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Afrosphere Blogs, Marches, Lawyers and Mainstream Media Pressure Win Victory in the Jena Six Case!

04 Tuesday Dec 2007

Posted by Black Women in Europe in Afrospear bloggers, AfroSphere, Criminal Justice

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Afrosphere Blogs, Marches, Lawyers and Mainstream Media Pressure Win Victory in the Jena Six Case!

RE:  Afrosphere press releases in the Jena Six Case

I am encouraging all of the AfroSpear and afrosphere bloggers who have talked to members of the press about this case to call those contacts and offer a statement for articles about this victory:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

In response to the advocacy of AfroSpear and other bloggers, tens of thousands of Black marchers, the mainstream media and intervention by the governor of Louisiana, the district attorney in the Jena Six case has reduced the requested penalty from 22 years to 18 months in the prosecution  of Mychal D. Bell.


1).  “AfroSpear bloggers and our audiences will continue to assert our role as forceful advocates of equal justice for Blacks in the American justice system.”

2.  “Although the charges against Mychal D. Bell have been reduced, it still is not equal justice when a Black student receives an eighteen month prison sentence while the white students are not penalized at all for their offenses.”

3).  “We will continue to insist that ALL ADULT AND JUVENILE CHARGES AGAINST ALL 6 DEFENDANTS  be dropped and foreclosed for the future, and that de jure and de facto segregation be ended at Jena High School.”

4).  “This victory shows that Blacks armed with blogs can confront injustice and win. Our readers, those who marched to Jena, oppose unequal justice in Jena and everywhere such outrages occur.”

5).   “We have to ask ourselves whether the final result in this criminal case is what it would have been if Mychal D. Bell were white. We know that it isn’t.  Black young people in Jena should not go to jail while white students commit the same acts with impunity.”6).  “This is still not equal justice, because white students who committed armed assault, and terroristic acts in this case still have not been charged at all.”   (One white person confronted Black students with a firearm at a variety store, and white students hung three nooses on school grounds and were not criminally charged at all.)
Sincerely,

Francis L. Holland, Esq.
francislholland@yahoo.com

NOTE: The purpose of the Black Accused Support Groups is to publicize cases of unjust treatment of Blacks at the hands of legal systems while building on this advocacy to promote fundamental and systemic change, so that Blacks will, for the first time, be treated equally before the law.

Freedom Technology Christmas

11 Thursday Oct 2007

Posted by Black Women in Europe in Activism, African-Americans, Afrospear bloggers, AfroSphere, Black Women in Europe, Freedom Technology Christmas

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It feels good to give for the AfroShpere!

Note from Francis: When Francis Holland first talked about the AfroSpear’s Freedom Technology Christmas, I had no idea that I would be the first recipient of a Freedom Technology Christmas present. But Adrianne R. George of the Black Women in Europe Blog became aware that my lack of a webcam was preventing me from participating fully in AfroSpear meetings and dialogue, so she decided to have a webcam shipped to me, from a United States mail order company and all the way to Brazil!

Today, that webcam has arrived in Brazil and Adrianne R. George is officially and, for the sake of history, the first person in the world to give an AfroSpear Freedom Technology Christmas (FTC) present!

But, Adrianne R. George won’t be the last, because we all recognize the role technology has played in the AfroSpear — linking, coordinating and mobilizing Blacks in the 50 states, five countries and four continents — to free Shaquanda Cotton, stop the execution of Kenneth Foster in Texas, and free Mychal D. Bell from prison in Jena, Louisiana.

The work of the AfroSpear has only started and Freedom Technology Christmas has only just gotten underway as well. We still have three months left to make thi the best AfroSpear Freedom Technology Christmas that we’ve ever had, with more AfroSpear brothers and sisters linked together technologically in more ways than was ever dreamed possible just as few short decades ago.

So, celebrate Christmas, my kinfolk, and give the gift of AfroSpear Freedom Technology, including webcams, celular telephones with 7 Megapixel cameras, digital cameras, computers and audio headsets, and all sorts of Black communication tools to your brothers and sisters, to your children and parents!

The AfroSpear’s Freedom Technology Christmas started today, with the gift of a webcam from Adrianne George of the Black Women in Europe blog. Thank you Adrianne and Merry AfroSpear Freedom Technology Christmas!

Francis L. Holland
The Francis L. Holland Blog

Francis L. Holland, Esq.
francislholland@yahoo.com

NOTE: The purpose of the Black Accused Support Groups is to publicize cases of unjust treatment of Blacks at the hands of legal systems while building on this advocacy to promote fundamental and systemic change, so that Blacks will, for the first time, be treated equally before the law.

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