Daniel McGowan Benefit in Washington DC

Friday - October 5, 2007 at 7 p.m.
$5 - 10 Sliding Scale
to Benefit Political Prisoner Daniel McGowan

Defiance, Ohio
The Max Levine Ensemble
The Andalusians

at St. Stephens Church
1525 Newton St. (between 15th and 16th Streets)
NW Washington, DC
North of the Columbia Heights Metro on the Green Line

Daniel McGowan is a social and environmental justice activist and
political prisoner who was arrested and charged in federal court on
multiple counts of arson and conspiracy, relating to the arson of Superior
Lumber company in Glendale, Oregon on January 2, 2001 and Jefferson Poplar
Farms in Clatskanie, Oregon on May 21, 2001 claimed by the Earth
Liberation Front. McGowan was facing a minimum of life in prison if
convicted when he accepted a non-cooperation plea agreement on November 9,
2006. His arrest is part of what the US government has dubbed Operation
Backfire.

New York native McGowan has worked on many activist issues including
military counter-recruitment, demonstrations against the Republican
National Convention, the Really Really Free Market, and the support of
prisoners such as Jeff "Free" Luers and others. At the time of his arrest
McGowan was a graduate student earning a Master's degree in acupuncture
and an employee of WomensLaw.org, a nonprofit group that helps women in
domestic abuse situations navigate the legal system. He is currently
working on another Master's degree while serving a 7 year prison sentence.

For more information on Daniel McGowan: www.supportdaniel.org

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Sponsored by the Brian MacKenzie Infoshop
For more information: 202-986-0681 or www.dcinfoshop.org

The Infoshop is both a radical book and record store, as well as a
resource center. We are organized around anarchist principles and are
volunteer and cooperatively run. In addition to our modest selection of
radical books, and politically charged independent punk, hip-hop, folk,
spoken word and audio cd's & records we maintain a small video lending
library of documentary and political films; provide free computer and
internet access; make available meeting and event space for radical groups
and projects; sponsor a variety of political and cultural events such as
hosting speakers and authors, film-screenings, artists and various
performers; as well as provide a gathering space for radical activists to
meet and connect with other activists, independent thinkers, and
organizing projects. We work to promote and support the fight for global
justice and total liberation.