Dear
Friends,
Below is a press release sent out last week with respect to the case of
Romaine “Chip” Fitzgerald. I’m hoping each and every one of you will:
- Circulate this information widely to ALL PRESS CONTACTS you have
- Try to get radio/television INTERVIEWS—Contact Sister Emani Dawson-Bey, indicated below
- Circulate this to ALL YOUR LISTS
- SEND A LETTER TO THE PAROLE BOARD—and encourage others to do so
- Send a letter to Chip
letting him know you support his freedom
With love for the People
Elaine Brown
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For Immediate Release
To: Various Media Outlets
Date: September 7, 2007
From: Hujambo Public Relations Network
Contact: Emani Dawson-Bey
[562] 310-6162
freechipfitzgerald@yahoo.com
Freedom
for Romaine
“Chip” Fitzgerald Long Awaited
“Longest-Held Black Panther Party Political Prisoner in U.S.”
Imperial, California.
At 1:30 p.m. on September 26, 2007, Romaine “Chip” Fitzgerald will once
again go before the California Board of Parole Hearings—after 38 years of
unjust incarceration!
Chip, imprisoned since 1969, is serving a life sentence for a crime he
did not commit. Factual government public files have exposed that the FBI
and other policing agencies had strategic orders to neutralize and destroy
the Black Panther Party after then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover issued his
infamous dictum, in 1968, that “the Black Panther Party was the greatest
threat to the internal security of the United States.” As part of that
campaign, many Party leaders were assassinated and falsely imprisoned. Chip
Fitzgerald was one of them.
Chip’s many supporters include Compton, California, City Attorney
LeGrand Clegg, Compton City Councilwoman Barbara Calhoun, and former
Chairman of the Black Panther Party, political activist and author Elaine
Brown. He also has the support of Representative Maxine Waters and the
Monterey Peninsula Branch of the NAACP, which accepted Mr. Fitzgerald as a
member in 1999. He has long been supported by countless community-based
organizations.
Chip Fitzgerald’s incarceration has far exceeded the maximum amount of time
he should have served under his sentence. His supporters are now demanding
of the Board that, in accordance with state law, Chip finally be released
and allowed to return to a supportive community that will assist him with
education, health care and employment. They are encouraging all those
seeking justice in this country and around the world to write letters of
support to the Board:
James
Davis, Chairman Board of Parole Hearings
Post Office Box 4036
Sacramento, CA 95812-4036
Letters to Chip are also encouraged:
Romaine
Fitzgerald, B27527
Centinela State Prison FC-2-110
PO Box 921
Imperial, California 92251-0731
