PRESS/COMMUNITY RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Imperial Women
Tel: 216-659-0473
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Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com
Who: Cleveland Urban News.Com and Community activist groups including Imperial Women, Black on Black Crime Inc., The Oppressed People's Nation, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, Ohio Family Rights, The National Association for Parental Equality, The Fairfax Business Association, The Women's Federation, People for The Imperial Act, and The Carl Stokes Brigade
What/When/Where/Why: Press conference and rally at 5:30 pm on Thursday, May 30, 2013 at Lil Africa in Cleveland, 6816 Superior Ave., with a community forum and panel at 6 pm with Cleveland Mayoral Candidate Ken Lanci. The rally and press conference will be led by Imperial Women to call for resources by city and county officials and Cleveland police and accountability around the abduction, rape and murders of Black, White and Latino women. After the recent episode with kidnapped and raped women Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight, the Imperial Ave Murders of 11 Black women in 2009, and the rape and murders of Jazmine Trotter, 20, and Christine Malone, 45, in March of this year on Cleveland's east side, yesterday another dismembered body was found at E. 93rd St. and Anderson Ave. on Cleveland's predominantly Black east side. That body is the decomposed body of 21-year-old Ashely Leszyeaki, a young White woman whose murder, along with Malone and Trotter, suggest that another serial killer since convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell, who murdered the Imperial Ave. women, is on the loose. (Editor's Note: The Imperial Women, unlike many other greater Cleveland activist groups out front that we support, is led by women, and we do not just call for peace in the hood among gang members, Blacks, and others. We want accountability by Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, Cleveland City Council, Cuyahoga County elected officials, police, and others, and resources to minimize and seek to stop the abduction, rape, and murders of women in Cleveland and greater Cleveland across racial lines. Men, both Black and White alike, can support us, and the Imperial Women and other women appreciate it, but they do not know what it means to be a woman, and certainly a woman raped and violated).
Also addressed at the Lanci forum on May 30 will be Cleveland police killings of unarmed people, jobs, tax abatement issues, traffic cameras, Cuyahoga County foreclosures, public education, the legal system, and judicial justice matters.
Speakers at either the press conference or forum with Mr. Lanci, candidate for Cleveland mayor this year, include Mr. Lanci, the family of Cleveland police murder victim Daniel Ficker, the family of rape and murder victim Christine Malone, and Community Activists Art McKoy (who will introduce Mr. Lanci), Kathy Wray Coleman, Attorney Edele Passalacqua, Ward 10 City Council Candidate Donna Walker Brown, Valerie and Dr. Stewart Robinson, Ernest Smith, Greg Roberts, Mary Seawright, Genevieve Mitchell, Al Porter and Roz McAllister (Editor's Note: Community activists decided that no Black elected officials of Cleveland City Council or the Ohio State Legislature should moderate the forum with Mr. Lanci that support his opponent, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, and the forum needs to be neutral as much as possible. Hence, Imperial Women Leader Kathy Wray Coleman will moderate the forum with Mr. Lanci).
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