Two protesters still jailed after UN protest yesterday..

[annabanana]

Email from Not In Our Name

(An Episcopal Preist and a disabled Iraq war vet..)

Two Civil Disobedience Protesters Still in Jail! 14 Released

Call to demand the release of the two protesters!

As George W. Bush was laying down his diktats to the world in the UN General Assembly, sixteen activists staged a non-violent civil disobedience protest directly in front of the United Nations.

Stung by the fact that the protesters got through intense police security and that they were calling out Bush as a war criminal, several of the demonstrators were hit serious bogus charges:

Father Luis Barrios, from of St. Mary's Episcopal Church and a national leader of World Can’t Wait, was charged with assaulting a police officer. Fr. Barrios was actually knocked to the ground by police from behind as he held up his hands saying “I am not resisting.”

Geoff Mallard, a disabled Iraq war vet, was charged with resisting arrest when he fell down trying to board the police wagon.

Check out the pictures on the World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime! web site:

http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2913&Itemid=223



We urge people to continue to call in to release the two protesters still in.

Central Booking: NYPD Switchboard: 646-610-5000

please kick

[ceile]

1. Kick

[Subdivisions]

2. Police state. Kick

[katinmn]

3. K&N

[Zodiak]

4. A priest protesting for peace assaulting an officer?

yeah, that's believable

[immoderate]

5. K/R

--IMM