Mobilizing for 10/10: Boston Events

***Please forward***

Help Jericho Boston Mobilize for 10/10

On October 10, 2008 there will be a national mobilization in
New York City calling for amnesty and freedom for all US-held political
prisoners and prisoners of war. 10/10 will mark the 10th anniversary of
the Jericho '98 march in Washington, DC. Like Jericho ’98, the aim of
10/10 is not just to get people out to the march, but to gather folks
together to build a lasting relationship and strategize on how to get our
political prisoners and prisoners of war free, and to continue their and
our struggle for justice and freedom.


Jericho Boston will be holding a series of local events leading up to
10/10 to help build a strong contingent from our area. Please plan to
attend, get involved, and get out the word to others.


To download flyers for 10/10 and the following events, go to

https://lists.riseup.net/www/d_read/jericho_boston_announce/

Our next planning meeting will be


Thursday August 7, 2008


7:00pm


At the Codman Square Tech Center

450 Washington Street

Dorchester.


We will have pizza and refreshments!!


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1) Friday, August 22, 7:00 pm

Celebrate Black August with Jericho
Boston and Through Barbed Wire


Special 4th Friday Film Showing


“Eyes of the Rainbow” Assata Shakur and Oya

"Eyes of the Rainbow" deals with the life of Assata Shakur, the
Black Panther and Black Liberation Army leader who escaped from prison
and was given political asylum in Cuba, where she has lived for close to
15 years. In it we visit with Assata in Havana and she tells us about her
history and her life in Cuba and more…


After film, discussion lead by:

Kazi Toure

Former Political Prisoner

Co-chair of Jericho National


Special Performance by PRESENTE!

Friday, August 22

Community Church of Boston

565 Boylston Street

7:00-10:00pm

For more info call: 617-830-0732


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2) Saturday, August 30, 5:00pm

Celebrate Black August with Jericho Boston

featuring Askia Toure and Riders Against the Storm

Save the Date!

Saturday, August 30

Location to be annnounced

5:00- 9:00 pm

For more info call: 617-830-0732


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3) Sunday, September 14th, 9:00AM

RUNNING DOWN THE WALLS 5K FUNDRAISER FOR
POLITICAL PRISONERS

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14TH, 9AM

On September 14th, folks from all over will come together in the spirit
of fitness and social justice. People inside and outside the prison walls
will be taking part in Running Down the Walls, a 5k to raise funds for
10/10, a national mobilization calling for freedom for U.S.-held
political prisoners and prisoners of war. Our goal is to raise $2,000, as
well as raise consciousness and mobilize our communities to liberate
these Freedom Fighters.


Please come down to Jamaica Pond on Sunday 9/14 at 9am, where we will be
getting in shape together and providing much needed resources for our
comrades. Snacks and water will be provided to all participants. Please
bring something to share for lunch!


Jamaica Pond is located on the Jamaica Way in Jamaica Plain.

Take the Orange line to Green St., Green line to Heath St. or the 39 bus.
Call Jericho Boston for more detailed directions.

JERICHO-BOSTON

P.O. Box 301057, Boston, MA 02130 – (617)830-0732 –
jerichoboston.org

Notes from the 7/29/08 Rhineland Arraignment, Federal Court, Madison, WI

from comrades in Madison who attended:

Before U.S. Magistrate Judge: Stephen Crocker

Marshalls asked all audience members to sit in the second row (not first row). Audience included some of Aaron Ellringer’s coworkers from Eau Claire and a few Madison activists.

Defense attorneys present:
Michael Lieberman for Aaron Ellringer
Michael Lieberman
Federal Defender Services of Wisconsin, Inc.
222 West Washington Ave.
Suite 300
Madison, WI 53703
608-260-9900
608-260-9901 (fax)
michael_lieberman@fd.org

Mark Maciolek for Katherine Christianson (brought to WI from NM)
Mark Maciolek
Samuel Phillip Law Offices, LLC
22 North Carroll St. #313
Madison, WI 53703
608-661-8509
608-661-8507 (fax)
mark@mnm-law.com

Reed Cornea for Bryan River (not present, still being held in custody in
Washington state, coming to WI?)
Reed Cornia
Cornia Law, LLC
1213 North Sherman Avenue
P.O. Box 354
Madison, WI 53704
(608- 242-0096
(608- 242-0098 (fax)
reedcornia@cornialaw.com

Federal Prosecutor:
Meredith P Duchemin
United States Attorney’s Office
660 West Washington Avenue, #303
Madison, WI 53703
608-264-5158
608-264-5054 (fax)
Meredith.Duchemin@USDOJ.gov

Grand Jury charges read - two counts:
First count under title 18, sec. 371, carries penalty of 5 years, $250,000 fine
Second count under title 18, sec. 2 & 1361, carries penalty of 10 years, $250,000 fine

Aaron Ellringer and Katherine Christianson both pled not guilty to charges.

Likely to go before Judge Crabb (note: Judge Crabb also dealt with the arrests of 29 anti-Crandon Mine protesters from the EF! Round River rendezvous back in 1997… we can get more info on the judge’s behavior in that case) Back up option is Judge Moody, though that is unlikely since Moody is
not really doing criminal cases right now.

Much discussion about release conditions for defendants between defense, prosecution, and the judge.

Judge pushed for no travel restrictions - Aaron Ellringer needs to go to CO to help his parents move back to WI. Both Aaron Ellringer and Katherine Chistianson surrendered their passports.

Judge Crocker explained in detail the “notice of penalties/sanctions” on the second last page of the release order. This includes threat of additional criminal charges if the defendants:
1.)fail to appear in court
2.)engage in obstruction of justice - specifically destroying evidence and/or tampering with witnesses
3.)being charged with any other criminal offense while this case is underway
The federal prosecutor Duchemin, expressed concern about defendants’ tampering with witnesses… Also, the prosecutor expected that some evidence would be challenged by the defense, specifically some confession (???)

More discussion about time table for pre trial hearings. Federal prosecutor. Duchemin, predicts case will take two days. Judge Crocker reluctant to push case back into early 2009, wants to deal with it this fall - in conjunction with Pineta case (??? - not sure what this is, another grand jury indictment? Case 100 somehow related to Case 105? - apparently, DA Maciolek is involved in this other case, as well… need to talk to him!)

Tentative pre-trial evidentiary hearing to deal with meritorious motions, etc. set for Oct. 8th 10:30 am

Tentative final hearing set for Nov. 14th 10:30 am

Briefly spoke with Aaron Ellringer and DA Maciolek afterward to tell them that we are available for any help – such as turning people out for the hearings and/or generating letters to the judge if those are useful at any point.

We are also starting to collect legal defense funds for this case through:
Madison GDC
P.O. Box 2442
Madison, WI 53701
(which has already sent some $$$ for the Marie Mason Green Scare case in OH). A legal defense fundraiser is already being organized in northern WI by friends of Aaron Ellringer. Since he is also a
Wobbly, we will be contacting other IWW branches for their support.

New update on Daniel McGowan

From:    "Family + Friends of Daniel McG" <friendsofdanielmcg@yahoo.com>
Date:    Thu, July 31, 2008

Hi friends,

A lot has been going on over the last few weeks with Daniel and this is
our attempt to catch everyone up. Daniel was in the process of
transferring to another federal facility when he was subpoenaed to a grand
jury in Madison, Wisconsin. He went from Columbia County Jail in Portage,
Wisconsin to Dane County Jail in Madison and then later back to Portage,
all during the period of June 11 - July 24.

Daniel appeared before the grand jury in Madison twice during this time.
He did  not in fact "resist" the grand jury since he did answer questions
about himself - his name, his charges, if statements about himself and his
actions in  his plea agreement were correct - but when the government
asked that he confirm the names of others they were intending to indict in
connection with the actions, Daniel did not respond to this. He cited his
own plea agreement with the government from his case and said that having
to discuss other's actions was in violation of this agreement.  He was
later brought back into court and was given a chance  to purge (answer the
question he did not answer) and again refused to do so. The court charged
him with civil contempt because of this. He was held in contempt for
around a week, which for him meant that that time did not count towards
his existing sentence.

Last Monday, July 21st, the government filed a motion to lift the civil
contempt. The US Attorney (gov't) moved to dismiss the contempt order
after indicting two to three others and after the statute of limitation
had expired with respect to crimes committed in Wisconsin.  At that point,
Daniel could be of no help to the government even had he been inclined to
do so, which he was not. The judge signed signed the order releasing
Daniel from contempt on July 23rd.

We have learned that Daniel has been designated to a special unit in the
federal prison in Marion, Illinois. He is currently still at FCI Terre
Haute in Indiana but we are under the assumption he will be moving within
the next week or so. We will provide more information on this as it comes.

Please continue to write to Daniel along his route. You can reach him now at:

Daniel McGowan #63794-053
FCI Terre Haute
Federal Correctional Institution
P.O. Box 33
Terre Haute, IN 47808

Thanks so much,
Family & Friends of Daniel McGowan


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friendsofdanielmcg@yahoo.com

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sent to the above PO Box or online at http://tinyurl.com/8blde

Latest news on Dan Amos and Bryan Rivera

Urgent ELP! Bulletin (31st of July 2008)

Dear friends

Following yesterdays news of animal rights activists, Dan Amos, Nat Avery and Greg Avery, all pleading guilty to "conspiracy to blackmail" (the charges related to their campaigning against Huntingdon Life Sciences), Dan has been placed in HMP Exeter.

Please send urgent letters of support to:

Dan Amos VN7818
HMP Exeter
30 New North Road
Exeter
Devon
EX4 4EX
England

Nat and Greg's prison addresses remain the same and are:

Gregg Avery (TA7450)
HMP Winchester
Romsey Road
Winchester
SO22 5DF
England

Natasha Avery (NR8987)
HMP Bronzefield
Woodthorpe Road
Ashford, Middx
TW15 3JZ

Also, don't forget their co-defendant, Heather, who is remains on remand pending her trial.

Heather Nicholson (VM4859)

HMP Bronzefield

Woodthorpe Road

Ashford, Middx

TW15 3JZ

England

Moving away from British news and turning to America, ELP has learnt that Katherine Christianson and Aaron Ellringer, who have both been accused of ELF actions, appeared in court on Tuesday the 29th of July, where they both pleaded not guilty and were released on bail. Their co-defendent Bryan Rivera aka Bryan Lefey remains imprisoned.

Please send letters of support to:

Bryan Lefey #38664-086
FDC SeaTac
Federal Detention Center
P.O. Box 13900
Seattle, WA 98198

USA

Below is another mainstream media article about the case.

http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/524587.html

Olympia man faces charges of vandalism

Olympian News Services • Published July 30, 2008

Bryan Rivera of Olympia and two others were indicted Tuesday in Madison, Wis., for allegedly attacking a federal forestry research station in northern Wisconsin in 2000.

The attack on the U.S. Forest Service facility in Rhinelander was on a long-running research project aimed at improving the health of trees and left numerous government vehicles vandalized. A recently unsealed indictment says members of the Earth Liberation Front and Earth First carried out the attack because they believed — erroneously — that scientists were performing a genetic research project on trees. Both groups, which have used arson and vandalism in protests, view that research as damaging to the environment, prosecutors said.

Rivera; Katherine Christianson of Santa Fe, N.M.; and Aaron Ellringer of Eau Claire, Wis., were charged with conspiring to damage government property and damaging government property. They face up to 15 years in prison each if convicted.

Prosecutors said Rivera, Christianson and two others used saws to cut down trees and spray paint and etching cream to vandalize Forest Service vehicles with ELF references.

Ellringer was their driver, prosecutors said.

Tom Schmidt, a Forest Service official in St. Paul, Minn., who oversees the Rhinelander station, said the effects went far beyond the $500,000 in physical damage in the indictment.

He said the attack was a blow to a research project designed to make certain species of trees grow faster and healthier to improve their efficiency as an energy source.

Rivera worked at Fish Tale Brew Pub in Olympia as a server. The manager there said Rivera was well-liked by co-workers and was a reliable worker, so they were surprised by his arrest, although they did know him as Bryan LeFey. The owner of the property where he lived also said he was a man of integrity. Guns were confiscated during the arrest, but the property owner has said they were his.

The project, which since has resumed, does not involve genetic research and instead uses traditional plant-breeding techniques, Schmidt said.

Rivera and Christianson met at an Earth First conference in Tennessee and started planning the attack.

The FBI arrested Rivera, a 31-year-old man also known as "Brian Lefey" and "Rat Dog," last week in Olympia. He is expected to be transferred to Madison to make his initial appearance in federal court next month.

Christianson, 27, and Ellringer, 35, made their initial court appearances Tuesday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Crocker ordered their release pending trial, scheduled for Dec. 1.

Lawyers for the three did not return phone messages Tuesday.

Schmidt said the attack prompted the Forest Service to improve security at Rhinelander. He said the research there is at the forefront of helping solve the U.S. energy crisis.

"We took a blow to the belly and kept on going forward," Schmidt said. "We're just pleased that it appears justice will be served."

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Earth Liberation Prisoners Support Network
BM Box 2407
London
WC1N 3XX
England
www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk

OKC Visiting Rod Coronado

From:    "Support for Rod Coronado" <info@supportrod.org>
Date:    Tue, July 29, 2008


Good News!  We, Maya and I, begin our journey to visit Rod tomorrow!  We
leave very early and arrive in Oklahoma just in time to get the 103 degree
weather at its peak!  Humidity at its best!  Really, I do like the
heaviness of humid air.  The last time I was in such a hot, humid place it
felt like I got hit in the head with a wet towel.
I have a four day visit with Rod, if all goes well.  I am always hesitant
to assume that anything will go how it's "supposed" to in regards to the
prison.  From experience, there is always a glitch in the system, or I
guess really the system is a glitch in itself... designed that way.
The next week will be intense, full of laughter and tears, games between a
daddy and his little girl that have been put on pause for 3 months, and
dreams rekindled and expanded..... I am so glad to be beginning this
journey, and also appreciative of the last trip to see Rod.  I am much
more comfortable bringing Maya knowing what to expect from both the prison
and the area.
Please keep us in your hearts, and know ours are (hopefully) full of all
of the feelings families should be able to experience!
I also want to send out some extra love for those who are suffering due to
loss of family members, loss of economic means to survive, and all Earths
creatures who are struggling against Empire.
Keep your hearts strong!
Chrysta

The following physical address is associated with this mailing list:

PO Box 732
Tucson, Arizona 85702

Olympia man faces charges of vandalism

Olympian News Services • Published July 30, 2008

Bryan Rivera of Olympia and two others were indicted Tuesday in
Madison, Wis., for allegedly attacking a federal forestry research
station in northern Wisconsin in 2000.

The attack on the U.S. Forest Service facility in Rhinelander was on
a long-running research project aimed at improving the health of
trees and left numerous government vehicles vandalized. A recently
unsealed indictment says members of the Earth Liberation Front and
Earth First carried out the attack because they believed —
erroneously — that scientists were performing a genetic research
project on trees. Both groups, which have used arson and vandalism in
protests, view that research as damaging to the environment,
prosecutors said.

Rivera; Katherine Christianson of Santa Fe, N.M.; and Aaron Ellringer
of Eau Claire, Wis., were charged with conspiring to damage
government property and damaging government property. They face up to
15 years in prison each if convicted.

Prosecutors said Rivera, Christianson and two others used saws to cut
down trees and spray paint and etching cream to vandalize Forest
Service vehicles with ELF references.

Ellringer was their driver, prosecutors said.

Tom Schmidt, a Forest Service official in St. Paul, Minn., who
oversees the Rhinelander station, said the effects went far beyond
the $500,000 in physical damage in the indictment.

He said the attack was a blow to a research project designed to make
certain species of trees grow faster and healthier to improve their
efficiency as an energy source.

Rivera worked at Fish Tale Brew Pub in Olympia as a server. The
manager there said Rivera was well-liked by co-workers and was a
reliable worker, so they were surprised by his arrest, although they
did know him as Bryan LeFey. The owner of the property where he lived
also said he was a man of integrity. Guns were confiscated during the
arrest, but the property owner has said they were his.

The project, which since has resumed, does not involve genetic
research and instead uses traditional plant-breeding techniques,
Schmidt said.

Rivera and Christianson met at an Earth First conference in Tennessee
and started planning the attack.

The FBI arrested Rivera, a 31-year-old man also known as "Brian
Lefey" and "Rat Dog," last week in Olympia. He is expected to be
transferred to Madison to make his initial appearance in federal
court next month.

Christianson, 27, and Ellringer, 35, made their initial court
appearances Tuesday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Crocker ordered
their release pending trial, scheduled for Dec. 1.

Lawyers for the three did not return phone messages Tuesday.

Schmidt said the attack prompted the Forest Service to improve
security at Rhinelander. He said the research there is at the
forefront of helping solve the U.S. energy crisis.

"We took a blow to the belly and kept on going forward," Schmidt
said. "We're just pleased that it appears justice will be served."

New British SHAC prisoner

ELP Information Bulletin (30th July 2008)

Dear friends

ELP has just learnt that today British SHAC activist Dan Amos was remanded into custody after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to blackmail charges. he charges related to him campaigning against Huntingdon Life Sciences.

We understand that Dan is spending the night in a police cell in Hampshire as, due to prison over crowding there is no space for him in any of the local prisons! (As someone who has had the "joy" of an overnight stay in a Hampshire police cell I can assure you its not a comfortable experience)

As soon as ELP has a prison address for Dan we will let people know. But we strongly encourage everyone to check out the British Vegan Prisoners Support Group website www.vpsg.org as the chances are Dan's prison address will appear on that website first!

Besides Dan, two others have also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to blackmail. They are Natasha Avery and Greg Avery. Both Nat and Greg are already in custody.

Stay tuned for more news on Dan, Nat and Greg as we get it.

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Earth Liberation Prisoners Support Network
BM Box 2407
London
WC1N 3XX
England
www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk

American sentenced for bomb hoax

ELP Information Bulletin (30th July 2008)

Dear friends

ELP has just learnt that an American, who bombhoaxed a university if they didn't release their lab animals, has been sentenced to 15 months inside. At the moment we do not have an address for the American, but below is a mainstream media article about the man.


http://www.10news.com/news/17018382/detail.html

Ex-UCSD Worker Sentenced For Bomb Hoax

SAN DIEGO -- A former temporary worker at the University of California, San
Diego, who made bogus threats to blow up buildings on campus if research
animals weren't released, was sentenced Monday to 15 months in federal
prison and ordered to pay $10,419 in restitution.

Richard Sills, who pleaded guilty March 11 to one count of making threats
involving animal enterprises, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Larry
Burns.

The 55-year-old La Jolla resident admitted making two phone calls and
sending a letter to the university claiming there was a bomb on campus last
Dec. 5. A bogus device was found that morning at the Leichtag Family
Foundation Biomedical Research Building, where Sills was a temporary
employee at the time.

According to the indictment, Sills said in the second call, "Take this very
seriously. There is a bomb in the Leichtag Building. Take this very
seriously."

Sills also sent a letter to the UCSD Police Department stating that the
Animal Liberation Front would detonate remote-controlled explosive devices
the activist group had placed in six campus buildings unless animals from
campus research facilities were released, according to court papers.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Mazza said Sills' sentence was on the low end
of the agreed-upon federal sentencing guidelines because it did not appear
he was affiliated with the Animal Liberation Front.

"It (the bomb threat) was his form of _expression against testing on
animals," the prosecutor said.

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Earth Liberation Prisoners Support Network
BM Box 2407
London
WC1N 3XX
England
www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk

Postponement of Cookout

Folks,

Due to scheduling conflicts with our bus company, the ProLibertad Freedom Cookout has been postponed from August 2nd to a later date. ProLibertad apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause. We will be emailing you all again with the possible new date.

The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign

Updated 7/29: Free the Cuban 5 Month Calendar

ENDORSE THE FREE THE CUBAN 5 MONTH!

Initial Endorsers:

• The Popular Education Project to free the Cuban 5
• EL Frente Socialista-Comite de NYC
• International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5
• Al-Awda Right to Return
• The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
• Brigada Vilma Guillois Espin
• The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign
• New York Anarchist Black Cross Federation
• The Philadelphia Cuba Solidarity Coalition
• Nicaragua Solidarity Committee Chicago
• The Cuba Solidarity Committee in Houston
• Puerto Rican Alliance Of Los Angeles
• Radical Women
• Freedom Socialist Party
• The Venceremos Brigade
• December 12^th Movement
• The Orange County KPFK Support Group
• International Action Center
• Troops Out Now Coalition
• Worker’s World Party
• MarVellAlliance
• Fuerza de la Revolucion
• NYC Jericho Movement
• Cuba Solidarity New York
• Peace and Freedom Party

To organizations and Individuals who believe in the Freedom of the Cuban 5,

In 2006, Ricardo Alarcon, President of the Cuban National Assembly, declared the period of time between September 12-October 8 to be a time to raise awareness around the Cuban 5. Here in NYC The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5 extends this time to October 12; in order for it to be a full month of events and to include a commemoration of the assassination of Ernest “Che” Guevara. We refer to this period of time as the “Free the Cuban 5 Month!”

September 12^th is the tenth anniversary of the arrest of the Cuban 5 and the Project wants to create a calendar full of events throughout the city, nationally and internationally! Motivated by the negative and unjust decision of the 11^th Circuit Appeals, the Project feels it is time to double our efforts to educate about the case of the Cuban 5 and to garner more support on their behalf.

The Project would like to organize Cuban 5 events in NYC communities that have not had them before. We want to broaden this movement and build Solidarity for the Cuban 5 in as many communities as possible.

The Project is asking organizations and individuals to organize forums, letter writing nights, film screenings, conversations, or fund-raisers for the Cuban 5. The Project will help by providing speakers, films, literature and promotion!

If you are interested in endorsing the Free the Cuban 5 Month AND ORGANIZING AN EVENT, please email us at freethecuban5@gmail.com

So far this is the Calendar events:

Sat. September 13-All out to Washington DC! 10^th anniversary of the arrest of the Cuban 5! Demonstration for the Cuban 5! More information will be published soon!

Tues. Sept. 16^th-LETTER WRITING NIGHT IN BROOKLYN with the New York Anarchist Black Cross Federation, details TBA…

Fri. Sept. 26-El Barrio for the Cuban 5 event at Cemi Underground

Sun. Sept. 28^th-Poetry/cultural Event at Sista’s Place with the December 12^th Movement TBA

Fri. Oct 3-Venceremos Brigade Report back from Cuba TBA

Wed. Oct. 8-Concert for the Cuban 5 in Durham, NC 119 West St. Durham, NC at 9pm

Fri. October 10- 10^th Anniversary Jericho March in NYC for all Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War in New York City!! Check the Jericho Website: www.jerichony.org

Sat. Nov. 1^st-Cuban 5 event with the Radical Women at Freedom Hall in Harlem

For more information on FREE THE CUBAN 5 MONTH consult The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5 website: www.freethecuban5.com

Puerto Rican Independentistas protest against Grand Jury subpoenas

From:    "Political Prisoner News" <ppnews@freedomarchives.org>
Date:    Mon, July 28, 2008

English translation follows Spanish

Protestan los independentistas contra citaciones al Gran Jurado
Dos boricuas tendrían que comparecer en caso contra los Macheteros.
Por Eugenio Hopgood / ehopgood@elnuevodia.com
28 julio 2008

http://www.elnuevodia.com/diario/noticia/puertoricohoy/noticias/protestan_los_independentistas_contra_citaciones_al_gran_jurado/436270

Simpatizantes de varias organizaciones
independentistas y socialistas protestaron anoche
en una vigilia frente al Tribunal Federal en Hato
Rey, contra las citaciones a comparecer ante un Gran Jurado federal.

Estas fueron expedidas a dos puertorriqueños en
Nueva York, como parte de la investigación
federal contra la organización clandestina
independentista Ejército Popular Boricua-Macheteros.

Ramón Díaz, uno de los portavoces, dijo que la
actividad convocada por la Mesa de Solidaridad
Contra la Represión se lleva cabo en la víspera
de una vista judicial que tendrá lugar hoy en
Brooklyn, Nueva York, en torno a las citaciones
para obligar a comparecer ante el gran jurado a
la artista gráfica Tania Frontera y al trabajador social Christopher Torres.

