Endorsers of the Justice & Unity Slate – 2016

Endorsers of the Justice & Unity Slate – 2016

Producers:

• William Camacaro, “La Voz Latina”
• Bill DiFazio, “CityWatch”
• Don DeBar, “WBAI News”
• Kim Ives, “Lanbi (Haiti program),” co-editor, Haiti Liberte
• Joyce Jones, “Suga’ in My Bowl”
• Vajra Kilgour, “Housing Notebook”, board member, Metropolitan Council on Housing*
• Bob Lederer, “Health Action,” member of Resistance in Brooklyn
• Basir Mchawi. “Education at the Crossroads”
• Marquez Osson, “Lanbi (Haiti program)”
• John Riley, “Out-FM,” member of ACT UP
• Daniel Vila, “La Voz Latina”
• Hank Williams, “Suga in My Bowl”

Activists:

• Pam Africa, MOVE Organization, Minister of Confrontation
• Amina Baraka, activist poet, actor, director; author, Blues in All Hues, co-founder with Amiri Baraka of Kimako’s Blues People (Newark community art space)
• Charles Barron, State Assemblymember & former City Councilmember, Brooklyn
• Inez Barron, City Councilmember & former State Assemblymember, Brooklyn
• Ramsey Clark, founder, International Action Center, human rights attorney, former U.S. Attorney General
• Omowale Clay, spokesperson, December 12th Movement; former WBAI Local Station Board member
• Lisa Davis, member, Black is Back Coalition
• Dr. Joy DeGruy (Leary), author, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
• Sister Betty Dopson, co-founder, CEMOTAP
• King Downing, lawyer, human rights advocate, & mediator; Mass Defense Coordinator, National Lawyers Guild;* active with Ferguson Defense Committee and National Police Accountability Project; member of WBAI Local Station Board
• Johanna Fernandez, spokesperson, Campaign to Bring Mumia Home; Assistant Professor of History, Baruch College; author, When the World Was Their Stage: A History of the Young Lords in New York
• Sara Flounders, co-director, International Action Center; former WBAI Local Station Board member
• Larry Hamm, Chair, People’s Organization for Progress/NJ
• Jazz Hayden, Campaign to End the New Jim Crow (NY chapter)
• , Professor of Ethnic Studies, City College of New York
• Rosalind Jeffries, Professor, School of Visual Arts; curator, African American Historical and Cultural Museum of Jersey City, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Ray Laforest, Haitian justice activist and labor organizer
• Father Lawrence Lucas, author, lecturer, Black liberation theologian, chaplain on Rikers Island, longtime Harlem activist; author, Black Priest, White Church: Catholics and Racism; former member, WBAI Local Station Board
• Akinlabi Mackall, founder, S.E.E.D.S., Inc.; former WBAI Local Advisory Board member
• Rita Marksman
• Esperanza Martell, Puerto Rican community activist; instructor, Community Organizing, Hunter College, co-founder, Casa Atabex Ache (South Bronx Women of Color Self-Healing Center)
• Cynthia McKinney, former U.S. Representative (Georgia), 2008 Green Party Presidential candidate
• Matt Meyer, War Resisters International Africa Support Network Coordinator; author/editor, various Africa World Press and PM Press books
• Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action LA; Editor, Turning the Tide
• Sekou Odinga, former Black Liberation political prisoner
• Ralph Poynter, human rights activist, campaigner for freedom of U.S. political prisoners, member of WBAI Local Station Board
• Dr. Suzanne Ross, spokesperson, Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
  
• Ralph Schoenman & Mya Shoen, producer-hosts of “Taking Aim”
• Cindy Sheehan, peace activist, host of “Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Radio Show,” author of seven books
• Lynne Stewart, former People’s Attorney and political prisoner, campaigner for freedom of U.S. political prisoners, member of WBAI Local Station Board
• Gail Walker, Co-Executive Director, IFCO/Pastors for Peace
• Michael Tarif & Evelyn Warren, people’s attorneys; Michael Tarif is former WBAI Local Station Board member and former Pacifica National Board member
• Bernard White, former Program Director, WBAI; co-founder, co-host, Community Progressive Radio (CPRmetro.org)
• Tim Wise, anti-racist educator, author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son and many other books on white racism
• Nana Camille Yarbrough, performance artist, author, and cultural activist; host, “Ancestor House” TV program; former WBAI Local Station Board member

* Organization for identification only

Organizations:

• ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power)
• All Things Harlem
• Anti-Racist Action/Los Angeles
• Campaign to Bring Mumia Home
• Campaign to End the New Jim Crow (NY chapter)
• CEMOTAP (Committee to End Media Offensive to African People)
• December 12th Movement
• Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition
• Haiti Support Network
• Harlem Restoration Project
• Incarcerated Nation Corp.
• International Action Center
• International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
• Lynne Stewart Organization
• May 1st Coalition for Workers and Immigrants Rights
• New Abolition Movement
• Pakistan-USA Freedom Forum
• People’s Organization for Progress (NJ)
  
• ProLibertad (Puerto Rican political prisoner freedom campaign)
• Resistance in Brooklyn
• S.E.E.D.S., Inc.
• Shut Down Rikers
• What’s Happenin’ Radio – Ralph Poynter Human Rights Demand (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand)