Racial Justice Day Remembers Victims of Cops/WW Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit -------------------------------- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the June 3, 1999 issue of Workers World newspaper -------------------------------- RACIAL JUSTICE DAY REMEMBERS VICTIMS OF COPS By Kristianna Tho'mas Bronx, N.Y. A crowd of over 1,000 people marched through the South Bronx May 22 on the ninth annual Racial Justice Day. A large Asian contingent supplied a traditional Korean drum band. This year's theme was Voice of the Forgotten in remembrance of all who have died and suffered brutality at the hands of the police. The protest and rally were organized by the New York City Coalition Against Police Brutality. Parents Against Police Brutality made up the lead contingent. The CAPB was formed in 1997 in an effort to build a united movement against police brutality. It called for an end to the racist, homophobic and transphobic violence whipped up by the Giuliani administration's "quality of life" campaign. It also protested the handing over of security in the public schools to the New York Police Department Racial Justice Day came out of the struggle against racist violence and murder in the city of New York. On March 20, 1991, Manuel Mayi Jr., a Dominican college student, was attacked and brutally murdered by a white racist gang in Corona, Queens. Not one of his attackers was brought to justice. The first Racial Justice Day was organiz ed by the National Congress of Puerto Rican Rights to galvanize the community against this example of increased racist violence. This year's march--held in the Bronx because cops shot and killed Amadou Diallo there--showed solidarity with Diallo and the mountain of other victims of police murder and brutality. Many names of police victims were mentioned. 1994: The cops killed Anthony Baez, Nicholas Heyward, Shu'ab Abdul Latif, and Felix Junior Jorge. 1995: Anibal Carrasquillo, Yong Xin Huang, Anthony Rosario and Hilton Vega. 1996: Maria Rivas, Lionard Lawton, Frankie Arzuaga and Jose Santos. 1997: Librado Sanchez, Donald Donaldson, Deonarime Matan, Reginald Bannerman, William Whitfield, Robert Rey noso and Juval Green. Abner Louima was tortured. 1998 and 1999: Luciano Lazcano and Amadou Diallo were killed. Family members of the young transsexual woman Jolea Lamot--including Nancy Lamot, Ricardo Perez and John Baez, a relative of Anthony Baez--were beaten by cops. - END - (Copyleft Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but changing it is not allowed. For more information contact Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011; via e-mail: ww@workers.org. For subscription info info send message to: info@workers.org. Web: http://www.workers.org) ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytrc-06.03.99-23:53:41-3440