re:Jailed Protesters, Put PRESSURE on NYC Authorities

[G_j]

Subject: PRESSURE on NYC authorities

Dear concerned citizen,

The last week has seen a powerful, and in many ways
unprecedented display of resistance to the agenda of
Empire in the belly of the beast. We have inspired
each other, our fellow Americans, and the world.

At the same time, the state has used repressive
tactics of sweeping arrests to discourage activists
now and in the future. We have an opportunity to use
our collective outrage (and the media spotlight) to
confront this attack head on. We can.t let them get
away with this!

Solidarity Support Working Group, an A31 noRNC
collective

Appended below is an example letter you might fax or
email to the following city offices, or use to
structure a telephone call. Feel free, of course, to
express your outrage in your own terms. Feel free
to call other decisionmakers, but a deluge on the
following three might be most effective.

Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly
http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mailnypd.html
or call
[phone]
FAX: [phone]
or
NYC Police Switchboard
[phone]
Ask for Commissioner`s office

Department of Corrections Commissioner Martin Horn
(Jails)
[phone] or [phone]
FAX: [phone]
Email: http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/maildoc.html

District Attorney Robert Morgenthau
[phone]
FAX [phone]

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
[phone] or [phone]
FAX [phone] or [phone]
E-MAIL:http://nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mayor.html

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Dear ,

Over a thousand people were arrested yesterday in NYC.
In moves that echo the imperial practices of U.S.
foreign policy, the NYPD preemptively and in some
cases violently arrested hundreds of dissenters, a
clear attack on political expression.

Combined with exceptionally unhealthy conditions in
detention, unlawfully delayed periods before
arraignment or release, and excessive bails, these
arrests and the concomitant legal harassment undermine
the ability of our movements to organize political
dissent.

We will resist the militarization of our streets, our
cities, our lives. We will act in solidarity with
those arrested, those abused, in this country and
around the world.

In specific, we will ensure that you and others
responsible for oversight of the NYC police and
corrections departments will either curb this
illegitimate use of power, or pay a heavy political
price. This story will not die. The pressure will
not
cease, until you respond effectively in defense of
civil and human rights.

* Transfer all detainees out of the toxic Pier 57
warehouse.

* Release and drop the charges of those illegally
arrested without clear warning or ability to leave.

* Reduce exorbitant bails (up to $200,000) to
appropriate and reasonable amounts.

* Negotiate with all arrestees engaging in jail
solidarity and withholding their identities. Allow
them to occupy rooms together, to speak collectively
to their lawyers, and to bargain directly with the
prosecutors.

In solidarity with all political prisoners,




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