Jena 6 Rally in Harvard Square

Written by friendsofjustice

For all of you in the Boston area…

grace and peace,
Lydia Bean

Please come today July 31, to Harvard square to rally for Justice for the Jena Six!
We are meeting in front of the Harvard bookstore at 4:45pm. We will be handing out fliers, gathering petition signatures, and asking people to be on the mailing list…
It’s a first step, and we will be rallying in solidarity with our friends in Jena who are also gathering today!

Please contact me through my personal e-mail– keurdiarra@gmail.com

7 thoughts on “Jena 6 Rally in Harvard Square”

  1. I will be there today. However, I was wondering why such short notice? Is there anyway we could plan these protests in advance to get a bigger outcome?

    ~Shirley

  2. MEETING, August 9, Jamaica Plain

    ***Free the Jena 6***

    Black high school students in Louisiana victimized by the racist criminal injustice system

    Six black high school students in Louisiana are facing decades of jail time each. Convicted by an all-white jury, 16-year-old Mychal Bell’s promising football career has been cut short by Louisiana’s racist criminal justice system. The Jena 6 are charged with attempted second degree murder for beating up a white kid, Justin Baker, who made racist remarks about the black students at the school. During the trial, discussion of the context of the beating was banned. Several weeks before, white students hung nooses under a “white tree” that black kids had sat under. To the black residents of Jena, “Those nooses meant the KKK, they meant ‘Niggers, we’re going to kill you, we’re going to hang you till you die,'” Casteptla Bailey, the mother of Robert Bailey, one of the accused, said. The school board, with only one black member, differed. They gave the students responsible short, in-school suspensions. Shortly after, black students were beaten at a party. The assailants, all white, were charged with simple assault.

    The racist attack on the Jena 6 proves that, 50 years after the civil rights movement, Jim Crow is alive and well. We need a new civil rights movement to crush racism, from the Jena 6 to the racist abuse that occurs on the streets of Boston every day. Only our protest can change a system dedicated to racism and injustice. Come to a meeting to discuss who benefits from racism, why Jim Crow still stalks the halls of our schools, and most of all WHAT WE CAN DO TO DEFEND THE JENA 6:

    Thursday, August 9
    7:00 PM

    42 Seaverns Avenue, Jamaica Plain
    (Take the Orange Line to Green St., take a left out of the station, and walk up

    Sponsored by: International Socialist Organization

    http://www.internationalsocialist.org

    For more information call 617-648-0561

    or e-mail isoboston@yahoo.com

  3. Hello all,

    We had a great success today in Harvard Square… We handed out over 300 fliers, gathered names on our petition, and got names on our mailing list. We really felt like a buzz was created. Also, there were numerous people who had heard about the case and others that were shocked and appalled at the case.

    About the short notice, that is just the way it happened this time… sorry if there was confusion. On Tuesday August 7th we will meet in Harvard Square in front of the Harvard Bookstore (not the COOP) at 4:45-5:00 and then disperse to more populated areas of the square, so if you missed it this week, no worries!

    Please join us! It was exciting and uplifting to see how many people shared our concern about this issue.
    Feel free to contact me

    keurdiarra@gmail.com

  4. Jena 6 City Hall Plaza MA
    Supporters of the Jena 6 movement in MA will be at City Hall Plaza in Boson this Saturday, at the FREE concert handing out information and getting more awareness to what is happeneing in LA. We ask those in the MA area to come out and assist us for the event.

    Please contact me or Gretchen for more info

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=K9V4S8ELUuU

  6. “If We Must Die”

    If we must die, let it not be like hogs

    Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,

    While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,

    Making their mock at our accursed lot.

    If we must die, O let us nobly die

    So that our precious blood may not be shed

    In vain; then even the monsters we defy

    Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!

    O kinsmen! We must meet the common foe!

    Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,

    And for their thousand blows deal one death blow!

    What though before us lies the open grave?

    Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,

    Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

  7. You have got to be kidding. The black kids almost beat the white kid to death which got them in trouble to begin with. Blacks are inherently worthless, the sooner you people realize that the better off you’ll be.

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