Join danielle west of Coast2Coast Solidarity- Philly and Clay M. River for an evening discussion about displacement, repression, and the San Francisco 8.  We will discuss case updates and watch the short movie, Legacy of Torture, in oder to raise awareness about who the San Francisco 8 are and the impact of repression on our movements today. This is a showing as part of a video blitz in response to the start of the pretrial of the case on June 8th.  Connections with the First Nations/Native American soveriegnty and survival organizing will be lifted up to help fully inform including the San Francisco 8's case in a broad agenda for change.
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Eight former Black community activists – Black Panthers and others – were arrested January 23, 2007 in California, New York, and Florida on charges related to the 1971 killing of a San Francisco police officer. Similar charges were thrown out after it was revealed that police used torture to extract confessions when some of these same men were arrested in New Orleans in 1973.

Richard Brown, Richard O'Neal, Ray Boudreaux, and Hank Jones were arrested in California. Francisco Torres was arrested in Queens, New York. Harold Taylor was arrested in Florida. Two men charged – Herman Bell and Jalil Muntaqim – have been held as political prisoners for over 30 years in New York State prisons. A ninth man -- Ronald Stanley Bridgeforth – is still being sought. The men were charged with the murder of Sgt. John Young and conspiracy that encompasses numerous acts between 1968 and 1973.

Harold Taylor and John Bowman (recently deceased) as well as Ruben Scott (thought to be a government witness) were first charged in 1975. But a judge tossed out the charges, finding that Taylor and his two co-defendants made statements after police in New Orleans tortured them for several days employing electric shock, cattle prods, beatings, sensory deprivation, plastic bags and hot, wet blankets for asphyxiation. Such "evidence" is neither credible nor legal.

Join Philly in saying "DROP THE CHARGES! FREE THE SF 8!"

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Submitted by danielle west (not verified) on Mon, 05/25/2009 - 5:23pm

Clay M. River is an activist and organizer with First Nations Visibility. It was a typo related to hot weather that kept that line out of the original description

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