And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 07:18:22 -0800 >From: arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >ADate: 21/12/98 7:09:44 AM >X-Mailer: Acorn Email v1b2 >Subject: MINNEHAHA FREE STATE RAIDED > >please post widely >Forward upon request from the IWW by the NWLPSN > >From: Deke Nihilson x341697 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Industrial Workers of the World <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: PLEASE POST! : MINNEHAHA FREE STATE RAIDED (fwd) >Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 01:35:43 -0800 (PST) >Reply-To: Deke Nihilson x341697 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type; text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >______________________________________________ > > >a little more info on the situation in minneapolis, that Justin just >posted. sent this by a local comrade-- sounds like our folx are in >trouble... >hasta, --deke > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 18:58:36 -0800 >Subject: PLEASE POST! : MINNEHAHA FREE STATE RAIDED > >MINNEHAHA FREE STATE RAIDED BY 600 POLICE! >PROTESTERS INJURED AND JAILED - YOUR HELP IS NEEDED! > >PROTESTERS ARE NOT RECEIVING MEDICAL ATTENTION! >PLEASE CALL THE HENNEPIN >COUNTY JAIL AT >612-348-5112 AND DEMAND MEDICAL ATTENTION FOR THE >INJURED AND THE IMMEDIATE >RELEASE OF ALL THE PROTESTERS! > >The Minnehaha Free State/Liberated Zone in Minneapolis MN was >raided Sunday >morning at 4am by 600 State Troopers in what MN Governor Arnie >Carlson has >called the largest law enforcement operation in MN history. Police fired >tear gas into all 7 seven houses occupied by a coalition of Big Woods >Earth >First! the American Indian Movement (AIM)and the Mendota >Mdewakanton Dakota >Community. 33 people were arrested, 20 of them from lockdowns. >(included an >activist in a Santa suit locked into the chimney of one of the homes) >Many >of the protesters where tortured with pepper spray and pain compliance >holds. One protester who was locked by the neck to a tripod had his life >put in serious danger when the police overturned the tripod without >taking >any precautions to protect him. The extent of his injuries remains >unknown. >Media were blocked from the site by a wall of riot police and there are >extensive reports of police brutality. > > During the raid various items sacred to the Mendota Community >were >destroyed. The sacred fire was extinguished in violation of federal laws >which protect Native American religious expression. The sun dance tipi >was >destroyed, and the sweat lodge, site of numerous ceremonies over the >past 4 >months of occupation, was burnt down. Governor Carlson was on site >gloating >to the press and warming himself by the fires of burning camp materials. > > The protesters occupied the homes to block a new highway >project >intended to take a few minutes of the driving time from downtown >Minneapolis to America's largest mall, the Mall of America. The >highway >will cut through a park, destroy homes and one of the last remaining >examples of old growth oak Savannah as well as sites sacred to the >Mendota >Mdewakanton Dakota community. Over the course of the last 4 months >the >Mendota have been fighting for federal recognition as part of their >efforts to protect the oaks and a sacred spring from destruction. >Sunday >was the protesters 133rd day of continuous occupation, believed to be >the >longest running urban occupation in American history. > > For more information about the situation call the Big Woods EF! >hotline at (612) 362-3387. >Your support is desperately needed to help with the legal defense and to >keep the resistance alive. Checks can be made out to MNRAG and >mailed to >Big Woods EF! PO Box 580936 Minneapolis MN 55458-0936. There is >also >information posted at http://www.ruckus.org. > > There will be a rally at the site Monday the 21st at noon. 5307 >Riverview >Rd Minneapolis > >KEEP THE RESISTANCE ALIVE! > > > > >. > <<<<=-=-=FREE LEONARD PELTIER=-=-=>>>> If you think you are too small to make a difference; try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.... African Proverb <<<<=-=http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ =-=>>>> IF it says: "PASS THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW...." Please Check it before you send it at: http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blhoax.htm
