[Cdhrsupport] Berkeley - Benefit for the SF 8 2/25

[SF-8 case]

Legacy of Torture & Battle of Algiers: Benefit for the SF 8 Black Panther
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/11/18361407.php

by CAPS

Sunday Feb 11th, 2007 6:06 PM
A screening of the brand new video about the SF 8 
Black Panther grand jury resistors/arrestees. 
This will be followed by the classic- Battle of Algiers.

Sunday February 25, 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
The Long Haul, 3124 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA (@Woolsey St.)

A screening of the new video about the SF 8 Black 
Panther grand jury resistors/arrestees. (see 
below for details.) This will be followed by the 
classic- Battle of Algiers. People will be on 
hand to answer questions on the SF 8, as well as 
offer an update about another CA political 
prisoner in need of support. There will be food, 
wine, & dessert. All proceeds will be split 
between the SF 8 & another local prisoner. Please show your support!

Legacy of Torture:
The War Against The Black Liberation Movement

The same people who tried to kill me in 1973 are 
the same people who are here today, trying to 
destroy me. I mean it literally. I mean there 
were people from the forces of the San Francisco 
Police Department who participated in harassment, 
torture and my interrogation in 1973 ... none of 
these people have ever been brought to trial. 
None of these people have ever been charged with 
anything. None of these people have ever been 
questioned about that. -- John Bowman, former Black Panther

In 2005 several former members of the Black 
Panther were held in contempt and jailed for 
refusing to testify before a San Francisco Grand 
Jury investigating a police shooting that took 
place in 1971. The government alleged that Black 
radical groups were involved in the 34-year old 
case in which two men armed with shotguns 
attacked the Ingleside Police Station resulting 
in the death of a police sergeant and the injuring of a civilian clerk.

In 1973, thirteen alleged "Black militants" were 
arrested in New Orleans, purportedly in 
connection with the San Francisco events. Some of 
them were tortured for several days by law 
enforcement authorities, in striking similarity 
to the horrors visited upon detainees in Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib.

In 1975, a Federal Court in San Francisco threw 
out all of the evidence obtained in New Orleans.

The two lead San Francisco Police Department 
investigators from over 30 years ago, along with 
FBI agents, have re-opened the case. Rather than 
submit to proceedings they felt were abusive of 
the law and the Constitution, five men chose to 
stand in contempt of court and were sent to jail. 
They were released when the Grand Jury term 
expired, but have been told by prosecutors that "it isn't over yet."

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