Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 01:27:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: SCN User <bp172-AT-scn.org>
Subject: Re: Call to action


How about we target a particular indivudual, namely, Leonard Peltier, and
demand HE be released from prison.

john in seattle

North Seattle Grassroots Radio 99.5 FM  www.scn.org/activism/nsgr

         

On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, TNT wrote:

> 
> > All of this occupies the same landscape as the as the WTO, WB and
> > IMF - which is about creating a world of slaves.
> >
> > My suggestion for action. We select a Federal prison. We surround it
> > with fifty thousand people. We camp there and refuse to move until the
> > prisoners of the drug war have been released. We hold teach-ins on the
> > issues on the site.
> >
> > We can chose our site and date to suit ourselves - one conducive to a
> > very long camp out. We don't have to be reactive to their meeting times
> > and places. There are, unfortunately, prisons everywhere.
> 
> I think this idea is great, in general. I have a couple of problems with it:
> 
> If we prevent a cop, guard, administrator, or prisoner from entering or
> exiting the prison, we're looking at very serious charges. Militant protest
> is one thing, feeding yourself sacrificially to the Order is another.
> 
> A seige is an extensive, military-type operation. We're going to need heavy
> duty planning for this, far more than we had for D. C., a hell of a lot
> more. I believe we can do it though.
> 
> The cops are not going to release any drug war prisoners, at least not at
> this point in the movement. We need very clear, daring but achievable goals.
> 
> I don't want to be that close to a prison. There's a lot the cops can do to
> mess with us at that proximity. What if we targeted some of the banks most
> culpable in laundering of drug trafficking money? What if we held a protest,
> a long one, outside Lynchburg, Virginia? It would be a cut to the chase sort
> of thing...
> 
> Solidarity,
> Terry Nikolai Tapp
> >
> > For more info on the drug war I strongly suggest checking out the
> > November Coalition website www.november.org
> >
> > I await your response.
> >
> > Lyn
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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