Stop the witchhunt against antiracists!
Drop the charges!
Fighting racism is not a crime!
"We
demand
an end to the witchhunt being conducted by
the Ann Arbor city government
against the anti-racist movement.
We demand the dropping of all the charges
against the anti-racists who protested the May 9, 1998
Ku Klux Klan rally in Ann Arbor, Michigan." |
Listed below are
some of the thousands of people who have signed the above petition statement:
Geoffrey Fieger (Democratic gubernatorial
candidate, attorney), Woodrow Stanley (Mayor of Flint), Derrick Bell
(Author, law professor, New York University), Michael Moore (Film producer), Ed Vaughn
(Michigan State Representative), Lamar Lemmons (Michigan State
Representative), Sharon McPhail (Attorney), Ron Scott
("For My People" Detroit talk show host), Minister
Malik Shabazz (New Marcus Garvey Movement), Chokwe Lumumba (Civil rights
attorney), Stella Greene (Plymouth Mayor pro tem), Paul T. Bowen
(President, Amalgamated Transit Union, Division 26*, City Bus Drivers,
Detroit), Robert Apter (UAW Local 6000* representative, Michigan state
employees), David Sole (President, UAW Local 2334*, chemists,
Detroit city workers), Membership Action Committee (SEIU Local 79*
caucus, Harper Hospital, Detroit), City Workers for Justice (AFSCME Local 207*
caucus, Detroit city workers), Membership Action Committee (Detroit Federation
of Teachers* caucus, Detroit public school teachers), Anti Racist Action
(ARA), Leamon Wilson (President, AFSCME Local 312*, Detroit
city workers), Delbert Walls (President, AFSCME Local 207, Detroit city workers), Lewis
Irby, Jr. (Former bargaining chair, AFSCME Local 1583*, U of M workers), Joe Abraham
(President, AFSCME Local 1603*, Hurley Medical Center, Flint), Revolutionary Workers
League, Carol Scarlett (Michigan Student Assembly* representative
from the Defend Affirmative Action Party, U of M), National Womens Rights
Organizing Coalition (NWROC), Justice for Malice Green Coalition, Gary Webb (Author
of Dark Alliance, reporter for the San Jose Mercury News), Jim Hightower (Author),
Partisan Defense Committee, Dawn Mitchell (of the Dental School 3, U of M), Delano Isabell
(of the Dental School 3, U of M), "Shaky Jake" (World famous street
musician, Ann Arbor), Workers World Party, Maurice Darden (Defendant in
racist police brutality case, Ann Arbor), Patricia Darden (Former bargaining chair
of AFSCME 1583, U of M workers), Jerry Davis (father of Jamar French, victim of
racist murder by the Ann Arbor Police), Billy Bragg (musician),
William Adams and Jaime Gomez of Black Eyed Peas, Larry
Beezlebub of Cypress Hill, , Beyoncé Knowles of Destinys
Child, Juan Ramon Reyes of Harms Way, Morcheeba (musical group), Nora Chapa
Mendoza (artist), Lauretta Flowers (Ann Arbor public school teacher), Shaba Andrich
(Black Student Union* member, U of M), Jean Conyers (Opportunity
Network, Flint), Jodi Marie Masley (Co-president, Womens Law
Student Association*, U of M), George B. Washington (Labor and
civil rights attorney, Detroit), Jeanne Theoharris (Afro-American Studies
professor, U of M), Eric Lormand (Philosophy professor, U of M), Tendaji
Ganges (Affirmative Action Coordinator, U of M Flint), Erik Konshaug (Novelist,
editor, independent publisher, San Pedro, California), Heidi Tinsman (History
professor, University of California at Irvine), Emily Bernard (Afro-American
Studies professor, Smith College, Northhampton, Massachusetts), Sandhya Shukla
(Anthropology professor, Columbia University, New York, New York), Tom Klubock
(History professor, Georgetown University, Washington DC), G. Peck (History
professor, University of Texas at Austin), Tracy Collier-Nix (Lawyer,
Volunteers for Affirmative Action*, Flint), Jose Garza (Writer/artist,
Chicano/Indian activist, Detroit), Richard Gibson (Education professor, Wayne State
University, Detroit), Katherine Leichter (Independent documentary film producer,
New York,), Falkner Fox (Poet, Austin, Texas).
* - Organization for identification purposes only.
- May 1999