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Tinley Park 5
On Saturday, May 19, 2012, a group of 30 anti-fascists descended upon a restaurant in the Chicago suburb of Tinley Park where the 5th annual White Nationalist Economic Summit and Illinois White Nationalist Meet-and-Greet was taking place. The White Nationalists were targeted inside the restaurant and physically attacked, causing several injuries and completely shutting down their meeting.
Five members of Hoosier Anti-Racist Movement, which is part of the Anti-Racist Action Network, were subsequently charged with felony counts of mob action, aggravated battery and criminal damage to property. All are currently being held in Cook County Jail pending the raising and posting of bail.
The cops also arrested white nationalist Steven Eugene Speers who was at the meeting on a warrant for child pornography and Francis John Gilroy Jr. for unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon.
Jason Sutherlin, M34023, East Moline Correctional Center, 100 Hillcrest Rd., East Moline, IL 61244, USA.
Alex Stuck, #M34020, Dixon Correctional Center, 2600 N. Brinton Avenue, Dixon, IL 61021, USA.
John Tucker, M34024, Taylorville Correctional Center, P.O. Box 900, Taylorville, IL 62568, USA.
Dylan Sutherlin, M34022, Centralia Correctional Center, P.O. Box 7711, Centralia, IL 62801, USA.
Cody Sutherlin, M34021, Robinson Correctional Center, 13423 E 1150th Ave, Robinson, IL 62454, USA.
[All addresses correct as of 16/03/13]
http://tinleyparkfive.wordpress.com/
UPDATE: The five pleaded guilty, against the advice of their lawyers, on 04/01/13 to three felony counts of armed violence each. Fearing that their pre-trial detention could drag on for years and the, if found guilty, they could have received a maximum sentence of seven years, they decided to go ahead and "just get it over with today" according to one of their attorneys.
Cody and Dylan Sutherlin both got five years. Jason Sutherlin six years, and John Tucker and Alex Stuck were both sentenced to 42 months in the Illinois Department of Corrections. All five have been in custody since May 19 and will receive credit for 233 days already served, will have to pay $587 in court costs, and will be on parole for two years upon release from prison. [05/01/13]
Black Scare'/Occupy Conspiracy Prisoners
In the wake of 'Green Scare', the FBI have taken to widening their targeting strategy and have the Occupy Movement and anarchists in general in their sights. Using the standard COINTELPRO tactics of infiltration and the use of agent provocateurs, the FBI have set up a number of people in fabricated terrorism charges.
Cleveland 4
Five Occupy Cleveland activists - Doug Wright, Connor Stevens, Brandon Baxter, Joshua 'Skelly' Stafford and Tony Hayne - were arrested and jointly charged with conspiracy, attempted use of an explosive device to destroy property in interstate commerce, and attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction to destroy property in interstate commerce. This relates to an alleged 'plot' to blow up an Ohio bridge on May Day to protest corporate rule. Much of the State's case is based on the actions and testimony of a paid informant or 'confidential human source' who did everything he could to push the five towards considering bombing the bridge and on an undercover FBI agent who was going to build the bomb for them.
Anthony Hayne has since cut a deal with the US government and, in return for a reduced sentence, will testify against his co-defendant As a result he has been removed from all prisoner support list.
Connor Stevens, #57978060, FCI McKean, PO Box 8000, Bradford, PA 16701, USA.
Brandon Baxter, #57972060, USP Canaan, U.S. Penitentiary, P.O. Box 300, Waymart, PA 18472, USA.
Joshua Stafford, #57976060, Northeast Ohio Correctional Center (NEOCC), 2240 Hubbard Rd., Youngstown, OH 44505, USA.
Douglas L. Wright, #57973-060, United States Penitentiary Hazelton, P.O. Box 2000, Bruceton Mills, WV 26525, USA.
Or write to the 4: c/o Cleveland 4 Justice, P.O. Box 602117, Cleveland, OH 44102, USA
www.cleveland4solidarity.org/
NATO 5
Brian 'Jacob' Church, Jared 'Jay' Chase and Brent Betterly are accused of conspiring to commit terrorism during the recent NATO summit in Chicago. They have been charged with 11 felony counts, including material support for terrorism, conspiracy to commit terrorism, and creating Molotov cocktails. All three face up to 40 years in prison each and are expected to go to trial in September.
