{"article":{"id":225570,"heading":"Arab activists arrested in peaceful SF action","author":"rahula","created":"2009-03-24 14:16:58","modified":"2009-03-24 14:16:58","last_modified":"Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:16:58","article":"
Murad Abuh Hamdieh, Lily Haskell, Nadeen Elshorafa and Mohammed
Ibrahim and 5 others were arrested earlier today during the
demonstrations and are calling for broad community support. Police appear
to have targeted youth, Lily and Nadeen tried to unarrest them; they're
being charged with resisting arrest, and bail was set at $53,000 each.
*Right now, they're asking for people to be on call for this Monday and
Tuesday to show up and support them at the arraignment proceedings. *
They've also asked anyone who can loan a large chunk of money ($500+) for
bail to contact Vanessa Huang (510-508-9106). The ideal is to raise the
entirety of the bail money so that it will be refunded (partial bail is
not).
We believe it's important in the wake of the attacks on Gaza, and our local
responses, to recall that Palestinians and Arabs are generally those who are
the first to be targeted by the police, violent zionists, and the media.
Now, more than ever, we need to stand in solidarity with our comrades in
strategic defense.\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Please forward widely, and remind the public and the press that rock throwing is legitimate non-violent resistence, both in America and in Palestine.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2009\/03\/225570.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}