NAVC media advocate Baba Zayid Muhammad will participate in this moving event...He will be doing a poetic tribute to fallen elder comrade Mary Weaver... This years Stolen Lives Induction Ceremony is taking place: November 1, 2014 *NEW TIME* 5:00pm *NEW LOCATION* St. Marys Episcopal Church 521 West 126th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam in Manhattan (1 to Broadway & 125th Street or A/B/C/D to St. Nicholas Avenue & 125th Street - for more directions, see stmarysharlem.wordpress/directions/) Flyer with call for volunteers: nyc.october22.org/slic2014.pdf THE STOLEN LIVES INDUCTION CEREMONY The Stolen Lives Induction Ceremony is a solemn, yet empowering occasion at which recent and past victims of police killings are formally inducted into the roster of the Stolen Lives Project. The Stolen Lives Induction Ceremony is both an affirmation of life and a call to action. It brings together family members to a space in which there is an acknowledgement of the humanity of their loved ones whose lives were stolen at the hands of the police in contrast to the demonization by the powers-that-be. Since 1997, ten Stolen Lives Induction Ceremonies have taken place in New York City, in community spaces, schools, and churches in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Families and other loved ones of over fifty Stolen Lives, locally and from other parts of the country, have taken part and received certificates that marked the formal induction. At these ceremonies, families speak of their loved ones and their struggles for justice, their voices joined by community organizers and others in the fight against police violence, as well as artists who contribute their art and performance for healing, for strength, for empowerment. The ceremonies end with a pledge (see below) by all in attendance, as a (re)affirmation of our commitment to the struggle. Stolen Lives being inducted at this ceremony: - Travis Posselt, killed by Rock Springs, WY police May 28, 2004 (via Skype) - John Collado, killed by NYPD September 7, 2011 - Mohamad Bah, killed by NYPD September 25, 2012 - Danielle Willard, killed by West Valley, UT police November 2, 2012 (via Skype) - Clinton Allen, killed by Dallas police March 10, 2013 (via Skype) - Abdul-Wakil M. Kamal, killed by Irvington, NJ police November 11, 2013 - Eric Garner, killed by NYPD July 17, 2014 - Kashad Ashford, killed by Lyndhurst/Rutherford, NJ and State police September 16, 2014 Keynote Speaker: Former political prisoner and Peoples Lawyer Lynne Stewart
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 06:25:11 +0000
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