L.A. city council passes resolution calling for former SLA member to remain in prison

The Los Angeles City Council endorsed a resolution calling for ex-Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson to serve out the rest of her prison term.

Olson had been paroled in March after serving half of a 12-year sentence for her role in a deadly 1975 bank robbery and an attempt to bomb two Los Angeles police cars.

However, Olson was back in custody a few days after her release when California prison officials discovered a mistake in the calculation of her release. She will serve at least another year.

The Los Angeles Times said Wednesday's council vote came after Olson's lawyers filed a motion in Sacramento seeking her immediate release. The motion claimed Olson's due-process rights had been violated because corrections officials had no legal right to re-arrest her.

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California: D-Q University arrestees won't be prosecuted

Deputy district attorney says civil issues hamper case

Occupants from D-Q University will not be prosecuted for trespassing, according to a statement released by the Yolo County District Attorney's Office.

The DA's office issued a statement late Thursday afternoon saying those "recently arrested at D-Q University" will not be prosecuted.

Ann Hurd, a deputy district attorney, said the statement applied to all those arrested in the past months at D-Q.

Yolo County Sheriff's deputies were called to the campus on Feb. 20 and March 31 to remove occupants. The first arrests were of three occupants, including unofficial caretaker Christopher Yazzie, 26. The second involved about 18 people, ranging from college-age to elderly individuals.

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South Dakota: Native anti-Hog Farm organizers need help finding lawyer

This popped up in the State Repression News inbox today:

Please pass far and wide,

Any one who can help get a Lawyer or Attorney for one of the Protesters who
was injured when a skid loader ran into him. Please call

Frances Zephier 605-941-2674