Brent Betterly #2012-0519001
Jared Chase #2012-0519003
Brian Church #2012-0519002
Cook County Department of Corrections,
Post Office Box 089002,
Chicago, Illinois 60608, USA. [correct as of 28/04/13]
Two others, Sebastian 'Sabi' Senakiewicz and Mark 'Migs' Neiweem, were also arrested on unrelated explosives charges are are being treated a individual cases, separate from the 'Nato 3' case.
Mark Neiweem was charged with soliciting materials for an explosive device, which carried up to 30 years in prison, and probation violation for a previous felony conviction. He accepted a non-cooperating plea deal to the probation violation charge and to solicitation and attempted possession of an explosive or incendiary device. He was sentenced to a 3-year sentence in a state prison.
Mark Neiweem #2012-0520023
Cook County Department of Corrections,
Post Office Box 089002,
Chicago, Illinois 60608, USA. [correct as of 28/04/13]
Sebastian Senakiewicz faced 15 years in prison followed by deportation to his native Poland after serving his sentence for allegedly falsely making a terrorist threat for allegedly claiming that he had explosive materials and wanted to use them during the convention. He also took a non-cooperating plea deal, and was sentenced to 4 years with a recommendation of 4 months in boot camp, which he began serving in late March 2013. He is expected to begin his immigration proceedings immediately after completing boot camp. He is unable to receive mail whilst in boot camp. [correct as of 28/04/13]
Support group: http://nato5.occupychi.org
More general information about the wider Black Scare/anti-Occupy FBI investigations can be found at:
www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/
www.stopfbi.net/
Green Scare
In a widespread coordinated FBI sweep called 'Operation Backfire' in early 2006, a number of people have been imprisoned for acts of ELF and ALF (Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front) property destruction and sabotage, implicated by informers and other defendants. One of the defendants, Bill Rodgers from Arizona, was found dead in his cell while on remand in an apparent suicide. The term Green Scare refers to the federal government's expanding prosecution efforts against animal liberation and ecological activists, drawing parallels to the "Red Scares" of the 1910's and 1950s.
Justin Solondz #98291-011, FCI Loretto, Post Office Box 1000, Loretto, Pennsylvania 15940, USA.
After being extradited from China and convicted of Earth Liberation Front actions in the USA, Green Scare target Justin Solondz has been transferred to a prison much closer to his parents in western Pennsylvania. Justin is serving seven years having admitted his part in the 2006 University of Washington firebombing.
Steve James Murphy 39013-177, FCI Beaumont Medium Federal Correctional Institution, P.O. Box 26040, Beaumont, TX 77720, USA.
Steve was sentenced to 5 years on April 5, 2010 after previously pleading guilty to decommissioning a tractor and placing an incendiary device in a housing development construction site in the name of the Earth Liberation Front in 2006. http://supportsteve.org/
Marie Mason, #04672-061, FMC Carswell, Federal Medical Center, P.O. Box 27137, Fort Worth, TX 76127, USA.
Sentenced to 21 years and 10 months for involvement in ELF arsons, against a University building carrying out Genetically Modified crop tests and other ELF actions, Marie has received the longest sentence of any of the Green Scare defendants.
Support group: freemarie@riseup.net
info at: www.midwestgreenscare.org
Bryan Lefey #38664-086, FDC SeaTac, Federal Detention Center, P.O. Box 13900, Seattle, WA 98198, USA.
On remand accused of an ELF action that saw the damaging of GM trees and the damaging of US Forestry Service vehicles.
Eric McDavid 16209-097, FCI Terminal Island, Federal Correctional Institution, PO Box 3007, San Pedro, Ca 90731, USA
Serving 19 years & 7 months for planning to destroy the property of the U.S. Forestry Service, mobile phone masts and power plants. At the point of his arrest no criminal damage has actually occurred.
