WYKING GARRETT UNDER ARREST IN SEATTLE FOR FOUNDING A MUSEUM?
At the grand opening Wyking (Kwame) Garrett of Seattle Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, and the son of Omari Tahir-Garrett (one of the founding activists of the African American Heritage Museum), was arrested today when he took the stage to speak on the situation.
Wait a minute!
Isn’t that a violation of the 1st Amendment: freedom of speech, freedom to grieve government, freedom of expression?
He called out James Kelly, Carver Gayton, former Mayor Norm Rice, King County Executive Ron Sims, and Governor Christine Gregoire for their support of the pending Gang Bill (Legislative Bill 2712) Sponsored by Adam Klein and their help in the creation of yet another weak, wicked, watered-down project of symbolism without substance that does nothing to secure our future as a people or a community, and tells less than half the truth about our past; in front of local press and tv media.
WOW!
So they stole the museum from it’s founders, built apartments museum for old people with apartments and are building more penitentary condo’s for the youth?
FACTS
-out of: 48,000 square feet, only 12,000 is museum programming space.
-the Museum is closed Monday & Tuesday.
-the Museum closes at 4:00pm.
-the condos occupy 3/4th’s of the total area.
-the museum occupies only 1/4th of the total area.
-$23 Million dollars spent on what is now called the Northwest African American Museum.
COURT FOR WYKING & COMMUNITY FORUM ON WEDNESDAY.
-Wednesday @ 9:00am. In Courtroom 302 public safety 600 5th avenue.
-WyKing’s press conference 12noon at the City Council building across the street. He is charged with criminal trespass and obstruction of justice.
-Wednesday night is the FORUM & COMMUNITY DISCUSSION REGARDING
Initiative 2712 & The African Heritage Museum at WAID’S on 13th & Jefferson St.
DISCUSSION TOPICS
-How does the current structure of the museum represent the
needs and interests of Black people?
-Why is there no Hip Hop history no where in all 48,000 sq ft?
-Is Initiative 2712 a new version of the loitering law?
-Is Initiative 2712 a violation of the 1st and 4th amendment?
-Does the Urban League want to make the museum
a vehicle to elevate the black quality of life in the Northwest?
If not, then why not?
THESE QUESTIONS AND MORE TO BE ADDRESSED THIS
WEDNESDAY AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE AND THE
FORUM WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT WAID’S.
BE SURE TO WATCH HIP HOP 101 on FRIDAY AT 8:30pm
We will be discussing Initiative 2712 & the arrest of
Wyking Allah at the so-called grand opening.
For more information hit wyking@gmail.com. or go to aahmcc.org.
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Wyking
Remix Marketing & Communications, LLC
206-941-2527 (Seattle)
646-241-9122 (New York)
866-846-0106 (Toll Free)
ITS THE SAME THE WHOLE WORLD OVER
Giving food to the homeless “antisocial behaviour”. Two Arrested
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 20:36:41 -0000
If by now anyone had any doubts about whether the UK had gone too far with laws preventing peaceful, friendly and helpful behaviour by deeming good naturedness as anti-social then the article below will - hopefully - convince you. We live in troubled times in a sick society that says giving food to homeless people is an arrestable offence!
Please circulate this message far and wide, write to
your MP, make a noise - say something, sometime
and do something sometime maybe now!!
Best wishes
Peter Wakeham
Member of the British Institute of Human Rights
and founder of Human Rights ActION.
Giving food to the homeless “antisocial behaviour”.
Two Arrested reclaim your food | 05.03.2008 17:09 | London
On Sunday the third of march, two members of a grassroots Brixton based group calling itself Reclaim Your Food were arrested for distributing free food to the public. The grounds for their arrest was that their presence constituted antisocial behaviour.
Since November Reclaim Your Food have been using surplus food to cook a Vegan meal, which they then distribute free of charge to the public in Brixton town square on Sunday afternoons. People who come and share in the meal include parents and their children, staff from local businesses, shoppers, general passers by, and the homeless. It is the presence of this last section of the community which the police claim gives them a reason and the power to forcibly prevent the event.
Brixton town square falls under a provision of antisocial behaviour law called a dispersal zone. This gives the police powers to disperse groups of people within the zone if their behaviour or presence is deemed likely to cause harassment, alarm, intimidation, or distress, to members of the public.
Despite the good natured atmosphere of the event, and the notable absence of any such antisocial consequences, the police at the scene argued that the very possibility of the homeless attending the event gives rise to the potential for drug use, and therefore antisocial behaviour. It was then argued that presence of reclaim your food encouraged the attendance of the homeless, and that the distribution of free food was therefore antisocial behaviour by proxy. On these grounds the police ordered that the group disperse, and when food continued to be served, two members of the group were arrested. After ten hours they were released without charge on police bail, subject to the condition that may not enter any part of the central Brixton dispersal zone.
reclaim your food
e-mail: reclaimyourfood@hotmail.co.uk
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/03/393054.html
Lee
12 Mar 08 at 11:42 am