Yes, a lot is going on while preparation for the next issue is underway, but here is an important message worth reading…
URGENT
COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT
We need your help to save a 16 yr old young Black male falsely accused and arrested as an adult.
Greetings Family
We need your support. MWMSistahood@aol.com
What they are doing to our children has to be challenged and exposed.
If we do nothing, then their continued suffering is blood on our hands.
One of our “Rites of Passage students, Dasheem Ferron, 16 yrs old, nephew of and in the care of Sister Basiymah Mu-Bey, was incarcerated at PIC, an adult correctional facility on
March 23rd. 2008 (Can you imagine.)
His home was stormed by SWAT in the middle of the night.
He had been identified by a young female who is a known crack addict as being on the street at the time of a shooting and robbery. He was not identified as the shooter or a participant in the robbery in anyway. In fact witnesses describe an older male with a dark complexion, dressed in long winter coat
on a day when the temperature reached above 60 degrees.
Dasheem stated he was standing on the steps of a neighborhood store with a friend when he heard a gunshot from across the street, so he ran for cover. The owner of
the store will corroborate his statement and will testify that Dasheem left the store about the time the shots were fired, and that he was not dressed in a long coat.
We can all testify that he does not have a dark complexion. In fact the detectives stated themselves to Sister Basiymah when the stormed her house that they knew he wasn’t involved but they think he knows the shooter and unless he identifies him they were going to charge him. MWMSistahood@aol.com
There is absolutely no way Dasheem would be involved in such activity.
Dasheem Ferron, 16 years old, birthday 6/21/91, an11th grade. A and B student that attends Strawberry Mansion High School aspires to be a doctor never been in trouble
Student Government Association Deputy, does community projects with 31st and Berks garden, UNIA and Marcus Garvey Parade, and the David P Richardson African Centered Rites of Passage Program
He is one of the most gentle teenagers you will ever meet
He and his brother assisted last year with mowing the lawn and cleaning the Hatfield House grounds for the Drum Festival last year. He has worked with Bro. Zumbi as a laborer and painter and has obtained his complete trust.
In spite of all of this and Dasheem’s innocence, he has been charged with armed robbery, conspiracy, attempted murder and as many charges as the cops could mount.
We, in the African Community know that he is innocent of all charges.
They really have no evidence to the contrary. They altered his birth date to make it appear he is 18.
The judge refused even to move him to JDC. (Juvenile Delinquent Center)
His bail is $35,000.00. We have to raise $3,500.00 immediately to get him out, or he will sit in an adult facility for another month until another hearing is held.
A bail reduction request was denied.
We are asking you to assist me in raising the bail; most of which will be returned when he appears in court.
$100.00 or any amount that you can provide will be appreciated.
You can call Bro.Zumbi at 267-235-9111, Sister Basiymah at 215-668-1181, or Brother Supreme at 267-377-9552.
Please family. Another young life is about to be ruined
The Committee to Save Our Youth BWDL7@aol.com,
Zumbi Soweto, Basiyma Bey, Supreme Dow, Knessette David Kline
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Bob Shipman Jr.
Social Activism is not a hobby: it’s a Lifestyle lasting a Lifetime
people.tribe.net/shipman