Díaz explicó que las citaciones contra Frontera y
Torres se han pospuesto debido a que hay una
moción pendiente que solicita que éstas se dejen sin efecto.

Los abogados de los independentistas citados
solicitaron en su moción que la Fiscalía revele
si las citaciones se basan en intercepciones
electrónicas para cuestionar la legalidad de
éstas. La Fiscalía indicó que tenía que discutir
ese punto en una vista confidencial sin acceso de
público o de prensa, dijo Díaz.

Hoy, los fiscales intentarán convencer a la juez
que atiende el caso de que es necesario que las
evidencias que justifiquen la citaciones se
ventilen en secreto, pero también se podría
decidir en el acto que se supriman las citaciones.

La moción para dejar sin efecto las citaciones
también alega que el gran jurado "ha sido
utilizado históricamente como instrumento de la
fiscalía federal para perseguir activistas
políticos y particularmente contra los
independentistas puertorriqueños", dijo Díaz.

"El asunto es que tan pronto como mañana (hoy)
Puerto Rico podría tener dos nuevos presos
políticos porque ya estos dos puertorriqueños han
dicho que no van a colaborar con el gran jurado",
sostuvo Díaz, un planificador miembro de La Nueva
Escuela, una entidad independentista que actúa en la región oeste.

Entre las organizaciones que forman parte de la
Mesa de Solidaridad contra la Represión están el
Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño (PIP) el
Movimiento Independentiusta Nacional Hostosiano
(MINH), el Frente Socialista, el Comité de
Derechos Humanos, el Partido Nacionalista, la
Nueva Escuela y Madres contra la Guerra, entre otros.
Díaz dijo que Julio Pabón, de Nueva York, uno de
los puertorriqueños originalmente citados,
compareció ante el gran jurado, no así Frontera y Torres.

Frontera, de 35 años, es hija de un asesor
legislativo de la senadora María de Lourdes
Santiago, el licenciado Carlos Frontera. Torres
es un puertoriqueño oriundo de Nueva York. Ambos
son representados por los abogados Susan
Tipograph y Martin Stolar, del National Lawyers Guild.

Eliott Montverde también ha sido citado por este gran jurado.

Las citaciones para comparecer ante el Gran
Jurado incluso provocaron una llamada del
congresista boricua de Nueva York, José Serrano,
al jefe del FBI, Robert Mueller, en la cual le
manifestó que los casos aparentaban ser el
reinicio del hostigamiento federal contra los independentistas.
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Independentistas protest against Grand Jury subpoenas
Two Puerto Ricans would have to appear in case against The Macheteros
By Eugenio Hopgood / ehopgood@elnuevodia.com
July 28, 2008

http://www.elnuevodia.com/diario/noticia/puertoricohoy/noticias/protestan_los_independentistas_contra_citaciones_al_gran_jurado/436270

Sympathizers from various indepednentista and
socialist organizations protested last night in a
vigil in front of the Federal Court in Hato Rey,
against the subpoenas to appear before a federal Grand Jury.

They were issued to two Puerto Ricans in New
York, as part of the federal investigation of the
clandestine independence organization Boricua Popular Army– Macheteros.

Ramón Díaz, one of the spokespeople, said that
the activity convened by the Table of Solidarity
Against Repression took place on the eve of a
judicial hearing that will take place today in
Brooklyn, New York, concerning the subpoenas
obligating the grand jury appearance of graphic
artist Tania Frontera and social worker Christopher Torres.

Díaz explained that the subpoenas of Frontera and
Torres had been postponed due to a pending motion to quash.

Attorneys for the subpoenaed independentistas
sought in their motion for the prosecution to
reveal whether the subpoenas are based on
electronic surveillance, to question the legality
of such surveillance. The U.S. Attorney said that
it had to discuss this matter in a secret
hearing, at which the public and the press would be excluded, said Díaz.

Today, the prosecution will try to convince the
judge who hears the case that she should hold a
sealed, secret hearing about what evidence
warrants the subpoenas. Today at the hearing, the
motion to quash the subpoenas could also be decided.

The motion to quash the subpoenas also alleges
that the grand jury “has historically been used
as a tool of the federal prosecution to persecute
political activists and particularly Puerto Rican
independentistas,” said Díaz.

“The issue is that as early as tomorrow (today),
Puerto Rico could have two new political
prisoners, because these two Puerto Ricans have
already said they are not going to collaborate
with the Grand Jury,”maintained Díaz, a founding
member of The New School, an independentista
organization active in the western part of the island.

Among the organizations that form the Table of
Solidarity Against Repression are the Puerto
Rican Independence Party (PIP), the National
Hostos Independence Movement (MINH), the
Socialist Front, the Human Rights Committee, the
Nationalist Party, The New School, and Mothers Against the War, among others.

Díaz said that Julio Pabón, of New York, one of
the Puerto Ricans originally subpoenaed, appeared
before the grand jury, while Frontera and Torres have not.

Frontera, 35 years old, is the daughter of
attorney Carlos Frontera, a legislative advisor
of senator María de Lourdes Santiago. Torres is a
Puerto Rican from New York. Both are represented
by attorneys Susan Tipograph y Martin Stolar, of the National Lawyers Guild.

Elliott Monteverde has also been subpoenaed to this grand jury.

The subpoenas to appear before the Grand Jury
provoked the Puerto Rican congressman from New
York, José Serrano, to make a phone call to FBI
chief Robert Mueller, during which Serrano stated
that these cases appear to be the reinitiation of
federal harassment of independentistas.




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Court today in Brooklyn grand jury subpoenas of Puerto Rican independentistas

From:    "Political Prisoner News" <ppnews@freedomarchives.org>
Date:    Mon, July 28, 2008

Report: July 28, 2008 court date
on Tania Frontera & Christopher Torres grand jury subpoenas

Motion to intervene
Judge Carol Amon said she first wanted to address the Motion to Intervene, as she had already determined that this could be discussed publicly. The National Boricua Human Rights Network and the Comite Pro Derechos Humanos de Puerto Rico, represented by National Lawyers Guild lawyers Alan Levine and Jeffrey Rothman, had filed a Motion to Intervene in the Motion to Quash filed by Tania and Christopher's attorneys. The judge denied the motion, concluding that the two organizations had not made out a sufficiently concrete injury directly related to the subpoenas. The judge did say that she would consider the intervention papers as if they were an amicus brief as to the motion to quash. She also said that in the event that the grand jury asks Tania and Christopher questions about political activities or associations, the intervenors could renew their motion.

Motion to Quash
Tania and Christopher's attorneys, National Lawyers Guild lawyers Martin Stolar, Susan Tipograph, and David Brankin,, had filed a Motion to Quash the subpoenas, asking the court to require the government to show that the grand jury was conducting a legitimate criminal inquiry and not a political witchhunt against the Puerto Rican i ndependence movement. The judge denied the motion, ruling they had not shown sufficient infringement on their associational rights for her to order the government to reveal the nature of the grand jury investigation.

Electronic Surveillance
Tania and Christopher's attorneys had also asked the court to require the government to show that the grand jury and its questions were not based on illegal electronic surveillance. The judge said she did not think they had made a colorable claim that would require a more detailed response from the government, but said that the better practice would be for the government to have one of the agents with knowledge of the investigation submit an affidavit addressing this issue, and ordered the government to do so within 10 days.

Secrecy
The government had asked the court to file all documents, except those related to intervention, under seal, and to conduct all hearings in chambers and closed to the public. The judge ruled that, while the papers must remain sealed, the proceedings could take place in open court, since she planned to say nothing that would violate the rule requiring that grand jury matters remain sealed. She also allowed unsealing the sealed papers to the extent that the parties can agree to the redactions.

What happens next
There was no date set for the next court appearance.

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Update on John Bowden

The following e-mail was received from brightonabc@yahoo.co.uk

Lifer and long term prison rebel John Bowden, who absconded from Open Prison whilst on home leave, was recaptured on 6/6/08. After 3 weeks on the run the Police discovered JB hiding on a farm on the outskirts of Glasgow. He now languishes back in maximum security conditions in HMP Glenochil in need of support and solidarity.

The incident at the farm quickly escalated into a tense siege situation, with armed anti-terror Police, who were acting on a tip off from an informant, ringing the perimeter. It was at this point that John feared that this was a scene the cops would be only too happy for him not to walk out of alive. However with the intervention of a sympathetic journalist a line of communication was opened and the siege ended peacefully after 7 hours, with John and another person arrested.

The Scottish media had from the outset portrayed John's being-at-large with predictably sensational headlines ( 'Mad Axeman on the loose', etc...) when in reality he had been on home leave once a month for the past 12 months and on the long road to eventual release. The day he was recaptured reads like a Western stand-off between the sheriff's deputies and a bunch of desperados rather than the Police taking an absconder from an open prison back into custody.

John was convicted for a murder he describes as stupid and a terrible mistake, has spent his entire adult life in prison. Politicised by his incarceration he's regularly payed the price for his resistance through long periods of isolation, brutal beatings and treatment amounting to torture. He has never been broken and is one of the UK's most articulate and vociferous prison writers and a powerful advocate of prisoners rights.

Throughout his 25 years imprisonment, John has suffered constant harassment and brutality at the hands of the system. As someone who is not prepared to compromise his beliefs, this has served to mark him out for special attention. In May 2007 the Scottish Prison and Probation Service were involved in a clumsy attempt to prevent his parole by framing him (and smearing the ABC prisoner support network) with accusations that the ABC was involved in terrorism and that JB was therefore associating with terrorists! This all spectacularly backfired, with the SPS issuing a full apology. However it was successful in preventing his parole then and cost him a transfer back to closed conditions for 6 months.

In Britain life sentence prisoners are in the hands of the Parole Board who can stretch a prisoner's term to suit their prejudices. Not having a fixed date to work towards is a form of torture in itself. As John said in a recent letter received after his 'apprehension' "Yes it's very depressing being dependent on faceless bureaucrats for some hope of release, especially when you know they possess not a shred of compassion or humanity and certainly no sense of fair play or justice. Being locked up in jail on a long sentence is horrendous enough, but for most long-term prisoners the certainty of a release date at least provides them with a definite hope of release, a cut off point when the hardship and suffering will end and they'll regain their freedom. For those serving life there never is any definite hope of release, just this constant, seemingly endless passage of jail time measured not in the passing of days, weeks, months and years, but in the physical ageing of oneself and the hardening of ones heart in the face of constant parole knock backs and dashed hopes. It definitely requires a particular type of strength to retain one's sanity and humanity in such circumstances, and of course the cruel irony is that those who survive with dignity, courage and grace are usually considered the least suitable for release by the cold, heartless bastards who decide on such matters."

On top of that, in May this year, during a routine drug test he provided a false positive result for cocaine (a second subsequent test established that he was in fact drug free). Under duress and fearing yet another fit-up was under way to prevent his release and send him back to maximum security again, he absconded.

At the moment John is facing fresh charges over his absconding whilst on home leave (and resisting arrest) and is potentially likely to suffer a major setback to his eventual release. Therefore it is vital that John is supported through these difficult times and the Scottish Prison Service put on notice that it cannot isolate and persecute prisoners at will.

Brighton ABC


write to JB at:

John Bowden
Prison No. 6729
HM Prison Glenochil
King OMuir Road
TULLIBODY
FK10 3AD

Scotland

New Resource Site for Sundiata Acoli!

From:    "Political Prisoner News" <ppnews@freedomarchives.org>
Date:    Sun, July 27, 2008

FREE SUNDIATA ACOLI!
=====================

Uhuru! We are pleased to announce the official launch of a
tribute/resource website for our Comrade, Baba Sundiata Acoli at
<http://www.sundiataacoli.org/>www.sundiataacoli.org!  We must keep
the pressure on and continue to let Baba Sundiata know that he isn't
forgotten nor forsaken, we also need to and must ramp up our support
for all our POW's.  Please visit
<http://www.sundiataacoli.org/>www.sundiataacoli.org, spread the
word, and link to it as broadly as possible!

Yours In Struggle
The Talking Drum Collective
<http://www.thedrum.org/>www.thedrum.org



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The Indictment against Bryan Rivera and others

ELP Information Bulletin (27th of July 2008)

Dear friends

ELP has just received the following e-mail from the EWOK (Earth Warriors are OK) prisoner support group. As you can see it contains more information about the indictment against Bryan Rivera aka Bryan Lefey and his co-accused Katherine Christianson and Aaron Ellringer. The indictment also names Oregon Trial prisoner Daniel McGowan.

In their e-mail EWOK also mentions that they have learnt that Katherine Christianson and Aaron Ellringer are due to be arraigned in Madison on Tuesday the 29th of July.

As soon as any further information is known about this case we will let you know.

=========


From: fightthegreenscare@riseup.net

URL: http://www.midwestgreenscare.org

Here is the Rhinelander Indictment of Katherine Christianson, Bryan Rivera, and Aaron Ellringer: http://midwestgreenscare.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/rhinelander-indictment.pdf. It names Daniel McGowan as a currently unindicted coconspirator- the indictment comes out of the Grand Jury he recently refused to cooperate with- as well as known snitch Ian Wallace. Additionally, it refers to other participant individuals "known and unknown to the Grand Jury."

We have also learned that both Christianson and Ellringer will be arraigned in Madison this Tuesday, July 29, at 10:00 a.m.

Please pass this information on as far and wide as possible.

-EWOK!, www.midwestgreenscare.org

++++++++

Earth Liberation Prisoners Support Network
BM Box 2407
London
WC1N 3XX
www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk

Rhinelander Indictment, Arraignment Dates

From Earth Warriors are OK!
http://midwestgreenscare.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/rhinelander-indictment/

Here is the Rhinelander Indictment of Katherine Christianson, Bryan
Rivera, and Aaron Ellringer. It names Daniel McGowan as a currently
unindicted coconspirator- the indictment comes out of the Grand Jury he
recently refused to cooperate with- as well as known snitch Ian Wallace.
Additionally, it refers to other participant individuals “known and
unknown to the Grand Jury.”

We have also learned that both Christianson and Ellringer will be
arraigned in Madison this Tuesday, July 29, at 10:00 a.m.

Please pass this information on as far and wide as possible.

http://midwestgreenscare.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/rhinelander-indictment.pdf

New American ELF prisoner

Urgent ELP! Bulletin (26th of July 2008)

Dear friends

Yesterday ELP reported the arrest and remanding of an American, Bryan Rivera, a.k.a Bryan Lefey, who is accused of involvement in an ELF action eight years ago. Following our enquiries we believe that Bryan has been remanded under the name Bryan Lefey.

Please send letters of support to:

Bryan Lefey #38664-086

FDC SeaTac

Federal Detention Center

P.O. Box 13900

Seattle, WA 98198

USA

So far the only information we have about Bryan is one mainstream media artilce (reproduced below). If anyone knows Bryan or any of the others mentioned in this article (for example Katherine Christianson), or anything about this case please let ELP know.

FBI arrests Earth Liberation Front suspect in Olympia
http://www.theolympian.com/672/story/519575.html

By Jeremy Pawloski | The Olympian • Published July 25, 2008

An alleged Earth Liberation Front member was arrested by FBI agents at an
Olympia residence Wednesday morning, and is charged with causing $500,000
worth of damage to research trees at a U.S. Forest Service facility in
Rhinelander, Wisc. in July 2000, court papers state.

Bryan Rivera, a.k.a Bryan Lefey, a.k.a. "Rat Dog," is charged in an
unsealed federal indictment filed in the Western District of Wisconsin
with one count each of depredation of government property in excess of
$500 and depredation of government property in excess of $1,000.

An official at the Federal Public Defender in Tacoma confirmed today that
Rivera was being held at the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac.

FBI agents served Rivera, 31, with an arrest warrant at his home in the
500 block of East Bay Drive Wednesday morning, Robbie Burroughs, an FBI
spokesman, confirmed Thursday. The spokesman would not release details on
the charges until today.

According to the indictment: in July 2000, Rivera and two other suspects
conspired to damage trees at the Rhinelander facility using " 'etching
cream, saws, scraping tools and other items."

"The conspirators believed that the U.S. Forest Service Facility in
Rhinelander was an appropriate target for direct action because the
facility was performing a genetic research project on trees," reads the
indictment. "The conspirators decided to do the attack in combination with
their planned protests at the International Society of Animal Geneticists
(ISAG protests) occurring in late July of 2000 in Minneapolis, Minn."

In addition to damaging 500 trees at the facility, the group also used
spray paint and etching cream to damage U.S. Forest Service vehicles with
references to ELF, the indictment states.

After the vandalism, alleged co-conspirator Katherine Christianson, along
with a man not named as a defendant in the indictment, sent a communique
on behalf of ELF. "The communique ended with the words: ‘We are everywhere
and we are nowhere and we are watching. For wildness and an end to
industrial society.’ It was signed ‘ELF Earth Liberation Front," reads the
indictment.

From bottom of July 26th Olympian article, page 1:

Character reference letter from Duane Moore D.D.S. to the courts on behalf
of Bryan Lefey (pdf)
http://media.theolympian.com/smedia/2008/07/25/09/MooreLetter.source.prod_affiliate.38.pdf

++++++++

Earth Liberation Prisoners Support Network

BM Box 2407

London

WC1N 3XX

England

www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk

Write to Daniel McGowan

From:    "Family + Friends of Daniel McG" <friendsofdanielmcg@yahoo.com>
Date:    Fri, July 25, 2008

Daniel was moved yesterday morning and is now in transit and is currently
in Indiana.

Please write to Daniel at:

DANIEL MCGOWAN #63794-053
FCI TERRE HAUTE
FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION
P.O. BOX 33
TERRE HAUTE, IN  47808

Thanks!

NY - Puerto Rican Grand Jury resistance update

From: "Political Prisoner News" <ppnews@freedomarchives.org>
Date: Fri, July 25, 2008


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 23, 2008

CONTACT DENNIS FLORES bosefod@hotmail.com bosefod@hotmail.com>

resistgrandjury@gmail.com

New Video PSA link, click below:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_KmOrF9qAhg



DAYBOOK ITEM/PHOTO DESK

FAMILIES, FRIENDS & SUPPORTERS OF SUBPOENAED PUERTO RICANS
TO CALL ON FEDERAL GRAND JURY TO STOP THE REPRESSION

A protest has been called by community leaders, friends, family and
supporters of Puerto Ricans subpoenaed by a Federal Grand Jury to
demand an end to the repression against them and all Puerto Ricans.
They will also call on all New Yorkers concerned about civil and human
rights to join them at a picket in front of the Brooklyn Federal Court
at 9:30 am on Monday, July 28, 2008.


The picket will coincide with similar acts and rallies in Puerto Rico
at the Federal court in HatoRey on July 27, 2008 at 6:00pm. TANIA
FRONTERA, a graphic designer, and CHRISTOPHER TORRES, a social worker,
have been ordered to appear before the Grand Jury at the Brooklyn
Federal Court investigating the Puerto Rican independence movement.
Various motions will be argued in favor that the 'Motions to quash'
the subpoenas be held in open court and not in 'secret' and that the
government reveal 'illegal surveillance' sources. Two groups: Puerto
Rico Committee for Human Rights and the National Boricua Human Rights
Network have filed motions to intervene in support to have the
subpenas thrown out on constitutional grounds. These motions will be
argued by their lawyers at the Brooklyn Federal Court on Monday, July
28th at 10:00 am.


Puerto Rican activists in New York and Puerto Rico maintain that the
subpoenas are part of a larger, systematic campaign to repress the
independence movement in Puerto Rico and instill fear and discord
among its allies and supporters. It's the latest chapter of a long
history of repression waged against Puerto Rican community.


WHAT: Elected officials, community leaders, family and friends and
supporters of subpoenaed Puerto Ricans demand an end to the repression

WHEN: Monday, July 28, 2008 at 9:30 am

WHERE: Brooklyn Federal Court, 225 Cadman Plaza East and Tillary Street

The Hostos Grand Jury Resistance Campaign, a coalition formed in New
York in response to the recent round of grand jury subpoenas, calls on
all freedom loving and progressive people to picket in front of the
Brooklyn Federal Court on July 28, 2008 at 9:30 am to support TANIA
FRONTERA and CHRISTOPHER TORRES, who have been subpoenaed to the federal
grand jury investigating the Puerto Rican independence movement. Various
motions will be argued by their lawyers before Judge Carol B. Amon of the
Brooklyn Federal Court.

So far, since the new year of 2008, Puerto Ricans Tania Frontera, a
graphic designer, Christopher Torres, a social worker, Julio Pabon, a
filmmaker, Elliot Monteverde Torres, a lawyer and spokesperson for the
Vieques Alliance (a New York based coalition that fought to rid the US
Navy from the island municipality of Vieques, Puerto Rico) and a fifth
person, an independentista and human rights activist, have been subpoenaed
to the Brooklyn Federal Court in New York City. They attest that they
will not be intimidated nor allow for their political ideas to be
suppressed.

Historically, the US government has used the federal grand jury since
the 1930's an instrument of political internment of Puerto Rican
pro-independence activists. Those who refused to testify by exercising
the established pro-independence political principle of 'non
collaboration' to the grand jury can be held in 'contempt of court'
and imprisoned.


The Puerto Rican Freedom Project

2nd fundraiser Hosted by Hec-one
Suggested donation: $10

Fri. July 25th, 2008
A benefit for the Freedom Album, a CD compilation to raise awareness
and funds for the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and Prisoners of
War and their families


Lcation: Camaradas El Barrio
2241 1st avenue
between 115th-116th St.
212-348-2703

www.camaradaselbarrio.com

Doors open at 7pm, show will begin by 8:30pm-9pm

There will be an art sale to benefit the efforts of the Puerto Rican
Freedom Committee as well as a blow out performances by: The Welfare
Poets, Bombayo, NOT4PROPHET(OF THE X-VANDALS AND RICANSCTRUCTION)
M-TEAM AND Division X


http://www.prfreedomproject.org or
http://www.myspace.com/freeourpoliticalprisoners


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Breaking news - New ELF arrest

Urgent ELP Bulletin (25th of July 2008)

Dear friends

ELP has just heard of the arrest of an American called Bryan Rivera (see mainstream media article below). If anyone has any further details about this arrest or know Bryan or anyone else mentioned in the below article, please do get in contact.....

FBI arrests Earth Liberation Front suspect in Olympia
http://www.theolympian.com/672/story/519575.html

By Jeremy Pawloski | The Olympian • Published July 25, 2008

An alleged Earth Liberation Front member was arrested by FBI agents at an
Olympia residence Wednesday morning, and is charged with causing $500,000
worth of damage to research trees at a U.S. Forest Service facility in
Rhinelander, Wisc. in July 2000, court papers state.

Bryan Rivera, a.k.a Bryan Lefey, a.k.a. "Rat Dog," is charged in an
unsealed federal indictment filed in the Western District of Wisconsin
with one count each of depredation of government property in excess of
$500 and depredation of government property in excess of $1,000.

An official at the Federal Public Defender in Tacoma confirmed today that
Rivera was being held at the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac.

FBI agents served Rivera, 31, with an arrest warrant at his home in the
500 block of East Bay Drive Wednesday morning, Robbie Burroughs, an FBI
spokesman, confirmed Thursday. The spokesman would not release details on
the charges until today.

According to the indictment: in July 2000, Rivera and two other suspects
conspired to damage trees at the Rhinelander facility using " 'etching
cream, saws, scraping tools and other items."

"The conspirators believed that the U.S. Forest Service Facility in
Rhinelander was an appropriate target for direct action because the
facility was performing a genetic research project on trees," reads the
indictment. "The conspirators decided to do the attack in combination with
their planned protests at the International Society of Animal Geneticists
(ISAG protests) occurring in late July of 2000 in Minneapolis, Minn."

In addition to damaging 500 trees at the facility, the group also used
spray paint and etching cream to damage U.S. Forest Service vehicles with
references to ELF, the indictment states.

