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US AND CANADA PRISONERS

Toronto G20 “Main Conspiracy Six”

Following a plea deal, six of the seventeen people identified by the Canadian state as members of the so-called G20 Main Conspiracy Group pled guilty to counseling charges for organising to disrupt the Toronto G20 summit in June, 2010. Erik Lankin, Adam Lewis and Peter Hopperton were sentenced to 3-5.5 months on November 28.

Of the remaining three, Leah Henderson expects to be sentenced to 10 months on December 20, Mandy Hiscocks expects to be sentenced to 16 months on January 13 and Alex Hundert expects to be sentenced to 13.5 months at date to be announced.

Adam, Erik & Peter can be written to: c/o Central North Correctional Centre, 1501 Fuller Ave., Penetanguishene, Ontario, L9M 2H4, Canada.

To read the collective statement of the G20 Main Conspiracy Group, individual statements of co-defendants, and statements read to the courts, visit: http://conspiretoresist.wordpress.com. You can keep up to date on the six and their fellow Toronto G20 defendants at the Guelph ABC website.

UPDATE: Leah Henderson was sentenced on December 20th to 10 months in prison for one count of Counselling Mischief over $5,000. This is after one and a half years of restrictive bail conditions, house arrest and jail.

Mandy Hiscocks was sentenced on 13th Jan 2012 to 20-24 month for one count count of Counselling to Commit Mischief and Counseling to Obstruct Police. With 31 days in pretrial custody and harsh bail conditions taken into account, Mandy’s remaining time to serve is 16 months.

Both Leah and Mandy (Amanda) can be written to: c/o Vanier Centre for Women, 665 Martin Street, Milton, Ontario L9T 5E6, Canada.

Green Scare

In a widespread coordinated FBI sweep called 'Operation Backfire' in early 2006, a number of people have been imprisoned for acts of ELF and ALF (Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front) property destruction and sabotage, implicated by informers and other defendants. One of the defendants, Bill Rodgers from Arizona, was found dead in his cell while on remand in an apparent suicide. The term Green Scare refers to the federal government's expanding prosecution efforts against animal liberation and ecological activists, drawing parallels to the "Red Scares" of the 1910's and 1950s.

Scott DeMuth 11246-030, FCI Milan, Federal Correctional Institution, P.O. Box 1000, Milan, MI 48160, USA.
Scott DeMuth is currently serving a six-month term, which will be followed by a year of supervised release. In September of 2010, he pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor, conspiracy to commit animal enterprise terrorism in violation of the Animal Enterprise Protection Act (AEPA), for his involvement in a ferret release at a farm in Minnesota in 2006.

For background on Scott’s case, as well as the related case of Carrie Feldman, see: http://davenportgrandjury.wordpress.com/ about/background/
STOP PRESS: Scott was released at the end of his sentence on 31 July.

Steve James Murphy 39013-177, FCI Beaumont Medium Federal Correctional Institution, P.O. Box 26040, Beaumont, TX 77720, USA.
Steve was sentenced to 5 years on April 5, 2010 after previously pleading guilty to decommissioning a tractor and placing an incendiary device in a housing development construction site in the name of the Earth Liberation Front in 2006. http://supportsteve.org/

Marie Mason, #04672-061, FMC Carswell, Federal Medical Center, P.O. Box 27137, Fort Worth, TX 76127, USA.
Sentenced to 21 years and 10 months for involvement in ELF arsons, against a University building carrying out Genetically Modified crop tests and other ELF actions, Marie has received the longest sentence of any of the Green Scare defendants.
UPDATES: Granted an appeal by 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. [16/09/10]
Now out of solitary confinment and has been moved to Fort Worth but she has been placed in a unit where she and her fellow prisoners are allowed no time outside the building. [11/10/10]

Support group: freemarie@riseup.net
info at: www.midwestgreenscare.org

Daniel McGowan, #63794-053, FCI Terre Haute - CMU, P.O. Box 33, Terre Haute, IN 47808, USA.
Daniel has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment for his part in two Earth Liberation Front/Animal Liberation Front arsons.
www.supportdaniel.org

Bryan Lefey #38664-086, FDC SeaTac, Federal Detention Center, P.O. Box 13900, Seattle, WA 98198, USA.
On remand accused of an ELF action that saw the damaging of GM trees and the damaging of US Forestry Service vehicles.

