FrankRep
10-07-2007, 11:12 AM
Activists Face Six Months in Prison for Putting Up Anti-War Poster
AfterDowningStreet.org
Washington, D.C.-- Three activists who were arrested at a press conference near Lafayette Park appeared in Washington D.C. Superior Court yesterday where they were given a trial date of January 3, 2008, and face a six-month prison sentence.
Adam Kokesh of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Tina Richards of Grassroots America, and Ian Thompson of the A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition where arrested during a press conference near Lafayette Park where the National Park Service deployed mounted police and a SWAT team to disrupt it. (See URL for video below.) The press conference was called to display the lawful way to apply posters in response to almost $40,000 in postering fines levied against the ANSWER Coalition.
The posters advertised the September 15 March on Washington and Die-In led by Iraq War Veterans that was attended by 100,000 people. Police arrested 200 people at the Die-In on the steps of the Capitol.
"The Constitution gives me the right to freedom of speech," said Tina Richards. "We lawfully applied the posters and we have the right to freedom of speech."
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SOURCE:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/27485
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Adam Kokesh, Tina Richards Arrested for Defying Poster Ban
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5EAfPgX7gs0
AfterDowningStreet.org
Washington, D.C.-- Three activists who were arrested at a press conference near Lafayette Park appeared in Washington D.C. Superior Court yesterday where they were given a trial date of January 3, 2008, and face a six-month prison sentence.
Adam Kokesh of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Tina Richards of Grassroots America, and Ian Thompson of the A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition where arrested during a press conference near Lafayette Park where the National Park Service deployed mounted police and a SWAT team to disrupt it. (See URL for video below.) The press conference was called to display the lawful way to apply posters in response to almost $40,000 in postering fines levied against the ANSWER Coalition.
The posters advertised the September 15 March on Washington and Die-In led by Iraq War Veterans that was attended by 100,000 people. Police arrested 200 people at the Die-In on the steps of the Capitol.
"The Constitution gives me the right to freedom of speech," said Tina Richards. "We lawfully applied the posters and we have the right to freedom of speech."
...
SOURCE:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/27485
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Adam Kokesh, Tina Richards Arrested for Defying Poster Ban
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5EAfPgX7gs0