After the vandalism, alleged co-conspirator Katherine Christianson, along
with a man not named as a defendant in the indictment, sent a communique
on behalf of ELF. "The communique ended with the words: ‘We are everywhere
and we are nowhere and we are watching. For wildness and an end to
industrial society.’ It was signed ‘ELF Earth Liberation Front," reads the
indictment.

For more on this story, read Saturday’s edition of The Olympian.

+++++++

Earth Liberation Prisoners Support Network
BM Box 2407
London
WC1N 3XX
England
www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk

Eric McDavid Speaking Tour Headed Your Way...

Subject: Speaking Tour Headed Your Way...
From:    sacprisonersupport@riseup.net
Date:    Fri, July 25, 2008

Dear Friends,

After enduring over 2 ½  years of having our loved one in jail and prison,
we have decided it’s time to hit the road and start screaming from the
rooftops about Eric and his case.  We only regret that it has taken us
this long…  but circumstances demanded restraint, and our energies were
focused on the struggle for Eric’s freedom.  But now we can wait no
longer.  Eric has suffered enormous injustices at the hands of the state –
and we want to do everything we can to make sure that people don’t forget
about Eric, that they understand how his case was created, and to ensure
that people learn what they can from our experiences these past 2 ½ years.

To that end, we are putting together a speaking tour to educate folks
about Eric’s case, which we will use as a lens through which to study the
basic concepts of entrapment, the use of informants, and government
repression in general.  Unfortunately, these tools of the state are
becoming more and more prevalent, and it’s imperative that people
understand how they work.

If you are interested in scheduling a presentation in your community,
please contact us at:  tour@supporteric.org.  We will be on the road from
the end of August (starting in Denver, CO), through the month of
September.  First we’ll be headed east, then we’ll make our way all the
way back out west.  Below is a rough estimate of when we’ll be in
particular regions.

For more information about Eric and his case, please visit:
www.supporteric.org

We hope to see you soon!

(Very) Tentative “Schedule”

August 24-26:  Denver, CO
 28-29:  Lawrence, KS
 30-31:  Springfield, MO
September 2:  Bloomington, IN
 3:  Chicago, IL
 4-5:  Madison?  Milwaukee?
 6:  Niagara Falls
 7-8:  Boston, Mass
 8-9:  NYC
 9-10:  Philly
 10-11:  DC
 12:  Asheville, NC
 13-14:  Northern FL
 16:  NOLA
 17-18:  Austin, TX
 18-19:  Tucscon, AZ
 20-21:  San Diego, LA
 23:  Santa Cruz, CA
 24-25:  Santa Cruz, CA
 26-28:  Bay Area (CR 10)

We will be planning to go further up the coast soon after this, but will
need a quick break.  Stay tuned for more dates...

Daniel McGowan is in transit again

From:    "Family + Friends of Daniel McG" <friendsofdanielmcg@yahoo.com>
Date:    Thu, July 24, 2008

Hello, friends -

Daniel is in transit again.  That's all we know for right now.  Please
hold off on sending him letters until you hear back from us - we will send
out an update with his new adress as soon as we have it.

Best,
Family & Friends of Daniel McGowan


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Support Daniel McGowan: http://www.supportdaniel.org
Daniel on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/danielmcgowan

Family and Friends of Daniel McGowan
PO Box 106, NY, NY 10156
friendsofdanielmcg@yahoo.com

Donations:checks or money orders can be made out to "Lisa McGowan" and
sent to the above PO Box or online at http://tinyurl.com/8blde

This Friday Take A Stance For Human Rights(Protest And Vigil For Ms.Green

Hi Everyone,

Wow, I've been organizing for 15 years and I have never seen a response like this. Here is our follow-up press release. People are OUTRAGED about Ms. Green's murder-by-neglect in the psychiatric emergency room of Kings County Hospital Center, 606 Winthrop Street, Brooklyn.

Please pass this press release on and if you can, join us at the demonstration and vigil at Kings County Hospital Center this Friday June 25, 2008 from 5-10 PM, with the candle light vigil at 8:30.

Many people who have had experiences at this facility will be speaking along with Assemblyman Peter Rivera, Chair of the Assembly's Mental Health Committee and Assemblyman Nick Perry, from the 58th Assembly District where Ms. Green lived.

Over 100 groups and individuals have signed on and vigils are being organized to stand in solidarity with New Yorkers in Oregon, Massachusetts, Toronto, Canada, Cork, Ireland, and other places around the globe. To check out our co-sponsors, see www.theopalproject.org/vigil.html. It's easy to sign on, just use the form on the page.

If you cannot join us on July 25th, please call Governor Patterson and Mayor Bloomberg to express your outrage about Ms. Green's death and insist that the City of New York stand in full compliance with International Law and Human Rights.

Thanks for passing this on. ~~10e

WE THE PEOPLE

Contact: Lauren J. Tenney, MA, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Cell: 516-319-4295

e-mail: lauren@theopalproject.org

website: www.theopalproject.org/vigil.html

A DEMONSTRATION AND CANDLE LIGHT VIGIL TO MOURN THE LOSS OF MS. ESMIN ELIZABETH GREEN AND CONDEMN HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.

WE THE PEOPLE Call For An End Of Abuse, Torture, And Neglect In The Wake Of Ms. Green's Death On June 19, 2008, While Detained At Kings County Hospital Center's Psychiatric Emergency Room.

The death of Esmin Green is indicative of a failure in the system that was supposed to be there to care for her. The solution to protecting the lives and dignity of people with psychiatric histories is not simply to increase staff and services and/or to improve staff training. As evidenced by Ms. Green's death, these measures are nothing more than temporary band-aids that consistently fail. Fully implementing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is a real solution that will promote respect, human rights, and dignity of people who have a psychiatric history. The principles of the CRPD include respect for inherent dignity and individual autonomy including the freedom to make one's own choices; non-discrimination; the respect for differences; and acceptance of persons with disabilities as part of human diversity and humanity. Clearly, several articles in the CRPD contain protections that might have saved Esmin Green's life.

Other International law has been violated as well including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention Against Torture, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. (For more information about the CRPD and other protections see www.mindfreedom.org; www.theopalproject.org/vigil.html.)

Daniel Hazen, of the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights®) and Stop Force said, "This could only happen within a system that uniformly ignores complaints of physical problems by people who have been labeled with serious mental illness. This is particularly dangerous because of the extremely harmful nature of psychiatric drugs. Was Ms. Green's medical emergency in any way related to the toxic and debilitating psychiatric drugs she might have been taking, possibly through intimidation, coercion, or force? This seems likely in light of the known connection between such drugs and fatal leg blood clots. A thorough investigation is necessary."

The experience of involuntarily detainment in a psychiatric emergency room or in a psychiatric institution is tantamount to torture. Human rights and feminist activist Kate Millett during the negotiations on the UN Convention on the subject of forced treatment and confinement of persons with disabilities stated, "The power of an entire civilization massed against one lone individual. Every phone and lock and guard and drug . . . Everything conspires to make you completely alone and terrified. Malleable. These are the conditions of torture".

David Gonzalez, founder and Senior Consultant of the Recovery x-Change and a former patient of the "G" Building at Kings County Hospital Center will be speaking at the demonstration. Gonzalez states, "What has brought Ms. Green's appalling death to public scrutiny is not that it was unusual or uncommon in any way, but that it was caught on video. The lack of compassion, callous indifference, and subsequent cover-up exposes not only the hypocrisy which allows this type of systemic abuse to take place under the guise of treatment, but more importantly exposes the perversion of institutional psychiatry".

On July 25, 2008, we invite all people to join us and stand united in support of the demand that everyone receive the full benefit of their human rights and the preservation of their liberty, dignity, and respect. There are vigils happening all over the world for Ms. Green on July 25, 2008 to stand in solidarity with New Yorkers. If you can attend the vigil or not, on Friday, July 25, 2008, call Governor Patterson (518) 474-8390, Mayor Bloomberg, (212) NEW-YORK, and your elected Representatives to express your outrage about Ms. Green's murder and insist that the City of New York stand in full compliance with International law and Human Rights.

Who: All People.

What: A demonstration and candle light vigil to mourn the loss of Ms. Esmin Elizabeth Green and condemn human rights violations.

Why: WE THE PEOPLE call for an end of abuse, torture, and neglect in the wake of Ms. Green's death on June 19, 2008, while detained at Kings County Hospital Center's Psychiatric Emergency Room.

Where: Kings County Hospital Center, Psychiatric Emergency Room, Building G. 606 Winthrop Street Brooklyn, NY 11203

Date: July 25, 2008

Time: Demonstration begins at 5 PM, Candle Light Vigil, 8:30 PM

Websites: www.theopalproject.org/vigil.html www.mindfreedom.org

If you would like to co-sponsor or endorse this demonstration, vigil, and its follow up forums, please contact us.

WE THE PEOPLE

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Special thanks to Myra Kovary, UN Representative of MindFreedom International, for drafting this press release For more information or to schedule an interview, please contact:

Contact: Lauren J. Tenney

Cell: 516-319-4295

e-mail: lauren@theopalproject.org

website: www.theopalproject.org/vigil.htm

Contact: David W. Oaks

Phone: 541-345-9106

e-mail: office@mindfreedom.org

website: www.mindfreedom.org

Third Circuit Court of Appeals Rejects En Banc Hearing for Mumia Abu-Jamal

From:    "Political Prisoner News" <ppnews@freedomarchives.org>
Date:    Wed, July 23, 2008

Dear Friends,

We are sending you this legal update from Mumia's attorney, Robert
Bryan, knowing full well how disturbing this news is.  We will be
sending you further analysis, and plans for our continued work very
shortly, and hope to hear your feedback very soon. We already have a
Town Hall Meeting planned for August 9th in Philadelphia.  More on
that later.  But, mainly, we did not want to delay your getting this
news and hearing it for the first time from the mainstream media.
Vicious injustice continues to dominate every branch of this
government and society, the courts being a prime example, and the
attacks on Black revolutionaries never cease.  That is why we fight
back and RESIST!

a luta continua,

Suzanne Ross, for the Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition
Date:       July 22, 2008

From:      Robert R. Bryan, lead counsel

Subject:  Federal ruling regarding Mumia Abu-Jamal, death row,
Pennsylvania [please circulate]

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Philadelphia  Today our
Petition for Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc, submitted on behalf of
my client, Mumia Abu-Jamal, was denied by the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Third Circuit.  Simply put, we did not receive the needed
majority vote from the nine sitting judges; at least five votes for a
rehearing were necessary.  However, Justice Thomas L. Ambro continues
to urge the granting of relief on the issue of racism in jury
selection.  That position, as detailed in his brilliant dissenting
opinion of March 27, 2008, will continue to serve as a beacon of hope
as we press on for a new trial and Mumia's freedom.  Judge Ambro said
that the "core guarantee of equal protection, ensuring citizens that
their State will not discriminate on account of race, would be
meaningless were we to approve the exclusion of jurors on the basis
of . . . race. . . . I respectfully dissent."  A copy of today's
decision is attached.

Reaction  Mumia and I had a legal conference this afternoon.  He, as
I, was stunned by the federal court's refusal to grant relief since
it flies in the face of established legal precedent in both the U.S.
Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.  I am furious because
racism continues to raise its ugly head in this country, and should
have no place in our legal system.  The indisputable facts are that
the prosecutor engaged in racism in selecting the jury in this case,
and that bigotry lingers today in Philadelphia.  It would be naive
not to realize that this case continues to reek of politics and
injustice.

U.S. Supreme Court  We will be seeking relief in the Supreme Court.
The Petition for Writ of Certiorari will be filed by October 20,
2008, unless there is an extension.  The racism issue will be
presented, along with the fact that the prosecutor made
misrepresentations to the jury in order to obtain a murder conviction
against Mumia.

Conclusion  My goal remains a complete reversal of the conviction,
even though the federal court has already granted a new jury trial on
the question of the death penalty.  We will not rest until Mumia is
free.

Yours very truly,


Robert R. Bryan

Law Offices of Robert R. Bryan

2088 Union Street, Suite 4

San Francisco, California 94123-4117

Lead counsel for Mumia Abu-Jamal

[RobertRBryan@aol.com]


*As to panel rehearing only.
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT
Nos. 01-9014 & 02-9001
MUMIA ABU-JAMAL,
a/k/a WESLEY COOK
Mumia Abu-Jamal,
Appellant at No 02-9001
v.
MARTIN HORN,
PENNSYLVANIA DIRECTOR OF CORRECTIONS;
CONNER BLAINE, SUPERINTENDENT, SCI GREENE;
DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR PHILADELPHIA COUNTY;
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA,
Appellants at No. 01-9014
(D.C. Civ. No. 99-cv-5089)
SUR PETITION FOR REHEARING
Present: SCIRICA, Chief Judge,
SLOVITER, BARRY, AMBRO, FUENTES, SMITH,
CHAGARES, JORDAN, HARDIMAN and COWEN*, Circuit Judges.
The petition for rehearing filed by appellee/cross-appellant Mumia
Abu-Jamal in the above-entitled case having been submitted to the judges who participated in the decision of this Court and to all the other available circuit judges of the circuit in regular
2
active service, and no judge who concurred in the decision having asked for rehearing, and a majority of the circuit judges of the circuit in regular
service not having voted for rehearing, the petition for rehearing by the panel and the Court en
banc, is denied. Judge Ambro would grant rehearing en banc.
BY THE COURT,
/s/ Anthony J. Scirica
Chief Judge
Dated: July 22, 2008
CMD/cc: Robert R. Bryan, Esq.
Judith L. Ritter, Esq.
Hugh J. Burns, Jr., Esq.
Ronald Eisenberg, Esq.
Christina Swarns, Esq.
Jill Elijah, Esq.


Freedom Archives
522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

415 863-9977

www.Freedomarchives.org  Questions and comments may be sent to
claude@freedomarchives.org

Updated: Free the Cuban 5 Month Calendar

FREE THE CUBAN 5 MONTH (Sept. 12th-Oct. 12th)

Initial Endorsers:

• The Popular Education Project to free the Cuban 5
• EL Frente Socialista-Comite de NYC
• International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5
• Al-Awda Right to Return
• The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
• Brigada Vilma Guillois Espin
• The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign
• New York Anarchist Black Cross Federation
• The Philadelphia Cuba Solidarity Coalition
• Nicaragua Solidarity Committee Chicago
• The Cuba Solidarity Committee in Houston
• Puerto Rican Alliance Of Los Angeles
• Radical Women
• Freedom Socialist Party
• The Venceremos Brigade
• December 12^th Movement
• The Orange County KPFK Support Group
• International Action Center
• Troops Out Now Coalition
• Worker’s World Party
• MarVellAlliance
• Fuerza de la Revolucion

To organizations and Individuals who believe in the Freedom of the Cuban 5,

In 2006, Ricardo Alarcon, President of the Cuban National Assembly, declared the period of time between September 12-October 8 to be a time to raise awareness around the Cuban 5. Here in NYC The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5 extends this time to October 12; in order for it to be a full month of events and to include a commemoration of the assassination of Ernest “Che” Guevara. We refer to this period of time as the “Free the Cuban 5 Month!”

September 12^th is the tenth anniversary of the arrest of the Cuban 5 and the Project wants to create a calendar full of events throughout the city, nationally and internationally! Motivated by the negative and unjust decision of the 11^th Circuit Appeals, the Project feels it is time to double our efforts to educate about the case of the Cuban 5 and to garner more support on their behalf.

The Project would like to organize Cuban 5 events in NYC communities that have not had them before. We want to broaden this movement and build Solidarity for the Cuban 5 in as many communities as possible.

The Project is asking organizations and individuals to organize forums, letter writing nights, film screenings, conversations, or fund-raisers for the Cuban 5. The Project will help by providing speakers, films, literature and promotion!

If you are interested in endorsing the Free the Cuban 5 Month AND ORGANIZING AN EVENT, please email us at freethecuban5@gmail.com

So far this is the Calendar events:

Sat. September 13-All out to Washington DC! 10^th anniversary of the arrest of the Cuban 5! Demonstration for the Cuban 5! More information will be published soon!

Tues. Sept. 16^th-LETTER WRITING NIGHT IN BROOKLYN with the New York Anarchist Black Cross Federation, details TBA…

Sun. Sept. 28^th-Poetry/cultural Event at Sista’s Place with the December 12^th Movement TBA

Fri. October 10- 10^th Anniversary Jericho March in NYC for all Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War in New York City!! Check the Jericho Website: www.jerichony.org

Sat. Nov. 1^st-Cuban 5 event with the Radical Women at Freedom Hall in Harlem

For more information on FREE THE CUBAN 5 MONTH consult The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5 website: www.freethecuban5.com

Letters for Tre Arrow

From:    tre@riseup.net
Date:    Tue, July 22, 2008 6:10 am
To:      tresupporters@lists.riseup.net
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tre has requested this be sent out again as the last one referenced a due
date that has already passed. There is still time to get a letter of support to
Paul.

A blessed greeting to you all! Thank you for your continued love and support.
It truly makes a difference in my life and gives me strength to persevere.
What is extremely important and needed at this time are letters reflecting my
nature and character which we will submit to the judge. Here are some guidelines and
suggestions of things to include:

    * Address the letter to the Honorable James A. Redden
    * Include who you are, your relation to me, how long you've know me, and
your occupation and/or standing in the community. Please don't discuss any
details regarding this case.
    * Include things we've done or shared together and qualities in me you've
witnessed.
    * Please type or write your letter on stationary or letterhead if
possible.
    * Please use tree-free or 100% post consumer, processed chlorine-free
paper
if possible.
    * Be sure to sign your letter and send to my lawyer Paul, not the
judge, so he can submit them all as one document.

Send your letter to:

Paul Loney
3430 S.E. Belmont
Suite 101
Portland, Oregon 97214

Have your letters to Paul as soon as possible, please and thank you.

I wish you all a glorious summer solstice.

Namaste,
Tre

Help us place a Cuban Five billboard in San Francisco!

July 21, 2008

National Committee To Free The Cuban Five Bulletin 10 years in prison is 10 years too many! Help us continue the Billboard Campaign! With the 10th anniversary of the imprisonment of the Cuban Five approaching on September 12, the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five will erect the huge (35' x 75') billboard shown above in downtown San Francisco during the month of August. It is vital that we keep the case of the Five in the public eye, and increase the pressure to set them free. We need your help in this effort. We obtained a special rate for the billboard, but the cost is still more than ten thousand dollars, which we need to raise. Please be generous! You can donate money online by clicking the link below, or you can also donate in other ways (information on how to do that is also at the link). Please don't wait. Donate today. Click to donate San Francisco fundraiser, July 25 Olga denied visa for the ninth time! The U.S. government has just denied a visa to Olga Salanueva, wife of René González, for the ninth time, and stated that the denial is permanent! A visa for Adriana Pérez, wife of Gerardo Hernández, is still described as "pending." Protest this outrage! Our website readers have already responded by sending hundreds of emails to U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, but even more are needed! If you haven't yet sent a letter, please click the button above to do so right now. Olga, Adriana, and the Cuban Five need your support! Read the news Send a letter Contact us: info@freethefive.org Or call: 415-821-6545 Web: http://www.freethefive.org Free the Cuban Five Now! Allow the families' visits! Grant entry visas to Adriana Pérez and Olga Salanueva!

A personal note from Leonard Peltier

Subject: You no longer need to contact BOPFrom:    "contact@whoisleonardpeltier.info"
<contact@whoisleonardpeltier.info>
Date:    Mon, July 21, 2008

*A Personal Note from Leonard Peltier*

I want to thank all of you who have shown your concern and answered my call
for help.  This medical problem has been going on now for some time, at
least a year or so.  As you know, a diabetic coma is usually fatal. I am
feeling a whole lot better now, so thank you for helping me.  You can stop
contacting the BOP or Lewisburg officials.  Let's get back to concentrating
on other important things.  Again, thank you very much.

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.

Doksha,

Leonard Peltier


*Birthday Activities*

Leonard will celebrate his 64th birthday on September 12.  Please continue
to lift Leonard's spirits by letting him know he is not forgotten.  Send
birthday cards and letters to Leonard Peltier #89637-132, USP-Lewisburg, US
Penitentiary, PO Box 1000, Lewisburg, PA  17837-1000.

Get event planning tips at http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/events.htm.

If you're planning an event to mark Leonard's birthday, please let us know
as soon as possible.  We'll post your event announcement on our online
calendar and help promote your event by other means. Please send all the
pertinent information about your event to contact@whoisleonardpeltier.info.


*Branch News*

We invite you to partner with us to formulate strategies, devise fundraising
ideas, and build public support. We strongly urge you to consider
establishing a branch of the LP-DOC in your area. Your participation is
imperative to our survival and Leonard's freedom.

Support groups affiliated with Leonard's former defense committee are very
welcome to join us, too.  You're requested to formally register with the
LP-DOC as soon as possible. As with all our branches, you'll receive a
packet of information to help you continue your great work on Leonard's
behalf.

For more information, see http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/establish.htm
and then contact us at contact@whoisleonardpeltier.info.  Please provide
your name, mailing address, telephone number and e-mail address.  We'll be
happy to send you what you need to get started.


*Events*

July 16-31
San Francisco, CA: AIM for Freedom: A 40-Year Photography and Art
Retrospective Exhibit. Sponsored by AIM-West, an affiliate of the American
Indian Movement. SomArts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan Street (between 8th &
9th Streets), in The Bay Gallery. For more information, contact Antonio
Gonzales at 415-577-1492 or Joyce Umamoto at 415-776-5833.

July 26-27
Oscoda, MI: Gagaguwon 10th Annual Pow Wow, hosted by the Preservation of
Native American Culture. This year the pow wow is in honor of Susie
Nahgahgwon. Drop by and visit with the Saginaw Bay Area Branch of the
LP-DOC. For information, contact Tom Higgins at 989-686-5096 or send an
e-mail message to woodchuckmi@hotmail.com.

See more events at http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/calendar.htm.

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Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee (LP-DOC)
PO Box 7488, Fargo, ND 58106
Phone: 701/235-2206
E-mail: contact@whoisleonardpeltier.info
Web: www.whoisleonardpeltier.info

In keeping with traditional Indigenous values, we believe that all life is
sacred and must therefore be respected. Leonard and the LP-DOC respect the
rights of others with regard to their political views and the expression of
those views. However, Leonard and the LP-DOC urge supporters to always
behave responsibly. We have not and will never condone hate speech,
destruction of property, and/or threats of violence or acts of violence of
any kind. Always remember these words to supporters: "You are representing
me and my bid for freedom. The public looks at you before they see me or my
issue."—Leonard Peltier. While supporters are free to forward or repost our
listserv announcements, please (for his protection) do not alter Leonard's
personal statements in any way.  To verify the accuracy of a statement you
see posted on the Internet, visit www.whoisleonardpeltier.info, scroll down
the main menu on the left sidebar and click on "Peltier Statements" located
in the News section.
-----
Amnesty International considers Leonard Peltier a "political prisoner" who
should be "immediately and unconditionally released." Leonard Peltier, now a
great-grandfather, is a citizen of the Anishinabe and Dakota/Lakota Nations
and a tireless advocate for Indigenous Rights. A participant in the American
Indian Movement, he went to assist the Oglala Lakota people on the Pine
Ridge Indian Reservation in the mid-1970s where, on June 26, 1975, a tragic
shoot out occurred. He was wrongfully convicted in the deaths of two agents
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and has been illegally incarcerated
since 1976. Federal prosecutors have twice admitted before the Courts of
Appeal that they don't know who fired the fatal shots. The government also
has admitted that it isn't known what role Leonard Peltier "may have played"
in the incident. Since his politically motivated prosecution and conviction,
proof of fabricated and suppressed evidence, as well as coerced testimony,
has been uncovered. The Courts of Appeal have repeatedly acknowledged
investigative and prosecutorial misconduct in this case, but have failed to
take corrective action. A model prisoner, Leonard continues to maintain his
innocence and has consequently been denied fair consideration for parole.
Join with numerous internationally recognized human rights organizations,
civil rights leaders, celebrities and other luminaries who have called for
the immediate release of Leonard Peltier. Visit
www.whoisleonardpeltier.info

Food played role in Nelson Mandela's incarceration / struggle

By Marius Bosch REUTERS July 18, 2008

JOHANNESBURG – Food featured prominently in Nelson Mandela's struggle against apartheid, from using cooking pots to smuggle messages during his 27-year imprisonment to his first dinner of chicken curry as a free man.

