WHEN: WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 2008 – 3:00 P.M. (Please note: This is the time that protesters will mobilize before heading to a designated location where the civil disobedience will take place)

WHERE: New York Gathering Points:

* One Police Plaza (Rev. Al Sharpton. Nicole Paultre Bell, Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield will be at this location)

* Varick and Houston Street (Led by Hazel Dukes, NAACP and Labor leaders)

* 125th and Third Avenue (led by Rev. Dr. W. Franklyn Richardson, Chairman of National Action Network)

* House of the Lord Church, Brooklyn, New York (Led by Rev. Herbert Daughtry

* Third Avenue and 60th Street (Led by National Action Network Senior Staff)

* 34th and Park Avenue (Led by National Action Network Senior Staff)

Atlanta, GA 3:30pm Capitol Building 2 Martin Luther King Drive Washington Street Steps

Reverend Al Sharpton, President of National Action Network, will lead a citywide "pray-in" on Wednesday, May, 7th at six locations around New York City to lead up to an eventual citywide shut down this Spring.

There will be simultaneous support protests in front of federal buildings in Chicago and Atlanta also.

Joining Rev. Sharpton in civil disobedience from One Police Plaza in NYC will be Nicole Paultre Bell, Joseph Guzman, Trent Benefield and other community and religious leaders to call upon the United States Department of Justice to intervene in the Sean Bell case. According to Rev. Sharpton, participants in Wednesday's "pray-ins" at six locations across the city should be prepared to go to jail to protest the acquittals of the three detectives. "If you are not going to lock up the guilty in this town, then I guess you'll have to lock up the innocent," says Rev. Sharpton. Rev. Sharpton said protesters at each location would get down on their knees in prayer. He said he hopes the acts of civil disobedience will continue until an eventual citywide day to shutdown NYC later this Spring.