-------- Original Message -------- Subject: DC: Re: URGENT: jailed brothers and sisters need our help! Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 08:40:16 -0400 From: kadd <kadd at tao.ca> Reply-To: kadd <kadd at tao.ca> Organization: kadd is a fucking dork. To: "Food Not Bombs, DC" <FNB-L at LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>, dc at tao.ca References: <db.2f72d7c.262d02a3 at aol.com>
thanks to anyone who actually called police stations protesting our treatment. i just got out of jail about an hour ago, and i can honestly say that it was my worst experience with police, ever. the jail solidarity strategy was entirely pre-empted by the cops and the courts, and we were essentially stuck abiding to something prescribed by outside lawyers who had no idea what was going on and were being utterly barred from having any contact with us. handcuffed activists were violently attacked by US marshalls for merely asking to see their lawyers. personally, i have not yet recovered full circulation in my left thumb, after being cuffed so tightly that i seriously feared i might lose my hand. i had to scream for nearly 30 minutes before anyone even looked at it. i also had to threaten to urinate on the floor of the police training facility in anacostia before i was allowed to use the bathroom, as had been promised me hours before. never once did i get dry clothes, or even a blanket, and i just now stopped the shivering/teeth-chattering that i have been enduring for roughly 18 hours, now.
keep calling. i got smart and decided to give my name. others have decided not to, and will likely remain in jail until they do. i wouldn't trust the accounts of the lawyers who have agreed to handle the activist arrests. they clearly do not understand what is going on inside there. i'm not suggesting they are at fault, i just think the cops have the upper-hand in this one, and the lawyers don't even have a clue, yet.
peace, love, and solidarity.