A new book on the life of Mandela, who turned 90 on Friday, says South Africa's first black president calls people to the dinner table saying: 'Let's go to battle'.

Author Anna Trapido describes the book 'Hunger for Freedom' as a 'gastro-political history with recipes'.

The book describes how Mandela and his fellow prisoners at South Africa's Robben Island prison off Cape Town, where he spent 18 years, tried to make do with meagre rations of maize porridge while white prison warders gorged on crayfish.

In later years, the prisoners were allowed to move more freely and they collected seafood themselves to supplement their prison food.

But prisoners also used food as a weapon, holding hunger strikes to press for improved conditions.

Mandela and his comrades smuggled messages to non-political inmates in cooking pots, telling them of recent news and of decisions taken by the ANC prison leadership.

Mandela became a keen gardener, growing vegetables in several South African prisons to supplement the bland diet.

'A garden is one of the few things in prison that one could control ... Being a custodian of this patch of earth offered a small taste of freedom,' he said in his autobiography.

Trapido says that in Mandela's early activist days lunches were often used to mask political meetings.

He and other activists met at private homes, ostensibly for lunch but in reality they were plotting the future strategy of the African National Congress – now South Africa's ruling party.

INDIAN LUNCHES

Many of those lunches featured Indian food, for which Mandela developed a taste while working as a lawyer in the 1950s.

His first dinner after being freed by the white government in February 1990 was chicken curry.

Trapido says when Mandela became president in 1994, his instructions were that the household comptroller of presidential residences needed to be someone who could cook biryani – a South Asian dish prepared with rice, spices and meat or vegetables.

Even after he retired in 1999, the comptroller continued to send biryani from Cape Town to Mandela's house in Johannesburg.

But Mandela's cook for many years, Xoliswa Ndoyyiya, said in the book that he prefers traditional African food.

'Madiba (Mandela's clan name) is always happiest with traditional food. If you don't give it to him, he will call you and ask: 'What's wrong? Why are you not feeding me well?'

Once while staying in London's luxurious Dorchester Hotel on an official trip, Mandela grew tired of the food and asked for a staff member flying from South Africa to bring along a tub of 'umphokoqo' – a traditional dish of South Africa's Xhosa tribe, made with maize porridge and sour milk.

Cuba and Puerto Rico NYC Events

The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign
http://www.prolibertadweb.com
ProLibertad@hotmail.com
ProLibertad hotline: 718-601-4751
_______________________________________________________________

Join ProLibertad on our annual Freedom Cook out to HighLands Pool in Ringwood, New Jersey!!

Enjoy the sun, fun and relaxation of

HighLands Pool!! Bring your swimming trunks for the cool and refreshing Chemical-free mountain stream-fed pool!!

We will have DELICOUS BORICUA FOOD, FUN,

MUSIC,DOMINOES, GAMES, SPORTS and RELAXATION!!

Saturday Aug. 2nd, 2008 at 9am!! Get on the Bus!!

Meet at the corner of w179th St. and Broadway at 9am to catch one of our Freedom Vans to HighLand Pools!!

Transportation from NYC ($10), Entrance to HighLand Pools ($5) and Food ($5); all together $20 (Adults) $15 for (Children)

Contact ProLibertad to reserve a seat on our Freedom Bus by calling the ProLibertad hotline: 718-601-4751

_______________________________________________________

The Puerto Rican Freedom Project

2nd fundraiser Hosted by Hec-one

Suggested donation: $10

Fri. July 25th, 2008

A benefit for the Freedom Album, a CD compilation to raise awareness and funds for the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War and their families

Lcation: Camaradas El Barrio

2241 1st avenue

between 115th-116th St.

212-348-2703

www.camaradaselbarrio.com

Doors open at 7pm, show will begin by 8:30pm-9pm

There will be an art sale to benefit the efforts of the Puerto Rican Freedom Committee as well as a blow out performances by: The Welfare Poets, Bombayo, NOT4PROPHET(OF THE X-VANDALS AND RICANSCTRUCTION) M-TEAM AND Division X

www.prfreedomproject.org or www.myspace.com/freeourpoliticalprisoners

_____________________________________________________________

Friday Sat. July 26, 2008

The Cuban Revolution Today:

Change in Continuity

Continuity in change

Celebrate the 55th Anniversary of the Attack of the

Moncada Garrison; the Start of the Cuban Revolution!

Saturday, July 26, 2008 / 6pm Reception, 7pm Program

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Labor Center Auditorium

310 West 43rd Street (Between. 8th-9th Aves. Manhattan

Take the A,C,E,1,2,3, 7,N,Q,R trains to 42nd St Times Square

Suggested Donation: $10 (no one will be turned away for lack of funds)

This year’s July 26^th Celebration will tell the truth about what is happening in Cuba today; why the Cuban revolution is stronger than ever and why it continues to inspire popular movements throughout the world.

P R O G R A M

New Film: “Against the Silence in Our Own Voices: Families of the Cuban 5 Speak Out”

Keynote Speaker: Representative of the Cuban Mission to the United Nations

Question & Answer Period: Raise your questions and concerns

about what is happening in Cuba today

Legal Update: The Case of the Cuban 5 & 10th Anniversary

of their unjust imprisonment

Update: Continuing victories in U.S. challenges to Cuba travel prohibitions

Remarks: Casa de las Américas—Historic Solidarity Organization with Cuba

Remarks: Cuba & Puerto Rico: Historic Solidarity

Poetry & Music: Cultural experssions of solidarity with the Cuban People

‘For more information contact The July 26th Coalition at 917-887-8710 or email us at

july26coalition@mindspring.com

Letter of support for Tre Arrow

From:    tre@riseup.net
Date:    Sat, July 19, 2008

Below is Tre's request for letters of support. His attorney, Paul Loney,
needs the letters ASAP. If you can write a letter please do so immediately.

Thank you for your love and support of our brother Tre,
TADC

A blessed greeting to you all! Thank you for your continued love and support.
It truly makes a difference in my life and gives me strength to persevere.
What is extremely important and needed at this time are letters reflecting my
nature and character which we will submit to the judge. Here are some guidelines and
suggestions of things to include:

    * Address the letter to the Honorable James A. Redden
    * Include who you are, your relation to me, how long you've know me, and
your occupation and/or standing in the community. Please don't discuss any
details regarding this case.
    * Include things we've done or shared together and qualities in me you've
witnessed.
    * Please type or write your letter on stationary or letterhead if
possible.
    * Please use tree-free or 100% post consumer, processed chlorine-free
paper if possible.
    * Be sure to sign your letter and send to my lawyer Paul, not the
judge, so he can submit them all as one document.

Send your letter to:

Paul Loney
3430 S.E. Belmont
Suite 101
Portland, Oregon 97214

Have your letters to Paul by July 15, 2008, please and thank you.

I wish you all a glorious summer solstice.

Namaste,
Tre

Open letters from Austria

ELP Information Bulletin (19th July 2008)

Dear friends

ELP has been sent translations of four open letters, from three of the Austrian Animal Rights prisoners. Please feel free to reproduce these letters and publish them in magazines and on websites:

+++++++

Letter from Kevin Kroemmer (dated 4th July):

"Over 6 weeks have passed now since masked units with drawn guns have
stormed into my flat, searched everything, put the dog that was living
with me into an animal shelter and finally arrested me. Only bit by bit
i realized the extent of those massive reprisals and that 23 flats were
stormed and wrecked and 10 persons including good friends were arrested.
Those massive interferences with privacy and lives were made possible by
the dubious construction of a "criminal organisation"/§278a which we are
rumored to have built and to be member of, respectively.

Only shortly after my arrest i noticed protests for the first time. But
after i found out a few days later about how much solidarity was shown
coming from many countries, it gave me great strength in here. I was
very happy to see that such a criminalization of a social movement is
not just taken and that people from most different political
circumstances are getting active together and demonstrate solidarity.

The can is different than i had imagined and even if i miss freedom,
friends, "my" dog and many more, i'm alright according to the
circumstances. Spending 23 hours a day on few square meters, suddenly
having to live a boring life without any autonomy, incarcerated behind
metre high walls was something of a changeover i had to learn to adapt
to. This succeeded somewhat good and so the recent extension of
pre-trial detention couldn't really throw me off track.

In the meantime i got TV, radio and a CD-player in my cell. In addition
i was allowed to receive books for my schooling so i can also use my
time for learning. But food bundles, books, magazines and CDs are
restricted to be sent to me and can only be bought over the prison. At
present letters arrive at me with a delay of sometimes 1-2 weeks. I try
to answer to them promptly but letter contact is difficult with such
delays.

The supply with vegan food and vegan products has become acceptable in
the meantime. Like this for example it's possible for me to buy soymilk
and the like once per week.

I'd like to wholeheartedly thank everybody out there who organized
demos, presentations, solidarity-parties or took part in them, those who
printed shirts/patches and much else, sent letters and postcards, became
hosts for the affected animals, repaired apartment doors, cleaned up
apartments, payed rents and bills and much much more! Solidarity is more
than just a word, you showed that clearly! Many thanks for that! ...and
I will probably never forget how the can silence was disrupted for the
first time with the parole "Solidarity - you are not alone"!

Also many greetings from here to the others incarcerated and to all the
people out there who do not close their eyes and put themselves out
everyday once again for a different solidary world!

In a society where animals have no right to live and be unharmed at all,
where they are incarcerated in livestock farms, laboratories and
so-called furm-farms by the billions, murdered in the slaughterhouses,
their bodies dissected and made commodities... no, I won't be silent
about that and stop opposing it. Not even faced with massive repression,
never! For every single one of them!"

+++++++

Letter from Sabine (written end of June)

"Hello my dear ones,

On this way a sign of life from me and first off a giant big thank you
for your wonderful support. It's beautiful to know that many people
think about me and it gives me a lot of strength here.

Being isolated and locked away from my social circle, my friends and my
family, separated from my dogs that wait for me every day in vain is an
awful feeling. But I try to think positively at all times and it
comforts me immensely to know that my animals are alright. A special
thanks to the lovely people who take care of Amigo, Leia and the rats,
financially and emotionally looking after them and doing everything for
them to feel fine despite this difficult situation. Thanks for the many
encouraging letters, postcards and photos and I enjoy it everytime I
hear you demonstrating just outside the prison. You are great and I wish
you lots of strength and endurance further on.

Thinking about you, see you soon, SABINE"

+++++++

Letter fro Jan (written at the beginning of June):

"Despite the walls are high, thick and barbwired, the windows grilled
and the steel doors closed, i feel the solidarity and support from
outside in here!

Many thanks to all the people that care about us, take care of the
animals we live with, take care of kicked-in doors, plants and rents,
that we receive laundry, letters, visits and money, that we regularly
hear solidarity demos - and many thanks to everbody putting themselves
out for a domination-free and solidary society without violence!

I'm alright despite the adversities of monotony in the can, but I miss
freedom and especially a lot of beloved humans and animals! I get vegan
food, meanwhile (after weeks) even soymilk, spread and margarine. The
only possibility for movement is yard-exercise - 1 hour per day 50 steps
in a circle. Apart from that there are not many options left to occupy
oneself, reading for example, letters and TV. I have contact to
throughout sociable prisoners, at the moment I'm in a cell with 5
others, the contact is mainly solidary, conflict rarely happen.

At the moment I don't dare to make a political or legal estimate, since
I'm widely cut off from information and completely from the other
victims. The only sure thing is that prison has lost a lot of the horror
it inhered for me thanks to the broad solidarity and support from
outside but also through my experiences inside the walls.

I hope you are going well out there! For a domination-free society
without prison and cages!

JAN"


++++++++

Letter from Jan (written beginning of July):

"Meanwhile I've been imprisoned for over a month, at what as the only
"reason" for this my political engagement is brought up. The similarity
to the repression against the anti-G8-movement 2007 is obvious. All the
more I'm happy about thousands of people who are going to protest in
diverse ways against this year's coming G8 summit in Hokkaido. On this
way I'd like to send all of them solidary greetings, especially to those
who'll be or already are again victims of repression.

I'm very happy about the solidarity-actions taking place - especially
about the big anti-repression-demo on the 21st of june, including the
climbing action on Mariahilferstraße [big central street in Vienna,
translator], the more so as in this context state-racissm was thematized
(at the Marcus Omofuma memorial) and different forms of state repression
were addressed. I'm also happy about the _expression of solidarity during
the anti-ESCADA-protests in Muenster on the 4th of june.

I get mail from lots of people - even if the letters sadly often take
long (up to 4 weeks!!) until they finally reach me (it seems somebody is
reading them... tststs).

Very dear greetings to the Animal Rights Festival in Bremergarten (that
sent me a very cool photo as a postcard), and also to all supporters
that stick to their guns and do everything to get us out of there again.
Also a very big thank-you to the people taking care of our dogs and
rats. Furthermore greetings to the other imprisoned political activists
with whom unfortunately I may not have direct contact. I'm thinking
about you a lot - together we will manage this!

Until every cage and every prison is empty…

jan“

+++++++

To keep up to date with all the information on all ten Austrian prisoners check out http://www.vgt.at/index_en.php (this site is written in both German and English)

=================

Earth Liberation Prisoners Support Network
BM Box 2407
London
WC1N 3XX
England
www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk

Seattle: Jennifer Kolar gets 5 years for UW lab arson

See http://www.cldc.org/waters.html for background on Kolar's involvement
in Briana Waters' case.

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http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20080718173258768

Woman gets 5 years for UW lab arson

By PAUL SHUKOVSKY
P-I REPORTER
July 18, 2008

A Seattle woman was sentenced Friday to five years in federal prison, and
five years probation, for participating in an Earth Liberation
Front/Animal Liberation Front rampage of arson that hit targets across the
West.

Jennifer Kolar, 34 -- while part of a notorious ELF/ALF group dubbed the
"Family" -- was one of five people accused in the May 2001 firebombing of
the University of Washington Urban Horticulture Center.

The underground cell torched the lab based on the erroneous belief that
genetic engineering techniques they reviled as dangerous to the
environment were being used there. The building was destroyed along with
precious samples of rare and endangered species of plants being cultivated
for reintroduction into the Cascades.

Kolar also targeted the Cavel West horse meatpacking plant in Redmond,
Ore. in July 1997, a Colorado gun club whose members killed prairie dogs
for sport in October 1998, and a federal wild horse and burro facility in
California where the animals slated to be killed for grazing on federal
land were freed before the facility was set ablaze.

In a plea bargain agreement with the government in October 2006 that set a
sentencing range of five to seven years, Kolar pleaded guilty to
conspiracy to commit arson and make unregistered destructive devices,
attempted arson, arson at both the UW and Cavel West and use of an
incendiary device.

Kolar, who has a master's degree in atmospheric physics, is described by
her attorney, Michael Martin, as "idealistic, bright and stubborn, wanted
to save the world."

Perhaps Kolar's biggest contribution to the ALF/ELF cell was her
prodigious digital skills to train her fellow radicals on how to encrypt
and otherwise hide Internet communications. Federal agents say the
sophistication she provided was a central reason why they eluded detection
for years.

Martin, in a memo to the court, portrayed his client as being drawn into
extreme radicalism because she was "desperate for the attention" of men in
the Earth Liberation/Animal Liberation underground. "She wanted to prove
herself and wanted in some ways to share her skills with these 'friends'
to impress them," he said.

In asking for leniency from U. S. District Judge Franklin Burgess , Kolar
embraced her responsibility to pay more than $7 milllion in restitution
for the destruction of the urban horticulture center. Friday, she turned
to her victims, scientists and staffers from horticulture center who were
in the courtroom, and said:

"I am a scientist. I should have known better... that you were going to
put some information out there that would have made the world a better
place. I see that I hurt the very cause that I thought that I was helping.
I am horribly saddened.

"Not only was it a horrible crime but it was just stupid. I fully accept
responsibility," she said.

Since leaving the radical movement seven years ago, Kolar said,"I have
lived a very productive life." Kolar is now a successful senior software
architect at a firm in Kirkland. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark
Bartlett had asked for seven years behind bars for Kolar -- far below the
federal sentencing guideline range of 235 to 293 months -- because of
Kolar's extensive cooperation with agents and prosecutors in making the
case against her former comrades.

"It is fair to say that it is highly unlikely the U.S. would ever have
solved the mystery of ... the arson at the urban horticulture center
without Ms. Kolar's assistance. She was really the lynchpin in breaking
that case open," Bartlett said.

"In many ways she is an enigma to me that I will never understand,"
Bartlett said, contrasting Kolar's sincere concern for the environment,
against her participation in "heinous crimes that victimized hundreds of
people. You cannot wipe the slate clean as grateful as the U.S. is for her
for her decision to cooperate."

"As a result of her cooperation, Kolar has been demonized by her prior
'friends' in the eco-activist community," the prosecution told Burgess in
their sentencing memorandum. "There is a risk that radical elements ...
might seek retribution against Kolar."

Martin made the same case, saying Kolar has been called a "snitch" and a
"liar." He said that unlike Briana Waters -- who protested her innocence
even as she was sentenced last month to six years in prison for
participating in the Urban Horticulture Center arson -- Kolar has "clearly
accepted responsibility for her actions."

Kolar, who has been free pending sentencing, will be allowed by the judge
to remain free before reporting to the Bureau of Prisons on Sept. 22.

P-I reporter Paul Shukovsky can be reached at 206-448-8072 or
paulshukovsky@seattlepi.com.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/371347_kolar19.html?source=mypi

COINTELPRO The Danger We Face

COINTELPRO The Danger We Face is now online in PDF format at

http://zinelibrary.info/files/cointelprodangerweface.pdf (5.2mb)

SF 8 - First of several Conditional Exams

"SF-8 case" <cdhrsupport@freedomarchives.org>
Date:    Fri, July 18, 2008

The first of several prosecution witnesses appeared in closed
sessions this week in the San Francisco 8 case. These "conditional
exams" of five witnesses who are old and in poor health are taking
place as they may not be available at trial. They are testifying in
advance of the preliminary hearing scheduled for September 8th.

Jack Girot, a former SF Police Officer was in court for two days and
was questioned about a "stolen bicycle" report filed at the Ingleside
Police Station in 1971. The notes he took are lost or destroyed. The
report originally prepared by Girot was "enhanced" by unknown person
or persons with additional information not provided by Girot. He
could not identify the people who made the report. A co-authored
Erdalatz and McCoy intra-departmental memo puts an additional Black
male in the police station at the time of the stolen bicycle report
with no reference to the source of the information. Girot could not
identify any of the defendants in the case from either their current
photographs or photos from 1971.

The next exams are scheduled for August 22 & August 25-28.

Judge Moscone had Herman Bell and Jalil Muntaqim appear unshackled in
court for the first time, when neither the SF County Sheriff (who
runs the jail and security in the courthouse) nor the prosecutors objected.

The California State Prosecutors office has not allowed the defense
to see the text of a proposed agreement to return Herman and Jalil to
New York state for their parole hearings. The delays make it unlikely
that they can have their legally-guaranteed hearings before the
September preliminary hearing. Prosecutors are saying that until the
extradition papers are signed, they remain confidential and will not
be presented to Judge Moscone to sign.

Judge Philip Moscone had earlier (on May 22) signed an order allowing
Herman Bell and Jalil Muntaqim to return to New York state for their
parole hearings. All parties agreed that the move would be temporary;
Herman and Jalil waived their rights to fight extradition back to California.

This is a vindictive and mean-spirited procedural delay. Strong
arguments were made to guarantee Herman and Jalil's right to "pursue
their liberty interests" and have parole hearings. Both have served
over 30 years in prison as model prisoners. Both were targeted
originally by COINTELPRO as members of the Black Panther Party.

_______________________________________________
Please support these brothers by sending a donation. Make checks payable
to CDHR/Agape and mail to the address below or donate on line:

www.freethesf8.org/donate.html

Committee for the Defense of Human Rights (CDHR)
PO Box 90221
Pasadena, CA 91109
(415) 226-1120
FreetheSF8@riseup.net

www.freethesf8.org

Daniel McGowan Update

From:    "Family + Friends of Daniel McG" <friendsofdanielmcg@yahoo.com>
Date:    Thu, July 17, 2008

Friends,

On Monday, July 14, Daniel appeared in federal court in the Western
District of Wisconsin (Madison) before Judge Barbara Crabb and was
found in civil contempt for his refusal to answer questions before a
grand jury.

Since he is already in custody for his existing
prison sentence, this means that his clock of time being served has
stopped. An appeal has been filed by his lawyer to the 7th Circuit
Court of Appeals, as well as a motion for bail (in his case since
he wouldn't be released, to start his federal time moving forward
again). Right now, until the grand jury is dismissed or other
agreements are made within that case and things are resolved, his time
will not count as time served. It is unknown whether he will remain in
county jail for the full extension of this period.

So, for now, please continue to write
to Daniel with positive thoughts, funny stories, and well wishes, as
this has been a particularly stressful and difficult time. Letters are
key to time passing quickly inside.

Write Daniel at:

Daniel McGowan
Columbia County Jail
403 Jackson Street
Portage, Wisconsin 53901

His
federal ID number is not needed for letters there. You may send a few
pictures in your letters (no polaroids), but he can only receive
magazines from subscriptions and books directly from the publisher.

Thanks for your continued support,
Family and Friends of Daniel McGowan

(Apologies for the delay, we've been experiencing some problems with the
list)



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Rod Coronado In Need of Fiction Novels

From:    "Support for Rod Coronado" <info@supportrod.org>
Date:    Thu, July 17, 2008

It’s a rainy day where I sit, a little sultry and moody.  The dark, heavy
clouds rolled up over a tangerine sky and no longer could the morning
light escape. It feels like a good setting for a story that could take you
out of a place you don’t want to be.  I think that is what Rod is in need
of, a good book to take him out of where he doesn’t want to be.

He said he loves the non-fiction he has been reading, but he just needs
some good novels.  I have been on a forced sabatical of non-fiction (due
to parenting) for some time; the ones that I have read I have already
passed along to Rod.  If you have any suggestions, please send them my way
to info@supportrod.org.

If you would like to send him some good novels, please do! Although he is
light-hearted and sounding contented (with help from his current read, The
Power of Now, by Ekhart Toll), I hear that Rod would like something grand,
or fantasitical, or plain silly to ease the monotony.

Thanks*

Chrysta

--

The following physical address is associated with this mailing list:

PO Box 732
Tucson, Arizona 85702

ENDORSE THE FREE THE CUBAN 5 MONTH!

Initial Endorsers:

• The Popular Education Project to free the Cuban 5
• EL Frente Socialista-Comite de NYC
• International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5
• Al-Awda Right to Return
• Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
• Brigada Vilma Guillois Espin
• The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign
• New York Anarchist Black Cross Federation
• The Philadelphia Cuba Solidarity Coalition
• Nicaragua Solidarity Committee Chicago
• The Cuba Solidarity Committee in Houston
• Puerto Rican Alliance Of Los Angeles

To organizations and Individuals who believe in the Freedom of the Cuban 5,

In 2006, Ricardo Alarcon, President of the Cuban National Assembly, declared the period of time between September 12-October 8 to be a time to raise awareness around the Cuban 5. Here in NYC The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5 extends this time to October 12; in order for it to be a full month of events and to include a commemoration of the assassination of Ernest “Che” Guevara. We refer to this period of time as the “Free the Cuban 5 Month!”

September 12^th is the tenth anniversary of the arrest of the Cuban 5 and the Project wants to create a calendar full of events throughout the city, nationally and internationally! Motivated by the negative and unjust decision of the 11^th Circuit Appeals, the Project feels it is time to double our efforts to educate about the case of the Cuban 5 and to garner more support on their behalf.

The Project would like to organize Cuban 5 events in NYC communities that have not had them before. We want to broaden this movement and build Solidarity for the Cuban 5 in as many communities as possible.

The Project is asking organizations and individuals to organize forums, letter writing nights, film screenings, conversations, or fund-raisers for the Cuban 5. The Project will help by providing speakers, films, literature and promotion!

