On Wednesday, Sept. 8, from 4-5 p.m. CT (5-6 p.m. ET), join with one of 20 groups (and counting!) to rally across Tennessee and from coast to coast to show support for Pervis Payne.
These rallies mark the year anniversary of weekly rallies to Free Pervis Payne, held on the corner of Union and McLean in Memphis.
Please bring your signs, saying: “Free Pervis Payne,” “Justice for Pervis Payne,” etc. and join one of the rallies listed below:
Rally Locations, 4-5 p.m. CT / 5-6 p.m. ET
Memphis: Corner of Union and McLean
Cordova: St. Luke Lutheran Church, 2000 Germantown Parkway
Memphis Friends Meeting, 3387 Walnut Grove Road, with rally at the corner of Walnut Grove Road and Prescott St., 4:00-5:30
Munford: St. Mark AME Church, 842 Tipton Road, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Bolivar: Market St. and Polk, 4-5 p.m. CT
Murfreesboro: Sidewalk in front of Jason’s Deli, 452 N. Thompson Lane
Knoxville: Messiah Lutheran Church, 6900 Kingston Pike
Nashville (four locations):
Corner of John Lewis Way N. and James Robertson Parkway
Second Presbyterian Church, 3511 Belmont Boulevard
West End United Methodist Church, 2200 West End Avenue
Additional Nashville Rally, from 5-6 p.m. CT, at Christ the King, 3001 Belmont Blvd. Meet at the corner of Gale Lane and Belmont Blvd.
If you can’t make it to one of these rallies, you can also invite a few friends and find a street corner to bear witness in your town.
We ask that everyone take photos and post to social media during the rally, using #FreePervisPayne.
You are also invited to participate in the Power Up for Pervis Payne Facebook Livestream on Sept. 8 at Noon CT. The Innocence Project will feature this event on its Facebook page to provide an update on Mr. Payne’s case.
The host of the Facebook livestream will be Joia Thornton (formerly with TADP and now with the Southern Center for Human Rights).
Speakers for the livestream are: Kelley Henry and Vanessa Potkin, attorneys for Pervis Payne; Rolanda Holman, Pervis Payne’s sister and advocate; and Ndume Olatushani, a man wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in Tennessee, who spent 20 years on death row before his release.
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