R2K. 341 still in jail. D2K calendars. Village Voice, D2kLA.org Wired.com PhillyIMC.org websites. D2kLA.org and other website direct links to articles on R2K brutality. D2K March for Justice, on August 16th. March & Rally Against Mass Incarceration, Police Brutality.. This message shows URLs, so that they can be clicked in most email, message boards, and email lists. SO PLEASE FORWARD THIS.
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D2KLA Calendar of Actions and Events. {Shadow Convention is listed as being from August 14 - 17.}
http://www.a16.org/losangeles/calendar.cfm
D2K. March for Justice. August 16th. March & Rally Against Mass Incarceration, Police Brutality.. Full event details by clicking on number for day of month in this D2K calendar.
http://la.indymedia.org/calendar/index.cgi
A Village Voice article on the R2K brutality is at the end.
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The info below is from this great D2K site. It has photos, too:
http://www.d2kla.org/
Philadelphia Update.
8/6 2pm - 341 men and women remain in prison, committed to jail solidarity. Prison conditions for protestors detained at 5 different locations throughout the city are bad, with many of the prisoners on hunger strike. Mayor Street has announced that the detained activists will be "fully prosecuted." The Mayor, in a press conference August 5, attempted to present juggling and puppetry equipment as weapons, despite the explicit commitment of the activists to non-violence. Philly IMC:
http://www.phillyimc.org/
Photo: www.phillyimc.org
Released Philadelphia Prisoners Hold Press Conference.
Philadelphia 8/5 - A half-dozen recently released R2K prisoners held an emotional press conference Saturday afternoon. They described repeated instances of police brutality and neglect during their time in custody. Paul Hesnekker of the R2K Legal Team, referring to the bails that have been set as high as $1 million, stated "I think these bails are meant to stifle dissent.... It's part of an attempt to criminalize political activism in this country." Philly IMC:
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/06/0335245
Message From Philadelphia Prisoners
"Our actions in the streets of Philadelphia were intended to shine a light on the incarceration of 2 million people in the US, on the systematic use of police brutality to terrorise whole communities, on the racism and cruelty of the death penalty, on the many political prisoners, including Mumia Abu-Jamal, who are caged for their commitment to social justice...." R2k Legal via Philly IMC:
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/06/1858200
The Village Voice reports that "violent police tactics that have been used to suppress direct-action protests this week... that have been ignored by most major media." Village Voice:
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0031/dubya9.shtml
One participant describes the Philadelphia police department with one succinct word: brutal. Wired Magazine:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38038,00.html
Archived News Links - Read More:
http://www.d2kla.org/newsarchive/index.html
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Published August 3, 2000.
villagevoice.com exclusive.
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0031/dubya9.shtml
A Black Bloc Mama Says She Took a Beating From Cops on the Streets of Philadelphia.
'They Were Kicking Me.'
by Sarah Ferguson
Jamie Loughner sporting injuries she contends were caused by Philly cops.
http://images.villagevoice.com/issues/0031/ferguson.jpg
Her face and body swollen and bruised, Jamie Loughner, 36, is visceral proof of the violent police tactics that have been used to suppress direct-action protests this week at the Republican convention in Philadelphia - tactics that have been ignored by most major media.
The self-professed "den mother" for the anarchists of the Washington, D.C.-based Black Bloc, Loughner says she and a "partner" took to the streets on Tuesday with a 20-foot banner that read "Stop the Texas Killing Machine" - referring to Governor George W. Bush's feverish rate of executions.
The banner was fashioned from red parachute nylon, and Loughner had reinforced it with strands of wire to make it "harder for the police to cut." At around 7 p.m, during the permitted rally to support death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal outside the Municipal Building, Loughner and a fellow Black Block activist darted into JFK Boulevard to obstruct traffic.
"A cop approached us and tried to cut the banner," says Loughner, "but he got mad because he couldn't cut it. So he started pulling the banner away from us, but I couldn't just let go because I had my arm wrapped inside the banner to make it easier to hold."
Loughner says that when the officer yanked, she "went flying to the ground." According to Loughner and other witnesses, several officers then began pulling her down the street. "They were kicking me," she says, revealing dark contusions on her thighs and arms. She holds up her hand, with the fingers bloody from having the tips ripped off her fingernails when she tried to pull loose of the banner.
"They rolled me face down on the ground and cuffed my hands in the back, with the banner and the two poles still wrapped awkwardly around my body," Loughner says. She claims she was "thrown onto the floor of a police van filled with their stash of ice water and soda," and driven around town for 20 minutes by an officer, who decided to release her from custody and even drove her to a local hospital, when he discovered the extent of her injuries. After vomiting in the hospital waiting room, Loughner was diagnosed with a minor concussion and "deep bruises and contusions" to her right eye, forearm, thigh, and hip.
Philadelphia police declined to comment on the incident, noting there was no record of Loughner's arrest.
Despite dizzy spells and a limping gait, Loughner has not given up in her campaign against what she and other activists have dubbed the "criminal injustice system." On Wednesday afternoon, she joined a crowd of 500 to 700 protestors who circled Philly's police headquarters, in solidarity with the more than 450 activists who have been arrested since the start of the protests. In her hands she held yet another banner, this one reading: "Stop Police Brutality: Where Is the Brotherly Love?"
Tell us what you think. editor@villagevoice.com
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