If you are interested in endorsing the Free the Cuban 5 Month AND ORGANIZING AN EVENT, please email us at freethecuban5@gmail.com

So far this is the Calendar events:

• Sat. September 13-All out to Washington DC! 10^th anniversary of the arrest of the Cuban 5! Demonstration for the Cuban 5! More information will be published soon!
• Tues. Sept. 16^th-LETTER WRITING NIGHT IN BROOKLYN with the New York Anarchist Black Cross Federation, details TBA…
• Friday October 10- 10^th Anniversary Jericho March in NYC for all Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War in New York City!! Check the Jericho Website: www.jerichony.org
• OTHER EVENTS ARE CURRENTLY BEING ORGANIZED!!

For more information on FREE THE CUBAN 5 MONTH consult The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5 website: www.freethecuban5.com

2 Events for the PRican PPs in NYC

The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign
http://www.prolibertadweb.com
ProLibertad@hotmail.com
ProLibertad hotline: 718-601-4751
_______________________________________________________________

Join ProLibertad on our annual Freedom Cook out to HighLands Pool in Ringwood, New Jersey!!

Enjoy the sun, fun and relaxation of

HighLands Pool!! Bring your swimming trunks for the cool and refreshing Chemical-free mountain stream-fed pool!!

We will have DELICOUS BORICUA FOOD, FUN,

MUSIC,DOMINOES, GAMES, SPORTS and RELAXATION!!

Saturday Aug. 2nd, 2008 at 9am!! Get on the Bus!!

Meet at the corner of w179th St. and Broadway at 9am to catch one of our Freedom Vans to HighLand Pools!!

Transportation from NYC ($10), Entrance to HighLand Pools ($5) and Food ($5); all together $20 (Adults) $15 for (Children)

Contact ProLibertad to reserve a seat on our Freedom Bus by calling the ProLibertad hotline: 718-601-4751

____________________________________________________

The Puerto Rican Freedom Project

2nd fundraiser Hosted by Hec-one

Suggested donation: $10

Fri. July 25th, 2008

A benefit for the Freedom Album, a CD compilation to raise awareness and funds for the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War and their families

Lcation: Camaradas El Barrio

2241 1st avenue

between 115th-116th St.

212-348-2703

www.camaradaselbarrio.com

Doors open at 7pm, show will begin by 8:30pm-9pm

There will be an art sale to benefit the efforts of the Puerto Rican Freedom Committee as well as a blow out performances by: The Welfare Poets, Bombayo, NOT4PROPHET(OF THE X-VANDALS AND RICANSCTRUCTION) M-TEAM AND Division X

www.prfreedomproject.org or www.myspace.com/freeourpoliticalprisoners

Lambertville teen found guilty in arson of 2 unfinished homes

Saturday, July 12, 2008 Toledo Blade

MONROE- A Lambertville teenager who torched two unfinished
homes and took an ax to a utility pole to make a statement
against urban sprawl was convicted yesterday in Monroe
County Circuit Court of arson and malicious destruction of
property.

Michael W. Sykes, 17, pleaded no contest to two counts of arson of
real property for deliberately setting fires two days apart in March
that destroyed homes under construction in Bedford Township.

The former Bedford High School student also entered no-contest pleas
to one count of malicious destruction of property for trying to chop
down a Consumers Powers pole along Sterns Road and malicious
destruction of police property for damaging his cell in the Monroe
County jail in May.

Judge Joseph Costello, Jr., found the teenager guilty and ordered him
to return to court on Aug. 7 for sentencing on the four felonies.

Sykes of 7472 Canterbury Drive was arrested on March 16 when he
attempted to siphon gasoline from the unmarked vehicle of a sheriff's
detective who was on surveillance in an effort to catch the arsonist.

The teenager confessed to authorities that he was responsible for the
fire at an unoccupied condominium on Fountain Circle in Crystal
Waters Villas off Douglas Road on March 12 and the blaze two days
later on Brentridge Lane.

At the time of his arrest, Sykes told detectives he was an
environmentalist and was concerned with development and construction
of new houses in the area. He said the homes he started on fire were
picked randomly.

Prosecutor Bill Nichols said Sykes faces a minimum sentence of 3 to 5
1/2 years and the conviction carries a maximum punishment of 10
years. The plea agreement also calls for the teenager to pay
restitution to the victims.

"He pleaded to all counts as he was charged," Mr. Nichols said.

None of the victims whose homes were destroyed by the arsonist was
present in court for the pleading. Brian Wagner, who is the owner of
the home that is being rebuilt on Brentridge, said he was satisfied
the case has been resolved with a conviction.

"I hope that he can get some help and that when he gets out of prison
he will be a changed person," Mr. Wagner said.

Mr. Wagner said that he and his wife had to delay selling their
Sylvania Township home and drop the asking price while they restarted
construction of their dream home. He said they hoped to move into the
house in early August.

"You can't imagine what we went through," he said. "We get a little
nervous anytime that we smell smoke. It is something that will stay
with you for the rest of your life."

Sykes also confessed to detectives that he set an arson fire behind
the Kroger store at Sterns and Secor roads in Lambertville in 2006
that destroyed a semi trailer and filled the store with smoke and
that he torched a boat and trailer that same year.

The teenager also admitted to stealing an American flag from a
Lambertville residence and painting the anarchist symbol - the letter
"A" inside a circle - on it. The flag was found slightly burned in a
wooded area near the suspect's home in March.

He was not charged in connection with any of those incidents.

As a juvenile, Sykes was found delinquent in connection with arson
for setting fire to a field in Whiteford Township in 2006. He told
detectives that he tired of seeing forest being destroyed for the
construction of new homes.

Write Washington today! Allow family visits for the Cuban Five!!

From:    "Free the Cuban Five" <info@freethefive.org>
Date:    Sat, July 12, 2008 5:05 am

July 10, 2008

National Committee To Free The Cuban Five Bulletin
As the 20th wedding anniversary of Adriana Pérez and Gerardo Hernández on
July 15 nears...

Urge Washington to grant U.S.
entry visas
to Adriana,
and to Olga Salanueva, wife of René
González



Dear Friends of the Cuban Five:

For more than ten years, Adriana and Gerardo
have not been able to see each other. Olga
and René have also been denied the right to
family visits, since August 2000.


This is due to the cruel and unjustified
refusal by the U.S. government to grant entry
visas to the wives of two of the Cuban
Five.

It is a basic human and constitutional right
for spouses and their children to be
together, but the U.S. government has
blatantly violated those rights. Other family
members of the Cuban Five have been forced to
wait as long as 26 months before being
allowed to enter the United States to see
their loved ones.

Take Action Today!

Click Below to Send a Letter!

Please take a moment to help out. As part of
the worldwide campaign for the wives' visas,
The National Committee to Free the Cuban Five
has developed an on-line feature, so you can
easily send a letter from anywhere in the
world, to U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
* Click to send letter -
http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FEYKsmep-tsxYT4Yyd1_1O2Qn4Bmdhqk6zR7VRXgIFnznvURsKcicxNgCiMLnAE-RIW-cBODHe_iwUw0x_3wCfTapuGhkoLuoUGQYsi2ETg_dk2FYtH7rtIxJhJ4nGJLoSZpshQUhjI=
* Read a message from René -
http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FEYKsmep-ttMh709ksylnExdILssjQPLJaF-FUblVwhw7XYJeCRS6c9OWDE3Nx_xk1wgyPrdrI4W13Jg3pA0ZsAFn44LlSjGHjJpEbfeQ_l563AE-8ZkyJsEFglFUjeKIOvi9kzqeIN_TUzGEFCJsO-AnjGQhQHEd7xqrf6zdX8=

Soon to come:  Announcements for September actions!

Contact us: info@freethefive.org
Or call: 415-821-6545
Web: http://www.freethefive.org

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Free the Cuban Five Now!

Allow the families' visits!
Grant entry
visas to

Adriana Pérez and Olga Salanueva!

National Committee To Free The Cuban Five | 2489 Mission St. #24 | San
Francisco | CA | 94110

Tacoma: Pitch Pipe Infoshop Under Surveillance

Friday, July 11 2008 Infoshop News

The residents of the Pitch Pipe Infoshop recently became aware of the existence of a hidden surveillance camera attached to a utility pole across from their house. The camera is hidden inside a box which is meant to resemble a standard electrical box. There are no other boxes like this on any of the utility poles in the immediate area. As the below picture shows, there is clearly a "camera-resembling-object" resting behind the transparent surface at the base of the box.

For Immediate Release:

Thursday, July 10, 2008

The residents of the Pitch Pipe Infoshop recently became aware of the
existence of a hidden surveillance camera attached to a utility pole
across from their house. The camera is hidden inside a box which is
meant to resemble a standard electrical box. There are no other boxes
like this on any of the utility poles in the immediate area. As the
below picture shows, there is clearly a "camera-resembling-object"
resting behind the transparent surface at the base of the box.

The camera directly faces the Pitch Pipe Infoshop.

It has a clear view of the room at the top of the house.

This development does not surprise anyone at the Infoshop. In the past,
the Tacoma Police Department has called its residents a homeland
security threat. In the past, residents have spotted and chased away
under-cover 'law enforcement' staking out the house. This development
does make the residents angry, however. These photos are being released
so that others may know what to look for and so that others can clearly
see what the government (local or otherwise) is doing to all who
vocally express their anger at the current state of things.

It is uncertain which law enforcement agency is behind this
camera. This camera exists, though, as you can clearly see. Perhaps
this camera has seen the residents of the Infoshop playing with the
neighbors children or having picnics with the family next door. Perhaps
it has seen the residents organizing a show in the neighborhood park in
which families and children from across the neighborhood attended
during a beautiful, sunny day. Perhaps, maybe, the camera has seen the
residents acting like everyone in the neighborhood acts: like humans.

The residents of the Pitch Pipe Infoshop are not criminals and they are
not terrorists, no matter what the government may try to say. They are
normal people, leading normal lives. They are interacting with their
community and have the support of that community. They are wonderful
people who leave the door open to anyone who wishes to come in ('law
enforcement' excluded).

A rose from the Pitch Pipe yard.

Spread this information as widely as possible. If you choose to ignore
this information, you are turning a blind eye to the constantly
encroaching totalitarianism of this government. What is being reported
can be independently verified by driving to the corner of 7th and MLK
Jr. Way in Tacoma and walking to the alley in between MLK Jr. Way and L
Street. The camera is fastened to the utility pole at the entrance to
the alley (the alley ends at 7th).

Keep fighting the good fight and do not let them scare you. They have
nothing on anyone and are doing these things because of one thing:
fear. Fear of the population they have abused for far too long.

Concerned Independent Journalists

Bear Trap Saboteur Jailed

Urgent ELP! Bulletin (12th July 2008)

Dear friends

ELP has just learnt that American animal rights activist, Albert 'Ali' Kamemian, has been jailed for 30-days for resisting arrest during an action where a brear-trap was tampered with.

Please send urgent letter of support to:

Albert Kazemian #100034
Keogh-Dwyer Correctional Facility
41 High Street
Newton, NJ 07860

USA

Below is a maintsream article about Ali.

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-13/1215837324188710.xml&coll=1

Animal-rights activist receives 30-day sentence
Saturday, July 12, 2008

BY JOE MOSZCZYNSKI
Star-Ledger Staff

A Superior Court judge upheld a municipal court ruling yesterday and sentenced a Sussex County animal-rights activist to 30 days in jail for resisting arrest during a bear-trap tampering incident last year.

Refusing to issue a stay pending appeal, Judge N. Peter Conforti ordered that Albert "Ali" Kazemian, 51, begin serving the term immediately. Kazemian was then handcuffed by two sheriff's officers and whisked away to the county jail.

"His conduct has been consistent to violate the law," said Conforti, noting that Kazemian's most recent conviction in Vernon was his third conviction for resisting arrest and obstruction of justice.

Kazemian, of Vernon, was most recently arrested on July 17, when he was caught by the state Division of Fish & Wildlife officers when he was allegedly pouring human urine from a gallon jug near a bear trap that had been set up on his neighbor's property. He allegedly poured the urine near the trap to deter bears from entering the trap.

Kazemian pleaded guilty in Vernon Municipal Court to obstruction of justice and resisting arrest, and was sentenced on Dec. 18 by Judge C. William Bowkley to 30 days in jail. At the time, Bowkley had said a jail sentence was warranted because it was Kazemian's second conviction in Vernon for a similar offense.

In 2006, Kazemian was convicted in Vernon of resisting arrest and obstruction of justice for interfering with hunters during New Jersey's 2005 bear hunt.

But Sussex County Assistant Prosecutor Robin Lawrie pointed out -- and Conforti agreed -- that in addition to Kazemian's two convictions in Vernon he was also convicted of the same charges earlier in South Hackensack.

"Three times and you're out," said Lawrie.

The affirmation of the municipal court ruling against Kazemian came despite pleas for a reduced sentence from his attorney, Gina Calogero, and another animal-rights activist, Susan Kehoe.

Kehoe, 57, is herself facing disorderly conduct charges after being videotaped allegedly providing bags of sunflower seeds to bears in the backyard of her Vernon home in violation of a state law against feeding bears.

"A jail sentence (for Kazemian) doesn't make any sense to me," she told the judge. "He wouldn't hurt a fly."

++++++++

Earth Liberation Prisoners Support Network

BM Box 2407

London

WC1N 3XX

England

www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk

Ruchell Cinque Magee parole hearing

Please forward widely:

I have recently received several communications from Ruchell Cinque
Magee, #A92051
3A5-142, CSP; PO Box 3461, Corcoran CA 93212. He writes:

Greetings,
One thing in this political prisoner's plight sticks out for public
understanding:

"Jury acquittal by twelve showing all over the trial records."

A member of your publication may appear for the Parole Hearing at Corcoran prison,
if interested, July 24, 2008. You may also write a letter to the Board. Guideline
enclosed. Write the way you see fit.

I have asked the jury foremen Mr. Suares to write to the Board, and confirm the
jurors' acquittal, and counter the haters' twisted versions and phony information
opposing to my release.

Strange how the haters can come up with photos of the August 7, 1970 tragedy in
marin County, but they cannot find the Los Angeles trial court records; they cannot recognize the jury acquittal in the trial court records of 1973.

Now based on twisted versions, and photos, the haters (Peter Flores, deputy CA
Attorney General and others) paint a caricature of me being a threat to the public
if released from prison. Anyone who conceals a jury acquittal proves(themselves)
a threat to the people.

The acquittal issue stands before three different courts, including
the Parole Board.

As show by the Writ of Prohibition filed with the Second Appellate Court (copy recently sent to you), the haters fear to disclose the Los Angeles trial court
records, even when ordered by the court as far back as 1971.

Case is moving on.

In struggle,
Ruchell Cinque Magee

Guideline (written by R. Cinque M.):

Commissioners, Board of Parole Hearing
California State Prison - Corcoran
Lifer Desk
PO Box 8800
Corcoran CA 93212-8800

Re: CDC #A92051, Ruchell Cinque Magee
Hearing: July 24, 2008

Dear Commission:

The undersigned has an interest in the Ruchell Cinque Magee hearing. This publisher has been following the Ruchell Cinque Magee case for years. Letters by the Deputy Attorney General and others have been read, and their opposing R. Cinque's release proves to be absolutely unreasonable.

[Note: The Deputy AG sent a letter with a photo of the August 1970 Marin County courthouse slave rebellion and massacre, of which Cinque was the sole survivor. LAPD Chief Bratton sent a gratuitous letter opposing parole for Magee.]

R. Cinque has been 47 years in the California state prison for kidnap, and we
know of no other person in the United States being in prison for 47 years for
kidnap.

If heard in open court, Ruchell Cinque would long ago have been released
from jail, because the convictions against him violate every law on
the books. This office has possession of the pending Application for Clearance before the US Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, entitled: Ruchell Cinque Magee, and in support of Jury Acquittal, vs. Senator Orrin Hatch, Bob Dole and others.

All evidence under oath reflects jury acquittal, and R. Cinque in prison on a 1970
kidnap count, after 12 jurors of San Francisco County found him not guilty of
violating Penal Code 209.

Members of this publishing office have been asked by R. Cinque M. to ask permission
to attend the Hearing scheduled for July 24, 2008. We are informed that R. Cinque
has called upon Jury Foreman Mr. Bernard J. Suares to write to this Board and
confirm the jurors' acquittal as to 'kidnap' charged by indictment in 1970.

Those opposing R. Cinque's release are committing a crime by using photos and
information to deface the jury acquittal. The conviction by the Santa Clara County Superior Court is challenged as being a Double Jeopardy prosecution, in violation of the Fifth and 14th Amendments.

Some evidence of R. Cinque's false imprisonment has reached millions of people,
all over the world. Many people are interested in his case, and many believe he is
the victim of hate crime frame-ups by individuals who lie, and who entertain themselves by corrupting other people's lives while manipulating the criminal
justice system.

Anybody with a badge who ignores or tries to hide jury acquittal, and who keep people
in prison by use of false evidence, are criminals themselves who should be locked up
for life.

R. Cinque is no threat to the public and he has (already) proved his innocence before twelve jurors in San Francisco County. Photos of the August 7, 1970 tragedy and twisted visions do not outweigh the jury acquittal in fact or in law, not in the world of intelligent people with eyes to see the acquittal.

The Board is in a position to release Mr. R. Cinque Magee, his release being required under Penal Code 1170.2 (Determined Sentence Law), as he has served approximately 47 years in the California State Prison.

[Note from MN: Cinque was first imprisoned (falsely) in a case where a co-defendant's guilty plea was used as evidence against him. It was this original conviction and the police, prosecutorial and judicial corruption that he was protesting when he
agreed to join the Marin slave rebellion in 1970, in order to attract media
attention to his case and the violations of rights in the criminal justice system.--MN]

He is almost 70 years of age. He has knowledge which could help to turn around the lives of millions of young people going in the wrong directions. Anybody who has survived 47 years or more in prison and still has their sanity, knows something about being a survivor.

The undersigned urges this Board's members to release R. Cinque Magee. Give back his freedom.

Magee also wrote separately:

If interested in attending the Parole Board hearing scheduled at Corcoran State Prison on July 24, 2008, write a brief letter to:

Warden D. Adams
Corcoran State Prison
4001 King Avenue
Corcoran CA 93212

He enclosed letters from Deputy AG Peter E. Flores, Jr. writing for Edmund G. (Gerry)Brown Jr., Attorney General, opposing his release, which included
photos of the Marin County courthouse incident. There was also a letter from William
Bratton, chief of the LAPD, opposing parole, and citing Magee's original (false)conviction. Bratton says, "It is the Department's position to adamantly oppose the release of this inmate back to the community. Magee should remain segregated from society." A third letter from the Marin County DA, Edward S. Berberian says, "Magee has fraudulantly attempted to portray himself as some kind of 'political prisoner.' In fact, Magee is nothing more than a sociopathic, common career criminal. He has no conscience and he will forever be a menace to the public."

As R. Cinque M. wrote: "You know the business. Everybody in office with some power hates Magee. Magee is the only prisoner 47 years confined for kidnap. Why?"

I will not be able to attend the Parole Board hearing, but I am writing to the Board in the interest of his release. "Turning the Tide" was already going to press when I got this material from Magee, so I was not able to include it in the paper, so I am posting it to comrades to urge to write on his behalf and to see if anybody in closer proximity to Corcoran wants to try to attend.

--Michael Novick
Anti-Racist Action-LA/People Against Racist Terror
Jericho Amnesty Coalition LA

Medical Update Russell Maroon Shoats

From:    "Political Prisoner News" <ppnews@freedomarchives.org>
Date:    Thu, July 10, 2008


MEDICAL UPDATE ON NEW AFRIKAN POW RUSSELL MAROON SHOATS

from Theresa Shoatz, July 9, 2008:

Supporters across the country called SCI Greene on behalf of Russell
Maroon Shoats to support his demand for a coronary angiography (heart
X-ray) in the hopes of diagnosing and treating his ongoing chest
pains and shortness of breath which had gone ignored by the prison
despite Maroon filing four grievances. Public pressure resulted in
Maroon winning a visit to the medical facility but the care he
received was not adequate.

During his visit to medical Maroon received a steroid injection to
the chest to stop the pain, rapid heart rate, and pressure to the
chest wall. Maroon is very concerned about these injections due to
the many side effects associated with steroids.

Two weeks ago Maroon instructed his family to stop calling the prison
as he believed their hands to be tied. With help from Maroon's
supporters we were able to contact the agency that provides the
medical care for the Pennsylvania prison system. After conferring
with Dr jin at SCI Greene, the chief of staff stressed how Maroon had
been given excellent medical treatment but we know from Maroon's own
testimony that this is far from the truth.

Examining Maroon Shoats, Dr. jin also expressed frustration to Maroon
over the phone calls in regards to his health. The doctor apparently
told Maroon to stop playing games and to stop writing his family
complaining of chest pain. Dr. jin said, "There's nothing wrong with
you."

Despite his statements and his attitude, Dr. jin promised that Maroon
would refer him to a hospital for a stress test within two weeks.
Maroon wants to thank his supporters for all their help but now he is
asking that we hold off on phone calls until further notice so as to
give Dr. jin opportunity to fulfill his promise.

Thank you for all your support! Please stay tuned for updates and
keep your fingers crossed for Russell Maroon Shoats!


RUSSELL SHOATS
AF3855
SCI GREENE
RUSSELL MAROON SHOATS
175 Progress Drive
SUPPORT COMMITTEE
WAYNESBURG, PA 15370
P.O. BOX 9476

                    PHILA, PA 19139



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Call for Peltier on Monday!!!

Please Forward far and Wide!

On Monday July 14th there will be a concentrated 'call in' and
'emailing' to get Leonard Peltier his Diabetes testing kit and
diabetic shoes.

 From 10:00AM - 1:00PM Eastern standard time (7am-10am Pacific)
please call:
Warden Bledsoe at USP Penitentiary Lewisburg
Phone: 570-523-1251

Let them know that Leonard NEEDS his Diabetes testing kit and
diabetic shoes, and his health is suffering because he has been
denied these basic supplies.

The U.S. penitentiary at Lewisburg is in lock down, lock downs,
especially those that last a long while,
are dangerous.  Why? First, it's common for Leonard not to receive
his medications at such times.
Second, the prison has told all of us that Leonard has access to a
diabetes testing kit in the infirmary.
Right? Unfortunately, during a lock down, Leonard isn't allowed to go
to the infirmary at all.
There's no way for him to test his blood glucose level.

also send emails to:

D. Scott Dodrill, Regional Director Northeast Regional Office
E-mail: nero/execassistant@bop.gov

Warden Bledsoe
E-mail: lew/execassistant@bop.gov

SAMPLE LETTER-------

To D.Scott Dodrill
cc: Warden Bledsoe

This Letter is in regards to the condition and health of Leonard
Peltier (#89637-132).
Leonard has been on lock down and while on lock down he has not
received his: Medication, Diabetes Testing Kit, as well as his
Diabetic Shoes.  As You know he is Diabetic and to DENY him of these
basic supplies you are endangering his life.  Please allow him to
have his medication, his testing kit, and his diabetic shoes as soon
as possible.  Leonard needs access to a diabetes testing kit, he
should be allowed his own kit at the pharmacy for accurate readings
as well as easy and regular access.  If You cannot do this, then you
should at least allow him to go to the infirmary so he may
immediately get his health checked.
please send me a response  to this letter as soon as you get a chance.
thank you
Sincerely


for more information:
Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee
PO Box 7488, Fargo, ND 58106
Phone: 701/235-2206
E-mail: contact@whoisleonardpeltier.info
Web: www.whoisleonardpeltier.info

Bonnie Kerness Speech at Stopmax Conference

From:    "Political Prisoner News" <ppnews@freedomarchives.org>
Date:    Wed, July 9, 2008

via: Bonnie Kerness
===============

AFSC Stopmax Conference
Plenary Session
Temple University
May 31-June 1
Bonnie Kerness, AFSC Prison Watch Project

I want to thank the AFSC for renewing its
commitment to issues of isolation and torture in
US prisons; the AFSC Healing Justice staff for
their collective brilliance and spirit and Naima
Black and the Stopmax Team for organizing this extraordinary community.

