Tuesday, April 24th - Occupy the Justice Department - Oakland

OCCUPY4PRISONERS PRESENTS
In Solidarity with the Occupy the Justice Department protest in Washington, DC

on Tuesday, April 24th - Mumia Abu-Jamal's 58th Birthday
End Mass Incarceration!

4PM - RALLY at 14th and Broadway, Oakland

Occupy4Prisoners and supporters will rally at Oscar Grant Plaza, 
where awareness and understanding regarding the brutality and 
corruption within the United States INjustice system will begin to 
rise up.  We will be doing educational outreach about the prison 
system with music, speakers, a "Truth Mob" and amplifying the voices 
of people inside of prisons.

5PM - MARCH to Federal Building and Obama Headquarters

We will take to the streets to march as an expression of our 
solidarity with the 2.5 million people incarcerated in the 
country.  The United States has the highest incarceration rate of any 
country, with 743 people in prison per 100,000 of national 
population.  Occupy4Prisoners brings to the attention of the greater 
Occupy Movement how we cannot forget the bottom 1% of the 99% in our 
greater struggle for justice and equality.

The march will continue past the Federal Building (13th and Clay) 
where representatives from the Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia 
and the Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal will speak.  Folks from 
the Bradley Manning Support Network will share information about 
Bradley's plight when we reach the Obama Headquarters (17th and 
Telegraph.) Then we will march to...

6PM - THE INJUSTICE SYSTEM ON TRIAL - 19th and Telegraph

Once we arrive at the 19th and Telegraph Plaza, we will be putting 
the Injustice System on trial. Powerful local activists will preside 
over a trial that is actually about the truth.

The prosecutor will be Anita Wills, (Oscar Grant Committee and 
Occupy4Prisoners), the defense attorney will be Deborah Small, (Break 
the Chains), and the judge will be Jerry Elster (All of Us or None). 
The system will be played by Dan Siegel (National Lawyers Guild).

The jury will be YOU!

These witnesses will be bringing evidence against the system 
regarding the following charges:

1. Targeting youth of color

Chris M, Occupy Oakland

Sagnicthe Salazar, Youth Together and Xicana Moratorium Coalition

2. Allowing murder and assault by police to go unpunished

Denika Chatman, Kenneth Harding Jr. Foundation

Carey Downs & Dionne Smith Downs, A Mother's Cry for Justice

3. Enforcing racism at every level

Jabari Shaw, Rapper, Laney College Black Student Union

Manuel La Fontaine, All of Us or None and Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity

4. Holding political prisoners hostage

Kiilu Nyasha, Independent journalist and former Black Panther

Aaron Mirmalek, Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee Oakland

5. Torturing people inside the prisons

Sharena Curley, Oscar Grant Committee

Luis "Bato" Talamantez, California Prison Focus and one of the San Quentin Six

6. Conspiring to commit mass incarceration

Linda Evans, All of Us or None and former political prisoner

Ghetto Prophet, Onyx Organizing Committee and spoken word artist

More information:
http://www.occupy4prisoners.org/
www.occupythejusticedepartment.com
occupy4prisoners@gmail.com