Update: On 21 September 2010 the 9th Circuit Court denied Eric's appeal on his conviction and sentencing. His lawyer is now pursuing a petition for a rehearing.
www.supporteric.org
Nathan Fraser Block #36359-086, FCI Lompoc, Federal Correctional Institution, 3600 Guard Road, Lompoc, CA 93436, USA [NB: see below]
Serving 7 years & 8 months for an ELF arson against a Poplar Tree Farm and an ELF arson against an SUV dealership. Also admitted his role in an ELF/ALF conspiracy. Prefers to be known as "Exile".
email: supportersofnathanandjoyanna@gmail.com
Joyanna Lynn Zacher #36360-086, FCI Dublin, Federal Correctional Institution, 5701 8th St - Camp Parks - Unit F, Dublin, CA 94568, USA [NB: see below]
Serving 7 years & 8 months for an ELF arson against a Poplar Tree Farm and an ELF arson against an SUV dealership. Also admitted her role in an ELF/ALF conspiracy. Prefers to be called "Sadie".
email: supportersofnathanandjoyanna@gmail.com
UPDATE: Sadie and Exile have been transferred to the custody of the Seattle Community Corrections Office and they are unable to receive mail at the facility. There is no way to send them mail that we know of at this time.
Michael W. Sykes #696693, Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility, 1728 Bluewater Highway, Ionia, MI 48846, USA.
An 18-year-old anarchist currently serving a prison sentence for eco-related acts of property destruction.
Update: Michael was paroled on Jan. 3 2013
Steve Murphy #39013-177, McMullen B, FCI Three Rivers, Federal Correctional Institution, P.O. Box 4200, Three Rivers, TX 78071, USA.
Steve Murphy is a vegan animal rights activist and environmentalist. He was charged with a 2006 E.L.F. action in Pasadena, CA., allegedly having decommissioned a tractor and planted an incendiary device in a housing development construction site in the name of the Earth Liberation Front. He was sentenced to 5 years on April 5, 2010 after previously pleading guilty.
Eric Wildcat Hall #BL-5355, Unit 1/B, 10745 Route 18, Albion, PA 16475-0002, USA
Serving 35-75 years for helping ship arms to Central American indigenous activists.
Brian McCarvill #11037967, Snake River Correctional Institution (SRCI), 777 Stanton Blvd, Ontario, OR 97914, USA.
Brian is serving an absurd 30+ year sentence related to a custody battle and a violent altercation with the Child Services Department. He's a dedicated prisoner rights activist.
David Gilbert #83A6158, Auburn Correctional Facility, P.O. Box 618, New York 13024, USA.
After about 5 years of organizing in the above ground movement during the sixties, David joined the revolutionary underground, spending a total of 10 years living clandestinely, actively resisting imperialism with arms as part of the Weather Underground group. On October 20, 1981, he and other comrades were captured at Nyack, NY during an
attempted expropriation by a unit of the Black Liberation Army working with white revolutionaries (known as the Revolutionary Armed Task Force- RATF). During the expropriation attempt, 3 officers were killed. Charged and convicted of felony murder, David is serving a 75 year (minimum) to life sentence.
Leonard Peltier # 89637-132 USP Coleman I, U.S. Penitentiary, P.O. Box 1033, Coleman, Fl 33521, USA. [Updated: 29/03/13]
Leonard was an American Indian Movement (AIM) activist framed by a COINTELPRO operation for the murder of two FBI agents in 1975 and is serving two consecutive life sentences. He's gravely ill at the moment and is being denied a transfer to the medical facility.
His support group can be contacted: LPDC, PO Box 583, Lawrence, KS 66044, USA.
email: lpdcomite@aol.com
www.freepeltiernow.org
John Graham, #55101, South Dakota State Penitentiary, Box 5911, Sioux Falls, SD 57117-5911, USA.
