Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Amherst, MA event: The War on Dissent

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The War on Dissent
An Interactive Panel Discussion on the Green Scare and San Francisco 8

Monday, November 5, 7-9 pm
(Guy Fawkes Day, mateys)

Food For Thought Books
106 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002, 413-253-5432

Panelists: Sarah Wald and Ashanti Alston
Sarah Wald is a forest activist from Oregon, who was part of the Cascadia
Rising Collective, and active with the Cascadia Forest Alliance.
Ashanti Alston is a co-chair of the National Jericho Movement, former
Black Panther, and former political prisoner.

Free, but Donations are Encouraged.
Funds raised will go to the Civil Liberties Defense Center and the Free
the San Francisco 8 Defense Committee, who are assisting with the legal
support of the defendants of the Green Scare and San Francisco 8,
respectively.
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The Green Scare is the federal government’s 2005-2007 sweep of arrests,
convictions, and grand jury indictments of environmental and animal
liberation activists and their supporters.

The San Francisco 8 are former Black Panthers who were arrested January
23, 2007, on charges related to the 1971 killing of a San Francisco police
officer. Similar charges were thrown out after it was revealed that police
used torture to extract confessions when some of these same men were
arrested in New Orleans in 1973.
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