Letter to Captasin Pardini, SF District 10 Bayview Precinct

Dear Captain Pardini,

Your presence at
"End the War at Home and Let's Call it TRUCE" Press Conference,
4921 3rd Street last Thurday at 11 am, had been confirmed by Reverend Ishmael Burch (Community Court, African American Community Policing Relations Board), and you did not show up or cancel.

The press conference was covered by KPFA, NBC 11, SF Bayview Newspaper and The SF Observer.

What happened?

We counted on your presence to join Community and Youth efforts to call on mobs truce. As it turned out, our prayers were answered on Friday evening when kids from different neighborhood took the initiative to meet each other towards calling it a truce. Hopefully this will have a rippling effect in all our Poor neighborhoods of Color. Kids want to be safe and the Truce is Youth led, backed up by concerned community residents and parents of murdered victims.

Please join us in our next press conferences in other districts to show your, (and your department), genuine intention to join the community to make our kids safe.

Sincerely,
mesha Monge-Irizarry
Idriss Stelley Foundation (ISF)
(415) 595-8251 24HR Bilingual Crisis Line.

Press Conference Recap:
5-11-06 on 3rd Street

Opening comments : Rev. Ishmael Burch (Community Court, AACPRB South East Branch),
- Announcing the topic of the conference "End the War at Home and Let's Call it TRUCE"
- Announcing upcoming press conference blast in every SF Poor Neighborhood of Color, next conf Visitation Valley.
- Minute of Silence
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Speakers

Mattie Scott (Healing Circle, mother of murdered Youth, Oceanview)

Ebony Colbert (Bayview resident, SF Bayview reporter)

Cati Hawkins-Okorie (CIRT, AACPRB South East Branch &Executive Board)

Brother Malcom &Sister Kissie (African American Reparations,Bayview CEDP)

Marie Harrison (Community Advocate, South East Sector AACPRB, District 10 Sup. candidate)

Sabrina Davidson (Bayview Youth Activist, 19) M.C.

Cassandra James (District 10 Youth Commissioner, `18)

Rap4Rights (Charles, Youth, Bayview)

Queenandi (poet)

Willie Brown Middle School kids (6)

mesha Monge-Irizarry (ISF) mother of Idriss Stelley, South East AACPRB Branch, Bayview CEDP

Rev Criswell (Bayview, Healing Circle)

Among those Present: George Duran (Sheriff DEPT, Healing Circle), Maurice Campbell, (CFC, ISF Board Member), Vickie (Code Pink), Walter Johnson (Bayview Baycat), Brother Baxter (Youth, Fillmore) , Bayview residents, parents of murdered children (The Ayala Family, parents of Julio Ayala killed by PD on 4-3-05), Lucas Nevarez (Bayview CEDP, ISO), concerned Bayview residents.
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