Thursday, September 20, 2007

David Bowie Help Fund The "Jena 6" Legal Defence Fund


"David Bowie has donated £5,000 to a legal defence fund for six black teenagers charged with attacking a white classmate in the tiny Louisiana town of Jena.

The case has split America with its overtones of institutional racism that hark back to the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

It concerns the fate of Mychal Bell and five other teens - known as the Jena Six – who were found guilty of assault by a six-member, all-white jury." |
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