From:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/10/BAGR1DBA87.DTL
May 10, 2010
Radical ideas: Oakland City Attorney John Russo is taking his share
of heat from community activists over a gang injunction that would
bar some of the city's most violent street toughs from hanging out
together - but then, at least one of those activists has quite a
violent past herself.
Linda Evans, a vocal member of the Coalition to Stop the Injunction,
is a former 1960s Weather Underground radical who spent years in
prison for harboring a fugitive in a Brink's truck robbery in which
two police officers and a guard were killed, and who later was
sentenced for her role in eight bombings, including one on the U.S.
Capitol in the mid-1980s.
The Santa Rosa resident, whose petition for clemency was granted by
President Bill Clinton in 2001, is now a member of All of Us or None
- a prison rights group made up of ex-cons. She said the group's
policy barred members from talking about their often violent pasts,
but noted: "What our current organizing shows is that we care about
peace in the community, and that the way to the kind of
transformative change we need is through participatory democracy
where people have a say in their lives."
Translation: In Oakland, they hope to set up a hot line where those
unfairly targeted by the city's gang injunction can report police intimidation.
"It's not right for north Oakland to have to live in a concentration
camp," she says.
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