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DESCRIPTION:Grand Juries are used by the United States government to frighten 
 activists, create mistrust, drive people out of the movement,\nand cause 
 others to inform on friends out of fear. There are at least six grand 
 juries that are being employed to target activists around\nthe country 
 right now!  These grand jury hearings are nothing more than modern day 
 inquisitions where peaceful activists are targeted as "terrorists," with 
 many of their basic constitutional rights stripped away.  Activists from 
 all over the country are being subpoenaed to these hearings and potentially 
 facing months in jail for refusing to\nprovide information on their 
 comrades.\n\nJoin San Francisco's Animal Rights Direct Action (ARDAC) for 
 an evening session on the use of Grand Juries to with presentations from 
 National Lawyer's Guild Attorney Mark Vermeulen, and Grand Jury Resisters 
 Gina Lynn and Anita Carswell.\n\nMark Vermeulen is a lawyer and a member of 
 the National Lawyers Guild.   He has represented activists and others 
 accused of crimes in the state and federal courts since 1984.  Through his 
 work with members of\ngroups such as ACTUP-San Francisco, Rainforest Action 
 Network, The Ruckus Society, Homes Not Jails, and others, he has sought to 
 keep people out of jail and in the streets, and to help get their message 
 out.  He also likes riding his bike in the morning.\n\nGina Lynn founded 
 the first ARDAC chapter and is a long-time animal liberation activist. She 
 was targeted by a grand jury after federal\nagents were able to compel 
 another activist to state that it was "possible" she might have been 
 capable of sending a threatening\nletter.  As a result of this absurd 
 supposation, Gina spent 22 days jailed in federal custody for refusing to 
 cooperate with the grand\njury inquisition.\n\nAnita Carswell is a veteran 
 activist currently working as Office Manager for In Defense of Animals.  
 After being arrested and charged\nwith smashing in the windows at Neiman 
 Marcus (simply because she's a regular protestor there), Anita was 
 subpoenaed to a Grand Jury in San Francisco.  Instead of going into the 
 Grand Jury room, Anita and\nscores of activists held a protest and press 
 conference outside of the courtroom.  The government doesn't like to be 
 exposed for its use of grand juries to repress free speech and that was the 
 end of that grand jury!\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/19583.php
SUMMARY:Political Grand Juries: Tools of Government Repression
LOCATION:1884 Market St. (@ Laguna & Guerrero)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/19583.php
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