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From : | Geoff Carens <geoff.carens@gmail.com> |
Sender : | bmdc-request@lists.riseup.net |
Subject : | [bmdc-wg] EMERGENCY SOLIDARITY NEEDED! PACK THE COURT! EMAIL/PHONE ZAP |
To : | act-ma@act-ma.org, Boston GMB list < Bostgmb-l@lists.iww.org>, iww-list@lists.iww.org |
Reply To : | Geoff Carens <geoff.carens@gmail.com> |
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Dear All, On November 14, 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 as he participated in a legal and peaceful
picket of Insomnia Cookies*. Jason was also arrested & faces charges
including assaulting a cop, although the only assault that took place was by the
police on Jason. Please come show your support at a court appearance Jason has
to make, tomorrow, Tuesday February 11, at 9 am, Cambridge District Court, 4040
Mystic Valley Parkway in Medford, a ten minute walk from the Wellington MBTA stop on the Orange
Line.
The Cambridge Police carried out a completely unjustified attack on
Jason, on civil liberties, labor rights and free speech. It was provoked
(and lent legitimacy in the eyes of the cops) by a false report from the company
that picketers were obstructing the sidewalk in front of the store. Please email
Henrietta Davis, Mayor of Cambridge, at mayor@cambridgema.gov, and call Mayor Davis at
617-349-4321. Sample message: "I am appalled
that union member Jason Freedman was attacked, arrested and now faces charges
based on his attendance at a peaceful and legal picket! I urge you to use your
influence to see that the charges against Jason are dropped immediately." The
Facebook event is here.
In
Solidarity,
Geoff for the
Industrial Workers of the World
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