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URGENT! We urgently need money to bond people out of jail.I can spare $20..
Please make a donation to the SOA Watch Legal Defense Fund
As a community of resistance, we need to take care of our prisoners. The conditions in Muscogee County jail are deplorable and we need funds to pay the bond money, which has been set as high as $5,500 per person.
Several people engaged in nonviolent direct action and blocked the road to the Highway entrance to Fort Benning, others were arrested by the out-of-control Columbus police as they were leaving the vigil area on the sidewalk. Several journalists and bystanders were swept up in the arrests as well.
Background information about the events yesterday:
http://tinyurl.com/2as4tso
Please donate to the SOA Watch Legal Defense Fund. We need the money
urgently TODAY:
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In peace and solidarity,
SOA Watch
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For the second year in a row, a federal court in Columbus, Georgia, has sentenced activists to six-month prison terms for trespassing on the US Army's Fort Benning base during protests against the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), formerly the US Army School of the Americas (SOA). This is the maximum sentence for the offense, and US federal magistrate G. Mallon Faircloth surprised observers when he imposed the penalty on three activists in January 2010.
Four of the activists arrested during the most recent protest—the 20th annual demonstration, held last Nov. 20—have received six-month sentences. Father Louis Vitale and Michael Omondi were sentenced after making a no-contest plea in November, and Nancy H. Smith and Christopher Spicer were sentenced by US Magistrate Stephen Hyles on Jan. 5. This is the third time Father Vitale has served time in jail for participating in the protests.
http://www.ww4report.com/node/9361
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