with remote submissions below
“The People Speak: US Grassroots Voices at the UN – It Goes Beyond Policing”
Presented July 6th
USHRN’s Human Rights Council 47 (Virtual) Side Session
during follow up to the Urgent Debate, Resolution 43/1,
and current Geneva negotiations for 2021 resolution
including personal testimony from:
Martinez Sutton – Brother of Rekia Boyd
Cassandra Greer-Lee – Wife of Nicholas Lee (remote submission here)
Anthony Jones – Son of Bettie Jones
Shante Needham – Sister of Sandra Bland
Arewa Karen Winters – Founder of the 411 Movement for Pierre Loury
and Leading Organizer with Justice for Families and Black Lives Matter Chicago
Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. – Son of slain Illinois BPP Chapter Chairman
Fred Hampton and survivor Akua Njeri (fna Deborah Johnson)
as told in the new film Judas & the Black Messiah;
International Chairman of the Black Panther Cubs
Mariah Moore – If elected to the New Orleans City Council, Mariah will be the first trans woman of color ever elected to public office in Louisiana (remote submission here with passcode F!dhF3+t )
Monica James – 2014 Committee Against Torture (CAT) delegate. Co-Founder of Triumphant 2Gether
Curtis Davis – Executive Director of Decarcerate Louisiana;
formerly enslaved per state and federal statute, 26 years
AbdudDhaar Abdullah – Advocate for Political Prisoners
Jihad Abdulmumit – Former Black Panther political prisoner,
Chairperson of the National Jericho Movement to free all Political Prisoners
Kwabena Jijaga Rasuli – BLM Gary, Indiana Chapter; nephew of the late PP/POW Geronimo Pratt; #cleartheairwaves project
Moderator: Dr. Vickie Casanova-Willis, USHRN Executive Director
#HRC47, #BlackLivesMatter
