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URGENT ACTION NEEDED FOR THOSE ARRESTED AT THE MAYOR'S CONFERENCE
*Witnesses
need to give accounts from the arrests at the Mayors Conference on Sunday,
June 16.
*All supporters need to write letters to the District Attorney.
*We need any financial assistance possible.
URGENT action needed for those arrested at the Mayors Conference!
*Witnesses
need to give accounts from the arrests at the Mayors Conference on Sunday,
June 16.
*All supporters need to write letters to the District Attorney.
*We need any financial assistance possible.
Some of us arrested at the Mayors Conference are currently fighting criminal charges. We need all the people who can to provide us with statements concerning your recollections of the events leading up the arrests. The more details the better. Specific points we need verified by witnesses are as follows:
*LACK OF WARNINGS BY POLICE TO THE CROWD AS A WHOLE.
*LACK OF WARNINGS GIVEN TO THOSE ARRESTED.
*ACTS OF POLICE PROVOCATION SUCH AS SIESURE OF FLAGS
*SPECIFIC MOVMENTS OF THE TWO MALE PROTESTORS WHO WERE ARRESTED TOGETHER
AND DRAGGED ACROSS LANGDON STREET. THESE PROTESTORS WERE NOT ORIGINALLY
NEAR EACH OTHER UNTILL THE EVENT DIRECTLY INVOLVING THEIR ARREST. THE PROTESTOR
IN THE WHITE SHIRT AND BROWN HAT CAME TO THE SCENE ONLY AFTER THE SECOUND
PROTESTOR WAS ALLREADY BEING ARRESTED.
Anyone with useful accounts, please contact the June 16 Legal Defense Fund c/o Dustin Moriarty, 244 West Lakelawn Place, Madison, WI 53703 or call (608) 257-8540. We may ask witnesses to testify in court. We also need people to write to District Attorney Brian Blanchard, asking for him to drop all remaining charges against the Mayors Conference Protestors. Write to: District Attorney Brian Blanchard, County Building, Room 523, 210 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Madison, WI 53703 Financial contributions are also
greatly appreciated. Please make checks payable to the Madison Area General Defense Committee.
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