Thursday, August 14, 2014

Cambridge, Ma FRI 8/15, 9 AM, PACK THE COURT! FIGHT POLICE BRUTALITY AND INTIMIDATION OF UNION ACTIVISTS!


On 11/14/13, IWW member Jason Freedman was attacked, punched, grabbed by the throat, thrown on the trunk of a car and then on the ground by the Cambridge Police (aided by Harvard's campus cops), as he participated in a legal and peaceful picket of Insomnia Cookies. Jason was arrested & still faces charges including assaulting a police officer, although the only assault that took place was by the cops on Jason. Please come show your support at a court appearance Jason has to make, this Friday, 8/15, at 9 am, at Cambridge District Court, 4040 Mystic Valley Parkway in Medford, a ten minute walk from the Wellington MBTA stop on the Orange Line.
The Cambridge and Harvard Police carried out a completely unjustified attack on Jason, on civil liberties, labor rights and free speech.  Jason is fighting the phony charges and has refused to accept a disadvantageous deal that would leave him with a criminal record and diminished employment opportunities. Please come out and oppose the targeting of activists by the forces of the State. If we rally around Jason now he will have a better chance of getting justice going forward!
Read more about the attack on Jason and our legal picket:
http://libcom.org/blog/police-attack-iww-pickets-insomnia-cookies-16112013
http://www.openmediaboston.org/content/iww-union-member-arrested-insomnia-cookies-cambridge-pd-during-legal-picket-2789
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/11/18/police-insomnia-cookies-rally/?page

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