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Grassroots Announce Speakers For Protest At Home Of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson

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Cleveland, Oh. Mayor Frank G. Jackson From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network Notice below from Cleveland area Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman regarding the upcoming protest against Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson To all media and the community. Please pass this on. The protest scheduled for 3 pm on Sat., Sept. 25, 2010 in front of the home of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson at 2327 E.38th St. and Central Ave. will go forward as was determined by a vote last month at the home of Community Activist Don Bryant, President of the Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network and a leader of the People's Forum. Also involved are the Imperial Women, Cleveland FIST, the Oppressed People's Nation and members of Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, Black on Black Crime Inc. and the Carl Stokes Brigade. We shall address the illegal mistreatment and illegal prosecutions and police and prosecutorial misconduct against Black women, in

FitzGerald Beats Hamilton Brown For Nominee For County Executive As Blacks Are Nominated For 4 of 11 County Council Seats In Democratic Primary

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network County Exexcutive Candidate and Lakewood Mayor Edward FitzGerald Former County Executive Candidate Terri Hamilton Brown County Council Candidate Yvonne Conwell County Council Candidate Pernel Jones Jr. County Council Candidate C. Ellen Conally County Council Candidate Julian Rogers Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Ohio Congresswoman Marcia Fudge (D-11) Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason Former County Council Candidate John A. Boyd The Black candidate for the Cuyahoga County Executive slot that key Black leaders such as Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-11) were pushing lost to suburban Lakewood, Oh. Mayor Edward FitzGerald in Tuesday's Democratic primary election. A favorite of union leaders and hardcore White Democrats, and the endorsed candidate of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party, FitzGerald beat Terri Hamilton Brown 48, 720 votes to

Activists To Protest In Front Of Cleveland Mayor Jackson's Home As To Alleged Police Misconduct And Suspect Prosecutions Against Blacks And Women

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Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson From the Metro Desk of theDeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network Community activists will stage a protest in front of the home of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson at 3 pm on Sat., Sept. 25 to call on the mayor to stand up and speak out as to the disenfranchisement of Blacks and women via alleged police misconduct and malicious prosecutions by Cleveland City Law Director Robert Triozzi, and the absence of Blacks and women from his appointed law enforcement leadership team where he has appointed no Blacks or women as law director, safety director, chief of police, chief prosecutor or EMS commissioner. (Note: When the mayor was questioned by Black leaders some five years ago when he took office as to the lack of diversity as to his law enforcement leadership team he said that he chose the "best qualified." Last year the remains of 11 Black women were found on Imperial Ave. in Cleveland at the home of suspecte