FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - November 21
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Carl Dix, Nicholas Heyward, Sr. available for interviews

"RISE UP, NO FEAR! CHILDREN'S MARCH FOR TAMIR"

When: Sunday, November 22
Where: 2pm Rally, Union Square Park, north side, New York City
3pm March to Madison Square Park
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Thurs., Nov. 19, 7pm, Mizzou Report Back w/Carl Dix, Sunsara Taylor

The Stop Mass Incarceration Network has called nationwide demonstrations on Sunday, November 22, the one-year anniversary of the murder of 12-year-old Tamir Rice by Cleveland police. The protesters, #WeAreAllTamirRice, are demanding "Justice for Tamir Rice" and "Police terror and murder must stop NOW!"

In New York City, there will be a rally beginning at 2pm Union Square, North side, 17th & University Place, Manhattan. At 3pm, there will be a special "Rise Up, No Fear! Children’s March for Tamir" from Union Square to Madison Square Park. The march is inspired by a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement -- the Children's Crusade of 1963, when thousands of schoolchildren walked out of school to engage in nonviolent direct action in the streets of Birmingham, Alabama.

The New York and nationwide protests will spotlight the emergency of police murder -- over 1,000 people have been killed by police this year alone -- and broadcast to the world that their lives matter.

The protests take on added urgency according to the Stop Mass Incarceration Network because "soon, a grand jury will decide the fate of the officers who murdered Tamir Rice, and the wheels are being greased to let them walk free. This is a crossroads as to whether the routine murder, violence and terror against of our children will be acceptable in this society or not." More

Available for Interviews

Carl Dix is the co-initiator with Cornel West of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network and a representative of the Revolutionary Communist Party

Nicholas Heyward, Sr., is the father of 13-year-old Nicholas Heyward, Jr., who was murdered by the NYPD, on September 27, 1994. He was playing with a brightly colored toy gun.

From Carl Dix & Cornel West:

To All Who Are Struggling Against Racist Outrages & White Supremacy: 11/22/15 Demand Justice for Tamir Rice 1 Year Since He Was Murdered by Police