John was an American Indian Movement (AIM) activist and was arrested in Vancouver in December 2003, and extradited to South Dakota in December 2007. The allegations against John are of murdering fellow AIM member Anna Mae Pictou in 1975. John Graham denies he killed Anna Mae.
http://ourfreedom.wordpress.com
Jerome White-Bey #37479, S.C.C.C., (4C-242), 255 W. Hwy. 32, Licking, MO. 65542-9069, USA. [Updated 28/03/13]
Jerome is an anarchist prison activist who set up the Missouri Prison Labour Union to fight slave labour in prisons. The Free Jerome White-Bey Support Campaign and Legal Defense Fund Committee is requesting your financial support. Please mark your donation for Jerome White-Bey and send it to:
Anthony Rayson, South Chicago ABC, PO Box 721, Homewood Illinois 60430, U.S.A.
Byron Shane “Oso
Blanco” Chubbuck #07909-051, USP Lewisburg, U.S. Penitentiary, P.O. Bx 1000, Lewisburg, Pa. 17837, USA.
An Indigenous rights activist serving 80 years for bank robbery, aggravated assault on the FBI, escape and firearms charges. A confidential informant reported that Oso was robbing banks in order to acquire funds to support the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas, Mexico throughout 1998-99.
Sean Swain #243205, Mansfield Correctional Institution. PO Box 788. Mansfield, OH 44901, USA.
An anarchist/indigenous prisoner and former union organiser fighting his conviction by citing the US government's illegal occupation of native land, also by running for governor of Ohio from prison as a Zapatista candidate in 2010.
He has been held without a legal conviction or sentence since 1991 for the self-defence killing of a court official’s relative who broke into Sean’s home and threatened his life. In 2011, the Ohio Adult Parole Authority gave Sean a continuance of 5 years without notifying his counsel of a full-board hearing as required by statute. None of the State’s laws apply in Sean Swain’s case. His next parole eligibility date is in 2016 but there is no reason to believe the State will have any greater regard for justice or truth than it does now, so Sean has stated that he will not attend that hearing.
http://seanswain.org/
Russell Maroon Shoats #AF-3855, SCI Greene, 175 Progress Drive, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania 15370, USA.
Maroon is a 68-year old political prisoner, community activist, founding member of the Black Unity Council, former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. He has spent the last twenty-one years in solitary confinement within the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC). During this time he has not violated prison rules, and has not been issued any misconducts in more than two decades. Despite his impeccable record, prison authorities continue to hold him in 23-24 hour lockdown at the State Correctional Institution (SCI) Greene based on acts that occurred more than thirty years ago.
For more background info see his Denver ABC page.
The Angola 3
Albert Woodfox, Herman Wallace and Robert "King" Wilkerson, still known by their campaign name The Angola 3 (King was released at the beginning of 2001), initially arrived at Angola with sentences for unrelated robberies. Wallace and Woodfox founded the first chapter of the Black Panther Party at Angola and led campaigns to stop prison rape and improve conditions of the slave plantation. Their activism made them targets of the all-white prison administration and in 1972, in an effort to stop their organizing, prison officials concocted murder charges against Woodfox and Wallace for the killing of a prison guard. Relying on the paid-for testimony of prison snitches Angola officials won convictions against the two men who received sentences of life without parole. Later, in 1972, when Wilkerson arrived at Angola his reputation as an activist preceded him, and he was immediately placed in solitary. Subsequently he was charged with and convicted for a murder he did not commit, even though he was not yet at Angola when the murder took place, was gagged with duct-tape during the trial and the actual killer admitted he'd acted alone in self-defence.
Herman & Albert are continuing their struggle to prove their innocence. Both have petitions pending before various courts and a lawsuit having spent most of their 35 years in solitary confinement. They would appreciate letters of support:
Albert Woodfox #72148, David Wade Correctional Center, N1A, 670 Bell Hill Rd., Homer, LA 71040 USA.
Herman Wallace #76759, Elaine Hunt Correctional Center, CCR D#2, PO Box 174, St Gabriel, LA 70776, USA. [Updated: 29/03/13]
For more info see www.angola3.org,
and for a good article on the case see here.
