[lbo-talk] St Louis IMC raided by Police, 20-30 Activists arrested.

Chuck0 chuck at mutualaid.org
Fri May 16 17:32:20 PDT 2003


-------- 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

>

> This was forwarded by an Urbana-Champaign IMC reporter currently in St.

> Louis:

>

> 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:

>

> 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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