[Nettime-bold] US Political Prisoners Segregated After Sept. 11 Attacks

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 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: "Block, Diana" <DBlock@sfghpeds.ucsf.edu>
 > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001
 >
 >
 >  PLEASE  LET  PEOPLE  KNOW:
 >
 >  Several political prisoners in the U.S. Federal Prison System have in
 >  the last few days, (since Sept. 11),  been rounded up into isolation
 >  units. (SHU: security Housing Units)  These political prisoners include
 >  Marilyn Buck, Sundiata Acoli, and Carlos Alberto Torres.  Marilyn for
 >  instance, is not receiving mail, not able to make phone calls, and
 >  perhaps most disturbingly-- cannot communicate with her lawyers.
 >
 >  We've been asking the lawyers if this is legal -  they think the
 >  prisoners are not supposed to lose their right to counsel no matter what
 >  the circumstances..  Abrogating the right to council erases a
 >  fundamental civil right.  No one in the Bureau of Prisons will say how
 >  long this punishment  and suspension of civil rights for political
 >  prisoners will go on.
 >
 >  We DO want people to know this is happening..  Do spread the word in the
 >  political community and to the media about this example of stripping
 >  away of our basic rights in the name of fighting terrorism. *** BUT ,
 >  this is a very delicate situation and the prisoners are vulnerable so
 >  ** Please no phone or fax campaigns yet,. until we have more information
 >  from the attorneys.
 >
 >
 >
 >  Outside contact for Marilyn Buck is  Friends of Marilyn Buck:
 >
 >  c/o Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, 100
 >       McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA 94102. E-mail:
 >  fombuck@yahoo.com. (This outside
 >       support group includes members who also work with Out of Control,
 >  Leonard Peltier Defense
 >       Committee, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Bay Area
 >  chapter of Jericho Amnesty
 >       Movement, the New York Three, PARC and other prison activist
 >  organizations).
 >
 >  More info on Marilyn at
 >  http://www.prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/marilynbuck/
 >
 >  I believe more info on Sundiata and Carlos can be linked to via
 >  http://www.prisonactivist.org/links/
 >  or at  http://www.thejerichomovement.com/
 >
 >  --Lisa Rudman


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