5/16 Vigil for Cop Victim Sis. Alberta Spruill

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via: Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation
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Saturday, May 16th - Candlelight vigil for Alberta Spruill
6:00pm
310 West 143rd Street, Manhattan
(A/B/C/D to 145th Street)

JUSTICE COALITION
FOR
ALBERTA SPRUILL
Commemorates the Sixth Anniversary of the Spruill Attack
Saturday, May 16, 2009
A Candlelight Vigil at the former residence of
Sister Alberta Spruill
will take place at 6:00pm until at 310 West 143rd Street

Supporters:
Faith Coalition for Political Action
District Council 37
Local 1549
Harlem Street Organizing Coalition
Harlem Tenants Council
National Action Network
One Hundred Blacks In Law Enforcement Who Care
December 12th Movement
New York Black Radical Congress
October 22nd Coalition
James E. Davis Stop Violence Foundation, Dedicated to the Struggle, Inc.
Community Alert
Man Up! Inc.

For more information: (212)-234-6767

Endorsed by: Baptist Minister’s Conference of Greater New York and
Vicinity, Inc.
Forum of Concerned Religious Leaders,
Lillian Roberts
Eddie Rodriquez
Rev. Vernon Williams
Nellie Bailey
Rev. Dr. Al Sharpton
Eddie Rodriquez
Marquez Claxton
Nellie Bailey
Assemblyman Keith L. T. Wright
Honorable Teresa Freeman
Cynthia Howell, Niece of Alberta Spruill

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Tekima Burlack, President
Telephone: (212)-234-6767
conventchurch {AT} aol.com
conventchurch.com

COMMEMORATING THE LIFE OF ALBERTA SPRUILL

New York, NY May 9, 2009 One Saturday, May 16, 2009 The Faith
Coalition for Political Action along with members of the committee will
host a candlelight vigil commemorating the life of Alberta Spruill. The
former pastor Rev. Clarence P. Grant, D.D. passed on the same day in
2005, he had been an outspoken critic of the New York Police Department
war on terrorism of people of color.
Rev. Vernon Williams, Harlem Street Organizing Coalition and Dawn L.
Jones, former president of Convent Avenue Baptist Church’s Social Action
Committee will be in Washington, DC on the 55th Anniversary of Brown v.
Board of Education Saturday, May 17th, 2009. Cynthia Howell, Niece of
Alberta Spruill has moved to North Carolina.
On Friday, May, 16, 2003, Alberta Spruill was murdered by the New York
City Police Department. Six years later to the day, Friday, May 16,
2009, Harlem commemorates the Sixth Anniversary of Alberta Spruill’s
Death.
The event is free to the public and will begin at 6:00pm. The former
residence of Alberta Spruill is located at 310 West 143rd Street
(between Bradhurst Avenue and Frederick Douglas Boulevard in the Village
of Harlem.
The Justice Coalition and Faith Coalition for Political Action are
bringing the message “Justice for Alberta Spruill” to Harlem. The event
is co-supported by District Council 37, Cynthia Howell, Niece of Alberta
Spruill, along with Local 1549.
It is also supported by, Baptist Minister’s Conference of Greater New
York and Vicinity, Inc., Forum of Concerned Religious Leaders, National
Action Network, December 12th Movement, Harlem Street Organizing
Coalition, New York Black Radical Congress, One Hundred Blacks In Law
Enforcement Who Care, District Council 37, Local 1549, Harlem Tenants
Council. It is endorsed by, Councilman Charles Barron, Rev. Al
Sharpton, Minister Kevin Muhammad, Rev. Dr. Jesse T. Williams, Jr.,
Eddie Rodriquez, Rev. Vernon Williams, Nellie Bailey, Marquez Claxton,
among others.

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