MOVE was a mainly black revolutionary group with an ecological perspective who were consistently persecuted by Philadelphia police during the 70's. This culminated in the police firebombing of their commune in 1985 in which 11 people, including five children, were killed, either shot trying to flee the burning building or who died in the conflagration. The 'Move 9' were framed for the alleged murder of a cop shot in 1978, after hundreds of police surrounded their house & flooded it with water & gunfire. The officer was shot to the back of the head. He was facing the house at the time, which would therefore negate the notion that MOVE was responsible for his death. The '9' were found guilty and sentenced to up to 100 years each.
The 9th defendant, Merle Africa died in prison in 1998 under suspicious circumstances.
www.move9parole.blogspot.co.uk/
For more info about their case:
www.eco-action.org/dt/20yrs.html
or contact: Friends of Move, PO Box 14129, London WC12 8GR, UK.
Debbie Simms Africa #006307,
Janet Holloway Africa #006308,
Janine Phillips Africa #006309,
SCI Cambridge Springs, 451 Fullerton Ave, Cambridge Springs,
PA 16403-1238, USA.
Michael Davis Africa AM4973,
SCI Grateford, PO Box 244, Grateford, PA 19426-0244, USA.
Charles Simms Africa AM4975,
SCI Retreat, 660 State Route 11, Hunlock Creek, PA18621, USA.
Edward Goodman Africa AM4974,
SCI Mahanoy, 301 Morea Road, Frackville, PA 17931, USA
William Philips Africa AM4984,
Delbert Orr Africa AM4985,
SCI Dallas, Drawer K, Dallas, PA18612, USA.
Mumia Abu-Jamal AM8335, SCI Mahanoy, 301 Morea Road, Frackville, PA 17932, USA.
Mumia is an ex-Black Panther, radical journalist and MOVE supporter who was framed for the murder of a cop in 1981. The death sentence for mumia has been overturned, but his defence team has 180 days, to put together an appeal against his sentence being commuted to life. For more info contact International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, PO Box 19709, Philadelphia, PA 19143, USA.
www.freemumia.com/
UPDATE: Since the Supreme Court rejected a request from the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office to overturn the most recent federal appeals court decision declaring Mumia’s death sentence unconstitutional, he has been moved out of Administrative Custody and transferred to Disciplinary Custody at SCI Mahanoy. [16/12/11]
And since moved to the general population. [Updated 31/01/13]
CANADA
Toronto G8/G20 defendants
Late June 2010 saw mass protests against the G8/20 meetings in and around Toronto with mass arrests of 1093 people. Of these over 250 were released pending charges, whilst a few remain on remand and face more serious charges. Legal defence, support and solidarity is called for!
More info from:
http://g20.torontomobilize.org/
http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/
http://torontoabc.wordpress.com/
Toronto G20 “Main Conspiracy Six”
Alex Hundert, Toronto West Detention Centre, 111 Disco Rd, Box 4950, Rexdale, ON, M9W 5L6, Canada. {Updated 30/06/12]
Alex was sentenced on June 26, 2012 to 13.5 months in prison for pleading guilty to counseling mischief over $5,000 and counseling to obstruct police. He is currently being held at the Toronto West Detention Centre in Toronto.
Update: Alex Hundert was released from jail in Penetanguishene, on March 26, 2013. Alex served 9 months (in addition to time served) in custody for counseling mischief over $5,000 and counseling to obstruct police, at the G20 in Toronto in June 2010. [28/03/13]
To read the collective statement of the G20 Main Conspiracy Group, individual statements of co-defendants, and statements read to the courts, visit: http://conspiretoresist.wordpress.com.
You can also keep up to date on the six and their fellow Toronto G20 defendants at the Guelph ABC website.
Mandy Hiscocks was sentenced on 13th Jan 2012 to 20-24 month for one count count of Counselling to Commit Mischief and Counseling to Obstruct Police. With 31 days in pre-trial custody and harsh bail conditions taken into account, Mandy’s remaining time to serve is 16 months.
Mandy also has a blog: http://boredbutnotbroken.tao.ca/
Update: Mandy was released from jail in Milton, Ontario, on December 3 2012., having served almost 11 months in custody.
Greg Noltie-Rowley, Maplehurst Complex, PO Box 10, 661 Martin St., Milton, ON, L9T 2Y3, Canada.
