<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR> <DIV align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=6>MEETING, August 9, Jamaica Plain</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=6>***Free the Jena 6***</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>Black high school students in Louisiana victimized by the racist criminal injustice system</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Six black high school students in Louisiana are facing decades of jail time each. Convicted by an all-white jury, 16-year-old Mychal Bell's promising football career has been cut short by Louisiana's racist criminal justice system. The Jena 6 are charged with attempted second degree murder for beating up a white kid, Justin
Baker, who made racist remarks about the black students at the school. During the trial, discussion of the context of the beating was banned. Several weeks before, white students hung nooses under a "white tree" that black kids had sat under. To the black residents of Jena, "Those nooses meant the KKK, they meant 'Niggers, we're going to kill you, we're going to hang you till you die,'" Casteptla Bailey, the mother of Robert Bailey, one of the accused, said. The school board, with only one black member, differed. They gave the students responsible short, in-school suspensions. Shortly after, black students were beaten at a party. The assailants, all white, were charged with simple assault. </FONT></DIV> <DIV align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The racist attack on the Jena 6 proves that, 50 years after the civil rights movement, Jim Crow is alive and well. We need a new civil rights
movement to crush racism, from the Jena 6 to the racist abuse that occurs on the streets of Boston every day. Only our protest can change a system dedicated to racism and injustice. Come to a meeting to discuss who benefits from racism, why Jim Crow still stalks the halls of our schools, and most of all WHAT WE CAN DO TO DEFEND THE JENA 6: </FONT></DIV> <DIV align=center> </DIV> <DIV align=center><FONT face="times new roman,serif" size=6><STRONG>Thursday, August 9</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=6>7:00 PM</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV align=center> </DIV> <DIV align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=5><STRONG>42 Seaverns Avenue, Jamaica Plain</STRONG></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV align=center> <div align=center><FONT face="times new roman,serif" size=3>(Take the Orange Line to Green St., take a left out of the station, and walk up </FONT></div> <div
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