Seiu Sponsors This Year's Political Prisoner Dinner

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"This dinner is just a small way to keep their spirits up, while we do the work in the street," co-organizer and greatgrandmother Iyaluua [Herman Ferguson] told the AmNews. son told the AmNews. "The event this year is also being sponsored by 1199 SEIU activists at their headquarters: Martin Luther King Labor Center Auditorium (310 West 43rd Street, between 8th and 9th avenues) in Manhattan.

While Ferguson said that if confirmed as President-elect Barack Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, could, in theory, address the issue of America's hitherto governmentdenied, but Amnesty International-acknowledged political prisoners, "I'm concerned as to why Gov. David Paterson has not looked into this. He knows about our political prisoners. I see no reason why he has stayed as quiet as he has. That's one of the points we need to focus on.

The event will be held on Saturday, with dinner being served from 3 to 4 p.m. The program will start promptly at 4:15 p.m. and run until 7 p.m. Guest speakers are Ashanti Alston, co-chairman of the National Jericho Movement, and Brenda Stokely, veteran community activist and director of the New York Katrina Relief Support Group.

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Seiu Sponsors This Year's Political Prisoner Dinner

This Saturday, January 17, the Malcolm X Commemora- tion Committee, will host the 13th gathering of families, friends and supporters of African-American politi...

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