Petition Poster

"We demand
an end to the witchhunt being conducted by
the Ann Arbor city government
against the anti-racist movement.

We demand the dropping of all the charges
against the anti-racists who protested the May 9, 1998
Ku Klux Klan rally in Ann Arbor, Michigan."

Listed below are some of the thousands of people who have signed the above petition statement:

Geoffrey Fieger (Democratic gubernatorial candidate, attorney), Woodrow Stanley (Mayor of Flint), Derrick Bell (Author, law professor, New York University), Michael Moore (Film producer), Ed Vaughn (Michigan State Representative), Lamar Lemmons (Michigan State Representative), Sharon McPhail (Attorney), Ron Scott ("For My People" Detroit talk show host), Minister Malik Shabazz (New Marcus Garvey Movement), Chokwe Lumumba (Civil rights attorney), Stella Greene (Plymouth Mayor pro tem), Paul T. Bowen (President, Amalgamated Transit Union, Division 26^*, City Bus Drivers, Detroit), Robert Apter (UAW Local 6000^* representative, Michigan state employees), David Sole (President, UAW Local 2334^*, chemists, Detroit city workers), Membership Action Committee (SEIU Local 79^* caucus, Harper Hospital, Detroit), City Workers for Justice (AFSCME Local 207^* caucus, Detroit city workers), Membership Action Committee (Detroit Federation of Teachers^* caucus, Detroit public school teachers), Anti Racist Action (ARA), Leamon Wilson (President, AFSCME Local 312^*, Detroit city workers), Delbert Walls (President, AFSCME Local 207, Detroit city workers), Lewis Irby, Jr. (Former bargaining chair, AFSCME Local 1583*, U of M workers), Joe Abraham (President, AFSCME Local 1603*, Hurley Medical Center, Flint), Revolutionary Workers League, Carol Scarlett (Michigan Student Assembly^* representative from the Defend Affirmative Action Party, U of M), National Women’s Rights Organizing Coalition (NWROC), Justice for Malice Green Coalition, Gary Webb (Author of Dark Alliance, reporter for the San Jose Mercury News), Jim Hightower (Author), Partisan Defense Committee, Dawn Mitchell (of the Dental School 3, U of M), Delano Isabell (of the Dental School 3, U of M), "Shaky Jake" (World famous street musician, Ann Arbor), Workers World Party, Maurice Darden (Defendant in racist police brutality case, Ann Arbor), Patricia Darden (Former bargaining chair of AFSCME 1583, U of M workers), Jerry Davis (father of Jamar French, victim of racist murder by the Ann Arbor Police), Billy Bragg (musician), William Adams and Jaime Gomez of Black Eyed Peas, Larry Beezlebub of Cypress Hill, , Beyoncé Knowles of Destiny’s Child, Juan Ramon Reyes of Harm’s Way, Morcheeba (musical group), Nora Chapa Mendoza (artist), Lauretta Flowers (Ann Arbor public school teacher), Shaba Andrich (Black Student Union* member, U of M), Jean Conyers (Opportunity Network, Flint), Jodi Marie Masley (Co-president, Women’s Law Student Association^*, U of M), George B. Washington (Labor and civil rights attorney, Detroit), Jeanne Theoharris (Afro-American Studies professor, U of M), Eric Lormand (Philosophy professor, U of M), Tendaji Ganges (Affirmative Action Coordinator, U of M Flint), Erik Konshaug (Novelist, editor, independent publisher, San Pedro, California), Heidi Tinsman (History professor, University of California at Irvine), Emily Bernard (Afro-American Studies professor, Smith College, Northhampton, Massachusetts), Sandhya Shukla (Anthropology professor, Columbia University, New York, New York), Tom Klubock (History professor, Georgetown University, Washington DC), G. Peck (History professor, University of Texas at Austin), Tracy Collier-Nix (Lawyer, Volunteers for Affirmative Action^*, Flint), Jose Garza (Writer/artist, Chicano/Indian activist, Detroit), Richard Gibson (Education professor, Wayne State University, Detroit), Katherine Leichter (Independent documentary film producer, New York,), Falkner Fox (Poet, Austin, Texas).