Monthly Archives: September 2009

G20: Court solidarity for David Japenga

Pack the courtroom on Wednesday Sept. 30th at 8am to support David Japenga, swept up by police during the rioting that happened in Pittsburgh due to the G20. David Japenga was arrested on Thursday and was given trumped up charges … Continue reading

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G20: Political Prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal’s statement of solidarity with demonstrators

“When a cause comes along and you know in your bones that it is just, yet refuse to defend it–at that moment you begin to die. And I have never seen so many corpses walking around talking about justice.” – … Continue reading

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Dan Berger on US Political Prisoners

Radical scholar and author of Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity discusses political prisoners and prisoner movements in the US. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFcDyyj4_Yw&feature=player_embedded#t=28] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pucNf0_KP-o&feature=player_embedded]

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G20: California man charged with inflicting most of the damage during protests

There needs to be no comment about how laughable and ridiculous it is that one person has been charged with nearly all the property destruction that occurred during the protests. Solidarity with David and all the G20 arrestees! Saturday, September … Continue reading

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G20 2009: Police Attack Students at University of Pittsburgh

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Police Harassment Greets G-20 Protesters

Police Harassment Greets G-20 Protesters by ROBERT S. ESHELMAN September 22, 2009 Editor’s Note: Follow Rob Eshelman’s dispatches from the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh at TheNation.com all week. Pittsburgh plays host this week to the G-20 summit, a gathering of … Continue reading

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Denver ABC Statement on the Colorado Democratic Party Headquarters Incident

On August 24th, eleven windows at the Colorado Democratic Party Headquarters were purposefully broken. The media quickly took up the story, but only within a narrow framework that couldn’t explain the incident. As members of the Denver Anarchist Black Cross, … Continue reading

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Death Threats: The Politics of Displacement and Community Self-Determination

Monday, Sept 28th 6pm AFSC office 901 W. 14th ave., Denver Tuesday, Sept 29 6:30pm Humanities 135, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder Simón Sedillo is a community rights defense organizer and film maker whose work has centered on learning … Continue reading

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BOP continues to sabotage Carlos Alberto Torres’ parole efforts

On the heels of the U.S. Parole Commission hearing examiner’s recommendation that Puerto Rican political prisoner Carlos Alberto Torres be released on parole on April 3, 2010, the Federal Bureau of Prisons reinstated false accusations already expunged in a transparent … Continue reading

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September RNC verdicts: community service for Vets for Peace; Forrey gets 120 days

Two decisions related to RNC protests came down simultaneously in Ramsey County Court Thursday afternoon. Eight demonstrators from the August 31, 2008 Vets for Peace march were found guilty of misdemeanor trespassing, but were sentenced to merely a $100 fine … Continue reading

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