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<font size=3>Via Maisha Quint:<br><br>
Hi everyone,<br><br>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>Help prevent Eddy's
deportation at his critical immigration appeals hearing on Dec 9th!
Please forward this email widely and attend the hearing if you can make
it! <br><br>
-Ben<br><br>
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</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3><b>WHAT: <br><br>
</b>Eddy Zheng’s Ninth Circuit Appeals Hearing – Oral Arguments to
prevent deportation to China. Eddy’s lawyer will be given 15 minutes to
make 2 legal arguments in appeal to the Eddy’s order of deportation
handed down from the previous Immigration Judge.<br><br>
<br><br>
<b>WHEN:<br><br>
</b>Thursday, December 9, 2010<br><br>
Please arrive to the courthouse at 9:00am in order to be processed in
time for the hearing.<br><br>
<br><br>
<b>WHERE: <br><br>
</b>James R. Browning US Courthouse<br><br>
United States Court of Appeals - 9th Circuit. <br><br>
Courtroom 3, 3rd Floor<br><br>
95 Seventh Street<br><br>
San Francisco, California 94103<br><br>
(Picture ID required to enter Courthouse)<br><br>
<br><br>
<b>WHAT EDDY NEEDS FROM YOU:<br><br>
</b>We need to pack the courthouse (100 seat capacity) to show the
Immigration Judge that Eddy has tremendous community support! We will
also have supporters outside of the Courthouse with signs in support of
Eddy. Please pass on this message to your friends and help get as many
people as possible to the hearing on December 9<sup>th</sup>. <br><br>
<br><br>
<b>CONTACT:<br><br>
</b>For more information and to get involved in planning, organizing, and
additional support activities, please contact:<br><br>
<br><br>
Lisa Chen, Asian Law Caucus<br><br>
<a href="mailto:lisac@asianlawcaucus.org">lisac@asianlawcaucus.org</a><br>
<br>
415-896-1701<br><br>
<br><br>
Ben Wang, Asian Prisoner Support Committee<br><br>
<a href="mailto:apscinfo@gmail.com">apscinfo@gmail.com</a><br><br>
510-292-0852<br><br>
<br><br>
<b>WHY:<br><br>
In order to prevent being deported to China, well-respected community
leader Eddy Zheng needs your support at his Ninth Circuit Appeals
hearing. </b>After being convicted as an adult for a crime he committed
when he was 16-years old, Eddy served over 20 years behind bars, where he
transformed himself into a renowned prisoner rights advocate, youth
mentor, and poet and author. Released from prison in 2007, Eddy has
dedicated his life to preventing youth violence and delinquency through
his work at the Community Youth Center, Community Response Network, and
many other SF Bay Area programs and organizations. <br><br>
<br><br>
Having spent more than half of his life behind bars for a crime he
committed at 16, Eddy won his parole only by demonstrating to the parole
board and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger that he was a model inmate who
acknowledged his mistakes, expressed remorse for his crime, and did
everything he could to improve himself. The judge who sentenced
Eddy, the Assistant District Attorney who prosecuted him, a former
director of the California Department of Corrections, and dozens of state
legislators, local politicians, and community leaders wrote letters of
support for his parole. Eddy Zheng now faces deportation to a country he
left as a child and needs your support in order to remain in the U.S.
<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2><b> <br><br>
<u>List of Awards and Committees:<br><br>
</u></b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=2>-</font>
<font size=1>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2><b>2009 Department of
Children Youth and their Families Roots Fellow<br><br>
</b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=2>-</font>
<font size=1>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2><b>2008 “Outstanding
Leadership Award” from the Bay Area Asian Pacific American Law
Students Association <br><br>
</b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=2>-</font>
<font size=1>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2><b>2007 “Community Hero
Award” from the Chinese language newspaper World Journal<br><br>
</b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=2>-</font>
<font size=1>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2><b>Mayor appointed council
member of the San Francisco Safe Community Reentry Council<br><br>
</b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=2>-</font>
<font size=1>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2><b>Member of the San
Francisco central police station Citizen Advisory Board<br><br>
</b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=2>-</font>
<font size=1>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2><b>National Advisory board
member of Asian American Law Journal<br><br>
</b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=2>-</font>
<font size=1>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2><b>Co-Chair of Asian
Prisoners’ Support Committee based in Oakland<br><br>
</b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=2>-</font>
<font size=1>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2><b>Published co-author of
“Other: An Asian and Pacific Islander Prisoners’ Anthology”<br><br>
</b> <br><br>
<b>Partial List of Supporters for Eddy’s release from prison and
immigration detention:<br><br>
<br><br>
• San Francisco Board of Supervisors<br><br>
• San Francisco Youth Commission<br><br>
• Michael Honda, US Congressman<br><br>
• Barbara Lee, US Congresswoman<br><br>
• Mark Leno, CA State Senator<br><br>
• Leland Yee, CA State Senator<br><br>
• Loni Hancock, CA State Senator<br><br>
• Carol Liu, CA State Senator<br><br>
• Gloria Romero, CA State Senator<br><br>
• Don Perata, former CA Senate President Pro Tem<br><br>
• John Burton, former CA Senate President Pro Tem<br><br>
• Sheila Kuehl, former CA State Senator<br><br>
• Byron Sher, former CA State Senator <br><br>
• John Vasconcellos, former CA State Senator<br><br>
• Judy Chu, U.S. Congresswoman<br><br>
• Phil Ting, SF Assessor-Recorder<br><br>
• Jane Kim, SF Board of Education<br><br>
• Eric Mar, SF Board of Supervisors<br><br>
• Alice Lai-Bitker, Alameda County Supervisor<br><br>
• Wilma Chan, Alameda County Supervisor<br><br>
• Jerry Enomoto, former Director, CA Dept of Corrections<br><br>
• Chris Nedeau, former SF District Attorney who prosecuted Eddy
Zheng<br><br>
• Rev. Norman Fong, SF Chinatown Presbyterian Church<br><br>
• Dale Minami, Minami Tamaki LLP<br><br>
• Victor Hwang, SF Assistant District Attorney<br><br>
• Yuri Kochiyama, Community Activist<br><br>
• Isami Arifuku, National Council on Crime and Delinquency<br><br>
<i>* organizations listed for ID purposes only</i></b> <br><br>
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