{"article":{"id":136235,"heading":"Garden Grove 5 face Preliminary Hearing","author":"May 25 Legal Defense","created":"2005-09-29 20:03:23","modified":"2005-10-01 02:16:13","last_modified":"Sat, 01 Oct 2005 09:16:13","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>On May 25, 2005, five young men were arrested in Garden Grove for protesting against the racist Minuteman Project. They were given falsified, trumped-up charges, ranging up to \"assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer,\" all because someone in the crowd allegedly threw a water bottle at the police. This is very clearly a case of political repression, and the fact that four of the five arrestees are people of color is no coincidence. They were grabbed at random, with absolutely no evidence backing the charges brought against them, and some of the arrestees were brutally tackled to the ground and roughed up by multiple police officers. These five victims of police\/political repression have come to be known collectively as the Garden Grove 5. <br><br> This Monday (October 3) at 8:30 am, three members of the Garden Grove 5 will have their Preliminary Hearing. It is of the utmost importance that we all show up to court to show support, stand in solidarity, and demonstrate that these unjustly arrested activists have the full support of their communities. Hopefully the judge will see how ridiculous these charges are, and drop them before the cases can go to trial! <br><br> Details: <br><br> MONDAY, OCTOBER 3 @ 8:30 AM <br>  <br> West Justice Center in courtroom W15 <br>  <br> Orange County Superior Court, 8131 13th Street, Westminster, CA <br><br> Kurt Isobe, Hugo Sarmiento, and Juan-Obed Silva will all be having their Preliminary Hearings at this date. <br><br> Once again... these young students and activist need OUR support as they battle racism, repression, police harassment, and most of all, injustice. For more information, vist www.May25.org <br><br> *** PLEASE distribute this message to all your contacts, by email, Myspace, word of mouth, flyer, or whatever medium possible. A ready-to-print flyer is available at <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/kyokomusic.com\/kurtisobe\/img\/october3.jpg\">http:\/\/kyokomusic.com\/kurtisobe\/img\/october3.jpg<\/a> <br>  <br> Please download the flyer, print it, and distribute as many copies as you can. <br><br> If you cannot make it to the Preliminary Hearing, please continue to distribute this message, and consider making a donation to the May 25 Legal Defense fund. Information on how to donate is available at www.May25.org <br><br> -the May 25 Legal Defense Committee<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"may25legaldefense@yahoo.com","link":"www.may25.org","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"The Garden Grove 5 (victims of police and political repression arrested for speaking out against the Minuteman Project) face their Preliminary Hearing on October 3. Please attend and support this court date in anti-racist solidarity.","numcomment":12,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/october3.jpg","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2005\/09\/136235.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/october3.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":136261,"heading":"There is ONE important issue here:","article":"May JUSTICE be served.\r\nWhatever it is, let the TRUTH prevail.\r\nEverything else is bull.\r\n","author":"Cesar Chavez","parent_id":136235,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-09-30 00:36:09","modified":"2005-09-30 00:36:09","fileurl":""},{"id":136332,"heading":"Baldwin Park prisoner","article":"  I am in suport of the garden grove political prisoners\r\n\r\n\r\n  I myself was arrested at BP2 and had to spend 72 hours in jail, the BP pigs were also charging me with felony criminal threaths.\r\n\r\n     after 3 month of fighting the case they finalyy dropped the charges.\r\n\r\n\r\n    Fuck those garden grove gestappho pigs. No Justcie No Peace!!!\r\n\r\n\r\n      La Reconquista has your back.","author":"subversive","parent_id":136235,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-09-30 15:13:59","modified":"2005-09-30 15:13:59","fileurl":""},{"id":136339,"heading":"New flyer","article":"here is the new flyer","author":"new flyer","parent_id":136235,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2005-09-30 15:54:16","modified":"2005-09-30 15:54:16","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2005\/09\/october3.jpg1kibej.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2005\/09\/october3.jpg1kibej.jpg"}},{"id":136370,"heading":"Hey Subversive?","article":"Are you the guy who threatened to kill the jailer when they locked you up?  \r\n\r\nYou seem resentful about spending 72 hours in jail.  Don't you like the intimate company of your own kind? ","author":"Curious","parent_id":136235,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-09-30 22:12:00","modified":"2005-09-30 22:12:00","fileurl":""},{"id":136395,"heading":"Thanks Kurt I called the Aliso Viejo Schools","article":"you used to sing at and gave them the heads up on your arrest.","author":"anon","parent_id":136235,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-10-01 02:16:13","modified":"2005-10-01 02:16:13","fileurl":""}]}