Monday, February 10, 2014

Defend The Boston Insomnia Cookie Workers!-EMERGENCY SOLIDARITY NEEDED! PACK THE COURT! EMAIL/PHONE ZAP

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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>
8:49 AM
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

*Insomnia faces its own Trial by the National Labor Relations Board. The NLRB has charged the company with illegally firing four workers for union activity in August.

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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