URGENT SUPPORT NEEDED FOR ACTIVISTS PROTESTING THE FTAA
The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition calls on all those who have been involved in the
anti-war movement to show their support for those in Miami protesting at
the FTAA negotiations who are being brutalized and incarcerated in a
coordinated police state action designed to stifle dissent in the United
States.
Police have attacked protestors with tear gas, pepper spray, concussion
grenades, stun guns and by shooting activists with rubber bullets. Medics
have not been allowed in through the police lines to treat the injured.
Protestors have been grabbed, seemingly at random, and taken off the street
in snatch operations conducted by police in unmarked vehicles. The police
are also directly targeting the legal support for the demonstrators,
including National Lawyers Guild Legal Observers. Many who have been taken
away have been beaten.
Your urgent help is needed now. The National Lawyers Guild and the Miami
Activist Defense are asking that you contact the Mayors, the City Attorney,
Police Chief Timoney and the media. Below is contact information -- please
call or email now and let them know their actions will not be tolerated.
The attack on the protestors gives lie to the claim that the U.S. is
fighting for democracy abroad -- when people who participate in political
dissent at home are subject to brutal systematic police abuse and
government repression.
The U.S. government in pursuit of corporate globalization uses all methods
in its arsenal - from invasion and bombing to economic sanctions and IMF
imposed austerity plans. The FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) is
merely another mechanism to extend the exploitative reach of corporate
domination over the people of the Americas.
Show your solidarity with the people in the streets of Miami. Miami
Activist Defense asks that the following be contacted:
ALEX PENELAS
Mayor, Miami-Dade County
305-829-9336 home
305-375-5071 office
MANUEL A. DIAZ
Mayor, City of Miami
305-250-5300
305-375-5071
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JOHN TIMONY
Chief of police
305-673-7925
305-579-6565
ALEJANDRO VILARELLO
City Attorney
305-416-1800
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JOE ARRIOLA
City Manager
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JOHNNY WINTON
Miami City Commissioner
305-858-7344 home
305-250-5333 office
KATY SORENSON
Miami Dade County Commissioner
305-375-5218
305-378-6677
Local media has been grossly biased in their coverage. While this is
somewhat to be expected the following are numbers that people could call.
CBS4: 305-639-4551, 305-639-4601, 305-639-4426
WPLG channel 10: 305-576-6397
WSUN Fox: 954-524-0388 (Rosh Lowe)
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A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
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FOR MORE INFORMATION
http://www.InternationalANSWER.org
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