Press Release: Community activists to rally on Monday, May 13 at 7 pm Cleveland NAACP meeting, corner of E. 107th St and Chester Ave in Cleveland in front of The University Circle United Methodist Church, for support for Cleveland NAACP on deadly police shootings of unarmed people such as 137 bullets victims Tim Russel an Malissa Williams, Kenneth and Daniel Ficker, rape, abduction and murder of women such as Christine Malone, foreclosure fraud, jobs and judicial impropriety, contact number for rally is 216-659-0473

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues (www.clevelandurbannews.com) Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473

CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Imperial Women, The Oppressed People's Nation, Ohio Family Rights, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor and other community activists groups will rally with victims family members at 7 pm on Monday, May 13, 2013 in front of the church where the regular Cleveland NAACP meeting will be held  at University Circle United Methodist Church at 1919 E. 107th St. at the corner of E. 107th St and Chester Ave. in Cleveland. 

Activists seek a repeatedly promised meeting with Cleveland NAACP President The Rev. Hilton Smith and the organization's legal redress committee, which hasn't met as a group all year though NAACP officials have taken dues money from its members, including community activists.

 The concerns they raise address deadly shootings by Cleveland police of unarmed people including 137 bullets victims Malissa Williams and Tim Russell, other deadly police shootings Cuyahoga County foreclosure fraud, jobs, and judicial impropriety. They are also upset at the manner in  which abduction, rape and murder of Black women such as Christine Malone, who was raped and murdered in March on Cleveland's largely Black east side, and other women are handled by Cleveland police and the top brass of The Cleveland Police Department. 

Some 80 community activists met with Cleveland NAACP Legal Redress Committee Chairman Una Keenon, a retired East Cleveland Municipal Court judge, and Ohio ACLU Legal Director James Hardiman at a community forum on Feb 4 and then  attended the regular Cleveland NAACP meeting held in March. Activist groups represented at both meetings include The Imperial Women, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, The Cleveland African American Museum, The Oppressed People's Nation, Organize Ohio, The Northeast Ohio Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, The Cleveland Chapter of the New Black Panther Party, The Cleveland Black Contractors Group, The People's Forum, The Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, Peace in the Hood, Ohio Family Rights, The National Organization for Parental Equality, The Carl Stokes Brigade and Black on Black Crime Inc.

At the March regular Cleveland  meeting activists again sought help on issues ranging from documented foreclosure fraud by judges and since fired county sheriff Bob Reid, jobs, and deadly shootings by Cleveland police of unarmed people including 137 bullets victims Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, Daniel Ficker, 27 and Kenneth Smith, 20.

Rev. Smith, a vice president for the corporate entity of Turner Construction Company, promised to help and told  community activists and shootings victims families at the March meeting that assistance was coming.

Since then, say activists, they have been completely ignored by Smith and Cleveland NAACP officials.