In the mid 80’s I received a letter from Ojore
Lutalo who had just been placed in the Management
Control Unit at Trenton State Prison. He asked
what a control unit was, why he was in there and
how long he would have to stay. At that point, we
knew little of control units, except for the
ground breaking work of Nancy Kurshan and Steve
Whitman of the Committee to End the Marion
Lockdown (CEML) and the many prisoners who
reached out to the AFSC, which, in 1985 produced
a pamphlet called “The Lessons of Marion”. We
began hearing from people throughout the country
saying that they were prisoners being held in
extended isolation for political reasons. We also
heard from jailhouse lawyers, Islamic militants
and prisoner activists ­ many of whom found
themselves locked down in 24/7 solitary
confinement. The AFSC began contacting people
inside and outside the prisons to see who was
interested in working specifically on control
unit isolation issues, and in 1994 (after eight
years of organizing) we hosted the formation of
the National Campaign to Stop Control Unit
Prisons. This was done with the help of CEML,
Komboa Ervin, who was one of the Marion Brothers,
Corey Weinstein of California Prison Focus,
Alejandro Molina from the Puerto Rican Cultural
Center, students from Oberlin College, young
people across the country who belonged to the
Anarchist Black Cross, the United Church of
Christ, Yaki Owusu of Spear and Shield, the input
of the women held in small group isolation at
Lexington, Ky. and many others who gave strength
and purpose to the work. Some of these people
were actively involved in the different political
movements of the 60’s and 70’s and understood how
control units were being used against us all.
Getting issues of isolation and torture into the
light has been a long road and I bow in gratitude
to those inside who so gracefully and patiently
mentored those of us on the outside.

In 1996, the National Campaign held four Regional
Hearings across the country, giving voice to
people in prison, ex-prisoners, family members,
advocates, lawyers and others whom were impacted
by the use of isolation. In 1997 we came out with
the Interim Report which held data on the
emergence of over 45 control units or supermax
prisons in almost every state. We matched inside
and outside monitors in each state and formed the
testimonies we received into a Listening Project
called “Testimonies of Torture” and the
“Survivor’s Manual”. In 1998, the National AFSC
folded the work of the Campaign into Newark, NJ’s
Prison Watch Project of the New York Metropolitan
Regional Office. During the four years of its
existence, NCSCUP trained dozens of students in
organizing principles, including helping to
develop about half a dozen campus Prisoner
Awareness groups. Many of those former students
are still working for social change today.

The history of the National Campaign to Stop
Control Unit Prisons really began with the
movements of the 60’s and 70’s. My generation
belonged to a society where we genuinely believed
that each of us was free to dissent politically.
In those years, people acted out this belief in a
number of ways. Native peoples contributed to the
formation of the American Indian Movement
dedicated to self determination; Puerto Ricans
joined the movement to free the island from US
colonialism; white students formed the Students
for a Democratic Society and other groups, while
others worked in the southern Civil Rights
movements. This was also a time that the New
Afrikan Independence Movement reasserted itself,
the Black Panther Party for Self Defense was
formed, as well as a time where there was a
distinct rise in the prisoner’s rights movement.
It was time when television news had graphic
pictures of State Troopers, Police, the FBI, and
the National Guard killing our peers. It was a
time when I saw on the evening news the bullet
holes fired by police into Panther Fred Hampton’s
sleeping body, a time when young people
protesting the Viet Nam War died on the Jackson
and Kent State campuses killed by the National
Guard, a time when civil rights workers were
killed with impunity, and a time when we felt as
if there was no opportunity to stop mourning
because each day another activist was dead. These
killings and other acts of oppression led to
underground formations such as the Black
Liberation Army and the Weathermen Underground.

The government, in response to this massive
outcry against social inequities and for national
liberation, utilized an FBI Counter Intelligence
Program called COINTELPRO, which had as its
objective the crippling of the Black Panther
Party and other radical forces. Over the years
that this directive was carried out, many of
those young people who weren’t murdered were put
in prisons across the country. Some, now in their
60’s and 70’s are still there. Those directives
are still being carried out, only now we have an
entire office of Homeland Security monitoring
what it calls “radical prisoners”.

While the US denied that there were people being
held for political reasons, there was no way at
the time, to work with prisoners without hearing
repeatedly of the existence of such people,
including individuals who clearly fit the United
Nations definition of political prisoners and
prisoners of war ­ and the particular treatment
they endured once in prison. As early as 1978,
Andrew Young , who was US Ambassador to the
United Nations, was quoted in newspaper
interviews as saying that “there were hundreds,
perhaps thousands of people I would describe as
political prisoners” in US prisons.

Across the nation, we saw an enhanced use of
sensory deprivation/isolation units for such
people, and it was this growing “special
treatment” which we began monitoring. At the
time, Ralph Arons, a former warden at Marion, was
quoted at a congressional hearing as saying, “The
purpose of the Marion Control Unit is to control
revolutionary attitudes in the prison system and in society at large”.

For those of us who have been in the struggle for
decades, the deliberate use of long term sensory
deprivation is haunting. People that we’ve known,
worked with and loved have been, and some still
are, being held in this manner. Some of those are
people in the audience today. The names ­ Ojore
Lutalo; Sundiata Acoli, who the Management
Control Unit in NJ was built for in 1975; Assata
Shakur, who was held for over five years in
isolation. Marshall Eddie Conway, Albert Nuh
Washington, who died in prison; Geronimo Pratt;
Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Dr. Mutulu Shakur, Mumia Abu
Jamal; Leonard Peltier, David Gilbert, Marilyn
Buck, Sekou Odinga, Ray Luc Levasseur, Kazi
Toure, Masai Ehehosi; Leonard Peltier, Oscar
Lopez Rivera, Alejandrina Torres, Dylcia Pagan,
Bashir Hameed, Standing Deer and Sekou Odinga,
Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin; Richard Williams, Tom
Manning, Merle and the rest of the Africas,
Africa, Susan Rosenberg, Laura Whitehorn, Linda
Evans, Marilyn Buck, Sylvia Baraldini, Mutulu
Shakur, Imam Jamil Al-Amin - these names and
dozens of others ­ haunt the spaces of every
control unit, SHU, DDU, ad seg unit and special
housing unit in the country. No matter what name
they are given, their purpose is the same as it
is in Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo ­ the breaking of
minds. For every name I’ve read, there are a thousand more.

For people of my generation, this work is done
with a compelling and lifetime passion and an
understanding that the work is not risk free.
We’ve made a promise to those dead and alive to
abolish these torture chambers. People throughout
the world are beginning to understand what the
prisoners have been saying to us for decades
about the oppressive tactics of the US
government. The department of corrections is more
than a set of institutions, it is a state of
mind. It is that state of mind which has expanded
the use of isolation, the use of devices of
torture and the Counter Intelligence Program, as
part of Homeland Security, against activists,
both inside and outside the walls. Ojore Lutalo,
the man who first contacted us in 1986, was
released from the control unit via litigation in
2002 after 16 years in isolation. In 2004, he let
us know that he had been placed back into the
Management Control unit with no charges pending
or any explanation. When I called the Department
of Corrections, it took many conversations before
I was bluntly told that this was upon the order
of Homeland Security, that he is one of a number
of prisoners across the country who they have targeted in this way.

The latest progression of control units are
called “security threat group management units”.
This is particularly egregious because it is the
government which gets to define what a “security
threat group” is. According to a national survey
done by the Department of Justice in 1997, the
Departments of Corrections of Minnesota and
Oregon named all Asians as gangs, which Minnesota
further compounds by adding all Native Americans.
The State of NJ DOC lists the Black Cat
Collective as a gang. The Black Cat Collective is
my free foster son along with two friends who put
on Afro-Centric cultural programs in libraries.
Because my own background stems from the Civil
Rights Era, I am very mindful of who is
considered a “security threat” to this country and how they are treated.

Prison gang policies occur within the context of
larger society and the wider criminal justice
system, and the growth of security threat group
management units are part of the larger policy
agenda regarding US prisons. One of the standards
that the federal government sets in order for
states to receive prison construction subsidies
is to mandate the building of supermax prisons or
security threat group management units.

One of the things that makes this such an
exciting time to re-new our efforts through
Stopmax, is that we now have the growing
understanding of the validity United Nations
international law. The Convention Against
Torture, the Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial Discrimination, The UN Convention
on Political and Civil Rights and other
international and regional treaties help give us
a new set of legal, educational and organizing tools for social change.

Our work this weekend is very rooted in struggle
against the system and political oppression. It
is deeply touching to me to have representatives
of so many long time political formations
present. Those of us in AFSC rooted in these
issues, continue to hear from prisoner activists,
the mentally ill, people charged with being gang
members and thousands of others ­ all being
housed in extended isolation where devices of
torture are used with impunity. After each
Homeland Security Code change, Prison Watch is
flooded with calls from people reporting loved
ones with Islamic names being placed in solitary without charges.

Our work this weekend is a time when the building
of new relationships and the broadening of our
base can truly create social change. I think we
all need to be mindful of the deep sense of grief
that many of us feel as it impacts on our work
and interactions. There may be groups here who
need to work through differences with one
another. There may be groups here who can form
working alliances no matter what those
differences are. Our priority has to be to work
cooperatively to shut down these torture chambers.

I want to honor our foremothers and forefathers
in this movement for abolition of prisons,
isolation and torture with a poem of Assata
Shakur’s called “No One Can Stop the Rain”, which
reminds us that no one can stop a righteous
movement. We, all of us, are a powerful community
of resistance, and this is a dream come true for me.

Watch, the grass is growing.
Watch, but don’t make it obvious.
Let your eyes roam casually, but watch!
In any prison yard, you can see it, growing.
In the cracks, in the crevices, between the steel and the concrete,
Out of the dead gray dust,
The bravest blades of grass shoot up, bold and full of life.
Watch, the grass is growing.
It is growing through the cracks.
The guards say grass is against the Law.
Grass is contraband in prison.
The guards say that the grass is insolent.
It is uppity grass, radical grass, militant grass, terrorist grass,
They call it weeds.
Nasty weeds, nigga weeds, dirty, spic, savage indian, wetback, pinko,
Commie weeds ­ subversive!
And so the guards try to wipe out the grass.
They yank it from its roots.
They poison it with drugs.
They maul it.
They rake it.
Blades of grass has been found hanging in cells, covered with
Bruises, “Apparent suicides”.
The guards say that the “GRASS is UNAUTHORIZED”.
“”DO NOT LET THE GRASS GROW:”
You can spy on the grass. You can lock up the grass.
You can mow it down, temporarily.
But you will never keep it from growing.
Watch, the grass is beautiful.
The guards try to mow it down, but it keeps on growing.
The grass grows into a poem.
The grass grows into a song.
The grass paints itself across the canvas of life.
And the picture is clear and the lyrics are true,
And the haunting voices sing so sweet and strong
That the people hear the grass from far away.
And the people start to dance, and the people
start to sing, and the song is freedom.

Watch the grass is growing.

Thank you.



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Louisiana federal judge overturns ’Angola 3’ conviction

From:    "Political Prisoner News" <ppnews@freedomarchives.org>
Date:    Wed, July 9, 2008

July 8, 2008

Louisiana federal judge overturns ’Angola 3’ conviction

The Associated Press

BATON ROUGE, La. ­ A federal judge has overturned
the conviction of a former Black Panther in the
1972 stabbing death of a Louisiana prison guard.

Albert Woodfox, who was held in solitary
confinement for over 30 years, is one of three
former Panthers known as the “Angola Three.” He
and two other black prisoners at the Louisiana
State Penitentiary were convicted in the killing
of guard Brent Miller on April 17, 1972.

U.S. District Judge James Brady issued a ruling
late today approving a federal magistrate’s
decision that Woodfox’s conviction should be
overturned because his previous defense lawyer
failed to object to a prosecutor’s testimony about a witness’ credibility.


Ex-Black Panther's murder conviction overturned - CNN.com*

<http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/09/black.panther.ap/index.html>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/09/black.panther.ap/index.html


BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (AP) -- A federal judge on
Tuesday overturned the conviction of a former
Black Panther in the 1972 stabbing death of a Louisiana prison guard.

Albert Woodfox, who was held in solitary
confinement for over 30 years, is one of three
former Panthers known as the "Angola Three." He
and two other black prisoners at the Louisiana
State Penitentiary at Angola were convicted in
the killing of guard Brent Miller on April 17, 1972.

U.S. District Judge James Brady issued a ruling
late Tuesday approving a federal magistrate's
June recommendation that Woodfox's conviction be
overturned because one of his former lawyers
failed to object to a prosecutor's testimony
about a witness' credibility. Brady also found
that Woodfox's trial lawyer failed to object to
testimony from a witness who had died after the trial.

Woodfox's decades in solitary confinement
attracted worldwide attention from activists who
called him a political prisoner.

Nick Trenticosta, the New Orleans-based defense
lawyer who handled the appeal, said Woodfox's
immediate future lies in the hands of
prosecutors, who could request a new trial.
Trenticosta said he hoped Woodfox to be released without another trial.

"The man was convicted on false evidence, and
he's been held in solitary for almost 40 years.
Let's release him," Trenticosta said.

A message left for prosecutors late Tuesday was not immediately returned.

Trenticosta said Woodfox had probably not yet heard about the ruling.

"I don't believe he knows," Trenticosta said.
"But I'll talk to him in the morning and he'll
probably find out about it in the newspaper."

Woodfox and Herman Wallace were kept in solitary
confinement from 1972 until March, when they were
moved to a maximum-security dormitory with other
prisoners. Woodfox was serving 50 years for armed
robbery when the 1972 killing occurred.

Wallace has been appealing his conviction based
on arguments similar to Woodfox's.
The third member of the "Angola Three" spent 29
years in isolation before his conviction was
overturned in 2001. Robert King, known as Robert
King Wilkerson in the 1970s, pleaded guilty to
conspiracy to commit murder and was freed.

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Release them! - Coalition to free the Angola 3

From:    "Political Prisoner News" <ppnews@freedomarchives.org>
Date:    Wed, July 9, 2008

Conviction Overturned After 36 Years in Solitary For "Angola 3"
Member Albert Woodfox

COALITION TO FREE THE ANGOLA THREE
July 8, 2008

Conviction Overturned After 36 Years in Solitary For "Angola 3"
Member Albert Woodfox
Federal Judge Rules Flawed Trial Lead to Wrongful Conviction in Case
of Prison Guard's Murder
Lawyers Call on Prosecutors to Forgo Retrial, Release Men Immediately

In response to a Federal judge's decision overturning the conviction
of Albert Woodfox, one of the two "Angola 3" members who remain in
prison, lawyers for the men called on the State Attorney General's
office to drop any further appeals and release the men immediately.
Woodfox and fellow inmate Herman Wallace have been imprisoned since
1972 for the murder of prison guard Brent Miller. They spent 36 years
of that time in solitary confinement.

In response to a Federal judge's decision overturning the conviction
of Albert Woodfox, one of the two "Angola 3" members who remain in
prison, lawyers for the men called on the State Attorney General's
office to drop any further appeals and release the men immediately.
Woodfox and fellow inmate Herman Wallace have been imprisoned since
1972 for the murder of prison guard Brent Miller. They spent 36 years
of that time in solitary confinement.

"Herman and Albert were convicted of a crime based on false evidence.
Now, a judge has overturned that conviction. They must be released
immediately. They are men in their 60s who've spent the last 36 years
of their lives in prison for a crime they did not commit. No further
legal delay should rob them of even another day of their lives," said
Chris Aberle, a lawyer for Woodfox.

"The state has already stolen nearly four decades of Albert Woodfox's
life. The injustice in this case is unfathomable. How can Louisiana
continue to imprison a 61 year old man after a federal judge has
ruled that he shouldn't have been convicted in the first place? This
case calls up the brutality and racism of an older Louisiana. The
state needs to move forward. Albert must be released," said Nick
Trenticosta, also a lawyer for the men.

The third member of the Angola 3, Robert King, was released in 2001
after a judge overturned his conviction. King had spent 29 years in
solitary confinement for a separate crime.

www.Angola3.org

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Locked Out Summer 2008

Summer 2008 edition of LockedOut, a resource list for
queer prisoners.

Download at:

http://zinelibrary.info/files/lo2008.pdf

Rod Coronado 2 months and counting

From:    "Support for Rod Coronado" <info@supportrod.org>
Date:    Tue, July 8, 2008
__

As I began to write this post, it hit me, it has only been two months....
Two long months, wow, time has a way of going really fast, and also really
slow.
When I speak to Rod, he continues to be very centered and finds solace in
the future we are envisioning together.  But, there is something that has
settled into him as well; a reconciliation with boredom and monotony.  He
sounds dulled from the enthusiastic person he tends to be, even when he
was in prison the last round.  His routine helps him survive it, but I can
tell the lack of family connection is making it difficult for him.  A
father without two monkeys jumping on him, running around, and wanting his
attention is a father who suffers.  I can only empathize from when our
daughter was away from us during his San Diego trial, those three weeks
were void of the brightest light in my life.  For him now, it is without
that light daily.
I am fortunate enough to be visiting him again soon, with the
accompaniment of our daughter.  His son, who lives away from us, has
devised a plan to visit him, too.  Unfortunately, at age seven, a lot of
the financial aspects of making a trip like this happen are not on the top
of his list.  His mother has happily agreed to make the trip happen, if
there is a way to afford it.  I said I would gladly send out a request for
donations to help him and his mom get to Oklahoma City to see Rod.  I know
that would be on the top of Rod's list of gifts, and also feel that Rod's
son will learn a lot by being exposed to visiting his father while he is
incarcerated.  It will color in the story that he has heard about his dad
being in prison, and he will see things that most children will not
experience.  This is his experience as a seven year old, and it will help
him to know where his dad his, and what it is like there.  El Reno FCI is
actually a nice landscape and old brick architecture
, and the processing area was not like the one in Tucson, where it felt as
though one was entering the Death Star.
I realize our family has been granted much support from the community, and
we thank you.  I hope Rod's son is able to make this trip happen, it is
encouraging to see the same spirit alive in him that is in his dad!
Please send donations through PayPal, or if you have frequent flyer miles
you could donate, (which actually I am not sure how that even works?)
please email the info@supportrod.org with ideas!
PS: Maya is here and wanted to add some of her own words~
Thank you for everything you have done for my daddy, and I hope someday to
be friends with you at our farm!


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Bashir Hameed: Send a get-well card to Bashir!

From:    "Political Prisoner News" <ppnews@freedomarchives.org>
Date:    Tue, July 8, 2008


July 6, 2008

As Salaam Alaykum,

Bashir, Florence and the York family
wish to thank all his comrades for
their gifts and prayers.

We are waiting for the final results
from all tests before suggesting an
approach to care and the situation.

We will keep all concerned persons
informed.

In Struggle,
Bashir and Florence

___________________________________

We want the hospital and the guards
outside his room as well as Bashir
himself to know that many people
respect and love Bashir. Please take
the time to buy a funny get well card
and mail it to Bashir:

Bashir Hameed #82-A-6313
c/o Albany Medical Center
Room C314
43 New Scotland Ave.
Albany, NY 12208



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Leonard Peltier : Write and Keep Writing

From:    contact@whoisleonardpeltier.info
Date:    Mon, July 7, 2008

- Please Post Widely -

Dear Friends and Supporters,

The U.S. penitentiary at Lewisburg is in lockdown for the fifth
consecutive day. Lockdowns, especially those that last a long while,
are dangerous. Why? First, it's common for Leonard not to receive
his medications at such times. Second, the prison has told all of us
that Leonard has access to a diabetes testing kit in the infirmary.
Right? Unfortunately, during a lockdown, Leonard isn't allowed to
go to the infirmary at all.  There's no way for him to test his
blood glucose level.

Please help us ensure that Leonard receives proper medical care.

1. Leonard must receive his medications as prescribed.

2. Leonard also still needs access to a diabetes testing kit. Leonard
should be allowed his own kit at the pharmacy for accurate readings,
as well as easy and regular access.  In this way, he'll be able
to test himself three or four times a day and hopefully achieve a
balanced blood glucose level.

3. Leonard needs diabetic shoes that will help him with his
diabetes-related foot problems.

If the prison cannot provide a kit and/or a proper pair of shoes,
the family will work with an approved medical supply company to
see to it that Leonard gets what he needs.

All supporters are requested to continue to contact:

Warden Bledsoe
USP Lewisburg
US Penitentiary
2400 Robert F. Miller Drive
Lewisburg, PA 17837
Phone: 570-523-1251
Fax: 570-522-7745
E-mail: lew/execassistant@bop.gov

Also contact:

D. Scott Dodrill, Regional Director
Northeast Regional Office
US Custom House
2nd & Chesnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Phone: 215-521-7301
E-mail: nero/execassistant@bop.gov

Harley G. Lappin, Director
Federal Bureau of Prisons
320 First Street., NW
Washington, DC 20534
Phone: 202-307-3198

Thank you for your concern.


Betty Ann Peltier Solano
Coordinator
Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee
PO Box 7488, Fargo, ND 58106
Phone: 701/235-2206
E-mail: contact@whoisleonardpeltier.info
Web: www.whoisleonardpeltier.info

---

Amnesty International considers Leonard Peltier a "political
prisoner" who should be "immediately and unconditionally
released." Leonard Peltier, now a great-grandfather, is a citizen of
the Anishinabe and Dakota/Lakota Nations and a tireless advocate for
Indigenous Rights.  A participant in the American Indian Movement,
he went to assist the Oglala Lakota people on the Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation in the mid-1970s where, on June 26, 1975, a tragic
shoot out occurred.  He was wrongfully convicted in the deaths
of two agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and has been
illegally incarcerated since 1976. Federal prosecutors have twice
admitted before the Courts of Appeal that they don't know who fired
the fatal shots. The government also has admitted that it isn't
known what role Leonard Peltier "may have played" in the incident.
Since his politically motivated prosecution and conviction,
proof of fabricated and suppressed evidence, as well as coerced
testimony, has been uncovered. The Courts of Appeal have repeatedly
acknowledged investigative and prosecutorial misconduct in this case,
but have failed to take corrective action. A model prisoner, Leonard
continues to maintain his innocence and has conseqently been denied
fair consideration for parole. Join with numerous internationally
recognized human rights organizations, civil rights leaders,
celebrities and other luminaries who have called for the immediate
release of Leonard Peltier. Visit www.whoisleonardpeltier.info.

Support the Eco Prisoners (July 2008)

Spirit of Freedom
(July 2008)
Produced by
EARTH LIBERATION PRISONERS SUPPORT NETWORK

"The whole experience has been tough, but all the kind and strengthening
words and wise thoughts from strangers made it much easier!"  (Former
Swedish Animal Rights Prisoner)

Welcome to the July 2008 edition of Spirit of Freedom.  As a number of ELP
supporters will be aware, ELP has traditionally dedicated our newsletters to
fallen friends, who have either been killed or seriously injured as a result
of their protest activities.  For the past few months ELP hasn't carried any
dedication and we hoped that we would not have to dedicate another
newsletter to a fallen friend again.  However last month, ELP received the
heartbreaking news about the death of Marie Vesco.  Marie was a French
activist living in England.  She was involved with a number of groups
including 'Food Not Bombs'.  On Wednesday the 4th of June 2008 Marie was
cycling to the Carnival Against the Arms Trade when a Four Wheel Drive
vehicle (an SUV if your American) swerved across two lanes hitting Marie.  A
second vehicle then also hit Marie.  Marie died instantly: she was just a
few days away from her 20th birthday.  Marie is remembered as a warm, loud,
fun, vivacious figure with an infectious laugh that was always ready to help
others.  ELP understands that at least two Critical Mass cycle rides have
already been dedicated to Marie.  Likewise in memory of Marie ELP is
dedicating this newsletter to her memory.  The loss of Marie is a blow for
the movement and our thoughts are with her family and friends.


