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<div><div class="im"><p><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(55,16,62)">Contact: </span><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:rgb(55,16,62)">Steven Angell </span><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:rgb(0,46,218)"><a href="tel:510-590-6467" value="+15105906467" target="_blank">510-590-6467</a><br>
</span><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:rgb(55,16,62)">Tony Marks-Block </span><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:rgb(0,46,218)"><a href="tel:415-238-1359" value="+14152381359" target="_blank">415-238-1359</a><br>
</span><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(55,16,62)">Email: </span><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:rgb(0,46,218)"><a href="mailto:supporttheacac19@riseup.net" target="_blank">supporttheacac19@riseup.net</a>
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</div><p><span style="font-size:21pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(55,16,62)"><b>SFPD subpoenas organizers' Twitter
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<p><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Two of the nineteen demonstrators arrested in SF at the
Columbus Day protest received word last week that their
Twitter accounts have been subpoenaed by the San
Francisco Police Department for the State of California.
The two are a part of the Anti-colonial Anti-capitalist 19
(ACAC 19), a group of protesters initially charged with
felony conspiracy and felony inciting a riot on October 6,
2012, at a march in downtown San Francisco.
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<p><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:rgb(26,26,26)">"This invasion of privacy is part of a current wave of
political repression on the West Coast," stated Marion
Delgado, a member of the ACAC 19's support
committee. "The federal Grand Jury investigations in the
Pacific Northwest and this attempt to stop us from using
social media are connected. We've been attacking
capitalism; they're attacking back." In April of this year, a
prior attempt to gain Twitter records from an Occupy Wall
Street participant, </span><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:rgb(0,46,218)">Malcolm Harris, </span><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:rgb(26,26,26)">saw Twitter fight the
subpoena in court for several months. Harris was
accused of using the social media tool as he was
arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge on October 1, 2011 with
700 other OWS community members.
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<p><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:rgb(26,26,26)">"This is not the first time the online information network
has been used as a resource for </span><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:rgb(0,46,218)">state repression of
political activity. </span><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:rgb(26,26,26)">This is a part of an ongoing effort to chill
political movements in the Bay Area and beyond,"
Delgado continued.
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</div><p></p><div class="im"><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:rgb(55,16,62)">The ACAC 19 were arrested during a march which
occurred as part of a<br>
</span></div><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:rgb(26,26,26)">West Coast Anti-Colonial, Anti-Capitalist Convergence.
Organizers of the convergence stated that they wished to
draw attention to resource extraction, the poisoning of
the Earth, the genocide of Indigenous peoples through
the Columbian Exchange, and the proliferation of
present-day colonial projects, such as the Israeli
occupation of Gaza. Members of the ACAC 19 have
documented injuries including a broken nose, deep facial
cuts requiring stitches, and multiple hematomas which
the ACAC 19 state are the result of being beaten by the
SFPD during their arrests. Despite being charged with
multiple felony counts and being held on a total of over
$735,000 in bail, the DA has since filed only
misdemeanor charges against the defendants. Shortly
after the arrests on October 6, SFPD released the mug
shots and the home addresses of the ACAC 19 to media
outlets, along with allegations not substantiated by the
provided evidence or charges. As a result, some
members of the ACAC 19 found </span><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:rgb(0,37,229)">threatening leaflets </span><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:rgb(26,26,26)">in
their neighborhood with their home addresses
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<p><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:rgb(26,26,26)">and </span><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:rgb(13,73,189)">photos printed </span><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:rgb(26,26,26)">on them.
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<p><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:rgb(26,26,26)">At least one member of the ACAC 19 has also
experienced police harassment at their workplace in the
past month. Members of the ACAC 19 have filed motion
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<p><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:rgb(26,26,26)">to quash these Twitter subpeonas in a San Francisco
misdemeanor court this Friday. Their trial is expected to
begin early next year. They deny all charges and have
maintained their previous political efforts.
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<p><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><b>The ACAC 19 Support Committee</b> is a group of Bay Area
radicals who are organizing together to support nineteen
anti-colonial, anti-capitalist comrades (the ACAC 19) who
were beaten, arrested and subjected to a media smear
campaign by the San Francisco Police Department on
and after October 6, 2012.
</span><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:rgb(0,46,218)"><a href="http://supporttheacac19.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://supporttheacac19.wordpress.com/</a> </span></p>
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