CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio- Ohio Congresspersons Marcia L. Fudge and Marcy Kaptur, Ohio state Rep Nickie Antonio and Black Cleveland activist Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition are among six  headliner speakers for the Women's march in Cleveland at 10 am on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 at Public Square in Cleveland, an event that will mirror the national women's march on Washington that same day at post- inauguration festivities of President-elect Donald Trump. (CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE FACEBOOK PAGE AS TO THE WOMEN'S MARCH CLEVELAND where some 5,500 people have shown interest and some 3,800 people say that will attend. Call Laura Johnson of Cleveland at 505-382-0804 for more information. And activists can call Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition at 216-659-0473).

According to organizers Laura Johnson and Claudia Pasma, both Ph.D. students in physics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, other morning speakers include Greater Cleveland YWCA President and CEO Margaret Mitchell, and Gail Sands, a Cleveland Heights resident and volunteer for the National Council of Jewish Women.(Editor's note: Organizers added Cuyahoga County Councilwoman Shontel Brown and Mallory McMaster as speakers after press time),

Protesters will gather at Public Square at 10 am for speeches by the aforementioned and at 11 am they will march through the streets of the city to the Free Stamp next to city Hall at Willard Park.

They will then march back to Public Square for speeches that could go on to 2 pm, organizers said.

"We are standing up for women's rights," said Johnson, sentiments echoed by Pasma, an immigrant from Greece in her second year as a doctoral student at CWRU.

The two young women said that they stepped to the plate to organize Clevelanders and others that will attend the march on Public Square Saturday to '"stand together for the protection of our rights, our safety, our health, and our families, while recognizing that our vibrant and diverse communities are the strength of our communities."

A Republican and former reality star turned president who won the presidency in November over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, Trump will have already taken his oath as president on Friday, Jan 20, a day before the women's march and the day that President Barack Obama, the nation's  first Black president, officially leaves office.

The national women's march in Washington and similar rallies that will be held in cities across the country come as Trump is under fire from women's rights groups and Civil Rights organizations, including the NAACP, for insensitive remarks during the presidential campaign against women, and the make-up of his transition team and cabinet, neither of which contains any Black women whatsoever.

Also at issue are comments the president -elect made last week, saying Civil Rights icon and longtime Congressman John Lewis of Georgia had done nothing for his congressional districts.

The insensitive rhetoric caused Lewis to back-out of the inauguration and several other Washington Democrats followed his lead, some 62 Democratic lawmakers in fact, including Fudge, a Warrensville Heights Democrat, and Kaptur, a Toledo Democrat whose congressional district stretches to Cleveland. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE ON OHIO CONGRESSWOMAN MARCIA FUDGE JOINING CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS AND OTHERS TO BOYCOTT THE INAUGURATION AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS

Fudge is Black and leads Ohio's 11th congressional district, which is majority Black and includes the largely Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland and several of its eastern suburbs.

But Saturday's march in Cleveland is non-partisan, organizers say.

"The women's rights march in Cleveland is non- partisan but will address women's rights and Civil Rights in general," organizer Claudia Pasma told Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper.

Pictured are Cleveland police killing victims Daniel Ficker (wearing blue) and 12-year-old Tamir Rice

By Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman, a-24-year journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years, and who interviewed now President Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS. (Note: A former 14-year biology teacher and longtime Cleveland activist, Coleman is the most read reporter in Ohio on Google Plus with some 3.5 million views).

CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-Cleveland, Ohio- The mother of slain police victim Daniel Ficker, who was shot and killed by Cleveland police at his Parma, Ohio home on July 4 in 2011 and whose family settled a 2.25 million excessive force and wrongful death lawsuit with the city two weeks ago, will appear at 4:30 pm today, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2017, at Radio One Studio at 6665 Carnegie Avenue in Cleveland. (Editor's note: Read on below for information as to a press conference by community activists at 4:30 pm in front of Radio One today to address the Cleveland police killing of Ficker, 12-year-old Tamir Rice, and others police killing victims)

Bernadette Rolen, Ficker's mother, will appear live on the Art McKoy University Show of Common Sense at 5 pm on Jan 15 in the Radio One studio to talk about what she says was the police murder of her unarmed son, and will be flanked by activists at a 4:30 pm press conference in front of Radio One.  The weekly program runs from 5pm-7pm on Sunday's (Call Art McKoy of of Black on Black Crime Inc. at 216-253-4070 or Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition at 216-659-0473 for more information. McKoy, earlier today, told Coleman, also editor--in-chief at Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper, that activists and community members concerned about Cleveland police killings are invited to attend the press conference today.").

