrand Clegg, Compton 
City Councilwoman Barbara Calhoun, and former 
Chairman of the Black Panther Party, political 
activist and author Elaine Brown. He also has the 
support of Representative Maxine Waters and the 
Monterey Peninsula Branch of the NAACP, which 
accepted Mr. Fitzgerald as a member in 1999.  He 
has long been supported by countless community-based organizations.
Chip Fitzgerald’s incarceration has far exceeded 
the maximum amount of time he should have served 
under his sentence.  His supporters are now 
demanding of the Board that, in accordance with 
state law, Chip finally be released and allowed 
to return to a supportive community that will 
assist him with education, health care and 
employment.  They are encouraging all those 
seeking justice in this country and around the 
world to write letters of support to the Board:

James Davis, Chairman Board of Parole Hearings
Post Office Box 4036
Sacramento, CA 95812-4036
Letters to Chip are also encouraged:

Romaine Fitzgerald, B27527
Centinela State Prison FC-2-110
PO Box 921
Imperial, California  92251-0731

<http://www.freechip.info/>www.freechip.info
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