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[R2D2] 8/8 :: Press Conference and Rally at State House Steps (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aimee L Smith)
Mon Aug 7 13:27:07 2000
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Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 13:26:55 -0400
From: Aimee L Smith <alsmith@MIT.EDU>
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From: The Task Force <boston_affinity@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 12:32:30 -0400
Subject: [R2D2] 8/8 :: Press Conference and Rally at State House Steps
Please cross-post and distribute. Call Boston City Councilpersons and ask
them to call for the immediate unconditional release of all protesters still
in Philadelphia jails. Phone Numbers are at the bottom of this email. Or
call the Philly numbers as well. Demand the same. Unless we do something
about this, our civil liberties will be stripped from us and a new era of
repression will dawn.
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RELEASED BOSTON RNC PROTESTER AND CITY COUNSELOR CONDEMN PHILADELPHIA JAIL
CONDITIONS.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, August 8, 2000
Massachusetts State House, Front Steps, 1:00 p.m.
Contact: Matt Borus: 617-983-2254, Email: mborus@aol.com
BOSTON, Mass. - August 7, 2000. On Tuesday, August 8, Boston City
Councilman Chuck Turner and Erica Sagrans, a recently released Boston
activist, will join Boston family and friends of six imprisoned Bostonians
to call for the unconditional release of all nonviolent demonstrators
incarcerated in last week's Philadelphia demonstrations. As police
brutality escalates, prison conditions worsen and due process is
circumvented, over 300 nonviolent demonstrators remain in prison. The
demonstrators were arrested last week for their participation or attempted
participation in non-violent direct actions surrounding the Republican
National Convention to expose the brutality and injustice of the United
States Criminal Justice System.
In a calculated effort to discourage and criminalize political activism,
Philadelphia courts have set exorbitant bails as high as $1,000,000. In a
unified reaction to police brutality and neglect, some prisoners have
refused food and drink for at least three days. One mother has been
arrested protesting the cruel treatment of her incarcerated son. As
Philadelphia police continue to neglect and abuse some prisoners, recently
released activists are speaking out. Philadelphia's Independent Media
Center has reported several first hand accounts of arrestees (see
www.phillyimc.org <http://www.phillyimc.org>). Tuesday's Press Conference
will showcase this injustice in reports by victims of past police-brutality,
and family and supporters of the currently incarcerated Bostonians.
The United States Criminal Justice System boasts the highest incarceration
rate of any nation in the world. In an attempt to shine the public light of
scrutiny on this fundamentally unjust system the Boston activists
unwittingly became victims themselves.
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Please call the following Boston city officials:
Charles Yancey 617-635-3131
Daniel Conley 617-635-4210
Maura Hennigan 617-635-4227
Brian Honan 617-635-3113
Chuck Turner (will be at the Press Conference!!!) 617-635-3510 Call and
thank him for his support.
AND AGAIN - Philly numbers. Please call
MAYOR JOHN STREET - 215-686-2181
District Attorney - 215-686-7508
Capt. Fisher - 215-685-3684
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