Jonathan Paul #07167-085, FCI Phoenix, 37910 N 45th Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85086, USA
Imprisoned as part of the Operation Backfire crackdown on ELF/ALF actions. Sentenced to 51 months in federal prison for his role in the July 1997 arson of the Cavel West horse slaughterhouse. The slaughterhouse was never rebuilt.
UPDATE: Jonathan has been released from prison and is on his way back to Oregon where he will be required to spend some time at a halfway house before returning to his wife and animal children. One more of the non-cooperating heroes freed. Send him your support as he begins the difficult process of putting a life back together after 5 years of hell. [12/01/11]
www.supportjonathan.org

Eric McDavid 16209-097, FCI Terminal Island, Federal Correctional Institution, PO Box 3007, San Pedro, Ca 90731, USA
Serving 19 years & 7 months for planning to destroy the property of the U.S. Forestry Service, mobile phone masts and power plants. At the point of his arrest no criminal damage has actually occurred.
Update: On 21 September 2010 the 9th Circuit Court denied Eric's appeal on his conviction and sentencing. His lawyer is now pursuing a petition for a rehearing.
www.supporteric.org

Nathan Fraser Block #36359-086, FCI Lompoc, Federal Correctional Institution, 3600 Guard Road, Lompoc, CA 93436, USA
Serving 7 years & 8 months for an ELF arson against a Poplar Tree Farm and an ELF arson against an SUV dealership. Also admitted his role in an ELF/ALF conspiracy. Prefers to be known as "Exile".
email: supportersofnathanandjoyanna@gmail.com

Joyanna Lynn Zacher #36360-086, FCI Dublin, Federal Correctional Institution, 5701 8th St - Camp Parks - Unit F, Dublin, CA 94568, USA
Serving 7 years & 8 months for an ELF arson against a Poplar Tree Farm and an ELF arson against an SUV dealership. Also admitted her role in an ELF/ALF conspiracy. Prefers to be called "Sadie".
email: supportersofnathanandjoyanna@gmail.com

Grant Barnes #137563, San Carlos Correctional Facility, PO Box 3, Pueblo, CO 81002, USA.
Serving 12 years for setting fire to a number of SUV vehicles. On one of the vehicles the letters ELF was spray-painted.

Michael W. Sykes #696693, Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility, 1728 Bluewater Highway, Ionia, MI 48846, USA.
An 18-year-old anarchist currently serving a prison sentence for eco-related acts of property destruction.
http://supportmichael.wordpress.com

Tim DeChristopher#16156-081, FCI Herlon Federal Correctional Institution, PO Box 800, Herlong, CA 96113, USA.
Tim DeChristopher is a climate activist, also known as Bidder No 70, who posed as an oil industry bidder in an attempt to protect public lands from an oil and gas lease sale in Utah and who was sentenced to two years in prison plus a $10,000 fine.
www.bidder70.org/

Eric Wildcat Hall #BL-5355, Unit 1/A, 10745 Route 18, Albion, PA 16475-0002, USA
Serving 35-75 years for helping ship arms to Central American indigenous activists.

Brian McCarvill #11037967, Snake River Correctional Institution (SRCI), 777 Stanton Blvd, Ontario, OR 97914, USA.
Brian is serving an absurd 30+ year sentence related to a custody battle and a violent altercation with the Child Services Department. He's a dedicated prisoner rights activist.

David Gilbert #83A6158, Clinton Correctional Facility, P.O. Box 2001, Dannemora NY 12929
After about 5 years of organizing in the above ground movement during the sixties, David joined the revolutionary underground, spending a total of 10 years living clandestinely, actively resisting imperialism with arms as part of the Weather Underground group. On October 20, 1981, he and other comrades were captured at Nyack, NY during an attempted expropriation by a unit of the Black Liberation Army working with white revolutionaries (known as the Revolutionary Armed Task Force- RATF). During the expropriation attempt, 3 officers were killed. Charged and convicted of felony murder, David is serving a 75 year (minimum) to life sentence.