ECO-DEFENCE PRISONERS

Tre Arrow, SWIS #640393, Multnomah County Detention Center, 1120 S.W. 3rd
Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97206, USA.  Awaiting sentencing of six and a half
years imprisonment having reached a non-cooperation plea-bargain with the
authorities who accuse him of involvement in two arsons.  1) an arson on
logging trucks 2) an arson on vehicles owned by a sand & gravel company.
(Tre is a raw energy vegan - He has asked that his letters of support are
written on scrap paper or tree-free paper).

Grant Barnes #137563, San Carlos Correctional Facility, PO Box 3, Pueblo, CO
81002, USA.  Serving 12 years for setting fire to a number of SUV vehicles.
The letters ELF were spray painted onto all of the vehicles.  (Grant is a
vegan).

Nathan Block, #36359-086, FCI Lompoc, Federal Correctional Institution, 3600
Guard Road, Lompoc, CA 93436, USA.   Serving 7 years & 8 months for an ELF
arson against a Poplar Tree Farm and an ELF arson against an SUV dealership.
Also admitted his role in an ELF/ALF conspiracy.  (Diet unknown).

Marco Camenisch, Postfach 3143, CH-8105 Regensdorf, Switzerland.  Serving 18
years.  1) Ten years for using explosives to destroy electricity pylons
leading from nuclear power stations.  2) Eight years for the murder of a
Swiss Boarder Guard whilst on the run.  In '02 Marco completed a 12-year
sentence in Italy for destroying electricity pylons in Italy.  (Marco is a
meat eater who encourages organic living).

Daniele Casalini, Casa Circondariale, Via Burla 59, 43100 Parma, Italy.  Il
Silvestre activist awaiting trial accused of using explosives to damage an
electricity pylon in protest at nuclear energy.  (Daniele is a vegan).

Rod Coronado - See details in Animal Liberation Prisoners List.

Francesco Gioia, C.C. Sollicciano, Via Girolamo Minervini 2/R, 50142 Firenze
Sollicciano (FI), Italy.  Il Silvestre activist awaiting trial accused of
using explosives to damage an electricity pylon in protest at nuclear
energy.  (Francesco is a vegetarian and Straight Edge).

Paola Gori, Via delle Macchie 9, 57124 Livorno, Italy.  Il Silvestre
activist awaiting trial accused of allowing her house to be used to plan
illegal activity.  (Paola is a vegan).

Jeffrey Luers, # 13797671, CRCI, 9111 NE Sunderland Ave, Portland, OR
97211-1708, USA.  Serving 10 years for arson on a SUV dealership & the
attempted arson of an oil truck.  The original sentence was 22 years & 8
months, but was reduced on appeal.  (Diet unknown).

Eric McDavid, 16209-097. FCI Victorville Medium II, PO BOX 5700,
Adelanto, CA 92301, USA.  Serving 19 years & 7 months for planning to
destroy the property of the U.S. Forestry Service, mobile phone masts and
power plants.  At the point of his arrest no criminal damage has actually
occurred.  (Eric is a vegan).

Daniel McGowan, Columbia County Jail, 403 Jackson Street, Portage, Wisconsin
53901, USA.   Serving 7 years for an ELF arson against a Poplar Tree Farm
and an ELF arson against an old growth logging corporation.   Also admitted
his role in an ELF/ALF conspiracy.  (Daniel is a vegetarian).

Jonathan Paul - See details in Animal Liberation Prisoners List.

Briana Waters, 36432-086, FDC - Seatac, Federal Detention Center, P.O. Box
13900, Seattle, WA 98198, USA.  Serving six years for involvement in an ELF
arson on a University.  (Diet unknown).

Joyanna Zacher, #36360-086, FCI Dublin, 5700 8th St.- Camp Parks- Unit F,
Dublin, CA 94568, USA.  Serving 7 years & 8 months for an ELF arson against
a Poplar Tree Farm and an ELF arson against an SUV dealership.  Also
admitted her role in an ELF/ALF conspiracy.  (Diet unknown).

ANIMAL LIBERATION PRISONERS
(All Animal Liberation Prisoners follow a minimum vegetarian diet and most
are vegan).

Jon Ablewhite TB4885, HMP Lowdham Grange, Lowdham, Nottingham, NG14 7DA,
England.  Serving 12 years for attempting to blackmail a farmer who supplied
guinea pigs for vivisection.  (Jon is a vegan).

Gregg Avery TA7450, HMP Winchester, Romsey Road, Winchester, SO22 5DF,
England.  On remand accused of conspiracy to blackmail, in relation to his
involvement with the SHAC campaign.  (Gregg is a vegan).

Natasha Avery NR8987, HMP Bronzefield, Woodthorpe Road, Ashford, Middx. TW15
3JZ, England.  Jailed for breaching her parole conditions imposed on her for
telling a fox hunting murdering scum what she thought of them.  Also
awaiting trial accused of conspiracy to blackmail, in relation to her
involvement with the SHAC campaign.  (Nat is a vegan).

Mel Broughton TN9138, HMP Woodhill, Tattenhoe Street, Milton Keynes, Bucks
MK4 4DA, England.  On remand accused of involvement with an arson and
blackmail campaign against an Oxford University vivisection establishment.
(Mel is a vegan).

Martin Balluch, Antirep 2008, Postfach 101, 1070, Vienna, Austria.  One of
ten Austrian's held on remand accused of various animal rights actions.
(Martin is a vegan)

Christoph, Antirep 2008, Postfach 101, 1070, Vienna, Austria.  One of ten
Austrian's held on remand accused of various animal rights actions.  At the
moment Christopher does not wish to have his full name published.

Jacob Conroy #93501-011, FCI Victorville Medium I Federal Correctional
Institution, P.O. Box 5300, Adelanto, CA 92301, USA. Serving 48 months
imprisonment for helping organise the SHAC-USA campaign.  (Jake is a vegan).

Rodney Coronado #03895-000, FCI El Reno, PO Box 1500, El Reno, OK 73036,
USA.  Serving one-year imprisonment after he informed people how to make an
incendiary device during a speech at an animal rights gathering.  (Rod is a
vegetarian).

Donald Currie A3660AA, HMP Parkhurst, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5NX,
England.  Serving an Indeterminate Sentence, of not less than six actual
years, for carrying out arsons against targets associated the vivisection
industry including HLS.  (Don is a vegan).

Lauren Gazzola #93497-011, FCI Danbury, Federal Correctional Institution,
Route #37Danbury, CT 06811, USA. Serving 54 months imprisonment for helping
organise the SHAC-USA campaign.  (Lauren is a vegan).

Sarah Gisborne, LT5393, HMP Downview, Sutton Lane, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5PD,
England.  Serving 5½ years for conspiracy to cause criminal damage following
the damaging of 8 vehicles owned by people linked to Huntingdon Life
Science.  Due for release at the end of July (Sarah is a vegan).

Joshua Harper #29429-086, FCI Sheridan Federal Correctional Institution,
P.O. Box 5000, Sheridan, OR 97378 USA.  Serving 36 months imprisonment for
helping organise the SHAC-USA campaign.  (Josh is a vegan).

Jan, Antirep 2008, Postfach 101, 1070, Vienna, Austria.  One of ten Austrian
's held on remand accused of various animal rights actions.  At the moment
Jan does not wish to have his full name published.

Kevin Kroemmer, Antirep 2008, Postfach 101, 1070, Vienna, Austria.  One of
ten Austrian's held on remand accused of various animal rights actions.
(Kevin is a vegan)

Leo, Antirep 2008, Postfach 101, 1070, Vienna, Austria.  One of ten Austrian
's held on remand accused of various animal rights actions.  At the moment
Leo does not wish to have his full name published.

Sabine, Antirep 2008, Postfach 101, 1070, Vienna, Austria.  One of ten
Austrian's held on remand accused of various animal rights actions.  At the
moment Sabine does not wish to have their full name published.

Sean Kirtley WC 6977, HM Prison Blakenhurst, Hewell Lane, Redditch, B97 6QS,
England.  Serving four and a half years for running an anti-vivisection
campaign website.  (Sean is a vegan).

Kevin Kjonaas #93502-011, FCI Sandstone, PO Box 1000, Sandstone, MN 55072
USA.  Serving 72 months imprisonment for helping organise the SHAC-USA
campaign.  (Kevin is a vegan).

Daniel McGowan - See details in Eco Defence Prisoners List.

Heather Nicholson VM4859, HMP Bronzefield, Woodthorpe Road, Ashford, Middx.
TW15 3JZ, England.  On remand accused of conspiracy to blackmail, in
relation to her involvement with the SHAC campaign.  (Heather is a vegan).

Jonathan Paul, #07167-085, FCI Phoenix, Federal Correctional Institution,
37910 N 45th Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85086, USA.  Sentenced to 51 months for an
ALF arson on a horse meat plant.  Also admitted his role in an ELF/ALF
conspiracy.  (Jonathan is a vegan).

Andrew Stepanian #26399-050, FCI Butner Medium II Federal Correctional
Institution, PO Box 1500, Butner, NC 27509 USA. Serving 36 months for
helping organise the SHAC-USA campaign.  (Andrew is a vegan).

Kerry Whitburn TB4886, HMP Lowdham Grange, Lowdham, Nottingham, NG14 7DA,
England.  Serving 12 years for attempting to blackmail a farmer who supplied
guinea pigs for vivisection.  (Kerry is a vegan).

Sarah Whitehead, VM7684, HMP Bronzefield, Woodthorpe Road, Ashford, Middx,
TW15 3JZ, England.  Serving two years for: 1) rescuing a puppy from horrific
conditions. 2) rescuing over 100 animals from a pet breeder who was later
prosecuted for animal abuse.  Also awaiting trial for SHAC activity.  (Sarah
is a vegan)

PLOUGHSHARES PRISONERS

Helen Woodson, 03231-045, FMC Carswell - Admin. Max. Unit, POB 27137, Ft.
Worth, TX  76127, USA.  Serving 8 years 10 months for actions that focused
on the interrelationship of war & the destruction of the natural world.  The
actions included pouring red paint over the security desk of a federal court
and making threatening communications.  Previously Helen had served 20½
years for: 1) Using a hammer to disarm a nuclear missile silo.  2) Burning
$25,000 on the floor of a bank whilst denouncing war, environmental
destruction & economic injustice.  3) Mailing warning letters with bullets
attached to Government & corporate officials. (Diet unknown).

THE LECCE FIVE
The Lecce Five have been charged with "subversive association" accused of
damaging Esso petrol pumps to oppose the War on Iraq; sabotaging the cash
machines of a bank which funds an immigration centre; and targeting the
multinational company Benetton in support of Mapuche land rights activists
in Chile.  All of the defendants are currently either under house arrest or
released on bail.

ANTIFA PRISONERS

Vahtang Devitlidze, ul. Libbedova 42, UO 68/2, otryad 14, brigada 142, g.
Hagyshensk, Krasnodarskiy Kray, 352680 Russia.  Serving 2½ years for
stabbing a neo-nazi in the leg whilst defending himself from attack. (Diet
unknown).

Augustin Kraus, Vazebni veznice, PP-1, Litomerice, 41 201, Czech Republic.
Serving 14 months for his participation in attacks against local neo-nazis.
His charge was "bodily harm". He speaks Czech, Slovak and Polish.  You can
also write him short postcards in English.  (Diet unknown).

Fabio Milan, C.C. via Pianezza 300, 10151 Torino, Italy.  On remand accused
of fighting with the police after an anti-fascist protest. (Diet unknown).

Andrea Neff, Bnr: 746/07/2, Justizvollzugsanstalt fur Frauen in Berlin,
Arkonastrasse 56, 13189 Berlin, Germany.  Serving 14 months for anti-fascist
activity. (Diet unknown).

Christian Sümmermann, Bnr: 441/08/5, JVA Plötzensee, Lehrterstr. 61, 10557
Berlin, Germany.  Serving 40 months for breaching the peace whilst serving a
suspended sentence issued for anti-fascist activities. (Diet unknown).

Tomasz Wiloszewski, Zaklad Karny, Orzechowa 5, 98-200 Sieradz, Poland.
Serving 15 years for accidentally killing a neo-nazi whilst defending
himself. (Tomasz is a vegetarian).

OTHER PRISONERS

Olga Aleksandrovna Nevskaya, UU163/5, 7 Otryad, pos. Dzerzhinskiy, Mozhaysk
140090 Moskovskaya oblast, Russia. Eco-activist serving 6 years for arson,
criminal damage and causing explosions in protest at the war in Chechnya.
Due for release in 2009. (Diet unknown).

Vaggelis Botzatzis, Komotini Juridical Prison ("Dikastikes Fylakes
Komotinis"), T.K. 69100, Greece.  On remand accused of setting fire to two
company cars owned by a energy/power company.  It is believed that the
person or persons unknown who carried out the arson did so in protest at the
destruction of the natural environment and in support of two workers who
died at the power plant.  Vaggelis is also accused of setting fire to a bank
and starting a fire inside a car yard.  (Meat Eater).

Michael W. Sykes, 100 East 2nd St, Monroe, Michigan 48161, USA.  Youth held
on remand accused of anti-sprawl arsons, criminal damage, spray-painting an
anarchist sign and burning the American flag.  (Diet unknown)

Fran Thompson, #1090915 HU 1C, WERDCC, PO Box 300, Vandalia, MO 63382, USA.
Serving Life for killing, in self-defence, a stalker who had broken into her
home. Before her imprisonment Fran was an eco, animal & anti-nuke
campaigner. (Fran is a vegan).

MOVE
MOVE is an eco-revolutionary group who carried out protests in defence of
all life. All move prisoners describe themselves as vegetarians.  There are
currently eight MOVE activists in prison each serving 100 years after been
framed for the murder of a cop in 1979.  9th defendant, Merle Africa, died
in prison in 1998.

Debbie Simms Africa  (006307), Janet Holloway Africa  (006308) and Janine
Philips Africa (006309)  all at: SCI Cambridge Springs, 451 Fullerton Ave,
Cambridge Springs, PA 16403-1238, USA.

Michael Davis Africa (AM4973) and Charles Simms Africa (AM4975) both at SCI
Graterford, PO Box 244, Graterford, PA 19426-0244, USA.

Edward Goodman Africa  (AM4974),  SCI Mahanoy, 301 Morea Rd, Frackville, PA
17932, USA.

William Philips Africa (AM4984) and Delbert Orr Africa (AM4985) both at SCI
Dallas Drawer K, Dallas, PA 18612, USA.

Mumia Abu Jamal, (AM8335), SCI Greene, 175 Progress Drive, Waynesburg PA
15370, USA.  In 1981 Mumia, former Black Panther and vocal supporter of
MOVE, was framed for the murder of a cop.  He was originally sentenced to
death but is currently awaiting re-sentencing following a court hearing in
2001.

STATEMENT ON VIOLENCE
Some people listed in this newsletter have carried out violent actions.
'Spirit of Freedom' does not condone violence.  But we are also against
censorship & believe people can decide for themselves who they wish to
support.

ABOUT E.L.P. SUPPORT NETWORK
ELP is an international eco-prisoner support network founded, in Britain, in
1993 to support jailed eco-activists.  We support the prisoners by producing
various regular prisoner lists:

Spirit of Freedom is ELP's international monthly prisoner listing which is
circulated by e-mail.

Urgent ELP! Bulletin is an e-mail service that distributes the names of any
new eco-prisoner as soon as ELP gets their details.  For more info e-mail
ELP4321@hotmail.com

On-Line Newsletters - ELP has a number of websites that provide news,
prisoner lists and additional info about ELP & the prisoners.

English language ELP Website
www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk

Greek language ELP Website
http://greekelp.blogspot.com

North American ELP Website
www.ecoprisoners.org

Turkish language ELP Website
www.geocities.com/yesilanarsi/elp.htm

ELP Extra is an e-mail group that circulates the details of political
prisoners, ELP learns about, who do not fall within the remit for support by
ELP.  To subscribe to the list e-mail ELP4321@Hotmail.com

Australian ELP.SN is our Australian contact.  For more info e-mail
elp4321@hotmail.com

Belgium ELP.SN is our Belgium contact.  For more info e-mail
elp_bel@hotmail.com

German ELP.SN is a prisoner led initiative run by eco-prisoner Marco
Camenisch.  For more info contact Marco Camenisch, Postfach 3143, CH-8105
Regensdorf, Switzerland.

Greek ELP.SN is our Greek contact.  For more info e-mail greekelp@yahoo.gr

North American ELP is our North American contact.  For more information
e-mail naelpsn@mutualaid.org

Turkey ELP.SN is our Turkish contact.  For more info e-mail
yesilanarsi@yahoo.com

Grand Jury Resisters: Donations for legal & travel expenses

From:    "Political Prisoner News" <ppnews@freedomarchives.org>
Date:    Sat, July 5, 2008
From: LOPEZ, ANA <ALOPEZ@hostos.cuny.edu>

GREETINGS

MEMBERS OF THE HOSTOS GRAND JURY RESISTANCE CAMPAIGN

URGENT CALL!!!!!

We are calling on all members of the HOSTOS GRAND JURY RESISTANCE CAMPAIGN
and supporters to make generous donations to cover costs. The grand jury
cases have become more complicated requiring hiring of additional legal
help to engage in researching, typing and payment of court fees. The legal
team is requesting donations to cover these costs and we need donations to
cover the travel expenses of family members from Puerto Rico to New York.
It is imperative that family members be present in these proceedings.

Your donations can be sent directly to the leading legal team: Remember to
write on the memo of the check that your donations are for the grand jury
resisters legal and travel expenses of the families.

On the letter, write
attention: Grand Jury Resisters

Sent your donations (any amount) to:


Martin R Stolar
Attorney for Tania Frontera
351 Broadway, 4th floor
New York, NY 10013
(212) 219-1919

Susan V. Tipograph
Attorney for Christopher Torres
350 Broadway, Suite 700
New York, NY 10013
(212) 431-5360

resistgrandjury@gmail.com


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Eric McDavid Update - How to Help and Site Updates

From:    sacprisonersupport@riseup.net
Date:    Sat, July 5, 2008

Dear friends,

It has been 3 weeks since Eric arrived at Victorville and he's still
acclimating to his new surroundings.  He says he's about 2 weeks behind on
letters, so if you haven't heard back from him please just be aware that
it might take a little while for him to catch up.  Please keep the letters
coming (visit the "How to Help" section at www.supporteric.org for
information on how to write Eric)!

Right now the most important thing you can do to help Eric is make sure he
has money in his commissary account for stamps, phone calls, food and
other essentials.  All of these things help to keep him connected to his
loved ones, as well as to provide him with the healthiest vegan diet
possible while in prison.  You can use either Western Union or money
order.  Western Union is quicker, but has fees associated with it. For
instructions on how to put money on Eric's commissary account visit this
link at the Federal Bureau of Prisons Website:

http://www.bop.gov/inmate_programs/money.jsp#Quick_Collect

You will need Eric's name and registration number (16209-097).

Also, we recently updated the website - you should check it out
(http://supporteric.org/updates.htm).  We posted a link to a recent
interview with Mark (Eric's lawyer), which has a detailed description of
Eric's case and trial.  We also posted a link to a PDF copy of the article
about "Anna" that was recently run in Elle magazine, as well as a PDF of
the transcript of her cross-examination by Mark during trial.

Eric sends his love and thanks to you all...

SPS

Political Prisoner Birthday list July

Here is the political prisoner birthday list for July, please send these comrades a card or letter of support. Also please list anyone that we may have missed.

GERARDO HERANDEZ
#58739-004 / U.S. P. Victorville
P.O. Box 5500
Adelanto, CA 92301
July, 4 1965

ANA LUCIA (LUCILLE) GELABERT
#384484
1401 State School Rd.-Terrace
Gatesville, TX 76599-0001
July 6, 1938

CHRIS MCINTOSH
30512-013 / USP Hazelton
P.O. BOX 019001
ATWATER, CA 95301
July 17

*** Update ***

---

I am sure you all noticed that Chris Mcintosh on the b-day list. Obviously I was unaware of his recent coming out as white power (tsk, tsk). I was made of that fact via an email sent my way- of which I am grateful for. Sorry folks we will remove him from our list on the ABB. We in the LA ABCF don't usually work around the EL/AL movement (with the exception of some of the more recent comrade from the Anarchist movement) and so sometime miss some of the information that comes out. We posted his and other names as an act of solidarity with those that do work in that area. Please forgive our error.

In Solidarity,

Matt Hart

LA ABCF

Also Romaine Chip Fitzgerald has been denied parole yet again. He is the longest held prisoner in US prisons. He has been held since October 1969 - almost 39 years in prison. He was sentenced to life in prison for a shot-out with CHP officer who had orders to shoot-to-kill any member of the Black Panther Party. After his arrest several weeks later, he was informed that he was also being charged with the robbery and murder of a security guard at a Vons parking lot in Los Angeles. Chip denies any involvement in this incident. At the time he was recovering from a bullet wound to the head from the shoot-out. His incarceration is nothing more than a travesty. He deserves to be home with his ailing mother. He should have never been imprisoned. Send a card of support to this comrade.

Romaine Fitzgerald

#B27527
FC-2-110
P.O. Box 921
Imperial, CA 92251

Beautiful MOVE Newsletter/Rebel Diaz in Philly for Mumia

From:    "Political Prisoner News" <ppnews@freedomarchives.org>
Date:    Thu, July 3, 2008


Hans' newsletter is just fantastic, really beautiful!  Please DO check it out, this is really a jam-packed edition with lots of incredible articles, you won't be
disappointed! Also pick one up personally in PHILLY TOMORROW FOR MUMIA!!!

http://www.abu-jamal-news.com/docs/ajn3.pdf

===============

WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS YOUR FOURTH OF JULY?!?!

CONTACT PAM AFRICA AT 215-476-8812, AND VOLUNTEER TO DO WHATEVER
YOU ARE ABLE TO HELP PULL TOGETHER THIS EVENT!  THANK YOU!

*** BE IN PHILADELPHIA AT 6TH AND MARKET STREET, IN FRONT OF CONSTITUTION
HALL AT 12 NOON TOMORROW!! ***

THERE WILL ALSO BE A CONCERT WITH RAP ARTISTS INCLUDING REBEL DIAZ!

*****

DEMAND MUMIA'S RELEASE ON THIS HIS 26TH YEAR OF HIS INCARCERATION ON
DEATH ROW! BE IN PHILADELPHIA TO LET THE CITY OFFICIALS, THE STATE
OFFICIALS, THE COURTS AND THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE KNOW THAT WE
WILL NOT STOP UNTIL MUMIA IS FREE!

In 1982, Judge Albert Sabo, encouraged jurors in the case of Mumia
Abu-Jamal to return a verdict quickly, in time to enjoy their 4th of
July holiday. On July 2nd, a guilty verdict came. On July 3rd, Mumia
was sentenced to death. By July 4th, the jurors were home to
celebrate with their families and Mumia was on Death Row, where he
has been since that day to this very moment.

While mounds of evidence of Mumia's innocence exists, jurors were
never shown it, and no court of law has agreed to hear it to this
day. It's 26 years later - and we, the people, are still demanding
justice. Join us, as we vow that until justice is served, there will
never be another 4th of July without protest.

The Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition is joining the International
Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal in Philly on Friday
July 4th at 12 NOON in front of the Constitution Center, 6th Street
at Market. We will be traveling down by Mega bus from 31st and 8th
Avenue at 9 AM. The bus leaves at 9:15 sharp and is not our bus so
it will not wait for latecomers. All 29 seats we were able to
reserve on this bus have been filled. So this note is really
addressed to those who signed up early and were promised a Mega Bus
seat.

FOR EVERYONE ELSE WHO WANTS TO GO TO PHILLY:

You can, of course, travel to Philly on your own by New Jersey
Transit, Chinatown bus, car, or however. We will provide the
following collective travel arrangement IF YOU LET US KNOW IN ADVANCE
BY CALLING OUR HOTLINE: 212 330-8029. We will have the overflow
folks meet in Chinatown at 8:30 AM with Gwen Debrow and Tibby Brooks
if people can commit themselves to showing up at that time. YOU MUST
THEREFORE LET US KNOW IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO TRAVEL WITH US FROM
CHINATOWN OR YOU WILL BE ON YOUR OWN. The Chinatown Bus costs $20
roundtrip.

