Cleveland Attorney Terry Gilbert To Give Update On Protesting Collinwood Students' Criminal Cases And An Overview On Constitutional Law On Free Speech

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Cleveland Criminal Defense and Civil Rights Attorney Terry Gilbert


From the Metro Desk of The DeterminerWeekly.Com and
the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network

Below is a press and community release regarding a forum on free speech issues and the arrest of two Black girls who protested in May at Cleveland's Collinwood High School against the layoffs of 545 district teachers and the closings of 14 schools, 12 on the predominantly Black East side of Cleveland. The featured speaker is Cleveland lawyer Terry Gilbert, a guest columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper and the attorney for protesting Collinwood High School Student Destini Bronaugh and her 17-year-old sister.


To: All Media and Community Members

Contact Persons: Tina Bronaugh at 216-253-6484 and Kathy Wray Coleman at 216-932-3114

What: Community forum featuring Attorney Terry Gilbert of the Cleveland, Oh. law firm of Friedman & Gilbert (Phone 216-241-1430) on constitutional law and other issues impacting the Bronaugh Sisters cases, and free speech issues relative to Cleveland schools students and others. The forum is free and open to the public

When: Thursday, July 22, 2010 from 5:30 pm- 7:00 pm

Where: Cleveland Public Library Collinwood (a block from Collinwood High School) The address of the library is 856 East 152nd St., Cleveland, Oh. 44110 (Phone 216-623-6934)

Why: To provide a forum for community dialogue on issues of public concern impacting Cleveland schools students and others coupled with the need for an update on the Bronaugh Sisters cases from the perspective of their lawyer, famed Cleveland Attorney Terry H. Gilbert (famous for the Sam Sheppard civil case and record breaking jury verdicts on police brutality civil cases in Cleveland)

Re: Attorney Terry Gilbert, a nationally renowned Civil Rights attorney and Cleveland Criminal Defense lawyer, will give the community an update on the Bronaugh Sisters cases and an overview on constitutional law as it relates to the free speech clause of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution (Note: Destini and DeAsia Bronaugh were arrested on May 14, 2010 at Collinwood High School in Cleveland relative to a student-organized protest around the layoffs of 545 district teachers and the closings of 14 schools. Both have been charged with bogus and retaliatory criminal charges in violation of free speech guarantees).

5:30 pm- 6:00 pm-Discussion by grassroots members and overview of Bronaugh Sisters cases
6:00 pm- 6:30 pm- Update of Bronaugh Sisters cases and overview on constitutional law as it relates to free speech issues by Attorney Terry Gilbert
6:30 pm- 7:00 pm- Question and answer session with Attorney Terry Gilbert

Others participating are as follows: (during session from 5:30 pm- 6:00 pm)

Inspirational Message- Bishop Jasmine Guy

-Tina Bronaugh (mother of Destini and DeAsia Bronaugh and new member of the Imperial Women)- Overview of the Bronaugh Sisters cases

-Community Activist Art McKoy (founder of Black on Black Crime Inc)- Introduction of Attorney Terry Gilbert

-Community Activist David Patterson(who participated in the crafting of the "Proposed Imperial Act," which was drafted in response to the unprecedented murders of 11 Black women on Cleveland's Imperial Avenue, whose remains were found late last year at the home of alleged serial killer Anthony Sowell)- Update on the Rebecca Whitby case, the college student facing bogus assault on two White male police officers and other charges after an elderly White neighbor says she witnessed the police in question beat the young woman without just cause and call her a "nigger"

- Community Activist Ernest Smith (leader of the Oppressed People's Nation )- The role of the grassroots community in standing up in support of children and students subject to harassment and abuse for exercising free speech rights as embodied under the free speech clause of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution

-Community Activist Caleb Maupin (leader of Cleveland FIST)- Why high school and college students feel compelled to speak out on issues of public concern even in the midst of risking their freedom and being subject to illegal harassment in retaliation

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