ROB LOS RICOS IN SEATTLE JULY 28

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ROB LOS RICOS IN SEATTLE JULY 28

Rob los Ricos to give speaking presentation at the Wayward Cafe in Seattle
WA on July 28.
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WHAT: Speaking presentation by APOC acivist writer Rob los Ricos.
WHEN: Friday July 28 7 pm.
WHERE: The Wayward Cafe 901 E. 55th St Seattle WA
ADMISSION: $8.00 suggested donation. No one turned away for lack of donation.
INFO: Marlena Gangi 1.503.493.2505 en_lucha@riseup.net

Rob los Ricos, a Chicano anarchist, was arrested for hitting an officer on
his shoulder with a rock during the June 18, 1999 Reclaim the Streets
demonstration (which came to be a police riot) in Eugene, Oregon. Of the
twenty-one people arrested in connection with the June 18 protest, Thaxton
received the stiffest charges: Assault II, Riot and Attempted Assault I.
An Attempted Murder charge was briefly brought forth and then dropped.

Thaxton’s bail was set at $240,00. In a trial fraught with bias as Judge
Mary Ann Bearden continually sided with the prosecutor, Bearden also
allowed jury members to be seated who stated that they could not be
impartial about anarchists given the news coverage of the events of June
18.

In September of 1999, Thaxton was sentenced to 70 months for Assault II.
Bearden departed from Measure 11 sentencing guidelines to hand down18
months for Riot. The sentences ran consecutively rather that concurrently.
He was releasesd from prison on June 29 of this year.

Visit Rob at roblosricos.blogspot.com & www.roblosricos.net