No on Y Speakout is Today (Monday)

Education Not Incarceration
A coalition of teachers, students, parents and concerned community members
ednotinc [at] aol.com  http://www.ednotinc.org


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information:
Sunday, October 24, 2004 Jonah Zern, Education not Incarceration Coalition 510.654.8613

Wilson Riles Jr., Oakland Community Action Network, 510-530.2448, c:510.761.2212

http://www.noonmeasurey.org, http://www.ednotinc.org
Speak Out at Oakland Police Headquarters Against Misleading November Ballot Initiative – Measure Y

WHAT: Speak Out at Oakland Police Headquarters
WHO: Marylon Boyd, mother of Cammerin Boyd who suffered police brutality in Oakland,
including being beaten by police on May 2, 2004 just three days before he was killed by
police in San Francisco on May 5, 2004.
Jack Heyman, Business Agent, ILWU Local 10, was arrested by the Oakland Police while telling ILWU workers to leave the area because police were shooting workers and peaceful protestors with “non-lethal projectiles” at an anti-war rally at the Oakland Port.
Chairman Omali Yeshitela, International Chairman of the The International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement
Mesha Monge-Irizarry and Sandra-Juanita Cooper, who founded the Idriss Stelley Foundation after Mesha’s only child, Idriss Stelley, was killed by the San Francisco Police.

Malaika Parker, Bay Area PoliceWatch
Susan Harman, People United for a Better Oakland (PUEBLO)
Wilson Riles Jr., Former Oakland City Councilmember
WHEN: Monday, October 25 at 10:30 AM
WHERE: Oakland Police Headquarters, 7th and Washington Sts.

Oakland, CA – Oakland community members and advocates will speak out in front of the Oakland Police Headquarters on Monday, October 25 at 10:30AM against police brutality, and measure Y, the November ballot initiative in Oakland that puts funding police ahead of funding programs.

The “No on Measure Y” campaign, headed by the Education Not Incarceration (ENI) Coalition, along with Oakland local groups and concerned community members, such as Councilwoman Desley Brooks, the Oakland Education Association, ILWU 10 and SEIU 616, is currently mobilizing to defeat Measure Y, a November ballot initiative that will direct 60% of newly raised taxes to hire more police officers in Oakland.

“Increasing police presence within our city will not curb violence nor make anyone safer,” said Aaron Shurman, local Oakland Organizer and a member of the Education Not Incarceration.

“True violence prevention begins by investing in the people of our communities,” said former Councilmember Wilson Riles Jr. “We know that what builds strong, safe communities are the investments we make in education and other basic social services,” he added.
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