More on police abuses
>From: Carol Moore <CarolMoore at kreative.net>
>To: a16-dc <a16-dc-planning at egroups.com>, a16-discuss
><a16-discuss at egroups.com>, a16-international-planning
><a16-international-planning at egroups.com>
>Subject: FAKE OUT THE STATE Nonviolently A16
>Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 23:04:00 -0400
>
> You've all heard me ranting and raving the last three
>months about why nonviolence is the best strategy and complaining about
>words and actions that I believed condoned violence. Now here in DC we
>are seeing why I was so upset in spades...today the DC police arrested
>600 people by the IMF for protesting without a permit, something that
>hasn't happened in 20+ years in DC. (And that if after two busts of
>vans and a house with "lockboxes" and today's shut down of the
>convergence center with *allegations* of "molotov cocktails.")
> And be perfectly clear why it happened. It wasn't cause
>some people like me ranted and raved about what happened in meetings--we
>*could* be lying, after all.
> It was because there were cops deep in the organization,
>especially the scenario committee and the black bloc, and cops reading
>A16 and non-A16 radical e-mail lists and reading the A16 Official Action
>Guidelines web page which included long posts on the glories of property
>destruction. It was clear this demo COULD be heading towards another
>Seattle--or worse--and the cops decided to crack down.
> This Demonstration Can Still Be Saved. IF we are all
>nonviolent, including every single proponet of property destruction who
>comes down the pike, then WE make the cops look bad.
> Maybe some of us were naughty in the past. But if we are
>VERY VERY GOOD on A16, we can show the world that we DO live in a facist
>police state.
> As a person who wrote a book about the Feds murder of 34
>women, 23 children and 25 men (HALF of them people of color) at Waco and
>who has been doing prisoner support for for 6 years for the seven Branch
>Davidian prisoners sentenced to 238 years--when the jury thought they
>should do time served--I have been freaking out that the state would
>crack down. And lo, it has!
> SO LET'S FAKE OUT THE STATE...*anyone* with any naughty
>intentions for tomorrow....be totally nonviolent on A16. If they arrest
>a couple thousand totally nonviolent protesters they lose, We Win!!
>
>Carol Moore
>http://www.secession.net
>
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