Girr Rowley was sentenced to 9 months on Feb 3 2012 (he will have to serve 6) after accepting a non-cooperating plea bargain. He pled to one count of Mischief under $5000, one Count of Masking with Intent and one count of Public Nuisance. The state was asking for 8-10 months. Originally arrested in November of 2010 for breaking a window during the black bloc action that wreaked havoc on Toronto's financial and shopping districts during the weekend of the G20 meeting in June 2010.
Kelly Pflug-Back, Vanier Centre for Women, PO Box 1040, 655 Martin Street Milton, Ontario, L9T 5E6, Canada.
Ontario based anarchist Kelly Rose Plug-Back was sentenced to 15 months (reduced by 4 months for time served) for Black Bloc attacks in Toronto on July 19. She had previously accepted a non-cooperation plea, pleading guilty to six counts of mischief and one of wearing a disguise with criminal intent.
Update: On February 28 Kelly Pflug-Back was released from Vanier after serving 7.5 months. [06/03/13]
Dane Rossman, #88252308, CADC, PO Box 6300, Florence, AZ 85132, USA. [Updated 28/03/13]
Early on the morning of February 21, 2013, U.S. Marshals arrested Dane Rossman at his home in Tucson, AZ on a provisional arrest warrant issued by the U.S. Attorney’s office, acting on a Canadian extradition request. Dane is one of five Americans sought in Canada for alleged offenses stemming from the G20 summit in Toronto. Dale is facing three charges related to alleged property damage and was refused bail on March 21, 2013, as a 'flight risk'. For further updates see:
http://supportdanerossman.blogspot.ca/
Email: danesolidarity@gmail.com
Eva Botten, c/o Vanier Centre for Women, 655 Martin Street, Milton, Ontario L9T 5E6, Canada.
On January 11, 2013, Eva Botten was found guilty of 6 counts of mischief over $5k and disguise with intent in relation to the 2012 Toronto G20 protests and was sentenced to 10 months, followed by 2 years probation. The Crown alleged she caused over $300k of damages.
http://web.resist.ca/~vancouverg20support/updates.php
Ottawa 3 case
Charges relating to a bombing have been stayed for 2 out of the Ottawa 3, however Joseph Roger Clement has pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 3.5 years in December. More info from: ottawamovementdefense@gmail.com
Joseph Roger Clement (FPS-420268X), Pittsburgh Institution, Highway 15, No. 3766, PO Box 4510, Kingston, Ontario K7L 5E5, Canada
CHILE
As a result of the ongoing protests involving students and others, as well as the long running struggles of the Mapuche people the political prisoner situation in Chile is particularly dynamic, with numerous activists currently under arrest awaiting trial.
We recommend checking out the following sites for up to date information:
http://liberaciontotal.lahaine.org
solidaridadporlxspresxs.blogspot.com
http://paismapuche.org/wordpress
Marcelo Villarroel Sepúlveda
Freddy Fuentevilla Saa
Unidad Especial de Alta Seguridad, Cárcel de Alta Seguridad, Modulo H Norte, 1902 Avenida Pedro Montt, Santiago, Chile.
Juan Aliste Vega
Unidad Especial de Alta Seguridad, Cárcel de Alta Seguridad, Modulo J, 1902 Avenida Pedro Montt, Santiago, Chile.
Marcelo Villarroel , Freddy Fuentevilla and Juan Aliste Vega were arrested in 2009 after a long international manhunt, accused of the robbery of a Santander Bank and the murder of a cop in October 2007. They have been imprisoned for over 3 years awaiting trial and have had it postponed yet again. [Updated: 29/04/13]
http://freddymarcelojuan.noblogs.org/
MEXICO
Braulio Arturo Durán González, Centro de Reinserción Social León, Guanajuato, Carretera Leon-Cueramaro Km 7.5, León Guanajuato, C.p. 36700, Mexico.
Braulio Arturo Durán was arrested in September 2010 and sentenced to 3 years, 10 months & 15 days in May 2010. Now serving 3 years & 15 days after an appeal. His address is now Braulio is vegan. Letters to Braulio can also be sent to: xliberacionxbrauliox@riseup.net
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