by Prophecy, Antithesis
There is a protest going on right now as we speak in Marty, South Dakota home of the Ihanktowan aka Yankton Sioux. There have been multiple arrests, including minors, as protesters seek to block front loader bulldozers from breaking ground on a new pig farm that will be occupied by thousands of pigs and their waste near a Head Start Program filled with Native children. A man was struck by the metal scoop of the front loader (which is used to excavate tons of dirt) and was medically evacuated by ambulance.
State Troopers have violated their jurisdiction by arresting protesters on a BIA controlled road which is considered Federal land and therefore off limits to State Agencies and Law Enforcement. It was said that the arrests of the minors and others were conducted illegally by the State Police on the Federal Road and they were escorted to State Land nearby to receive their citations and were released.
South Dakota Highway Patrol have informed the Officers that they are in fact in violation of their jurisdiction as this is being written and being told to stand down and not to detain any more protesters. Dakota, Lakota and Nakota and other Native Activists including a AIM chapter are mobilizing to this spot to support and join their Indigenous Families to protect their Native children and community from this gross violation of Tribal Sovereignty and Basic Human Rights.
One Land, One People, One Struggle!!
Mitakuye Oyasin!
For more info: keyawitko2676@yahoo.com
All e-mails will be forwarded to parties involved in today's protest
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Avelino Claudio, Puerto Rican freedom fighter, to be held without bail
A federal magistrate ruled Tuesday that Avelino Gonzalez Claudio, a militant Puerto Rican nationalist charged in the 1983 robbery of a West Hartford armored car depot, is a flight risk and should be imprisoned without bail while awaiting trial.
Gonzalez, 65, is one of 19 members of the militant pro-independence group Los Macheteros indicted for planning and carrying out the $7 million robbery on Sept. 12, 1983. At the time, it was the largest cash robbery in U.S. history. Records seized in the case show that Los Macheteros planned to use the money to finance a revolutionary war against the United States.
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Gonzalez, 65, is one of 19 members of the militant pro-independence group Los Macheteros indicted for planning and carrying out the $7 million robbery on Sept. 12, 1983. At the time, it was the largest cash robbery in U.S. history. Records seized in the case show that Los Macheteros planned to use the money to finance a revolutionary war against the United States.
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Louisiana: Attorneys for Angola prisoners declare that confessions of murder of guard were products of coercion, violence
Four state prisoners testified Monday that Louisiana State Penitentiary officers beat them severely in the wake of the Dec. 28, 1999, slaying of security Capt. David C. Knapps.
The testimony came during a hearing before 20th Judicial District Judge George H. Ware Jr., who will decide whether to throw out statements made by five Angola inmates who face first-degree murder charges in Knapps’ slaying and those made by other inmates during the investigation.
The hearing continues today.
Defense attorneys say the statements should not be allowed at trial because they were made under duress.
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The testimony came during a hearing before 20th Judicial District Judge George H. Ware Jr., who will decide whether to throw out statements made by five Angola inmates who face first-degree murder charges in Knapps’ slaying and those made by other inmates during the investigation.
The hearing continues today.
Defense attorneys say the statements should not be allowed at trial because they were made under duress.
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Harvard cops deny allegations of fostering "red squad"
The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) denied allegations that the University maintains an undercover political intelligence unit in the wake of two arrests that attracted the scrutiny of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
“Despite what the ACLU asserts, we do not maintain an undercover unit,” HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano wrote in a statement yesterday. But a police report does show evidence of undercover intelligence gathering at a political demonstration.
“I had been photographing the demonstrators for intelligence gathering,” Detective Thomas F. Karns Jr. wrote in a March 3 report of his activities at a human rights protest in the Square. He described himself as “conducting plain clothes surveillance on a demonstration.”
Massachusetts residents Lisa M. Nieves and Patrick J. Keaney were arrested by Karns after the protest.
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“Despite what the ACLU asserts, we do not maintain an undercover unit,” HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano wrote in a statement yesterday. But a police report does show evidence of undercover intelligence gathering at a political demonstration.
“I had been photographing the demonstrators for intelligence gathering,” Detective Thomas F. Karns Jr. wrote in a March 3 report of his activities at a human rights protest in the Square. He described himself as “conducting plain clothes surveillance on a demonstration.”
Massachusetts residents Lisa M. Nieves and Patrick J. Keaney were arrested by Karns after the protest.
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Minneapolis: Critical Mass participant acquitted of charges of assault on police officer
Ten minutes before the jury decided the verdict that could send University student Augustin Ganley to jail for more than two years, the six jury members hunched over a notebook computer in the darkened courtroom and watched three cell phone videos one last time, while the videos - with their soundtracks of sirens, curses and chants - blared through the room.
In the course of the trial, the prosecution introduced three witnesses, all Minneapolis police officers, while the defense countered with nine eyewitnesses, some of whom were Ganley's friends.
In the end, the amount of the defense's evidence, with its grainy cell phone videos, outweighed the sworn testimony of a Minneapolis policeman.
Ganley was acquitted Monday of charges of assaulting a police officer, obstruction and fleeing, all of which carried a penalty of up to two years and three months in jail. The charges stemmed from an Aug. 31 Critical Mass bike protest, where 19 people were arrested.
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In the course of the trial, the prosecution introduced three witnesses, all Minneapolis police officers, while the defense countered with nine eyewitnesses, some of whom were Ganley's friends.
In the end, the amount of the defense's evidence, with its grainy cell phone videos, outweighed the sworn testimony of a Minneapolis policeman.
Ganley was acquitted Monday of charges of assaulting a police officer, obstruction and fleeing, all of which carried a penalty of up to two years and three months in jail. The charges stemmed from an Aug. 31 Critical Mass bike protest, where 19 people were arrested.
