Re: NYC residents, workers sue EPA over air quality after 9/11 attacks
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People are organizing legal defense collectives for protesters at the RNC. I was thinking about going down early to help set up some of the legal co-ops set up defense offices. Hopefully people will not need to hire attorneys to represent them because the arrested protesters will be able to ban together and represent themselves. I know this is a bit of a scary subject, but the prospect of arrest should not dissuade people from exercising their first amendment rights. Chances are most of the arrests will be illegitimate and the police will not be able to press charges. The legal system counts on people paying fines rather than contesting their arrest because there are not enough judges and attorney to try all those cases. So long as people don't buckle and pay the fines the charges are likely to be dropped. The other concern is brutality. Use of rubber bullets and tazers by "peace keeping" officers is a major problem at protests. Non-lethal force can cause serious and permanent injury. Not to mention general roughing up. Sorry if this sounds negative, I just think people should be prepared. jessie --On Friday, March 12, 2004 5:13 PM -0500 cpratt-UYko1UTVIqz2fBVCVOL8/[email protected] wrote: > Quoting Jon <jsulliva-UYko1UTVIqz2fBVCVOL8/[email protected]>: > >> unfortunately this is most likely to be true. should we start a >> helmet defense fund ? sounds like a good project to me. >> >> [email protected] wrote: >> >> > Have your legal bases covered as >> > there are sure to be a lot of arrests. >> > > Yes. $8 million was diverted to beat up and arrest protestors in > Miami. Imagine how paranoid and well-funded the cops are going to > be September. > > Odds are, one of us will end up needing some sort of funds for legal > support or bail. I don't think any of us are living off of trust > funds. Of course, if you're smug enough to write back and say you > are, pony up 10,000 bucks to start us off, won't you? > > > -x > _______________________________________________ > heads mailing list > [email protected] > http://ballistichelmet.org/mailman/listinfo/heads/ > http://ballistichelmet.org/donate/ _______________________________________________ heads mailing list [email protected] http://ballistichelmet.org/mailman/listinfo/heads/ http://ballistichelmet.org/donate/