"I will be there for the radio program," Rolen told Coleman, a Cleveland activist who leads the Imperial Women Coalition and  has led rallies with McKoy for justice for Ficker, who was White, and others erroneously killed by Cleveland police over the last six years, including 12-year-old Tamir Rice, Tanisha Anderson, Malissa Williams, Timothy Russell, rapper Kenneth Smith, and Brandon Jones."

"And thank you for your support over these five and a half years," said Rolen to Coleman"

Activists will also address Cleveland police murders in general at today's press conference, including Tamir Rice, who was gunned down by Cleveland police and made national news last week after his mother, Samaria Rice, and Rice attorney Subodh Chandra, lambasted the city of Cleveland, Mayor Frank Jackson and Police Chief Calvin Williams for announcing internal discipline of police that does pot include punishment for excessive use of force.

A $6 million settlement in the Tamir Rice case from the city has been had, though the Rice family, led by Samira  Rice and Attorney Chandra, say that that is not enough and on Friday called the upcoming police discipline disrespectful and "disappointing and disheartening."

Samaria Rice wants the police officers involved in her son's killing, Timothy Loehmann, who pulled the trigger, and his partner Frank Garmback, to be criminally charged, something both escaped via impropriety by since ousted and former Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty.

Ficker was 27-years-old at his death where police claim without any evidence that he stole uncovered jewel at a party in Cleveland on July 3, 2011, the day before they crossed jurisdictional lines and beat him up and killed the father of two.

Officer Matt Craska did the shooting and was accompanied by officer David Mindek, both of whom have since left the force without any internal discipline or criminal prosecution, the latter also with the support of ousted former county prosecutor Tim McGinty, who is White and a former longtime common pleas judge. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE ON THE DANIEL FICKER CASE AND THE AFFILIATED LAWSUIT SETTLEMENT AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS

Rice, who was Black, was killed by Loehmann, who is White, after Loehmann and and officer Garmback, who is also White, zoomed in on on the kid at  the Cudell Recreation Center on the city's largely White west side, aggressive actions that followed a 9-1-1 call of a child carrying a likely toy gun, a toy gun  in fact.

Among the discipline announced last week by the city of the two Rice cops is discipline for pulling up on the child in a police car allegedly without the requisite caution, and for Loehman having killed Tamir in under two seconds.

The Cleveland Police Patromen's Association, led by its president Steve Loomis, support the police officers involved in both the Rice and Ficker killings, as well as all other police involved in questional police killings, most of them involving dead Black people.

CLEVELAND URBANNEWS.COM-Cleveland, Ohio- Journalist and community activist Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition, with community activists at her side, will turn her self in to the Cleveland Heights Municipal Court at 11 am on Tuesday, Jan 17 relative to a bench warrant issued on Friday by Black Cleveland Heights Judge A. Deane Buchanan, whom Coleman says is judicially stalking and harassing her for two White cops that arrested her after falsely accusing her of not giving her name as a passenger at an illegal traffic stop, among others. (Editor's note: Officer Wolf is the name of the arresting Cleveland Heights police officer, whom Coleman said came to the passenger side of the car and harassed her and should be investigated to protect other Blacks from his seemingly racist corruption. It is open season, said Coleman, on Blacks in racist Cleveland Heights, a Cleveland suburb).

"I have been advised to turn myself in so I am not potentially shot and killed or beat up by these racist White and corrupt Cleveland Heights cops, who are supported by a a corrupt and anti-Black judge who has forgotten his roots," said Coleman, also a 14-year former Cleveland schools biology teacher with a bachelor's degree in biology and two master's degrees with straight A transcripts.

The Black female Cleveland activist says that the obstruction of official business misdemeanor charge, which is a lie she says, and is coupled with a another lie of a lack of a seat belt, is because she is the target of police and some corrupt judges she has written about as a journalist, as well as JPMorgan Chase Bank officials, who have tried to steal her University Heights home with the help of corrupt and racist Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell. (Editor's note: A Democrat, O'Donnell acquitted since fired Cleveland cop Michael Brelo of manslaughter charges in 2015 for gunning down unarmed Black Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell with 49 bullets. Twelve other non- Black cops involved in the incident escaped prosecution).

Coleman says that Judge Buchanan and others want her jailed also for rallying with other activists, including seasoned activists Art McKoy and Alfred Porter Jr.of Black on Black Crime Inc., as to Cleveland police murders of Blacks and others violence against women in greater Cleveland and her publishing the Cleveland Urban News.Com and Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com. (Editor's note: Read on below where Buchanan issued the warrant after Coleman's paid attorney, Sydney Strickland Saffold, took her money and called 15 minutes before a scheduled trial date at 8:30 am on Jan 13 and said she had suddenly change her mind on representing her and that Coleman should be represented by a corrupt White appointed prior attorney whom she allegedly told Coleman not to speak to due to his alleged harassment, racism, and corruption. That attorney, as noted below, is John Alex Morton. Coleman says that Buchanan, 70, should be tested for possible dementia and should be jailed himself for possible public corruption and Civil Rights violations)

Coleman was set to go before a jury for trial on Jan 13 with appointed attorney John Alex Morton representing her. She hired Sydney Strickland Saffold to days before trial because she said Morton, with Buchanan's help was trying to railroad her in jail.

