Urgent ELP! Bulletin (23rd of November 2002)
Dear friends
Well it all happens at once doesn't it. ELP has loads of news for you:
1) Volkert pleads guilty 2) Two new AR prisoners 3) Update on Benjamin (USA
Animal Rights Prisoner) 4) Three new Ploughshares prisoners 5) Plougshares
prisoner released 6) Jose Bove gets 14 months imprisonment (BBC report)
1) Volkert pleads guilty
It has just been reported on the international media that Dutch
Animal/Earth Liberation activist Volkert van der Graaf has admitted killing
the xenophobic Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn. According to the mainstream
media, he carried out the murder to protect "vulnerable members of society".
More news as it comes.
2) Two new AR prisoners
Two American animal rights activists have been remanded into custody on
charges relating to their SHAC campaigning. For more details check out the
ELP website www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk The two are:
Jennifer Greenberg 3100201610 Rose M. Singer Center 1919 Hazen St. East
Elmherst, NY 11370 USA
Joshua Schwartz BBKC 125 White St. New York, NY 10013 USA
3) Update on Benjamin (USA Animal Rights Prisoner)
American SHAC prisoner Benjamin Persky has reached a plea bargain with the
courts and pleaded guilty to a Class D felony. He is due to be sentenced on
December 11th 2002. The hearing will be at 100 Center Street in NYC, Part
71. The hearing will be at 9:30am. Benjamin would really appreciate
supporters turning up at court, so if anyone is in the US and is in the
area please do go along and give him your support. As soon as Benjamin is
sentenced he is likely to be moved to a new prison address. This address
will be posted up onto www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk as soon as it is know.
4) Three new Ploughshares prisoners
A couple of years ago four American nuns calling themselves "Sacred Earth &
Space Plowshares" disarmed weapons of mass murder at Peterson Air Force
Base in the USA. On Sunday October 6th 2002, three of the original four
Sisters visited an N-8 missile silo in northern Colorado and using the name
"Sacred Earth & Space Plowshares II" disarmed the equipment that transports
nuclear missiles to their firing points. All three have been remanded.
Please send letters of support to:
Ardeth Platte PO Box 518 Georgetown CO80444 USA
Carol Gilbert PO Box 518 Georgetown CO80444 USA
Jackie Hudson PO Box 518 Georgetown CO80444 USA
5) Plougshares prisoner released
ELP is pleased to let everyone know that Rev. Steve Kelly has been released
from prison.
6) Jose Bove gets 14 months imprisonment
And finally......the following news item was spotted on the BBC website.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2492139.stm
French radical farmer Jose Bove will be sent to jail for 14 months for two
offences of destroying genetically modified (GM) crops. Bove had been
seeking to have his sentences of six months and eight months overturned,
but France's highest court, the Cour de Cassation, ruled against him.
It said he should serve the six-month sentence for a 1999 attack on a field
of GM rice near the southern city of Montpellier.
The decision automatically meant that he should also serve the longer
sentence, for a similar attack in 1998.
Appeals
He will not have to go to jail until formally notified of the court's
decision.
Bove said he would appeal to French President Jacques Chirac to pardon him.
"Of course we cannot ask him to overturn the verdict, but he has the power
to stop the sentence being applied," he said in a statement.
"The ball is in his court now."
His lawyer, Francois Roux, said he would also be appealing to the European
Court of Human Rights.
Bove, a sheep farmer from near Millau in southern France, shot to national
prominence after leading protesters in tearing down a partially-built local
McDonald's restaurant in 1999.
McDonald's sentence
He and his supporters have undertaken a series of raids to destroy fields
where the crops are grown, in what they say is a struggle for the "right to
live in a healthy environment".
Last month he was fined 3,000 euros for an attack in 2000 on a field near
the southern French town of Gaudies.
France grows experimental GM crops on about 100 sites, all of which have
been approved by the government.
His attack on the McDonalds restaurant earned him 61 days in jail, which he
completed in August this year.
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Savior Faire writes on Tuesday November 26 2002 @ 03:13PM PST: [ reply |
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read about this and more prisoner info at http://www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk
