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RESISTING THE GREEN SCARE:<br>
A Bay Area Event in Solidarity with Political Prisoner Jeff
"Free" Luers<br>
and Environmental/Animal Rights Activists Most Recently Targeted by
State<br>
Repression. (see below for more background information)<br><br>
Saturday, June 10th<br>
Station 40 (3030 B 16th Street @ Mission, San Francisco)<br>
Doors at 1:30pm/Show at 2:00pm sharp<br>
$3-$8 sliding scale, all money to benefit political prisoners<br>
All ages welcome<br><br>
Featuring Bands, Speakers, and Free Vegan Food!<br><br>
Acts of Sedition<br>
Myth of Progress<br>
Entartete Kunst<br>
Chest Full of Arrows<br><br>
Speakers include:<br>
Richard Brown -Black Panther Grand Jury Resister, as well several<br>
individuals who will provide information & context on the current
"Green<br>
Scare."<br><br>
Please join us!<br><br>
For questions contact: caps@riseup.net<br><br>
On June 10th, San Francisco will participate in the International<br>
Weekend of Resistance Against the Green Scare, along with over 20
other<br>
cities worldwide, in order to show solidarity and support for those
facing<br>
charges and harassment in the recent wave of repression against Eco
and<br>
Animal Rights activists. At this event, we also aim to contextualize
the<br>
Green Scare amidst the historic and on-going government oppression
and<br>
harassment faced by people of color here and abroad, particularly in
their<br>
struggles for liberation.<br>
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 2006<br>
Resisting the “Green Scare”<br><br>
December 7, 2005, marked the beginning of the largest roundup of<br>
environmental and animal rights activists in U.S. history. There have
now<br>
been nearly 20 arrests and many Grand Jury subpoenas.<br><br>
The nation-wide sweep of arrests, dubbed “Operation Backfire,” has
been<br>
described by the FBI as a major hit to environmentalists and animal
rights<br>
activists who engage in destruction of property as a means to defend
wild<br>
lands and lives of animals. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales stated
in<br>
January that, “Investigating and preventing animal rights and<br>
environmental extremism is one of the FBI’s highest domestic
priorities”.<br><br>
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-New Jersey) said. "The Oklahoma City
bombing<br>
killed 168 people. The attacks of 9/11 killed 3,000. Since 1993,
there<br>
have been at least five fatal attacks on doctors who performed legal<br>
abortions. Eric Rudolph recently pleaded guilty to placing a bomb in
a<br>
public area during the Olympic Games in 1996, as well as bombing a<br>
Birmingham women's clinic and a gay nightclub. All of these cases
involved<br>
the loss of human life. To date, not a single incident of so-called<br>
environmental terrorism has killed anyone."<br><br>
Despite the lack of human injury in any of these actions, the
government<br>
is threatening extraordinary sentences, ranging from 30 years to life
plus<br>
335 years. Similar crimes committed without political motivation
receive<br>
far shorter sentences and even different charges. For example, a
string<br>
of nine recent church arsons are being described by the authorities
as<br>
“youthful pranks”.<br><br>
Environmental activist Jeff “Free” Luers received a
disproportionately<br>
long sentence (22.8 years) after confessing to attempting to burn
three<br>
SUVs at a Romania dealership in Eugene, OR. At trial, Jeff clearly
stated<br>
that his action was a desperate attempt to bring awareness to the<br>
destruction of the Earth by this unsustainable form of transportation
and<br>
its external costs of global warming, pollution, and war for oil.
Because<br>
of his stated political beliefs, “Free” received an extremely long
prison<br>
sentence; he is charged with a Measure 11 crime despite the fact that
this<br>
fire did not endanger any life; and he continues to suffer harassment
by<br>
the Department of Corrections due to his designation as a member of
a<br>
Security Threat Group’.<br><br>
June 2006 marks the sixth year that “Free” has been in prison as well
as<br>
the 3rd year of International Days of Solidarity with him. The focus
of<br>
international events this year will be on “Operation Backfire” and
what<br>
many are calling a “Green Scare” campaign of government
repression.<br><br>
For more information,
<a href="http://www.freefreenow.org/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.freefreenow.org<br><br>
</a>
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Free All Political Prisoners!<br>
Free Jeff 'Free' Luers!<br>
<a href="http://www.freefreenow.org/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.freefreenow.org<br>
</a>Resist Grand Juries!<br>
<a href="http://www.fbiwitchhunt.org/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.fbiwitchhunt.org<br>
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