[Ppnews] Puerto Rican Grand Jury Resisters: Come to Fed Court NY - Fri, June 13

[Political Prisoner News]

All out to Federal Court:
Fri., June 13 at 9:30 am

Brooklyn Federal Court
225 Cadman Plaza East at Tillary St.

Subways: A, C to High St.; 2 to Clark St.; 4, 5, R to Borough Hall; F
to Jay St./Borough Hall, then A, C to High 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 June 13, 2008 at 9:30 am to support Jose
Diaz, the fifth person to be subpoenaed to the federal grand jury.
He is the first resident from Puerto Rico called to appear to the
grand jury investigating the Puerto Rican Independence Movement in
Puerto Rico and in the Diaspora. He is forced to travel thousands of
miles, leaving his family behind to come to Brooklyn, NY to fight
this subpoena.

As we prepare for this picket, Tania Frontera, one the original three
of the January 11 subpoenaed, has also been scheduled to appear on
June 13, 2008.

Historically, the US government has used the federal grand jury since
the 1930s as 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
"noncollaboration" to the grand jury can be held in "contempt of
court" and imprisoned.



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