Mn-prog-events Mailing List: 12/7: Green Scare Benefit at the Jack Pine

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What: Benefit for targets of the Green Scare
When: Thursday December 7, 6pm
Where: Jack Pine Community Center
2815 E. Lake St Minneapolis
Cost: $10-$25 sliding scale, and of course NO ONE turned away due to lack
of funds.
info: fightthegreenscare [at] riseup.net

Former Earth Liberation Front Leslie James Pickering and investigative
journalist Will Potter will be speaking at the Jack Pine Social Center on
Dec 7 as part of a panel on the "Green Scare" currently underway in the
US. The event is part of a nationally coordinated Day Of Solidarity, one
year to the day that the FBI made their first arrests of "Operation
Backfire," a multi-state sweep targeting alleged Earth Liberation and
Animal Liberation Front activists with charges of conspiracy and arson.

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Fight the Green Scare!
A panel discussion on the Green Scare, the "War on Terror", and it's
effect on communities of resistance.

Featuring-
Will Potter-Washington, DC based Journalist who closely follows and
reports on the SHAC7 and "Green Scare" cases

Leslie James Pickering-Co-founder of the Earth Liberation Front Press
Office, has acted as spokesperson for several high profile ELF actions.

Dinner/Letter writing to prisoners 6pm

Panel begins at 7pm followed by a Q&A

All proceeds to benefit recent "Green Scare" defendants and prisoners.


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Jack Pine Community Center
2815 E. Lake St., Mpls
www.thejackpine.org
612.729.2837