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LOCAL Announcement :: Civil & Human Rights

First Court Hearing Date for 3 Pride Parade Arrestees (Halsted 3)

For Immediate Release: Dated July 6, 2004
From: The Chicagoland Anarchist Network (CAN)
Contacts: Jennie Mutation or Liberte unLocked
Contact Email: ChiAnarchists (at) yahoo.com


First Court Hearing Date for 3 Pride Parade Arrestees (Halsted 3)
Arrestees face felony charges of aggravated battery in altercation with anti-queer fundamentalists who invaded the Parade.


[Chicago] On Tuesday July 6th at Branch Court 42 (Belmont and Western, Room 2) at 9 am, defendants Robert Bernstein, Jeremy Hammond, and Neal Rysdahl will attend their first pretrial hearing regarding the altercation that occurred at the Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade involving a confrontation between anti-gay protesters and the Queer and Trans Caucus of CAN, culminating in the arrest of the 3 anarchist pro-queer activists.


The incident stemmed from Republican “Family Values” Congressional candidate for the 4th District Anthony Lopez-Cisneros who fraudulently invaded the Pride Parade with a contingent of homophobic religious fundamentalists. We’re asking why the three defendants were arrested, rather than the bigots who violently ambushed Pride. In turn, why did Chicago police officers perpetuate the violence by assaulting the 3 defendants and other queers?


Homophobic fundamentalists chanting anti-gay epithets in the Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade is the same incitement as Nazi infiltration of Holocaust Survivors’ events. Their banners even read “God Hates Fags” and “AIDS is a cure, not a disease.”
We want Cook County State’s Attorney Dick Devine to drop all the charges against the Halsted 3 immediately.


Legal defense contributions can be made payable to the Chicago Anti-Bashing Network (CABN), with “Halsted 3 Defense” in the memo, and sent to: Chicago Anti-Bashing Network, 4404 N. Magnolia Suite #420, Chicago, IL 60640.


The Chicagoland Anarchist Network (CAN)
Contact Email: ChiAnarchists (at) yahoo.com
 
 

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