Rob "Ruckus" Middaugh, a former political prisoner, a Chicano-Mexicano anti-authoritarian, has been served by the FBI with a Subpoena to testify before a Federal Grand Jury in San Diego at the Federal Office Building, 880 Front Street, in Room 5251 or 5254 (according to the notice) on Tuesday, June 28, at 1:30 p.m. Middaugh was imprisoned for three years as a result of his arrest at the Long Beach police riot against an anarchist celebration of May Day several years ago. After his release from prison, he was threatened with further federal prosecution over a previous case that grew out of opposition to a racist "American Patrol" anti-Mexican and anti-immigrant rally at the Westwood Federal Building, during one of the racist group's annual Fourth of July rallies, which included open neo-nazis.
Rob needs our support, along with the others subpoenaed to appear in San Diego. There are also several grand juries in the SF Bay Area, which have been issuing subpoenas to animal and earth defenders and to former Black Panthers and their supporters. These grand juries are part of a new wave of repression, and as in past instances, represent a fishing expedition to try to create divisions among, and extract information from, activists and organizers. In the past such grand juries have actually been used for political internment, by granting limited "immunity" as a means to coerce people's testimony by stripping them of the fifth amendment protection against self-incrimination. It is another example of the new McCarthyism that is taking hold under the USA PATRIOT Act and the "endless war on terror," which is trying to criminalize dissent. We must defeat these grand jury witch-hunts the way previous similar campaigns were defeated, by universal non-collaboration and a refusal to talk to the FBI or to testify to the grand jury. For more information, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED], or check out www.geocities.com/jerichoamnestycoalitionla or www.FBIwitchhunt.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