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Nazis and cops: side by side against Mumia
From the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal:
On April 19 there is a mass DC neo-Nazi rally for the NSM (National
Socialist Movement) in "commemoration" of both Hitler's birthday and the
Oklahoma City bombing. The Philadelphia chapters are apparently not going
to DC. Instead, there are plans for them to join with the FOP in
countering our demonstration. We are sharing this to inform people and
expose their actions, and the FOP's affiliations. However, the
demonstration will go on, always with the safety of our community as top
priority, and our determination to never back down. We are not terrified
of them or their bald heads. Their parents and grandparents have been
lynching our people, and 20 some years ago wore blue uniforms during their
torture and arrest of Mumia. The march will go on. They just better not
get in our way.
ICFFMAJ wants to thank Philadelphia Anti-Racist Action and the One
People's Project for their work in educating the community about the
Neo-Nazi threat. The link to the flyer below provides detailed
information about the Neo-Nazis planning on counter-demonstrating
Saturday's demonstration for Mumia. As ICFFMAJ has stated before, we've
never been stopped before and we won't be stopped now.
Both KSS and MDS are confirmed as planning to show and attempt to counter.
Philly ARA and One People's Project have put together a flyer about it.
http://www.oppforum.com/images/mumiarallyflyer.pdf
On April 19 there is a mass DC neo-Nazi rally for the NSM (National
Socialist Movement) in "commemoration" of both Hitler's birthday and the
Oklahoma City bombing. The Philadelphia chapters are apparently not going
to DC. Instead, there are plans for them to join with the FOP in
countering our demonstration. We are sharing this to inform people and
expose their actions, and the FOP's affiliations. However, the
demonstration will go on, always with the safety of our community as top
priority, and our determination to never back down. We are not terrified
of them or their bald heads. Their parents and grandparents have been
lynching our people, and 20 some years ago wore blue uniforms during their
torture and arrest of Mumia. The march will go on. They just better not
get in our way.
ICFFMAJ wants to thank Philadelphia Anti-Racist Action and the One
People's Project for their work in educating the community about the
Neo-Nazi threat. The link to the flyer below provides detailed
information about the Neo-Nazis planning on counter-demonstrating
Saturday's demonstration for Mumia. As ICFFMAJ has stated before, we've
never been stopped before and we won't be stopped now.
Both KSS and MDS are confirmed as planning to show and attempt to counter.
Philly ARA and One People's Project have put together a flyer about it.
http://www.oppforum.com/images/mumiarallyflyer.pdf
Blackwater training domestic U.S. police departments
[Editor's Note: Despite the anti-immigrant rheotoric in this article, it is being posted because it raises a number of issues of direct concern to those that challenge the state and capitalist power. State Repression News stands against all borders and border controls and in solidarity with all "migrants".]
There are many police and law enforcement officials who are concerned with the growing trend of using military-trained mercenaries to train and work with local police officers in the United States, but there are many who believe the events of September 11, 2001 dictate the need for a new paradigm.
For example, Kentucky's Lexington Police Department contracted Blackwater Security International to provide what's described as homeland security training. Meanwhile, that city's Mayor Jim Newberry and its chief of police Anthony Beatty refused free training provided by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement federal program that prepares police officers to enforce immigration and border security as part of their duties.
Lexington is on the nation's list of so-called Sanctuary Cities in which police officers are prohibited from working with ICE or Border Patrol agents in the United States. Critics are angry over the use of local tax dollars to hire Blackwater personnel to train the police.
But Lexington isn't the only city using hired guns to help local police officers. In New Orleans, heavily armed operatives from the Blackwater private security firm, infamous for their work in Iraq, are openly patrolling the streets of that beleaguered city.
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There are many police and law enforcement officials who are concerned with the growing trend of using military-trained mercenaries to train and work with local police officers in the United States, but there are many who believe the events of September 11, 2001 dictate the need for a new paradigm.
For example, Kentucky's Lexington Police Department contracted Blackwater Security International to provide what's described as homeland security training. Meanwhile, that city's Mayor Jim Newberry and its chief of police Anthony Beatty refused free training provided by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement federal program that prepares police officers to enforce immigration and border security as part of their duties.
Lexington is on the nation's list of so-called Sanctuary Cities in which police officers are prohibited from working with ICE or Border Patrol agents in the United States. Critics are angry over the use of local tax dollars to hire Blackwater personnel to train the police.
But Lexington isn't the only city using hired guns to help local police officers. In New Orleans, heavily armed operatives from the Blackwater private security firm, infamous for their work in Iraq, are openly patrolling the streets of that beleaguered city.
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North Carolina: SDSer files motion alleging that the Chapel Hill town ordinance addressing crowds is unconstitutional
About 25 people gathered in front of the Franklin Street post office to rally in support of the student protester arrested in November.
Tamara Tal, a member of Students for a Democratic Society, was scheduled to appear in court Monday and planned to plead not guilty to a charge of failure to disperse.
Tal's lawyer, Al McSurely, filed a motion alleging that the Chapel Hill town ordinance addressing crowds is unconstitutional.
The ordinance states that it is unlawful for a person to refuse a police request to disperse from blocking any street, sidewalk, alley or public walkway.
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Tamara Tal, a member of Students for a Democratic Society, was scheduled to appear in court Monday and planned to plead not guilty to a charge of failure to disperse.
Tal's lawyer, Al McSurely, filed a motion alleging that the Chapel Hill town ordinance addressing crowds is unconstitutional.
The ordinance states that it is unlawful for a person to refuse a police request to disperse from blocking any street, sidewalk, alley or public walkway.
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