Leonard Peltier # 89637-132 USP Lewisburg, PO BOX 1000, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837 USA
Leonard was an American Indian Movement (AIM) activist framed by a COINTELPRO operation for the murder of two FBI agents in 1975 and is serving two consecutive life sentences. He's gravely ill at the moment and is being denied a transfer to the medical facility. His support group can be contacted: LPDC, PO Box 583, Lawrence, KS 66044, USA.
email: lpdcomite@aol.com
www.freepeltiernow.org

John Graham, Pennington County Jail, 307 St. Joseph Street,  Rapid City, SD 57701,  USA
John was an American Indian Movement (AIM) activist and was arrested in Vancouver in December 2003, and extradited to South Dakota in December 2007. The allegations against John are of murdering fellow AIM member Anna Mae Pictou in 1975. John Graham denies he killed Anna Mae.
http://ourfreedom.wordpress.com

Jerome White-Bey #37479, S.E.C.C. (South East Correctional Center), 300 East Pedro Simmons Drive, Charleston, MO. 63834, USA
Jerome is an anarchist prison activist who set up the Missouri Prison Labour Union to fight slave labour in prisons. The Free Jerome White-Bey Support Campaign and Legal Defense Fund Committee is requesting your financial support. Please mark your donation for Jerome White-Bey and send it to:
Anthony Rayson, South Chicago ABC, PO Box 721, Homewood Illinois 60430, U.S.A.
Update: Jerome that he's been moved to WMCC - and he's been put in the hole because his file wasn't sent with him!?! We don't know if this is a temporary move on his way to start the Interferon treatment [see: Campaigns page] or just more time delaying tactics??? [22/02/11]

Byron Shane “Oso Blanco” Chubbuck  #07909-051, USP Lewisburg, U.S. Penitentiary, P.O. Bx 1000, Lewisburg, Pa. 17837, USA
An Indigenous rights activist serving 80 years for bank robbery, aggravated assault on the FBI, escape and firearms charges. A confidential informant reported that Oso was robbing banks in order to acquire funds to support the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas, Mexico throughout 1998-99.

The Angola 3
Albert Woodfox, Herman Wallace and Robert "King" Wilkerson, still known by their campaign name The Angola 3 (King was released at the beginning of 2001), initially arrived at Angola with sentences for unrelated robberies. Wallace and Woodfox founded the first chapter of the Black Panther Party at Angola and led campaigns to stop prison rape and improve conditions of the slave plantation. Their activism made them targets of the all-white prison administration and in 1972, in an effort to stop their organizing, prison officials concocted murder charges against Woodfox and Wallace for the killing of a prison guard. Relying on the paid-for testimony of prison snitches Angola officials won convictions against the two men who received sentences of life without parole. Later, in 1972, when Wilkerson arrived at Angola his reputation as an activist preceded him, and he was immediately placed in solitary. Subsequently he was charged with and convicted for a murder he did not commit, even though he was not yet at Angola when the murder took place, was gagged with duct-tape during the trial and the actual killer admitted he'd acted alone in self-defense.

Herman & Albert are continuing their struggle to prove their innocence. Both have petitions pending before various courts and a lawsuit having spent most of their 35 years in solitary confinement. They would appreciate letters of support:

Albert Woodfox #72148, David Wade Correctional Center, N1A, 670 Bell Hill Rd., Homer, LA 71040 USA.

Herman Wallace #76759, Elaine Hunt Correctional Center, Unit 5, E-Tier, PO Box 174, St Gabriel, LA 70776, USA.

For more info see www.angola3.org, and for a good article on the case see here.

MOVE was a mainly black revolutionary group with an ecological perspective who were consistently persecuted by Philadelphia police during the 70's. This culminated in the police firebombing of their commune in 1985 in which 11 people died. The 'Move 9' were framed for the murder of a cop and sentenced to up to 100 years each. The 9th defendant, Merle Africa died in prison in 1998 under suspicious circumstances. For more info contact Friends of Move, PO Box 14129, London WC12 8GR, UK.

Debbie Simms Africa #006307,
Janet Holloway Africa #006308,
Janine Phillips Africa #006309,
SCI Cambridge Springs, 451 Fullerton Ave, Cambridge Springs, PA 16403-1238, USA

Michael Davis Africa AM4973,
Charles Simms Africa AM4975,
SCI Grateford, PO Box 244, Grateford, PA 19426-0244, USA

Edward Goodman Africa AM4974,
SCI Mahanoy, 301 Morea Road, Frackville, PA 17931, USA

William Philips Africa AM4984,
Delbert Orr Africa AM4985,
SCI Dallas, Drawer K, Dallas, PA18612, USA.

