legal update for April 7 picketers

The three John Does and the remaining woman held at Santa Rita jail were released late last night--after midnight--with no current charges filed, because the DA was unable to get charges filed within the allotted time limit. This means that all picketers/legal observers/ILWU folks should now be out of jail. It is now time to start calling the Oakland DA and demand that all remaining charges be dropped against these folks. Try calling 510-268-7500. As of this writing no DA has been assigned to these cases yet, and no paperwork has come over from the Oakland PD that the DA would review before deciding which cases to dismiss, so they are likely to be uninformative and tired of getting phone calls at that office. But the phone calls *will* make an impact.