The three young people arrested at the Raleigh demonstration are now in jail facing felony charges. They need support!


SOLIDARITY DESPERATELY NEEDED!!!


Three young people are now in jail awaiting trial, having been cruelly targeted simply for being near a political demonstration last Friday night in Raleigh at which the North Carolina (US) Republican Party headquarters was vandalized. David Reuben Hensley, Melissa Lynn Brown and Vanessa Marie Zuloaga face felony charges. Two of the three, young women, were violently assaulted by an angry bystander who pressed their faces to the ground and yelled for police. All are completely innocent of the charges, but had the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, surrounded by furious police looking for someone to scapegoat.


The police are now under pressure from Republican fanatics to make an example of the innocent prisoners because of the political nature of the street demonstration. As a result, the three are stuck in prison with exorbitantly high bond - $50,000 each - for a “crime” they didn’t commit. The police and Republican strategy is to isolate and psychologically wear down the low-income prisoners by making it financially impossible to be freed from jail. The local press has whipped up a sensationalist furor, playing off of fears of anarchists and calling the prisoners “domestic terrorists,” ignoring the total lack of evidence. Until we raise enough money to free these unjustly imprisoned young people, they will remain in jail until their trial date (at least three weeks away.) It is critical that we support each other, especially at a time when we are losing so many of our civil liberties.


PLEASE donate anything you can to help bail them out of jail and aid in their legal defense! Let’s show the state that they can’t unfairly target and oppress people for expressing dissent!


To donate, you can send money through PayPal, at www.paypal.com. Click on “send money” and enter in ealbiston (at) yahoo.com as the recipient.


If you would like to send money through the mail, send it to:
Liz Albiston
PO Box 281
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-0281
(please email ealbiston (at) yahoo.com and let me know how much you’re sending.)