Anti-Violence Demonstrations Continue In Newark, New Jersey For Yet Another Week (1115 hits)
-- Demonstrations Continue For 93rd Straight Week --
Newark, NJ (May 2, 2011) -- Concerned about the growing pandemic of violence plaguing Black and Brown neighborhoods, community activist Ras Baraka (the son of internationally and nationally respected poets and activists Imamu Amiri and Amina Baraka), Nation of Islam member David Muhammad, and Black Cops Against Police Brutality founder Delacy Davis, made the calls to create the N.A.V.C! The founding date of the N.A.V.C was on July 20th 2009; the date of the murder of Nakesia Allen, a mother of two children innocently killed by a Blackman trying to shoot at another Blackman in a drive by shooting while walking home from her neighborhood store on Meeker and Elizabeth Avenues in Newark, NJ.
They are calling on 10,000 strong for peace in streets! The Newark Anti-Violence Coalition (NAVC) will host the longest running anti-genocide (anti-violence) demonstration in the United States in the middle of the Intersection of Columbia and South Orange Avenues (the West Ward Section) in Newark, NJ. This demonstration will mark the 93rd straight week the NAVC has been organizing anti-genocide (anti-violence) rallies in the city of Newark, NJ! ...