Mumia Abu-Jamal AM8335, SCI Mahanoy, 301 Morea Road, Frackville, PA 17932, USA.
Mumia is an ex-Black Panther, radical journalist and MOVE supporter who was framed for the murder of a cop in 1981. The death sentence for mumia has been overturned, but his defence team has 180 days, to put together an appeal against his sentence being comuted to life. For more info contact International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, PO Box 19709, Philadelphia, PA 19143, USA.
www.freemumia.org

UPDATE: Since the Supreme Court rejected a request from the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office to overturn the most recent federal appeals court decision declaring Mumia’s death sentence unconstitutional, he has been moved out of Administrative Custody and transferred to Disciplinary Custody at SCI Mahanoy. [16/12/11]

CANADA

Toronto G8/G20 defendants on remand

Late June 2010 saw mass protests against the G8/20 meetings in and around Toronto with mass arrests of 1093 people. Of these over 250 were released pending charges, whilst a few remain on remand and face more serious charges. Legal defence, support and solidarity is called for!

More info from:
http://g20.torontomobilize.org/
http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/
http://torontoabc.wordpress.com/

Letters to the G20 political prisoners, many on strict house arrest, will be forwarded through the Guelph ABC: Guelph ABC, PO box 183, Guelph, ON N1H 6J6, Canada.

These are people who want letters: Monica Peters, Bill Vandreil, Meghan Lankin, Sterling Stutz, Julia Kerr, Leah Henderson, Mandy Hiscocks, Peter Hopperton, Erik Lankin, Terrance Luscombe, Joanna Adamiak, David Prychitka, Kelly Pflug-Back, Ryan Rainville

Joey Bokhaut and Byron Sonne - Maplehurst Correctional Complex, PO Box 10, 661 Martin Street, Milton, ON, L9T 2Y3, Canada.

Alex Hundert (arrested for the third time on October 23, bail revoked, could be on remand for 2 years), c/o Toronto West Detention Centre, 111 Disco Rd, PO Box 4950, Rexdale ON M9W 5L6 Canada.

Leah Henderson, c/o Vanier Centre for Women, 655 Martin St, Milton, ON L9T 5E6, Canada.
Leah Henderson was among a group of six who pleaded guilty in November to counselling the commission of mischief (i.e. the breaking of windows) in the run-up to the G20 in Toronto in 2010, and after 1 and a half years of restrictive bail conditions, house arrest and in jail, she has been sentenced to 10 months in prison.

Ottawa 3 case
Charges relating to a bombing have been stayed for 2 out of the Ottawa 3, however Joseph Roger Clement has pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 3.5 years in December. More info from ottawamovementdefense@gmail.com

Joseph Roger Clement (FPS-420268X), Pittsburgh Institution, Highway 15, No. 3766, PO Box 4510, Kingston, Ontario K7L 5E5, Canada

ARGENTINA

Diego Sebastián Petrissans, CPF Devoto, Modulo 2, Pabellon 5 , Bermudez 2651, Villa Devoto, C.P. 1417, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Leandro Sebastián Morel, Prision Regional del Norte U7, Avda Las Heras 1555, CP 3500, Resistencia (Chaco), Argentina.

Argentinian anarchists charged with arson attack to a big media company that profits from the oppression of Mapuche indigenous people.

CHILE

As a result of the ongoing protests involving students and others, as well as the long running struggles of the Mapuche people there are currently many political prisoners in Chile.

We recommend checking out the following pages for up to date information:

solidaridadporlxspresxs.blogspot.com

libertadalos14a.blogspot.com

http://liberaciontotal.lahaine.org

http://paismapuche.org/wordpress

MEXICO

Abraham López Martínez: young vegan anarchist imprisoned in December 2009 after an arson attack claimed by a local animal rights group. Abraham is accused of damage to private property, conspiracy and subversive association. You can write letters of support to: abrahamlibertad@riseup.net

Adrian Magdaleno Gonzales: young vegan anarchist detained in February 2010, accused of detonating a butane gas bomb in Mexico City. Adrian is accused of threatening social peace and damage to private property. He has been sentenced to 7 years and 11 months, without possibility of bail. You can write letters of support to: libertadparaadrian@hushmail.me

Support website for both (in Spanish) at: http://grupohastaelfinal.wordpress.com/

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