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Pressure from the top down! This has been a issue that has not been raised to the top. Here are the Congressional and Senatorial Delegates for Louisiana. Have them contact the DA and the judge.
Sacha Louisiana Congressional Delegation U.S. Senate
David Vitter
516 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202.224.4623
Fax: 202.228.5061
Mary Landrieu
724 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202.224.5824
Fax: 202.224.9735
U.S. House of Representatives
Bobby Jindal
District 1 1205 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202.225.3015
William Jefferson
District 2 240 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202.225.6636
Fax: 202.225.1988
Charlie Melancon
District 3 404 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202.225.4031
Fax: 202.226.3944
Jim McCrery
District 4 2104 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202.225.2777
Fax: 202.225.8039
Rodney Alexander
District 5 316 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202.225.8490
Fax: 202.225.5639
Richard Baker
District 6 434 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202.225.3901
Fax: 202.225.7313
Dr. Charles Boustany, Jr.
District 7 1117 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515-1807
Phone: 202.225.2031
JENA 6
Send Mychal Bell letters of encouragement while he is held in prison, here is his address:
Mychal Bell
Inmate, A-Dorm
LaSalle Correctional Center
15976 Highway 165
Olla, LA 71465-4801
The Jena 6 need financial support to fight their cases. Any amount raised goes directly towards hiring private attorneys that the families of the Jena 6 cannot afford on their own. To send donations:
Jena 6 Defense Committee
PO BOX 2798
Jena, LA 71342
Email requests, offers of help, or comments can be sent to an account maintained by the families and their volunteers:
jena6defense@gmail.com
FURTHER CONTACT INFORMATION
The Jena 6 Defense Committee
PO Box 2798,
Jena, LA 71342
jena6defense@gmail.com <mailto:jena6defense@gmail.com>
Murphy McMillan, Mayor
P.O. Box 26
Jena, La. 71342
Phone (318) 992-2148
To contact District Attorney Reed Walters directly:
Reed Walters, District Attorney
28th Judicial District
PO Box 1940
Jena, Louisiana 71342-1940
(318) 992-8282
Fax: (318) 992-4731
contact Governor Kathleen Blanco
Write:
Office of the Governor
Attn: Constituent Services
P.O. Box 94004
Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9004
Fax: 225-342-7099
Call:
866-366-1121
225-342-0991
225-342-7015
CONTACT JUDGE J.P. MAUFFRAY:
1050 COURTHOUSE STREET
P.O. BOX 1316
JENA, LA 71342
(318)992-2002- phone
(318)992-8701-fax
“The frenzy was when the levies broke!”
SEN. MARY LANDRIEU’S HOPE AND RECOVERY P0ST-KATRINA SUMMIT IN NEW ORLEANS
The Rev. Al Sharpton listens from the audience to a presidential leadership forum on Hurricane Katrina at the University of New Orleans August 27, 2007. (UPI Photo/A.J. Sisco) Photo via Newscom Photo via Newscom.
The Reverend Al Sharpton was in Savannah Thursday night - helping raise money for the family of a man shot and killed by police.
He spoke at a fundraiser for 22-year-old David Willis’ three children, one of them unborn.
Willis was fatally shot by officer Kevin Mckoon nearly two weeks ago.
Police say Willis was pulled over for a traffic stop, when he tried to run the officer over.
The Second St. John Missionary Baptist Church was filled to capacity, an hour before Reverend Al Sharpton arrived.
Organizers say it wasn’t a rally to say who’s wrong or right, but a way to reach out to Willis’ family and heal.
The attached link is a portion of Reverend Sharpton’s speech.
http://www.wsav.com/midatlantic/sav/news.apx.-content-articles-SAV-2007-08-31-0025.html
attempted murder charges leveled against six black teens show “one rule for white kids and one for black kids.”
Sharpton and an entourage of three dozen religious and civil rights leaders met and prayed privately with one of the teens, 17-year-old Mychal Bell, for about 15 minutes at the LaSalle Parish courthouse.
Bell faces up to 22 years in prison after being convicted of aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy to commit aggravated second-degree battery. He had initially faced attempted murder charges. Four 18-year-olds and a juvenile—who round out the group dubbed the Jena Six—are awaiting trial on attempted murder and conspiracy charges.
“I did not come to Jena to start trouble,” Sharpton said while preaching at a local church service after the meeting. “I came to Jena to stop trouble.”
Bell and five other teens were charged in the December 2006 beating of a white schoolmate, 18-year-old Justin Barker. Barker was treated for a swollen and cut face and released the same day, but said he took pain medication for a week.
Black community leaders across the country were outraged, protesting that the attempted murder charges were too harsh.
In comments directed at District Attorney Reed Walters, who is prosecuting the Jena Six, Sharpton said, “You can’t sit in the courthouse and have one rule for white
kids and one for black kids.”
Walters did not return a call for comment left on an answering machine at his residential number. No one answered Sunday at his office.
Jena, a town of 3,000, is mostly white with about 350 black residents. Residents said racial tensions have escalated because of events at Jena High School.
Last year, the morning after a black student sat under a tree on campus where white students traditionally congregated, three nooses—unmistakable lynching symbols in the old South—were hung in the tree.
Students accused of placing them were suspended from the school for a short period, and tensions increased.
Then on Dec. 4, six black students were accused of jumping Barker and beating and kicking him. A motive for the attack was never established.
“You cannot have two levels of justice,” Sharpton said Sunday. “Some boys assault people and are charged with nothing. Some boys hang nooses and finish the school year. And some boys are charged with attempted murder.”





