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Title:
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Jena: Mychal Bell Sentencing
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START DATE:
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9/20/2007
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9:00 AM
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3 Hours
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LaSalle Parish Courthouse, between First and Second Streets off of Route 84 in Jena, Louisiana
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Event Type:
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Rally
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DESCRIPTION:
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More About The Jena Six: In Jena, Louisiana, six Black youths who stood up to racism are facing a lifetime in prison. The six high school students were charged with attempted murder for a schoolyard fight. The fight was initiated by white students, who hung three nooses in a tree at the high school courtyard, to warn black students not to sit there. After this hate crime was dismissed as a harmless prank by the school administration, black students protested under the tree. The local District Attorney was called in to warn the black students that he could take their life away with the stroke of a pen. The nooses led to a series of fights between white and black students. After these fights, only the black students were charged-with attempted murder. The prosecutor has refused to back down in prosecuting these young men, or to admit that hanging nooses is a hate crime.
Go to http://www.freethejena6.org/ or email jena6defense@gmail.com for ways to support or for more info.
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