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Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 22:47:34 -0700
From: radtimes <resist@best.com>
Subject: POLITICAL PRISONERS' RIGHTS ATTACKED
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 23:23:32 -0700
To: "Marilyn Buck, FOMB" <fombuck@yahoo.com>
From: Friends of Marilyn Buck <fombuck@yahoo.com>
Subject: [PRISONACT] POLITICAL PRISONERS' RIGHTS ATTACKED
POLITICAL PRISONERS' RIGHTS ATTACKED, INCLUDING RIGHT TO COUNSEL
In the wake of the horrific attacks of September 11, Federal
authorities have with no legitimate reason severely restricted the
most basic civil rights of a number of political prisoners.
WHAT WE KNOW: Political prisoners Sundiata Acoli, Carlos Alberto
Torres, Richard Williams, Jose Solis, Antonio Camacho Negron, Juan
Segarra Palmer, Philip Berrigan, Tom Manning, Marilyn Buck and others
were put in isolation following the September 11 attacks. Philip
Berrigan, Tom Manning, and Marilyn Buck have recently been released
back into general population. No reasons were given by authorities
for this punitive move except in some cases "for their own
protection" or "for investigation." At least some have been held
completely incommunicado. Marilyn and Sundiata, and maybe others,
were denied access even to their lawyers and religious advisors.
PLEASE CALL, WRITE OR FAX the Attorney General and the Bureau of
Prisons at the addresses below. Bear in mind that while the issues at
stake are great, the letters and calls should focus specifically on
the prisoners' right to counsel and getting them back into general
population. These people have all been in prison for long terms and
had absolutely nothing to do with the events of September 11 -- as
the prison authorities well know. through all their years in prison
they have had few or no write-ups. Keep it simple: Why is this
person in segregation? Why can they not have visits, especially from
their lawyers? What is this about? What makes you think this person
is suddenly a threat?
It would also be very helpful to send personal mail to as many
political prisoners as you can, to give them moral support and to let
the prisons see that they are not forgotten. Even brief greetings
count for a lot. Address lists can be found on the Prison Activist
Resource Center (PARC) website at
http://prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/pplist-alpha.shtml, the Nuclear
Resister at http://www.nonviolence.org/nukeresister and The Jericho
Amnesty Movement at http://www.thejerichomovement.com
It is important to protest these restrictions and reaffirm rights for
all, for if the Administration can eliminate Constitutional rights
for these vulnerable activists, they will be encouraged to "suspend"
these rights for others.
Please pardon any double postings.
In solidarity,
Friends of Marilyn Buck
fombuck@yahoo.com
ADDRESSES
Attorney General John Ashcroft
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
E-mail AskDOJ@usdoj.gov. [and indicate for Attorney General in subject]
Phone (202) 353-1555
Fax:(202) 514-5331
Kathleen Hawk Sawyer
Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons
320 First Street NW Washington, D.C. 20534
Fax: (202) 514-6620
Phone: (202) 307-6300
Addresses of each Federal prison can be found at
http://www.bop.gov/facilnot.html#fac
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