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Black Panther Prisoner Needs Your Phone Call!

by Watsonville Brown Berets
When is is Lancaster State Prison Getting Off Lockdown?
How Can We FREE CHIP FITZGERALD on March 29?
Pass Widely!!!

CHIP FITZGERALD IS UP FOR PAROLE (again) MARCH 29, 2007! He is currently on lockdown 24/ 7.

Your immediate phone calls are essential...200 calls by Wednesday 2/21/07 to
get him off lockdown!
Write a letter for his FREEDOM!

What is going on at Lancaster? How can we FREE CHIP?????

Over 600 inmates have been on lockdown since early January at Lancaster
State Prison. One of those inmates is Romaine "Chip" Fitzgerald, the longest
held Black Panther Party member in the prison system.

The men have been allowed one shower every 72 hours. Two grown men in a
shower for one.

In the words of Chip Fitzgerald, written on January 23, 2007...

"...still on lockdown. They are dragging this nonsense out. They don't
respond to adminstrative appeals because they investigate themselves, and
turn a blind eye to each others violation and corruption.

This is where outside phone calls are so vital- especially from politicians
and Cali Legislator, or in the name of the NAACP. Why we're on lockdown?
The possession of weapons, call phone, narcotics, etc. has nothing to do
with white/ black convicts- only about 6 convicts. So why are we being
punished? No priveleges- the whole facility has been searched! A telephone
and e-mail campaign can move mountains!"

TAKE 5 MINUTES! MAKE 3 PHONE CALLS! Goal is 200 calls by Wednesday,
February 21, 2007

Your point is:

Lancaster State Prsion has had over 600 prisoners on lockdown status since
early January? Why are the prisoners STILL on lockdown status and when are
they coming off? When will they have thier entitlements and rights as
prisoners, reinstated?

Secretary of Corrections: J.E. Tilton (916) 323-0001
CA Dept. of Corrections & Rehabilitation (916) 445-7682
Federal Judge Thelton Henderson (Civil Rights Attorney) (415)522-3630

Please send an email after you call to... freechipfitzgerald [at] yahoo.com

Contact us for more info on writing a letter of support for Chip!
http://www.brownberets.info
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