Thursday, July 29, 2010

Facing 16 Years In Prison For Videotaping Police




"The ACLU of Maryland is defending Anthony Graber, who faces as much 
sixteen years in prison if found guilty of violating state wiretap laws

because he recorded video of an officer drawing a gun during a traffic stop. ...
Once [the Maryland State Police] learned of the video on YouTube,
Graber's parents' house was raided, searched, and four of his
computers were confiscated. Graber was arrested, booked, and jailed.
Their actions are a calculated method of intimidation.
Another person has since been similarly charged under the same statute.

The wiretap law being used to charge Anthony Graber is intended 
to protect private communication between two parties.
According to David Rocah, the ACLU attorney handling Mr. Graber's case
'To charge Graber with violating the law, you would have
to conclude that a police officer on a public road, wearing 
a badge and a uniform, performing his official duty, pulling 
someone over, somehow has a right to privacy when it comes
to the conversation he has with the motorist.'" Here are a factsheet (PDF)
on the case from the ACLU of Maryland, and the video at issue.

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Solidarity Poster for Polykarpos Georgiadis and Vaggelis Chrisohoidis (greece)



POSTER SAYS:
did anyone speak of a
KIDNAPPING?
“…A handful of capitalists
have organized a criminal gang
and have kidnapped the proletarians,
demanding for ransom
their labor force,
merchandising their human activity,
their time (which is turned into money),
their own being itself…”
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
to vaggelis Chrisohoidis and Polykarpos Georgiadis
who the persecuting authorities, exactly because they denied to betray values and people,
accuse them as participators in the kidnapping of industrialist Milonas
anarchists from Serres from north-greece


Anarchists solidarity protest outside Korydallos prison, the main prison in Athens, at the time of the change of the year. This protest happens every New Year's Eve for the past six years. This year more than 400 people took part in the protest that interacted with the prisoners inside through shouting mutual slogans and fireworks. The main slogan was "The passion for freedom is stronger that your prisons".
NEW YEAR OUTSIDE IN KORRIDALOS PRISON 2011
Watch live streaming video from agitprop at livestream.com
FIRE TO ALL PRISONS

A society that punishes/the condition of incarceration/the prison of the mind/the prison as punishment/the rage of the damned will sound on the ruins of prisons/those denying obedience and misery of our era even within its hellholes/will dance together on the ruins of every last prison/with the flame of rebellion avenging whatever creates prisons.

To the prisoners struggle already counting one dead and thousands in hunger strike across greece, we stand in solidarity and anger until the destruction of every last prison.


ARSON AND WILDFIRE FOR EVERY PRISON

SOLIDARITY TO ALL PRISONERS IN GREECE


Keny Arkana - La Rage English Subtitles

1976 - 2000 Greek Anarchists Fight for Freedom

(December Riots in Greece)