Grand Juries and the Green Scare

http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_4239

Deborah Rosenstein
11 November 2009

EMERGENCY UNPERMITTED MARCH

BE READY TO TAKE THE STREETS TO STOP BUSINESS AS USUAL IN RESPONSE TO THE UPCOMING SURGE IN AFGHANISTAN

LEAVING FROM THE SW CORNER OF LORING PARK AT 5:30 PM ON THE DAY OF OBAMA’S ANNOUNCEMENT AND MARCHING ON THE FINANCIAL SECTOR OF DOWNTOWN MINNEAPOLIS.

TO GET THE CALL: text “ follow DASWO” to 40404 OR email daswo.tc@gmail.com

Counter-protest at MN State Capitol from 11:00 am to 1 pm, THIS SATURDAY,

November 14^th. Meet in front of Capitol Building in St. Paul

The Grand Jury subpoena for Scott DeMuth is now available here and on http://davenportgrandjury.wordpress.com.

And don't forget about these upcoming events!

Potluck and Discussion about Grand Jury Resistance
November 12, 6:00 P.M.
Seward Cafe, 2129 E Franklin Ave.
 

Come support Carrie and Scott and show that our community will stand together to fight state repression!

At 8:00 there will be a hip-hop show with Testament and Guante.

grand jury subpoena

Almost a month after Twin Cities activist Carrie Feldman was subpoenaed to an Iowa grand jury, another activist was served a subpoena on the same street corner at the same time and same day of the week.  Late Monday afternoon, Scott DeMuth's car was surrounded by a gaggle of local and federal unmarked vehicles on 31st Street near Powderhorn Park.  Several men got out, nervously walked to the car, and handed DeMuth the subpoena requesting his fingerprints.

Both activists have been asked to appear next Tuesday before the Davenport, Iowa grand jury that appears to be investigating a 2004 Animal Liberation Front action targeting vivisection at the University of Iowa.  At the time, Feldman was a 15-year-old high school sophomore in Minneapolis.

Related: Subpoena PDF | Statement from DeMuth/Support Info | Thursday: Grand-Jury Send-off Potluck and Hip-hop Show @ Seward Cafe | 10-14: Local Activist Subpoenaed to Grand Jury in Iowa | Solidarity Rally Also: Bogus Subpoena Against US Indymedia | Video: Carrie Feldman on Grand Juries & Luce Guillen-Givens on the Green Scare

reposted from the Electronic Frontier Foundation: http://www.eff.org/wp/anatomy-bogus-subpoena-indymedia

Other coverage:
http://rawstory.com/2009/11/feds-wanted-data-visitors-news-site/

Probable anonymous post in question re: I-69 resistance:
http://indymedia.us/en/2008/06/32113.shtml
 

A second person, Scott DeMuth of Minneapolis, has been subpoenaed to the federal grand jury in Davenport, Iowa. Scott, along with previously subpoenaed anarchist Carrie Feldman, plans to resist the grand jury. His statement, as well as support info, is below.

On Sunday, November 8th, Beth El Synagogue in St. Louis Park hosted former Secretary of State, National Security Adviser and oil company apparatchik Condoleezza Rice; Twin Cities Indymedia got footage of Rice attacking the Goldstone Report which exposed Israeli war crimes in Gaza.

Members of Beth El's congregation protested the offensive invitation for months, only to get refused access to the congregation newsletter and board discussions. Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) led the organizing of an anti-torture protest outside.

During the action, Beth El security and the police attempted to demand the protest relocate away from the nearest public sidewalk into a so-called "FIRST AMENDMENT AREA" because Beth El had obtained its own protest permit from the St Louis Park police, apparently a 'covert op' of sorts. (The police didn't indicate if free speech still existed in other 'areas'.) On two occasions beforehand the police refused to return calls about any possible permits, then they attempted to spring this setup on WAMM, merely proving further the hopeless corruption and futility of the entire demonstration permit system itself. Of course profits were involved for Rice, who netted cash from the high-price event. Below: more videos, photo stills, detailed notes on Rice's speech, and the fight inside Beth El.

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