Morton, says Coleman, says all Blacks are guilty, and that she is wasting the court's money and time even though she is innocent and a target of racial profiling. A motion to dismiss as to the initial denial of indigent counsel will not be filed, says Morton, because he is allegedly friends with Buchanan and does not want to offend the controversial judge.

Coleman said that Morton is a mediocre attorney at best and has also refused to subpoena the personnel files of the White cops at issue and will not subpoena any witnesses on her behalf, all with Buchanan's support.

"Simply put, he works for the prosecution," said Coleman

In fact, public records reveal that Judge Buchanan had refused to appoint Morton, saying that because Coleman had trouble with another attorney that he handpicked and later removed from the case, she was to represent herself, an illegal decision that was overridden by a visiting judge assigned for that day by the Ohio Supreme Court. That judge, public records reveal, appointed Morton over the objection of the White Cleveland Heights assistant prosecutor and Buchanan, who said then that Coleman should be denied representative counsel, which is illegal.

Because he was appointed as Coleman's attorney by a visiting judge assigned by Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor, Morton apparently believes he can act in an ineffective manner as her attorney without repercussions, behavior, says Coleman, an investigative reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, that is customary, and often with support from select sellout Black leaders.

At a final pretrial hearing before Judge Buchanan on Jan. 10 Attorney Morton, on record, called his client [Coleman] a host of derogatory names and harassed her in front of the judge and people in the court room, data show.

Still, Buchanan, who is 70-years-old and cannot seek reelection under state law due to the age limitation, refused to remove Morton as Coleman's attorney and instead, told Coleman on record that though she is indigent she must hire, pay and bring a lawyer with her to the Jan 13 trial some three days away in order to get a continuance.

Coleman in turn, hired and paid Cleveland Attorney Sydney Strickland Saffold, the daughter of longtime Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Shirley Strickland Saffiold, to represent her.

And on Jan 12, 2017, a day before the slated jury trial trial, Coleman notified Buchanan of this in writing via a court filing with copies of receipts of the payment to the attorney where she moved the court for an extension.

Sydney Strickland Saffold then allegedly told Coleman, Coleman says, to refrain from any further discussions with Morton and that she would appear with her at trial on Jan 13 to seek a continuance to prepare at a later date.

But the morning of the trial, at or about 8:15 am, when they were due in court at 8:30 am, Coleman says Sydney Strickland Saffold phoned and said she would not be coming to court on her behalf and that she would not seek a continuance.

Coleman said that two days earlier Sydney Strickland Saffold became agitated when she advised that Judge Buchanan, whom the attorney said is a friend, had lured her to an arraignment with only his bailiff and another person there, and on behalf of the prosecution and police, begged her to plead guilty with his agreement of no jail time.

This, said Coleman, shows the judge's pre-determined disposition, and precluded a bench trial, and is a clear violation, it appears, of the Ohio Lawyer's Professional Code of Responsibility and the Judicial Code of Conduct.

After Coleman pleaded not guilty at arraignment she says the judicial and prosecutorial harassment escalated, harassment also, she says, for a prior affidavit of prejudice filed against the judge filed before the arraignment date and due to the prejudicial denial of indigent counsel at the arraignment as required by state law, activity that does not toll speedy trial rights.

Data show that White cops in Cleveland Heights are routinely following Blacks in their patrol cars cars and arresting them without probable cause or reasonable suspicion, and then Judge Buchanan is denying them indigent counsel at the arraignment stage and sometimes otherwise, and, sometimes a speedy trial. He is also getting them alone, or without an attorney,  and asking them to plead guilty at hearings.

Cleveland Heights is a middle class Cleveland suburb that is roughly 45 percent Black, though Blacks are disproportionately arrested, charged, maliciously prosecuted and jailed, public records reveal.

Blacks in general are subjected to excessive bonds and gross misrepresentation with the judge's approval, data show.

Several of the appointed lawyers are also harassing Blacks and misrepresenting poor people, public records show.

Community activists want a U.S. Department of Justice investigation for police reforms in Cleveland Heights and throughout jurisdictions in suburban Cuyahoga County, Ohio's largest of 88 counties and of which includes Cleveland where a consent decree for police reforms is currently underway.

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