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Monday February 07, 2005 20:18

by Solidarity

They're in Jail for Us, We're out Here for Them!

Thre are growing number of civilian anti-war activists and military resisters in U.S. prisons & militar brigs for resisting the war on Iraq.

Consider wrting a postcard or a letter of solidarity to them!

They're in there for us, we're out there for them!

Message #2 from Elton Davis;
Feb. 5, 2005
Leavenworth Federal Detention Center
Leavenworth KS

The nun calls for general intercessions at the Leavenworth Detention
Center eucharistic service: "Let us remember those who gave their
lives so that the people in Iraq can vote tomorrow. Let us call them
peacemakers. Let us pray to the Lord."

"Lord, hear our prayer," respond the 25 or so orange-clad inmates
attending the service. I can't take it and interrupt to ask the Sister
how she can call those who brought war to Iraq "peacemakers." She
tells me that there are those who have lost friends and loved ones in
the conflict. The implication is that I should hold my tongue.

After the service, a couple of federal inmates tell me how proud they
are of the US for "kicking Saddam's ass," and stroll off laughing. One
has "white power" tattooed across his back. Almost got his butt kicked
while taking a shower when he first arrived here. That was by a black
guy who took exception to the racist message inscribed on his body.
Now he pays tax to avoid problems. A real tough guy.

I arrive back in the pod. A ball game is starting on television.
Someone is singing an ode to war, the US National Anthem. A color
guard of soldiers and marines stand there holding a US flag as war
planes fly over the stadium. I count four commercials recruiting for
the Army and Marines by half-time and then we're locked down for
count. The message of war and militarization is everywhere we look:
in our churches, schools, and beamed into our very homes.

At mail call a letter comes with monthly updates from Ardeth Platte and
Carol Gilbert, nuns of an entirely different stripe, serving time in
federal prison for a Plowshares direct nuclear disarmament action.
Turning to Micah 4:3 and Isaiah 2:4, I read the passages calling for
"beating swords into ploughshares" in the context of a restored Zion.
For some reason, I am suddenly overwhelmed by a wave of nostalgic
homesickness. I miss the family farm of my youth. I can see and smell
the shiny, black earth as the 14" triple bottom rips and turns the
prairie in springtime. I recall how my heart was ripped out of the
earth as I was taken off of that farm. The stages of my life come to
my mind's eye. It is plain how my technical skills and abilities were
honed to meet the needs of the so-called military industrial complex.
Through the hardness of my heart, I have become the sword in need of
conversion.

My brief 90 day stint in Federal custody only serves to foster a strong
desire to return to the earth. I wish to delve deep and plant my heart
back in the cool, moist soil. I am Zion in need of restoration.

Elton

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You are invited to Elton Davis' Coming Out of Jail and Welcome Home
Party

Date: Saturday February 19th
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Place: Apartment of Sally Frank, 3660 Grand Ave., Des Moines IA

You all are Welcome!

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The Devils Dollar Sign aka Deception Dollars

by The Devil and George Warmonger Bush - The Black House WMD Symphony Orchestra

Tue Feb 15, 2005 07:54

666 War Liar Dr, Bushism TX PO Box Big Energy

666-Old-Nick Ext. Bush

Behind all this Satanic Perversion of Good and Evil and "Law and Order" (The Bushites have nothing but Contempt for both) are The Bushites and their Fascist Law and Order Puppets.

Prison Adresses to send letters & postcards!

Mon Feb 07, 2005 20:22

Sacred Earth and Space Plowshares
Jackie Hudson 08808-039 (30 months – out 7/05 or with good time 3/04/05 with three years of supervised release to follow prison)
Federal Prison Camp, Victorville
P.O. Box 5100
Adelanto, CA 92301
USA

Carol Gilbert 10856-039 (33 months – out 10/05 or with good time, 5/23/05, with three years of supervised release to follow prison)
Alderson FPC
Box A
Alderson, WV 24910
USA

Ardeth Platte 10857-039 (41 months – out 6/06 or with good time, 12/22/05 with three years of supervised release to follow prison)
Federal Correction Institution
331/2 Pembroke Station
Danbury, CT 06811
USA

Nuclear Resisters
Helen Woodson 03231-045
c/o Bates County Jail
P.O. Box 60
Butler, MO 64730
USA
(Protest at federal courthouse, Kansas City, Missouri, 3/11/04 violates parole following 3/9/04 release from prison.)

Overseas, These Nuclear Resisters Are Known To Be In Prison:
Yuri I. Bandazhevsky (8 years – in 12/04)
Valiuk for Bandazhevsky Y.I.
231318 Grodnenskaya oblast
Lidski raion
Peskovtsy, ul, Oktiabrskaya 2
Belarus
(Chernobyl researcher and whistleblower fraudulently convicted of corruption, 6/01)

Igor Sutyagin (15 years)
c/o Irina Petrovna Manammikova (wife of prisoner)
Zvezdnaya, d, 1A, kv. 82
Obninsk, Kaluga region 249039
Russia
(imprisoned since 10/27/99, now convicted of espionage for researching public nuclear weapons information for disarmament research)

The Following People Are Now In Prison For Anti-War Related Activities
Vieques
José Vélez Acosta 23883-069 (33 months – out 1/27/06)
USP POB 1033
Coleman, Florida 33521
USA

José Pérez González 21519-069 (5 years – in 9/05/03)
Atlanta USP
601 McDonough Blve. S.E.
Atlanta, GA 30315
USA

José Montañez Sanes 26317-069 (18 months –out 5/15/05 )
MDC Guaynabo
P.O. Box 2147
San Juan, PR 00922-2147
USA

Jorge Cruz 26318-069 (18 months – out 6/06/05)
FCI Edgefield
501 Gary Hill Road
P.O. Box 723
Edgefield, SC 29824
USA

Military Refusers
Camilo Mejia (one year-out 3/05)
Building 1490
Randolph Rd.
Fort Sill, Ok 73503
USA
(National Guard member went AWOL after 2003 Iraq duty, turned self in as conscientious objector, 3/15/04, sentenced to one year)

Sgt. First Class Abdullah W. B. Webster (14 months, in 6/3/04)
Box 339538
Fort Lewis, WA 98433-9536
USA
(refused Iraq dity convicted after CO petition rejected more information)

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