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DESCRIPTION:===================================\nQueer and Trans Demonstrators Confront 
 District Attorney\nOne of the NJ4 Appears in Court Next Week\n\nNational 
 NJ4 Solidarity Committee Demands and End to All Prosecution Against Renata 
 Hill and Immediate Release of Patreese Johnson from 
 Prison\n\n________________________________________________________________________________________\n\nWhat: 
                RALLY: The National NJ4 Solidarity Committee rally in 
 support Renata Hill and self defense for all marginalized queers, 
 transfolks, women and people of color.\n\n \n\nWhen:                        
 12:00 Noon\n\n                        Monday, March 2 2009\n\n \n\nWhere:   
          Office of the District Attorney\n\n                        1 Hogan 
 Place\n\n                        Manhattan, NY\n\n            \n\nWho:      
        The NJ4 Solidarity Committee, comprised of such groups as FIERCE, 
 Gay Shame SF, LAGAI — Queer Insurrection, Bash Back, Resistance in 
 Brooklyn and Queers for Economic Justice. \n\n \n\nWhy:             On 
 August 16, 2006, seven young black lesbians were in New York’s West 
 Village and were accosted by Dwayne Buckle, who eventually grabbed one of 
 them, and a fight ensued. The seven women were arrested and charged with 
 crimes such as “gang assault.” Three of them took plea agreements.\n\n 
 \n\nThe other four lesbians Terrain Dandridge, Renata Hill, Patreese 
 Johnson, and Venice Brown were put on trial in 2007. In the trial and the 
 surrounding media they were dehumanized, villified, and called a “lesbian 
 wolf-pack.” The prosecution and trial were so biased that in an 
 unprecedented move the First District Appellate Court reversed all of 
 Terrain’s convictions, and dismissed the indictment with prejudice, 
 although by that time she had served almost two years in jail/prison. In 
 October of 2008, a retrial was granted on the felony gang assault charges 
 against Renata and Venice, and they both got out on bail after serving more 
 than two years. Patreese’s sentence was reduced to 8 from 11 years, but 
 not overturned. Assistant District Attorney Lanita K. Hobbs is demanding 
 that Renata be returned to prison, or face another trial.\n\n \n\nMany 
 diverse communities have rallied to the case, seeing the DA’s prosecution 
 of the lesbians as a denial of their right to defend themselves and each 
 other. “If we are killed or raped, we are mourned as victims, or 
 supported as survivors. But if we fight back successfully, we are 
 imprisoned. The district attorney is leaving us no options when we are 
 attacked on the street,” said spokesperson Ralowe of the NJ4 Solidarity 
 Committee. “It is time for the district attorney to stop persecuting 
 these lesbians and let them get on with their lives.”\n\n \n\nThe 
 Committee will be not only be demanding that the D.A. drop the case against 
 Renata, but also to help secure Patreese Johnson’s immediate release.\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Queer and Trans Demonstrators Confront District Attorney One of the NJ4 Appears in Court N
LOCATION:    Office of the District Attorney\n\n                        1 Hogan 
 Place\n\n                        Manhattan, NY
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/01/18574266.php
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