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Press Release: Press conference, rally and balloon launch, Friday, August 2, 2013, 5 pm by greater Cleveland community activists with Black clergy, Black elected officials, family members of fallen and raped women, intersection near Shaw and Hayden Avenues in East Cleveland

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From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read online Black newspaper. ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com    To: All Media, For Immediate Release, From Kathy Wray Coleman, Imperial Women activists group.  (Note-The women will lead the rally with support from the men since it is a women's issue)    What: Re: Press Conference, rally and balloon launch on behalf of fallen and raped women and women subjected to other acts of violence and to call for federal, state and county assistance from President Obama, Governor Kasich and Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald by community activists, Black women and victims families with support from Greater Cleveland Black clergy.  When/Where: Friday, August 2, 2013 at 5 pm  near the intersection of Shaw and Hayden Avenues in East Cleveland where the bodies of

Press Release: 5pm press conference, balloon launch and rally on Friday, August 2, 2013 near intersection at Shaw and Hayden Avenues in East Cleveland where the bodies of 3 Black women were found for greater Cleveland Black clergy, the Cleveland NAACP, community activists, Black elected officials, others to call for President Obama and Ohio Gov. John Kasich to declare a state of emergency as to missing women and violence against women in Cleveland and East Cleveland, groups want Obama and Kasich to bring in national guard to search abandoned and vacant buildings for missing women, groups also want other resources, and for a countywide missing persons unit and center, rally organizers include the United Pastors in Mission, the East Cleveland Concerned Pastors for Progress, the Baptist Ministers Alliance, Imperial Women, Audacity of Hope Foundation, Oppressed People's Nation, Peace in the Hood, the Task Force for Community Mobilization, the Carl Stokes Brigade, the Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, the Women's Federation

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From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read online Black newspaper. ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com    CLEVELAND, Ohio- The United Pastors in Mission, East Cleveland Concerned Pastors for Progress, and the Baptist Ministers Conference will hold a press conference, balloon launch and rally with Cleveland NAACP officials, community activists and Black elected officials on Friday August 2, 2013 at the southwest corner of the intersection of Shaw and Hayden Avenues in East Cleveland near where the bodies of 3 Black women were found two weeks ago by police in a fetal position and in plastic bags.  Greater Cleveland's Black clergy, led by Bishop Tony Minor of Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry in Cleveland, Pastor David Hunter of Bright Star Missionary Baptist Church in East Cleveland,  Pastor Shawn Braxton of Ne

Black community turns out for forum on the rape and murders of Black women on Cleveland's east side, rapists and killers still at large, County Prosecutor Tim McGinty attends event, read the Fox 8 News article and watch the video here

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By FOX 8 News CLEVELAND – People remain on edge after three women were found  murdered and another brutally attacked  along a stretch of East 93rd Street in southeast Cleveland. “All within one mile of each other,” Cleveland City Council member Zack Reed said at a safety forum Tuesday evening. Reed and other city leaders, along with police, ministers and community activists told a room full of concerned residents they need the public’s help to get the attackers off the street. “If you don’t share the information, then our investigations stall sometimes,” Fourth District Police Commander Deon McCaulley said. Jamella Hasan, 37, was found stabbed 15 times near East 93rd Street and Manor on December 17. “The person that did this to her is still running the streets of our city,” Reed said. Jasmine Trotter, 20, was found murdered in an abandoned home on East 93rd Street on March 24. She was raped and badly beaten. A few days later Christine Malone, 45, was found beaten a