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DESCRIPTION:August 4th, in Oakland is My Pretrial Hearing for Protesting at the Marine 
 Recruiting Station in Berkeley\n\nA Letter to the WCW Community and Friends 
 From Stephanie 
 Tang\n____________________________________________________________\n\nDear 
 Friends,\n\nNext week I go to court for a pretrial hearing in a case 
 stemming from World Can’t Wait’s ongoing Berkeley protests at the 
 Marine Recruiting Station (MRS). I write to ask for the support of our 
 whole community to fight for this politically-charged and motivated case to 
 get dropped, right now. There is no way I should be threatened with a year 
 in jail for organizing protest and resistance against the military 
 recruiters, this endless and murderous war/occupation, torture, and the 
 whole Bush regime program.\n\nAs many of you may know, during WCW’s 
 persistent and spirited protests at the MRS, the Berkeley police have 
 repeatedly attacked us with harsh and often violent tactics (that by the 
 way, totally belie Berkeley being a city officially opposed to the war!). 
 Both WCW and Code Pink have received much repressive harassment. And 
 WCW’s rallies and actions (which have all been nonviolent, and usually 
 have permits) have been repeatedly assaulted by the police. In lovely 
 downtown Berkeley, cops in full riot gear charge the crowd, destroy sound 
 equipment, and generally create a whole scenario meant to intimidate both 
 the protestors and our public support.\n\nIt was in one of these WCW 
 protests on February 22 that I was injured by a Berkeley police officer, 
 who hit me so hard I flew head first into a brick wall. Some days later, I 
 received notification by mail that I was being charged with obstruction of 
 an officer. The charge carries a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. My 
 pretrial hearing is set for Monday, August 4, at the Alameda County 
 Superior Court.\n\nWorld Can’t Wait fully supports me in fighting to get 
 this totally trumped-up charge dropped. It is important to note that 
 although several protestors have been arrested at the MRS (either for civil 
 resistance/civil disobedience or other nonviolent actions), everyone 
 else’s charges have either been dropped or never even filed. So I am the 
 only protestor actually facing any charges. I am known as a leader of the 
 local World Can’t Wait movement by the community – and by the police 
 – which may factor into the authorities’ approach to my case.\n\nI know 
 many of you (if not personally, yet) because together we have been working 
 tirelessly: to stop this intolerable war and occupation – to prevent the 
 next U.S. escalation in the Middle East; the threatened war against Iran 
 – to refuse the complicity of silence in the face of state-sanctioned 
 torture – to say the whole Bush Regime program must be repudiated, 
 resisted, and reversed. And although Bush himself may be nearing the end of 
 his White House residency, our determination and our demands will have to 
 grow even stronger, more than ever, whoever the next president of the 
 empire may be.\n\nSo, friends, I’m asking you to join me to take my court 
 case and make it yet another way all of us can stand up to resist this 
 intolerable war and occupation, and the whole Bush trajectory along with 
 it.\n\nWhat can you do to help?\n* PACK THE COURTROOM -- be there with me 
 for the pretrial hearing. When anyone faces criminal charges for political 
 activism, it is so important to show that this is not a lone individual, 
 but that we are a large, united community. Your presence makes visible that 
 our protest and resistance will not be silenced, because it’s absolutely 
 right to oppose these recruiters and this war.\n\n\nMONDAY, AUG. 4, 
 2008\n9:00 AM\nDept. #104, Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse Criminal Div.\n661 
 Washington St.\nOakland, CA 94607\n\n* CONTRIBUTE TO THE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND 
 today. Several thousand dollars in legal fees and expenses must be covered 
 very soon. We ask you to DONATE WHAT YOU CAN and forward this email ASKING 
 OTHERS to join you.\n\n\nWrite checks to “World Can’t Wait” – write 
 “legal fund” in the memo line\nMail to World Can’t Wait, 2940-16th 
 St., Rm. 200-6, San Francisco CA 94103 \n\n* EMAIL ME at: 
 sf@worldcantwait.org if you can help in other ways – WCW wants to get 
 this case widely known through the press and through outreach to many 
 communities. Let me know how we can work together to do this.\n\n\n\nThe 
 World Can’t Wait!\nStephanie Tang\nOrganizer, SF Bay Area 
 WCW\n415-864-5153\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/30/18521186.php
SUMMARY:Drop the Charges on Stephanie Tang!
LOCATION:Dept. #104, Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse Criminal Div.\n661 Washington 
 St.\nOakland, CA 94607
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/30/18521186.php
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