support minutemen protestors!

Posted on | May 26, 2005 | 4 Comments

I was just forwarded this, so in the interest of expediency:

BREAKING NEWS: Garden Grove (CA) Police drop criminal charges against Hal Netkin In a phone call I just made to Garden Grove police, they have confirmed a rumor a CNN reporter passed on to me a couple of minutes ago that Hal Netkin was released from jail early this morning and will not face criminal charges for running his minivan into four people at the protest against Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist.

Begin forwarded message:
May 25th Garden Grove Protest of Minutemen, 3 students STILL in jail, Need BAIL

****** PLEASE FWD TO ALL LISTSERVS******

PLEASE SUPPORT STUDENTS AND PROTESTORS INVOLVED IN A LOCAL PROTEST AGAINST THE RACIST MINUTEMEN! ***

ON MAY 25TH A PROTEST OCCURRED FOR THE RACIST MINUTEMAN MEETING. A MEMBER PLOWED INTO A GROUP OF PROTESTERS WITH HIS VAN AND GOT NO CHARGES BUT 5 STUDENT PROTESTERS RECEIVED FELONY CHARGES. WE NEED BAIL TO GET THEM OUT OF JAIL NOW AND PUBLICIZE THIS INJUSTICE***

IF YOU WISH TO DONATE, PLEASE ATTEND THIS MEETING OR EMAIL jjkang@uci.edu

Minutemen founder Jim Gilchrist was in Garden Grove (Southern California) Wednesday night, giving a speech to a crowd of about 60 people. The Minutement Project is a racist organization attempting to unlawfully detain and deter immigrants from crossing into the United States by intimidation and force.

Protestors organized at the venue, started marching, chanting and beating drums. They were met by violent Minutemen. Police were present in riot gear and on horseback to protect the racists. Approximately five protestors were arrested; two of them have since been released through bail. A local university student was arrested for no apparent reason. The police also arrested a disabled man in a wheelchair. The charges are all FALSE and constitute a complete overreaction on behalf of the police. They are trying to make an example out of these very few.

While the police arrested and charged several innocent non-violent protestors under false charges, it was recently reported that Hal Netkin, a supporter of the racist Minutemen, was RELEASED WITHOUT CHARGES after he consciencously CHARGED HIS MINIVAN into a crowd of protestors and injuring two. This attitude shows that the police ACTIVELY SUPPORT the racist Minutemen. We need to raise as much as we can tonight in order to help alleviate the costs of bail and court fees. The sooner we get these innocent protestors out, the safer they’ll be. Any amount is urgently welcomed. If you represent an organization, we ask that you relay this message to your organization. This is no joke.

DO NOT LET INJUSTICE GO UNCHECKED. PLEASE HELP FINANCIALLY AND SPREAD THE WORD. PLEASE ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED, PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU CAN, YOU CAN MEET US AT A HOLDING CELL, OR IF YOU CAN REPLY TO AASHOURI@MSN.COM AND MAIL A CHECK IT WOULD BE GREAT, BECAUSE THEY HAVE FELONY CHARGES AND BAIL FOR EACH PERSON HAS RANGED FROM $2000 TO $4000!!!

Also: http://swarmtheminutemen.com/

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