-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [South] St Louis IMC raided by Police, 20-30 Activists arrested. Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 20:24:17 -0400 From: Don Jennings <donjennings at alltel.net> To: south at lists.mutualaid.org
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> This was forwarded by an Urbana-Champaign IMC reporter currently in St.
> Louis:
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> PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL LISTS
>
> YOUR HELP IS NEEDED RIGHT NOW!
>
> Mitchel Cohen, Sehvilla Mann & Brian Tokar, writing from the BioDevastation
> Conference against Genetic Engineering in St. Louis, home of Monsanto:
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> At least 20-30 people have been arrested and we need your help. Police
> invaded two known movement homes this morning,
> apparently in "pre-emptive raids" to prevent their attendance at Sunday's
> demonstration against the World Agricultural Forum.
>
> Others were taken into custody while riding their bicycles to the
> BioDevastation gathering at Forest Park Community College, and the police
> have left the bicycles lying along the road. Sarah Bantz, organizer for
> MORAGE and a speaker at the BioDevastation conference, was arrested for
> having a container of Vitamin C capsules, which police are claiming to be an
> illegal drug.
>
> Police have also entered the Randall Building, office of the Gateway
> Greens/Green Party USA, St. Louis IndyMedia, the
> Confluence newspaper, and other organizations, searching for "violations" and
> who knows what else.
>
> For the last two weeks, the St. Louis police have been spreading rumors of
> "Seattle-like violence" in order to
> ratchet up the levels of tension, rationalizing their procurement of riot
> gear and new "crowd control" weapons.
>
> We are asking EVERYONE to call the Chief of Police Joe Mokwa, at (314)
> 444-5624 and demand their immediate release and stop their harassment of the
> movement against genetic engineering and corporate agribusiness.
>
> We understand that the police may hang up as people try to call the above
> number. Other numbers for police are (314) 444-5555 and (314) 231-1212.
>
> Thank you, and please spread the word.
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