Date: 05 Dec 1999 17:56:00 +0200
From: ASWAD-AT-anarch.free.de (catkawin)
Subject: FW: Wobbly tortured by police



From: <berlin-AT-socrates.berkeley.edu>
To: Rabble Rousers <activists-AT-u.washington.edu>
Subject: Fwd: Wobbly tortured by police (fwd)
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:57:45 -0800 (PST)

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>Fellow Workers,

>I just caught up with a FW from Olympia today, Thursday, December 2nd. I
>did not get a chance to talk with her for very long, but she was visably
>shaken.  She is very concerned about her anonyminity at this point. I
>will call her FW Marie. FW Marie was one of the first people arrested
>here in Seattle. Her and her partner were arrested by themselves.
>Keeping with the tactic of non-compliance, they refused to surrender any
>information to the police. This tactic is used to block up the system
>and promote widespread solidarity within jail.
>
>To break FW Marie down, the Seattle Police Department strapped her to a
>chair and beat her. They kicked her while lying prone on the floor. These
>officers isolated the two from each other and while alone in her cell,
>they threatened to strip her naked and periodically would unbuckle
>the harness she was wearing intimidating her with the threat of gang
>rape. She continued to refuse to give any information even as being
>peppersprayed.
>
>Another group of people was brought in and the FW Marie and her partner
>were integrated with this new group. This new group did not know anything
>about jail solidarity and gave the police all the information they asked
>for.

>When FW Marie and her partner began coaching the new arrestees on jail
>solidarity, they were again thrown in isolation and beaten. They were
>left in solitary for 18 hours.
>
>When the entire group was brought before the court, it was found that FW
>Marie and her partner were not registered in the jail. There were no
>records of their arrest nor any official documentation of their presence.
>Using this disappearing act, similar of Chile, Argentina and Brasil, the
>only people who knew of their presence, were the police officers
>conducting the torture.  She and her partner were immediately released
>into the downtown region of Seattle, traumatized and in the middle of a
>riot.
>
>FW Marie made her way back to the Direct Action Network HQ and was safe
>as of 9 am Thursday.  This account is to the best of my knowledge of what
>was directly related to me. I am hoping that FW Marie will make her own
>statement when she feels able.
>
>One note for all FW's... I am writing much of this on the fly, since this
>situation is very fluid and I need to move fast and often. The
>Independant Media Center is not in any immediate danger, as a matter of
>fact, Ralph Nader is 10 feet away speaking out against WTO right now.
>The problem is editing. If you can edit length and grammer for
>redistribution to more media that would be great. We are hard pressed
>here and are constantly in the streets and on the phones. Ron Judd, Pres
>of the SCLC had his office call the IWW to request their presence at the
>big march tomorrow.
>
>Wish us luck, I hope someone is collecting video, I have got some great
>stuff shot by the IMC. Check out the stream video on indymedia.org for
>some great stuff.
>
>More later
>Eric in O... errr Seattle
>
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