Solidarity for Jeff "Free"Luers

June marks the fourth year that our friend and comrade, Jeff "Free" Luers
has been imprisoned and held captive by the state.

On June 12th San Francisco activists showed their solidarity with political
prisoner Jeff "Free" Luers, by taking a large banner to multiple locations
in the city to raise awareness of his outrageous 23 year sentence.  

Our first stop was the Haight Ashbury district. We hung the banner ("Free
Jeff 'Free' Luers! Free All Political Prisoners! http://www.freefreenow.org") on a
fence and handed out literature about Free's case and appeal.  Next we took
the bus down Market street to a busy shopping area, where many people saw
the message, took literature and signed the letter of support for Free. Once
we ran out of literature we headed to our final site, a Ford dealership on
upper Market street. We stood on the corner where drivers and passersby
could read the banner. We talked to several interested people and got a few
more  to sign the letter of support. A local reporter from the NBC 6 o'clock
news came by to film us with the banner and take a few statements. After he
left we put our stuff away and went to go tape the news.
  
In typical fashion the mainstream media story was full of misinformation and
inflammatory statements. The banner with Free’s web-site
(http://www.freefreenow.org) had a short spot on the evening news and was featured
prominently in many news articles. Our hope is that people will go to the
web-site to get an accurate story of who Free is and the injustice that is
the U$A.

-Bay Area Jeff Free Luers support group.