Lockheed Arrestees Need Your Support - Thurs 7/17 1pm

Lockheed Martin is retaliating against 52 arrestees who blockaded its entrances on 4/22.

They and the Sunnyvale DA are not only fully prosecuting us with misdemeanor charges, but are demanding that we pay $41,000 DIRECTLY TO Lockheed Martin as restitution for their alleged legal and security costs.

This will be an important fight not only for the Lockheed arrestees, but for the movement. If Lockheed and the DA succeed, a legal precedent will be set that says a corporation can sue protesters for costs the company associates with protests. It's like charging Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil
rights activists for the hoses used to scatter their marches. It's crap.

So we're fighting back. And we need your help.

The first pre-trial hearing is THIS THURSDAY, July 17 at the Sunnyvale Courthouse. We're holding a press conference at 1 PM in response, and need
as many people to come out and support the rights of protestors to speak up (against empire and everything else) without being charged for their dissent.

They're the ones who are criminals, not us. And they're the ones who should be paying restitution - to all the children, lovers, families and communities they've helped destroy with landmines, DU, cluster bombs, and nuclear missles. Don't let them get away with this.

Thursday, July 17
1pm
Sunnyvale Courthouse
605 West El Camino Real, Sunnyvale.
For more information, email freethelockheed52 [at] amberbug.org