[Marxism] Million Con March

["Charles Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

        Million Con March


Michael D. Harris, #172430, president of Local Chapter 1020 of the National
Lifers of America in the Thumb Correctional Facility in Lapeer, has a
specific program of demands to address the U.S. prison crisis, an element
missing from the Nov. 16 conference on prisons at the Detroit Opera House.
He is calling for a "Million Con March" to be held in Washington, D.C. June
25, 2005 to support these demands:

- Pardons for falsely-convicted persons in every state.

- Pardons and sentence commutations for non-parolable lifers who have
rehabilitated themselves, after serving a maximum of 25 years.

- Paroles for parolable lifers who have rehabilitated themselves after 15
years.

- Pardons and commutations for battered women serving time for killing their
abusers.

- Medical commutations and paroles for chronically and terminally ill
prisoners.

- Legislation permitting persons over 60 who have served one-third of their
sentence to apply for early release.

- Exempt juveniles from life sentencing.

- Federal criminal sanctions against law enforcement officials who use false
evidence, police perjury and corruption to obtain convictions.

- Federal public hearings on falsification of forensic reports and lab
evidence.

- Reinstatement of funding for Corrections Ombudsmen in every state.

- State reductions in spending for any county failing to racially diversify
their jury polls to reflect the population and the defendant's ethnicity.

- End to mandatory minimum sentencing.

- End to "three strikes" laws.

- End to the Patriot Act.

- Voting Rights for all ex-felons across the country.

- Educational and vocational trade programs for current prisoners.

He is asking those who would like to help organize such a march to contact:

Juanita Dixon 101 Mitchell St. Jackson, MI 48203 Phone 517-787-5197

Betty Harris,c/o Doris Gates 2221 Baker St. Muskegon, Mi.

Deshon Harris, 3501 E. 42nd Ave. #307, Anchorage, Alaska

Kevin Carey, c/o 313-831-0750


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