File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_2001/aut-op-sy.0108, message 196


Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 00:38:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Another Brick at the Gap <satellitecrash-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: AUT: People remaining in Genoa jails STILL need our help!!!!!


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Subject: [a22buffalo] People remaining in Genoa jails STILL need our help!!!!!
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>(Please Distribute Widely!)
>
>What: Phone & Fax Blast to the White House & Italian
>Embassy in Washington, D.C. (contact information below)
>When: Friday, August 10th
>Time: All Day!
>Why: Action NOW is needed to influence the legal
>hearing of jailed activists on Monday, August 13th
>
>New Jersey Activist Susanna Thomas and
>PublixTheatre Caravan Remain Jailed in Italy
>Following G8 Demonstrations!
>
>Support Urgently Needed!
>
>On July 22nd, 25 members of the PublixTheatre Caravan
>were arrested and brutalized approximately 25 km from
>Genoa, while attempting to leave Italy following the
>G8 protests. The Caravan included individuals from
>Austria, U.S., Slovakia, Germany, Australia and
>Sweden.  Bryn Mawr Student and New Jersey activist
>Susanna Thomas and a male activist living in the
>SF/Bay Area are among the three U.S. citizens detained
>with the group.
>
>The Caravan now faces multiple charges, including
>Membership in a Criminal Organization (they are being
>scapegoated as alleged 'black bloc leaders') and
>Destruction/Looting.  Police evidence is limited to
>black t-shirts and theater props.  The activists will
>remain incarcerated until their hearing on August 13,
>and will potentially spend six months in pre-trial
>detention before the case is decided.  The charges
>could carry prison sentences of up to 15 years.
>
>Susanna Thomas is a 21-year-old activist from Warren,
>New Jersey who, after studying in Paris, was covering
>PublixTheatre Caravan for the Austrian Independent
>Media Center and working as a translator with the Genoa
>Social Forum. Police 'evidence' against her is confined to
>her possession of two pen knives and a black bra. A
>committed Quaker, Susanna has long been involved in America
>as a journalist and artist for social change. Her parents
>are referring to her arrest and imprionsment as "a
>horrible accident."
>
>PublixTheatre Caravan, which uses artistic performance
>as political expression, is part of the European
>Noborder Network. They stand for the abolition of
>internment and deportation worldwide, as well as a
>world without borders and nations.  They had spent the
>summer traveling throughout Europe, staging
>performances and learning about the effects of borders
>upon local communities. They were headed to the
>Noborder camp in Frankfurt prior to the arrest.
>
>Please help support Susanna Thomas and the
>PublixTheatre Caravan (as well as the 26 other
>individuals who also remain jailed in Italy)!
>On Friday, August 10th, participate in a massive
>campaign of phone calls and faxes to the White
>House and the Italian Embassy in Washington, DC.
>
>1) Demand that the U.S. government call for the
>Caravan's immediate release and condemn the Italian
>authorities for the illegal detention and brutal
>treatment of activists.
>
>WHITE HOUSE SWITCHBOARD SWITCHBOARD:
>(202) 456-1414
>
>WHITE HOUSE FAXLINE:
>(202) 456-2461
>
>2) Urge the Italian Embassy to end the scapegoating of
>the Caravan and to drop all charges against the G8
>political prisoners.
>
>ITALIAN EMBASSY PHONE:
>(202) 612-4400
>
>ITALIAN EMBASSY FAX:
>(202) 518-2154
>
>For more information (including background information
>and other ways to assist) visit:
>http://www.no-racism.net/nobordertour/index_uk.html
>
>Also, for continuing updates on the situation, visit:
>http://www.indymedia.org
>http://www.italia.indymedia.org
>http://www.austria.indymedia.org
>For details about the imprisonment of Susanna Thomas, visit:
>http://www.newjersey.indymedia.org
>

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>(Please Distribute Widely!)
>
>What: Phone & Fax Blast to the White House & Italian
>Embassy in Washington, D.C. (contact information below)
>When: Friday, August 10th
>Time: All Day!
>Why: Action NOW is needed to influence the legal
>hearing of jailed activists on Monday, August 13th
>
>New Jersey Activist Susanna Thomas and
>PublixTheatre Caravan Remain Jailed in Italy
>Following G8 Demonstrations!
>
>Support Urgently Needed!
>
>On July 22nd, 25 members of the PublixTheatre Caravan
>were arrested and brutalized approximately 25 km from
>Genoa, while attempting to leave Italy following the
>G8 protests. The Caravan included individuals from
>Austria, U.S., Slovakia, Germany, Australia and
>Sweden.  Bryn Mawr Student and New Jersey activist
>Susanna Thomas and a male activist living in the
>SF/Bay Area are among the three U.S. citizens detained
>with the group.
>
>The Caravan now faces multiple charges, including
>Membership in a Criminal Organization (they are being
>scapegoated as alleged 'black bloc leaders') and
>Destruction/Looting.  Police evidence is limited to
>black t-shirts and theater props.  The activists will
>remain incarcerated until their hearing on August 13,
>and will potentially spend six months in pre-trial
>detention before the case is decided.  The charges
>could carry prison sentences of up to 15 years.
>
>Susanna Thomas is a 21-year-old activist from Warren,
>New Jersey who, after studying in Paris, was covering
>PublixTheatre Caravan for the Austrian Independent
>Media Center and working as a translator with the Genoa
>Social Forum. Police 'evidence' against her is confined to
>her possession of two pen knives and a black bra. A
>committed Quaker, Susanna has long been involved in America
>as a journalist and artist for social change. Her parents
>are referring to her arrest and imprionsment as "a
>horrible accident."
>
>PublixTheatre Caravan, which uses artistic performance
>as political expression, is part of the European
>Noborder Network. They stand for the abolition of
>internment and deportation worldwide, as well as a
>world without borders and nations.  They had spent the
>summer traveling throughout Europe, staging
>performances and learning about the effects of borders
>upon local communities. They were headed to the
>Noborder camp in Frankfurt prior to the arrest.
>
>Please help support Susanna Thomas and the
>PublixTheatre Caravan (as well as the 26 other
>individuals who also remain jailed in Italy)!
>On Friday, August 10th, participate in a massive
>campaign of phone calls and faxes to the White
>House and the Italian Embassy in Washington, DC.
>
>1) Demand that the U.S. government call for the
>Caravan's immediate release and condemn the Italian
>authorities for the illegal detention and brutal
>treatment of activists.
>
>WHITE HOUSE SWITCHBOARD SWITCHBOARD:
>(202) 456-1414
>
>WHITE HOUSE FAXLINE:
>(202) 456-2461
>
>2) Urge the Italian Embassy to end the scapegoating of
>the Caravan and to drop all charges against the G8
>political prisoners.
>
>ITALIAN EMBASSY PHONE:
>(202) 612-4400
>
>ITALIAN EMBASSY FAX:
>(202) 518-2154
>
>For more information (including background information
>and other ways to assist) visit:
>http://www.no-racism.net/nobordertour/index_uk.html
>
>Also, for continuing updates on the situation, visit:
>http://www.indymedia.org
>http://www.italia.indymedia.org
>http://www.austria.indymedia.org
>For details about the imprisonment of Susanna Thomas, visit:
>http://www.newjersey.indymedia.org
>

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