Susan Gaertner to Face Protest Friday in Chicago

Re-posted from Chicago Indymedia:

Support the RNC 8: Susan Gaertner, the Prosecutor of the RNC 8 is coming to Chicago!

Susan Gaertner, the Prosecutor of the RNC 8, will be here, in Chicago, to receive an award at the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section Meetings Award Ceremony, Friday evening, July 31 2009.

Lets give Susan Gaertner the award of a proper Chicago welcome, in addition to providing her ABA peers and colleagues informed critiques and discussion of her politically-motivated abuses of those involved in organizing dissent.

NO PEACE FOR SUSAN GAERTNER!
DROP THE CHARGES!
INFORMED RNC 8 SUPPORTERS ARE EVERYWHERE, INCLUDING CHICAGO!

INFORMATIONAL PICKET:
When: FRIDAY, July 31, 2009, 5:00PM
At: The John Marshall Law School, 315 S. Plymouth Court, Chicago, IL

(315 S. Plymouth Court, is on the small street located between; Van Buren & Jackson, and; State & Dearborn, - Just North of Herald Washington Library).

For more information, see RNC8.ORG.  Please re-post to individuals, web sites, list-serv’s, blogs, etc.

* * * * Background * * * *

DEFEND THE RNC 8

The RNC 8 are Twin Cities residents facing felony conspiracy charges for organizing against the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul. MN. They were arrested preemptively (many in early morning house raids), held for the duration of the convention, and prevented from participating in the very protests they helped to make happen. They spent the next seven months being demonized as “terrorists” by Ramsey County officials, and they are still facing possible prison time for exercising their right to dissent.

We demand that Ramsey County Prosecutor Susan Gaertner DROP ALL CHARGES against them.

This case is an opportunity to demonstrate community solidarity is the face of repression, and to establish a precedent of the face of repression, and to establish a president of successful resistance to the government’s attempts to destroy our movements. The RNC 8 aren’t the first nor the last organizers to be targeted by the state. By actively defending them, we help defend us all.

DEFEND THE RNC 8! RNC8.ORG