>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 23:40:13 -0800 >From: Noelle Hanrhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: FBI Cover-up Continues! Hearing in Judi Bari lawsuit. > >FBI COVER-UP CONTINUES! >December 16th Hearing To Address FBI Stalling In Bari Bombing Case >Plaintiffs Seek to question William Sessions > >Contacts: > >Tanya Brannan (707)877-0262 >Dennis Cunningham/Erica Etelson (415)285-8091 > >SAN FRANCISCO--Lawyers for Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney will be in court on >December 16th, continuing their civil rights case against the Federal >Bureau of Investigation. > >The hearing: > >Judge Larsen's courtroom >December 16th, Wednesday 9:30am (15th fl) >San Francisco Federal Building >450 Golden Gate Ave. (at Polk) >San Francisco, CA > >Judge Larson, a Federal Magistrate, will be asked >to resolve long-standing discovery issues in the Civil Rights lawsuit filed >against the FBI and Oakland Police after a motion-triggered bomb exploded >in Bari's car in Oakland, California, on May 24th, 1990. Plaintiffs will >ask Judge Larson to stop what they call an FBI "strategy of delay," and >order the FBI to turn over key records and information pertaining to the >bombing investigation. > >Bari and Cherney filed the federal civil rights lawsuit in 1991, charging >the FBI and Oakland Police failed utterly to conduct a legitimate >investigation of the bombing, and instead used the bombing as an excuse to >conduct an illegal disinformation campaign intended to destroy Earth First! >and their effective environmental organizing. They allege that FBI conduct >in this case shows the Bureau is still using the tactics of COINTELPRO, >even though the notorious and illegal "Counterintelligence Program" >targeting political dissent was ruled unconstitutional by Congress in the >1970's. > >On May 24th, 1990, a bomb exploded beneath Judi Bari's car seat after she >and her passenger Darryl Cherney had received numerous death threats aimed >at their political organizing in defense of the redwoods. The FBI arrived >on the scene within minutes and, in defiance of all the physical evidence, >falsely declared that Bari and Cherney--two prominent nonviolent organizers >of Earth First! "Redwood Summer"-- were knowingly transporting the bomb >that had been meant to kill them. The Oakland Police arrested the pair >within hours, but no charges were ever filed because there was no evidence >against them. No legitimate investigation was ever done, and the real >bombers remain at large. > >Among other issues, Wednesday's hearing will address a request by the >plaintiffs to question William Sessions, director of the FBI at the time of >the bombing. Previous discovery documents in the case show direct >communication between Sessions and representatives of timber giant Maxxam >Corporation regarding Earth First! > >The FBI is refusing to continue discovery while an appeal by their Oakland >co-defendants is pending. According to lead attorney Dennis Cunningham, >the agency is even stonewalling the activists' attempts to serve written >interrogatories. > >Judi Bari died of breast cancer in 1997. Darryl Cherney and Bari's estate >are pursuing the case. >### > > >Redwood Summer Justice Project >P.O. Box 14720 >Santa Rosa, CA 95402 >707-887-0262 >http://www.monitor.net/~bari/ > >& > >The Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) >P.O. Box 397 >Garberville, CA 95542 >(707) 923-2931 >Fax 923-4210 >http://www.igc.org/epic/ >Contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] to join our listserver >***** end ============== Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List As vilified, slandered and attacked by One Nation mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
