Schools and Organizational Support
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
––African Proverb
A lot can be said about a person by who will back him/her in times of need. In addition to the nearly 300,000 signers to the petition to FREE Keith LaMar, the following are just some of the wide-ranging organizations who lend him their support and solidarity:
1. A Beautiful HEART Ministries
2. ACLU
3. Adelante Development Center
4. Al SVR SCCL
5. Americorps Vista
6. AMICUS
7. Amnesty International
8. AMOS Project
9. Ampl!fy Voices
10. Ancestor Project
11. Anemoie Projects
12. Appellate Litigation Clinic at Case Western Reserve University
13. The Arts Center at Duck Creek
14. Atlanta International School
15. Bartlit Center for Trial Advocacy at Northwestern University
16. Belongo
17. Catholic Charities
18. Challenge II Change
19. Clear Vision
20. Cleveland Museum of Art
21. Columbus Community Abolition Collective
22. Columbus Revolutionary Student Union
23. Cool Hand Series
24. Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom
25. Creative Beyond Incarceration
26. Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation
27. Dayton City Commission
28. Dayton Educational Association
29. Death Penalty Action
30. ECPM (Ensemble Against the Death Penalty)
31. Ecce Shnak Records
32. Erv Works Dance
33. Falca Visual St
34. Families Against Mandatory Minimums
35. Farm Labor Organizing Committee
36. Fathers & Sons of Northeast Ohio
37. Fellowship of Reconciliation
38. 5C Prison Abolition
39. Frederick Douglass Project for Justice
40. Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival
41. The Healing Project
42. HELP Project
43. Higher Conservatory of Music of the Balearic Islands
44. H.O.P.E.
45. Ignite Peace
46. Immortal Cinema International
47. Institute for Collaborative Education
48. Iron Workers
49. Jazz@Bucknell
50. Justice for Keith LaMar (501(c)
51. Mahoning Valley Organizing Collaborative
52. Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Ohio
53. The Marshall Project
54. Message Pics
55. Lava Records
56. National Low Income Housing Coalition
57. New York Society for Ethical Culture
58. Nkyinkyim Museum
59. Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson
60. Normal Pics
61. North Carolina Fair Share Community Development Center
62. Northeast Ohio Alliance for Hope
63. Northwestern Prison Education Program
64. NTS London
65. Ohio Arts Council
66. Ohio Citizen Action
67. Ohio Justice and Policy Center
68. Ohio Organizing Collaborative
69. Ohio Student Association
70. Ohioans to Stop Executions
71. Pan-African Campus/Community Organization (PACCO)
72. People’s Defense Columbus
73. Pleasant Street Books
74. Prison Radio
75. Prisons and Justice Initiative at Georgetown University
76. The Privilege Institute
77. Projectes Quesoni
78. Queer For Abolition Futures
79. Redbird Books to Prisoners
80. Reprieve
81. Richard Wright Society
82. Roots of Success
83. Say it Loud
84. Scioto Peace and Justice
85. Second Chance Network
86. SF Bayview
87. ShapeShifter Labs
88. Signal Co. No 1
89. Social Justice Institute at Case Western Reserve
90. Society of St. Vincent de Paul
91. Sojourn to the Past
92. Solidarity Media Network
93. St. Clair Superior Development Corporation
94. St. John’s Episcipal Church of Youngstown
95. St. John's Unitarian Universalist Church
96. Sunfood Sovereign LLC
97. Toledoans United for Social Action
98. 2220 Arts
99. Undergraduate Prison Education Program
100. UNESCO
101. United Food and Commercial Workers
102. United Returning Citizen Coalition
103. VERA
104. Virginia New Majority
105. The Raymond John Wean Foundation
106. Wellness of Mind & Body
107. Winton Terrace Resident Council
108. Wrongful Conviction
Read the documents supporting Keith for a pardon delivered to the governor at the Riffe Center in Columbus: