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US AND CANADA PRISONERS

GREEN SCARE

In a widespread co-ordinated 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.See www.greenscare.org for more information.

Tre Arrow, #70936-065, Sheridan Federal Detention Center, P.O Box 6000, Sheridan, OR 07378, USA

Marie Mason, #134001, Butler County Sheriff's Office & Correctional Complex, 705 Hanover Street, Hamilton, Ohio 45011
USA
Arrested in Cinncinati in March 2008 for an arson at an Agricultural Hall. support group: freemarie@riseup.net
info at www.midwestgreenscare.org

Briana Waters, 36432-086, FCI Danbury, Federal Correctional Institution, Route 37, Danbury, CT 06811, USA

Daniel McGowan, #63794-053, USP Marion, P.O Box 1000, Marion, IL, US

Jonathan Paul: #07167-085, FCI Phoenix, 37910 N 45th Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85086, USA
Imprisoned as part of the Operation Backfire crackdown on ELF/ALF actions. Sentenced to 51 months in federal prison for his role in the July 1997 arson of the Cavel West horse slaughterhouse. The slaughterhouse was never rebuilt. http://www.supportjonathan.org/

Eric McDavid 16209-097, FCI Victorville Medium II, Federal Correctional Institution, PO Box 5700, Adelanto, CA 92301
USA On remand, accused of planning planning to destroy the property of the U.S. Forestry Service, mobile phone masts and power plants. He has been struggling to receive an adequate vegan diet inside. www.SupportEric.org

Nathan Fraser Block #36359-086, FCI Lompoc, Federal Correctional Institution, 3600 Guard Road, Lompoc, CA 93436, USA
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
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

Jeffrey Luers (aka Free), #13797671, CCCI, PO Box 9000, Wilsonville, OR 97070, USA
In June 2001, 23 year-old forest defense activist Jeffrey "Free" Luers was sentenced to 22 years and 8 months in prison for the burning of three Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV's) in Eugene, Oregon. He has recently finally won his appeal and has been moved to Lane County Jail to await resentencing. freefreenow@mutualaid.org or see www.freefreenow.org
Options for donating, including PayPal, can be found here http://freefreenow.org/donate.html
or cheque/money orders can also be passed on vis us at Brighton ABC.

Grant Barnes #137563, SCCF 1L, PO Box 3, Pueblo, CO 81002, CO 80201, USA
Serving 12 years for setting fire to a number of SUV vehicles. On one of the vehicles the letters ELF was spray-painted.

Brendan Walsh 12473-052, FCI Allenwood Low, Federal Correctional Institution, PO Box 1000, White Deer, PA 17887, USA. Jailed for a molotov attack on an army recruitment centre .

Lasandra Burwell W063658, Ohio Reformatory for Women, 1479 Collins Ave. Marysville,OH 43040, USA Sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for 2nd Degree Felony Assault, 1st Degree Felony Assault, and Fourth Degree Aggravated Riot for throwing bricks at police cars and police officers during the anti-fascist riot in Toledo, OH

Cassidy Wheeler #14282456, TRCI, 82911 Beach Access Road, Umatilla, OR 97882 USA
Cassidy Wheeler is a 24 year old anarchist/activist currently serving an 8 and a half year sentence for petty theft. He will be released in January 2010. He believes his harsh sentence is due to his involvement in anti-government action.

Eric Wildcat Hall, #BL-5355, Unit 1/A, 10745 Route 18, Albion, PA 16475-0002, USA
Serving 35-75 years for helping ship arms to Central American indigenous activists.

Brian McCarvill. #11037967, OSP 2605 State St, Salem, OR 97310, 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.

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David Gilbert, #83A6158, Clinton Correctional Facility, P.O. Box 2001, Dannemora NY 12929 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 Lewisburg, PO BOX 1000, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837 USA

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

Harold Thompson, #93992, West Tennessee State Penitentiary, P.O. Box 1150, Henning, Tennessee 38041-1150, USA

Harold has been in prison since 1979, serving a life sentence plus about 90 years. He is a passionate anarchist and jailhouse lawyer who never gives up. He has also recently been busy challenging prison policies on receiving anarchist and other political literature. For more on Harold check out: www.haroldhthompson.uwclub.net

Jerome White-Bey, #37479, E.R.D.C.C., 2727 Highway K, Bonne Terre, MO 63628, USA 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.

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 died. The 'Move 9' were framed for the murder of a cop and sentenced to up to 100 years each. The 9th defendant, Merle Africa died in prison in 1998 under suspicious circumstances. For more info 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, Charles Simms Africa, AM4975, SCI Grateford, PO Box 244, Grateford, PA 19426-0244, 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, PA 18612, USA.

Mumia Abu-Jamal AM8335, SCI Greene, 175 Progress Drive, Waynesburg, PA 15370-8090, 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 comuted to life. For more info contact International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, PO Box 19709, Philadelphia, PA 19143, USA. Or see www.freemumia.org

THE ANGOLA 3

From L to R.Herman, Robert & Albert, prior to Roberts release jan 2001	Albert(white top) with a his sister, brother-in-law and a supporter

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-defense.

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, CCR Lower B Cell #3, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, LA 70712 , USA

Herman Wallace #76759, CCR Upper B Cell #14, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, LA 70712 , USA

For more info see www.angola3.org

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NEW ZEALAND

Free the Urewera 17!

In October 2007, a large coordinated wave of arrests and raids took place in New Zealand in which 17 activists from both ecological and social and Maori resistance movements were arrested for firearms offences. They were also threatened with charges under the Terrorism suppression act, which would have been the first time this law was used, however it will now not be applied. They are now all out on bail, but 16 people are still facing serious charges.

See news stories. For more info see www.indymedia.org.nz or http://www.civilrightsdefence.org.nz/

CHILE

There are around 50 political prisoners in chile. When the dictatorship fell in 1990 none of the laws changed, just the face and name of the regime. Therefore many who took up arms in the 80's are still inside and many continue to struggle against the 'democracy' presented by the rich & ruling class, penalised under anti-terrorist and interior state security laws. All political prisoners in chile have suffered double-sentencing, in military courts aswell as civil tribunals. All suffer psycological and physical torture.

The Mapuche tribe are actively fighting to defend their land and their forests from multinational companies.

For more info on the Mapuche prisoners in Chile check out
http://www.mapuche.nl/

Kamina Libre
The Kamina Libre collective, created in 1996, with the main objective of taking action for the release of all chilean political prisoners and mapuche (indigenous) prisoners who, as with many native american communities, live a daily battle to protect their lands and culture from the onslaught of transnational developers.They have made great headway for prisoners rights within the high security prison in Santiago, Chile, through riots, hunger strikes and disobediance. For example they gained the solidarity of 30 or so men in the prison to refuse visits for almost a year, untill the glass partition was brought down and people were allowed day long visits with up to 7 people in place of 4 direct family only, no contact visits. They have also secured the right to vegetarian meals and later to prepare their own meals; refused the imposition of prison uniforms; overthrew the censorship of reading materials and can now receive any kind of political material except anything to do with E.T.A.
Most recently the collective obtained the release through 'benefits' (day release pending full release) of Alvaro Rodriguez after their 3rd hunger strike in 13 months.

Write to them via kaminalibre@yahoo.es
or in English via Santiago ABC stgo_cna@hotmail.com

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