> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Block, Diana" <DBlock@sfghpeds.ucsf.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001
>
>
> PLEASE LET PEOPLE KNOW:
>
> Several political prisoners in the U.S. Federal Prison System have in
> the last few days, (since Sept. 11), been rounded up into isolation
> units. (SHU: security Housing Units) These political prisoners include
> Marilyn Buck, Sundiata Acoli, and Carlos Alberto Torres. Marilyn for
> instance, is not receiving mail, not able to make phone calls, and
> perhaps most disturbingly-- cannot communicate with her lawyers.
>
> We've been asking the lawyers if this is legal - they think the
> prisoners are not supposed to lose their right to counsel no matter what
> the circumstances.. Abrogating the right to council erases a
> fundamental civil right. No one in the Bureau of Prisons will say how
> long this punishment and suspension of civil rights for political
> prisoners will go on.
>
> We DO want people to know this is happening.. Do spread the word in the
> political community and to the media about this example of stripping
> away of our basic rights in the name of fighting terrorism. *** BUT ,
> this is a very delicate situation and the prisoners are vulnerable so
> ** Please no phone or fax campaigns yet,. until we have more information
> from the attorneys.
>
>
>
> Outside contact for Marilyn Buck is Friends of Marilyn Buck:
>
> c/o Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, 100
> McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA 94102. E-mail:
> fombuck@yahoo.com. (This outside
> support group includes members who also work with Out of Control,
> Leonard Peltier Defense
> Committee, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Bay Area
> chapter of Jericho Amnesty
> Movement, the New York Three, PARC and other prison activist
> organizations).
>
> More info on Marilyn at
> http://www.prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/marilynbuck/
>
> I believe more info on Sundiata and Carlos can be linked to via
> http://www.prisonactivist.org/links/
> or at http://www.thejerichomovement.com/
>
> --Lisa Rudman
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