Those traveling on the Mega Bus will be leaving on a 3:15 bus and
will be back in NYC by 5:15. JOIN US! CALL THE HOTLINE AS SOON AS
POSSIBLE (212) 330-8029 to ask for collective transportation. Your
call will be returned within 24 hours at most.

FREE MUMIA AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS! STOP POLICE TERRORISM!

for more information check: www.freemumia.com

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Jeff Luers update and Po Box mail problems

From:    info@freejeffluers.org
Date:    Thu, July 3, 2008

Dear Friends,
We hope your summer is going well so far (and winter for our southern
hemisphere friends). Jeff is doing relatively well at CRCI in Portland and
counting down the days to his release (December 2009). We all want to thank
everyone that organized or participated in an event for the Day of Solidarity
last month. As always, it was inspiring to hear about the many events that
took place around the world.

To anyone that may have mailed a donation or other mail to our Eugene Po
Box in the past few days, we apologize that you may get it sent back to you.
However, rest assured the problems have been worked out and we now once again can
receive mail there, and don't anticipate any additional issues. So, please
re-send your items or contact us to make other arrangements.

Our campaign to raise funds for Jeff's release and education will be on-going
so please support him if and whenever you can. Options are available here:
http://freejeffluers.org/donate.html

We also encourage everyone to support other eco-prisoners. For example,
Daniel McGowan currently serving 7 years, has been transferred to a Wisconsin
jail and may be facing a grand jury subpoena. Please check out
http://supportdaniel.org/ and http://greenscare.org/ for more info on Daniel and other prisoners.

Thank you again so much for all your support!

Please write to Jeff:

Jeffrey Luers # 13797671
CRCI
9111 NE Sunderland Ave
Portland, OR 97211-1708

-Friends of Jeffrey Free Luers
http://www.freejeffluers.org
info@freejeffluers.org

Chip Fitzgerald denied parole

From: "Political Prisoner News" <ppnews@freedomarchives.org>
Date: Thu, July 3, 2008

On July 2, 2008 Romaine "Chip" Fitzgerald was denied parole from the
California Department of corrections for one more year. He will be eligible
again in July 2009. The Commissioners claim they want Chip to do more
"programming" such as groups and counseling.

One Commissioner, a former prison guard Lieutenant, stated that the 2800+
signed petitions and numerous letters offering a UCLA education, housing,
employment as a Youth Counselor and a book offer to write & publish his life
story... meant nothing to her because "the people who sign them and write
letters really don't know what goes on with these inmates."

Chip was in good spirits at the end of the hearing and did not seem to be
surprised by the outcome.

Write to Chip! WE WILL KEEP FIGHTING FOR HIS FREEDOM! We are building a
new strategy, seeking new legal representation and will execute the plan to
FREE CHIP!

Romaine Fitzgerald
Centinela State Prison
B-27527
FC-2-110
PO Box 921
Imperial, California 92251-0731

Thank you to all of Chip's supporters. Keep spreading the word, sign the
petition, and stay tuned for updates. 38 YEARS...YA BASTA!!!!

BRING OUR BROTHER HOME!!!!!!!!

With Love For the People.

The Committee to Free Chip Fitzgerald
http://www.freechip.org/

Committee to Free Chip Fitzgerald
629 Main Street No.195
Watsonville, CA 95076

(831) 254-2580
freechipfitzgerald@yahoo.com>freechipfitzgerald@yahoo.com

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Daniel McGowan has moved again

From:    "Family + Friends of Daniel McG" <friendsofdanielmcg@yahoo.com>
Date:    Thu, July 3, 2008

Hello all,

Daniel was moved again yesterday. Please continue to send him letters at:

Daniel McGowan
Columbia County Jail
403 Jackson Street
Portage, Wisconsin 53901

Thanks!

Message from Austrian Animal Rights prisoner Martin Balluch

ELP Information Bulletin (3rd of July 2008)

Dear friends

ELP has been sent the following message from friends of Dr Martin Balluch, who is one of the Austrian animal rights prisoners, wrongly arrested for crimes they did not commit during police raids which were illegal!

Message to the international animal rights movement regarding my hunger strike on my 43rd day of incarceration I suppose you will know by now that 43 days ago, Austrian police undertook 28 armed raids on homes of animal rights activist and on offices of 7 animal rights groups all over Austria. 10 people were put on remand, and still are, one of them being me. Because these police actions were completely out of any proportion and no well – founded reasons for the raids and arrests were forthcoming, I immediately went on hunger strike. I used my last means of protest against this unbelievable level of police terror and state repression. Initially, I had no access to fruit juice or sugared tea, and then only after days of no food or drink other than water, I felt already nauseous and weak. I had to move slowly to avoid a blackout. After a week on hunger strike I was given sugar and fruit juices, which I chose to drink. The prison doctor did warn me that a water only hunger strike very rapidly leads to brain function impairment. As I need my brains to defend myself and to show these terrorists for what they are I chose to drink juice. I still lost weight very rapidly, about 1.5 kg a day. On my 13th day of the hunger strike – I was down 18kg by then – I was moved to the hospital wing of the prison. Actually, I was moved from Wiener Neustadt prison to the one where I am now in Vienna because this prison has a hospital wing. On the 15th day of my hunger strike I passed out for the first time. From then onwards, I would have to stay in bed. Since on day 17 I was to be put before a judge to decide whether my prison stay was to be extended, I ate 2 pieces of fruit and a muesli bar in the morning, so that I could travel. I immediately felt a lot better. But the court appearance was a farce. The judge had her decision ready before I entered the court room, and – contrary to the law – she did not allow me to give a statement to my defence. Indeed, till today, neither police nor prosecutor nor the judge have questioned me at all or given me the opportunity to give a statement, although my solicitors have been requesting this for weeks! After the court, I was moved back to the prison hospital and resumed hunger strike. Over the next days I felt a lot stronger, although I had only eaten once and such a little bit, but from day 22 onwards, my state of health deteriorated. On the 25, authorities started to force feed me. I allowed them to do that without physical resistance. The force feeding prevented me from dying. However, it does not stop the deterioration of my health, it only slows the process down. Doctors informed me that they did not have proper vegan food to force feed me with. On day 36 I reached a new low point, which gave me near death experiences. I had this strong impression of being suspend above a complete void. I was about to fall into it. I pictured my situation as being up to the neck in a crevice, standing on such thin ice that could not hold my weight much longer. I could not get out anymore by myself. My solicitor had appealed the outrageous decision of the judge and I was asked by him to give a statement to support my case. I needed to concentrate. Also, in a few days I have my second court appearance, which would have been impossible in my state. So, on day 39 I decided to try and bring some strength back into my body by eating a little. Since I was still on hunger strike, I was given no food into my cell at the hospital wing. I managed to take a little orange from the hospital kitchen bin, and I tried to eat it. It was terrible. I just couldn’t. I could not swallow properly – I just sucked on it – and I got unbelievable stomach pains and had diarrhoea. I asked to speak to the chief doctor of the hospital wing. Incidentally, this guy is a paid up member of our animal rights group! He said to me that now he is a criminal too – because he is funding a criminal organisation. And he supported me. If I was to defend myself and appear in court, I needed to get back to health at least somewhat. We set up a plan, and from day 40 onwards, I had a little ground up fruit and porridge with soya milk. What a strange feeling to have food in my mouth after such a long time! And one little spoon full of porridge filled up my stomach completely. Apparently, it had shrunk to the size of a pea. In any case, I am at the movement slowly moving back to being alive. I still cannot eat much at all. I am also not hungry. And I have not been on a toilet for 43 days and still have 24kg less body weight than before my arrest. My hunger strike has not ended yet, though. I will go to court and defend myself. If the new judge and the appeal court both decide to keep me in prison, I will have to make a decision. Either I will stop my hunger strike, or I will resume it and drink water only. Nothing inbetween anymore. In the latter case I will actively refuse being forcibly fed too, as long as I am able to. Those responsible for this police terror shall face the consequences. The prosecution and police have produced absolutely no evidence against me whatsoever, although they had agents in our group and listened to all my phone calls, read all my mails, filmed the entrance of my home and followed me around. So they tried to fabricate evidence. They went to a person, who they know had animosities against me, and tried to push him to say that I am likely to have committed arson. He has gone public with that and revealed how police have tried to influence him and put words in his mouth. Police also made up an arson attack and tried to blame it on me. Although their own expert found no evidence of arson, but rather that it was an accident with a poorly insulated oven, and that the owner indeed had been careless. Police fabricated an animal rights communiqué claiming responsibility for the arson. In addition, police shifted the date of accident to 2 days later, in order to blame it on me, since I was indeed 2 days later in the region! What is happening here to me and the other activists imprisoned, is a violent crime of extreme proportions. I ask you to keep putting pressure on Austria and its government in whatever way you can. The case is crumbling, there are signs of this all over the place. Senior prosecutors have already admitted that there is no concrete evidence and that the police raids were unlawful. They still insist on keeping us on remand, because by our mere (legal!) activism we prove to be companions in crime of ALF activists, and hence all form a huge criminal organisation – even if we don’t know each other! Police and prosecutors are trying to hold out as long as they can. Let us pull together and push them over the cliff. They must be publicly shown to be the criminals they are. And they must be prosecuted themselves for what they have done! Martin Balluch, political prisoner, cell 75 / 05 hospital wing of JA Wien – Josefstadt, on the 2nd July 2008

+++++++++++++

Earth Liberation Prisoners Support Network
BM Box 2407
London
WC1N 3XX
England
www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk

Marie Mason Updates/New mailing address

From:    freemarie@riseup.net
Date:    Wed, July 2, 2008

We have been quite for awhile as there hasn't been much of interest to
report. Marie's attorney is busy preparing for trial which is still on
track for August 12 in Kalamazoo, MI. We will be announcing a host of
support activities in support of Marie taking place in Kalamazoo around
trial time as well as details for those planning on attending Marie's
trial in the coming weeks. We will keep everyone posted.

Also The Got Your Back Collective has a new mailing address. Mail sent to
the old POB will still get to us for the next month or so but after July
the below address will be the only address we will be able to get physical
mail.

Got Your Back Collective
P.O.B. 23134
Cincinnati, OH 45223

If you would like to donate to Maries Legal Defense Fund you can do so
through paypal at www.freemarie.org or by mailing a check or money order
made out to "Books for Prisoners" to the above address.

In the Struggle,
The Got Your Back Collective
www.freemarie.org

RodCoronado's contact info

Rod's contact info:

Rodney Coronado #03895-000
FCI EL RENO
FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION
P.O. BOX 1500
EL RENO, OK 73036

If you want to donate money, send a USPS money order to the following
address:

Federal Bureau of Prisons
Rodney Coronado #03895-000
Post Office Box 474701
Des Moines, Iowa 50947-0001

All Charges Dropped against the Warrens!

From:    "Political Prisoner News" <ppnews@freedomarchives.org>
Date:    Wed, July 2, 2008

In a courtroom filled with supporters, as has been the case since the
Warrens were initially assaulted, arrested, and brought to court a
year ago, the District Attorney found inadequate basis for proceeding
with the case against Tarif and Evelyn Warren.  All charges were thus
dropped.  Cheers, hugs, kisses, and even some tears of joy followed
as the courtroom emptied into the street for a brief rally.  Both
Tarif and Evelyn thanked everyone for being so steadfast in their
support and, particularly expressed deep gratitude and love for their
lawyers -- Soffiyah Elijah, Susan Tipograph, and Roger Warren.  A
battle was won, was the consensus, but the war goes on!  All power to
the people!

Tune in to "Where We Live" on WBAI 99.5 FM tomorrow night, that's
Thursday, at 8 PM.  Tarif Warren will be on the show with young
activists involved in Cop Watch.

And, remember to join us in Philadelphia on Friday July 4th at 12
Noon at the Constitution Center, Market and 6th.  Call 212 330-8029
for more information.

Ona Move!

Suzanne Ross,
for the Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition


------------------------------------

--Mumia is Innocent!  Stop the Frame Up!  Free Mumia!--

Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, NYC
P.O. Box 16, College Station, NY, NY 10030
212-330-8029, www.FreeMumia.com, info@FreeMumia.com



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Happy Birthday, Rod Coronado!

From:    "Support for Rod Coronado" <info@supportrod.org>
Date:    Wed, July 2, 2008

On July 3, Rod celebrates his 42nd Birthday!  The day will be spent like
many others, working with the Chaplin a few hours in the morning, walking
the track and reflecting on things passed and the future to come.  He will
read from The Hummingbird’s Daughter, and write a letter to his kids.  His
birthday will pass by, and I suspect not one person in El Reno FCI will
even say “Happy Birthday.”

On his birthday instead of sending him a book, a card, donating money to
his account,  please look into your own path for the future and make a
commitment to be part of a sustaibable way of life.  Please reach out to
those you love and let them know that they mean what they do to you.  I
know Rod’s wish would be this; send out your love and your magic, and it
will mean more to him than anything else.

Happy Birthday, Rod!

--

The following physical address is associated with this mailing list:

PO Box 732
Tucson, Arizona 85702

Aug. 2nd: ProLibertad Freedom Cookout

The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign
http://www.prolibertadweb.com
ProLibertad@hotmail.com
ProLibertad hotline: 718-601-4751
____________________________________________________

Check out the ProLibertad June/July Newsletter:
http://www.prolibertadweb.com/id12.html

Join ProLibertad on our annual Freedom Cook out to HighLands Pool in Ringwood, New Jersey!!

Enjoy the sun, fun and relaxation of

HighLands Pool!! Bring your swimming trunks for the cool and refreshing Chemical-free mountain stream-fed pool!!

We will have DELICOUS BORICUA FOOD, FUN,

MUSIC,DOMINOES, GAMES, SPORTS and RELAXATION!!

Saturday Aug. 2nd, 2008 at 9am!! Get on the Bus!!

Meet at the corner of w179th St. and Broadway at 9am to catch one of our Freedom Vans to HighLand Pools!!

Transportation from NYC ($10), Entrance to HighLand Pools ($5) and Food ($5); all together $20 (Adults) $15 for (Children)

Contact ProLibertad to reserve a seat on our Freedom Bus by calling the ProLibertad hotline: 718-601-4751

Leonard Peltier Medical Alert: Update

From:    "contact@whoisleonardpeltier.info
Date:    Tue, July 1, 2008

- Please Post Widely -

Dear Friends and Supporters,

First, Leonard and I want to thank you for the outpouring of
support. With your help, we're hopeful that Leonard will receive
proper medical care from prison authorities.

Within the last several days, Leonard has finally been able to see
a doctor. Together, they discussed Leonard's care and reviewed his
medications and such.  However, the issue of the diabetes testing
kit remains.

Citing security reasons, U.S. Penitentiary-Lewisburg will not allow
Leonard to have a diabetes testing kit in his cell.  But Leonard is
not asking that he be allowed to have a kit in his cell.  Often,
when he goes to the infirmary, there is no one there to help him
and he has to keep returning to the infirmary until he's able to
speak with medical personnel.  The infirmary has a "general" kit,
too. It's used by other prisoners and due to the embedded memory in
the monitor, Leonard could be getting false readings. We're asking
that Leonard be allowed to have his own kit at the pharmacy for
accurate readings, as well as easy and regular access.  In this
way, he'll be able to test himself three or four times a day and
hopefully achieve a balanced blood glucose level.

Please continue to urge prison authorities to provide Leonard with
a diabetes test kit so that he can control his diabetes. We also
want to see to it that Leonard receives diabetic shoes that will
help him with his diabetes-related foot problems.  If the prison
cannot provide such things, the family will work with an approved
medical supply company to see to it that Leonard gets what he needs.

All supporters are requested to continue to contact:

Warden Bledsoe
USP Lewisburg
US Penitentiary
2400 Robert F. Miller Drive
Lewisburg, PA 17837
Phone: 570-523-1251
Fax: 570-522-7745
E-mail: lew/execassistant@bop.gov

Also contact:

D. Scott Dodrill, Regional Director
Northeast Regional Office
US Custom House
2nd & Chesnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Phone: 215-521-7301
E-mail: nero/execassistant@bop.gov

Harley G. Lappin, Director
Federal Bureau of Prisons
320 First Street., NW
Washington, DC 20534
Phone: 202-307-3198

Thank you for your concern.


Betty Ann Peltier Solano
Coordinator
Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee
PO Box 7488, Fargo, ND 58106
Phone: 701/235-2206
E-mail: contact@whoisleonardpeltier.info
Web: www.whoisleonardpeltier.info

---

Amnesty International considers Leonard Peltier a "political
prisoner" who should be "immediately and unconditionally
released." Leonard Peltier, now a great-grandfather, is a citizen of
the Anishinabe and Dakota/Lakota Nations and a tireless advocate for
Indigenous Rights.  A participant in the American Indian Movement,
he went to assist the Oglala Lakota people on the Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation in the mid-1970s where, on June 26, 1975, a tragic
shoot out occurred.  He was wrongfully convicted in the deaths
of two agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and has been
illegally incarcerated since 1976. Federal prosecutors have twice
admitted before the Courts of Appeal that they don't know who fired
the fatal shots. The government also has admitted that it isn't
known what role Leonard Peltier "may have played" in the incident.
Since his politically motivated prosecution and conviction,
proof of fabricated and suppressed evidence, as well as coerced
testimony, has been uncovered. The Courts of Appeal have repeatedly
acknowledged investigative and prosecutorial misconduct in this case,
but have failed to take corrective action. A model prisoner, Leonard
continues to maintain his innocence and has consequently been denied
fair consideration for parole. Join with numerous internationally
recognized human rights organizations, civil rights leaders,
celebrities and other luminaries who have called for the immediate
release of Leonard Peltier. Visit www.whoisleonardpeltier.info

Break the Chains Blog Turns 2

Hey all, the Break the Chains blog http://breakthechains.info is now two years old. The blog is updated almost every day and has 1,562 stories about political prisoners, the prison system and state repression. The blog also contains links to sites featuring information on political prisoner support, prisoner resources, grand jury resistance, and not-so-long ago documented cases of state repression and intimidation. The blog has over 80,000 hits.

Thanks to everyone who work with political prisoners and post to the listserve.

Puppy liberator jailed

Urgent ELP! Bulletin (1st of July 2008)

Dear friends

ELP has just learnt that British animal rights activist, Sarah Whitehead, was today sentenced to an outragious two years imprisonment.

Sarah has been found guilty of entering a house where a puppy was being abused and removing the puppy, rehoming it with a loving family. Sarah has never revealed where the puppy was rehomed and the puppy remains safe. However rather than being given an RSPCA Medal for active compassion, tonight she sits in a prison cell.

At the point of her trial Sarah was serving a 9 month suspended sentence for other animal resuce actions. Following the guilty verdict Sarah was sentenced to two years imprisonment (15 months for the puppy rescue and the revoking of the suspenion of the previous 9 month sentence).

At the trial two other activists were found Not Guilty.

Besides her current prison sentence, Sarah is also awaiting trail accused of charges relating to her alleged SHAC campaigning activities.

Please send urgent letters of support to:

Sarah Whitehead, VM7684
HMP Bronzefield
Woodthorpe Road
Ashford, Middx
TW15 3JZ
England

Sarah is a vegan and the British based Vegan Prisoners Supporters Group are assisting her to secure vegan food.

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Earth Liberation Prisoners Support Network
BM Box 2407
London
WC1N 3XX
England
www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk

Updated: ENDORSE THE FREE THE CUBAN 5 MONTH!

ENDORSE THE FREE THE CUBAN 5 MONTH!

Initial Endorsers:

• Brigada Vilma Guillois Espin,
• The Philadelphia Cuba Solidarity Coalition
• New York Anarchist Black Cross Federation
• Nicaragua Solidarity Committee Chicago
• The Cuba Solidarity Committee in Houston
• Puerto Rican Alliance Of Los Angeles
• ProLibertad
• Popular Education projec to free the cuban 5
• EL frente socialista-Comite de nyc

To organizations and Individuals who believe in the Freedom of the Cuban 5,

In 2006, Ricardo Alarcon, President of the Cuban National Assembly, declared the period of time between September 12-October 8 to be a time to raise awareness around the Cuban 5. Here in NYC The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5 extends this time to October 12; in order for it to be a full month of events and to include a commemoration of the assassination of Ernest “Che” Guevara. We refer to this period of time as the “Free the Cuban 5 Month!”

September 12^th is the tenth anniversary of the arrest of the Cuban 5 and the Project wants to create a calendar full of events throughout the city, nationally and internationally! Motivated by the negative and unjust decision of the 11^th Circuit Appeals, the Project feels it is time to double our efforts to educate about the case of the Cuban 5 and to garner more support on their behalf.

The Project would like to organize Cuban 5 events in NYC communities that have not had them before. We want to broaden this movement and build Solidarity for the Cuban 5 in as many communities as possible.

The Project is asking organizations and individuals to organize forums, letter writing nights, film screenings, conversations, or fund-raisers for the Cuban 5. The Project will help by providing speakers, films, literature and promotion!

If you are interested in endorsing the Free the Cuban 5 Month AND ORGANIZING AN EVENT, please email us at freethecuban5@gmail.com

So far this is the Calendar events:

• Sat. September 13-All out to Washington DC! 10^th anniversary of the arrest of the Cuban 5! Demonstration for the Cuban 5! More information will be published soon!
• Friday October 10- 10^th Anniversary Jericho March in NYC for all Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War in New York City!! Check the Jericho Website: www.jerichony.org
• OTHER EVENTS ARE CURRENTLY BEING ORGANIZED!!

For more information on FREE THE CUBAN 5 MONTH consult The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5 website: www.freethecuban5.com

Support Local Political Prisoners: Olympia

New webpage at olympia indymedia for supporters of political prisoners
from the South Puget Sound area.

http://cascadia.olympiaworkers.net/support-local-political-prisoners

Nathan Block (Exile)

Nathan Block was sentenced to 7 years – eight months for arson at Joe Romania car dealership and Jefferson Poplar Farm He received the terrorism enhancement. Nathan used to live in Olympia.

Nathan Block #36359–086
FCI Lompac
Federal Correctional Institution
3600 Gaurd Rd
Lompac, CA 93436
solidaritywithsadieandexile@gmail.com

more info at: http://cldc.org/block.htm
http://www.ecoprisoners.org/nathanjoyanna.htm

Briana Waters

Briana Waters is a devoted and loving mother.
She is a professional musician and violin teacher based in Oakland, California. On March 15, 2006, she was accused of participating in a politically motivated arson which took place at the University of Washington in May 2001.

Briana steadfastly maintains her innocence. She is a peaceful woman who believes in non-violence. In 2001, she directed a documentary, entitled Watch, which tells the moving true story of a peaceful campaign that built a coalition between environmentalists, loggers, and the residents of Randle, Washington to save the old-growth forest on Watch Mountain.

Briana Waters attended the Evergreen State College and lived in Olympia.

Briana Waters 36432-086
FDC - Seatac
Federal Detention Center
P.O. Box 13900
Seattle, WA 98198

More information visit: http://supportbriana.org

Joyanna Zacher (Sadie)

Joyanna Zacher was sentenced to 7 years – eight months for arson at Joe Romania car dealership and Jefferson Poplar Farm. She received the terrorism enhancement. Joyanna used to live in Olympia.

Joyanna Zacher #36360-086
FCI Dublin
5701 8th St.- Camp Parks- Unit F
Dublin, CA 94568
solidaritywithsadieandexile@gmail.com

more info: http://www.cldc.org/zacher.html
http://www.ecoprisoners.org/nathanjoyanna.htm

Prison Book Program July e-Newsletter

From: info@prisonbookprogram.org
Subject: Prison Book Program July e-Newsletter

Prison Book Program e-Newsletter July 2008 "It is nice to know that in our society of ever increasing stereotyping and phobias about inmates that there are those out there who consider our plight and seek to do us a good deed." - a prisoner from Canon City, CO PBP is on LinkedIn JOIN OUR GROUP Are you on Linkedin? Prison Book is! We have recently launched a group for Prison Book Program friends and volunteers. And you're invited to join!