[Imc-web] Fwd: [Imc-us-editorial] Fwd: PROPOSAL FOR FEATURE
ARTICLE: ANTI-I69 TREE SIT EVICTED, POLIC
Brian Dolinar
briandolinar at gmail.com
Sat Jun 21 07:29:17 CDT 2008
Can we promote the I69 article as a feature at ucimc.org?
so it is syndicated to us-imc?
I think we're the closest IMC to Evansville.
Some folks below want to know.
BD
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From: Echograph <echograph at echograph.com>
Date: Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Imc-us-editorial] Fwd: PROPOSAL FOR FEATURE ARTICLE: ANTI-I69
TREE SIT EVICTED, POLIC
To: Editorial Working Group for IMC-US <imc-us-editorial at lists.indymedia.org
>
Do you have anyone there at the scene that can post media to an IMC site so
it gets syndicated to US-IMC?
On Friday, June 20, 2008, at 12:11 PM, Brian Dolinar wrote:
Very important - please feature. BD
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Amy L. Dalton <ald at riseup.net> wrote:
>
> this was sent to the imc-us list.
>
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> Subject: PROPOSAL FOR FEATURE ARTICLE: ANTI-I69 TREE SIT EVICTED, POLICE
> RECKLESSLY PULL PROTESTERS FROM TREE TOPS
> From: Campaign Media <i69media at yahoo.com>
> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:51:59 -0700 (PDT)
> To: imc-us at lists.indymedia.org
>
> header:
> INDIANA, UNITED STATES- ANTI I-69 TREE SIT
>
> title:
> ANTI-I69 TREE SIT EVICTED, POLICE RECKLESSLY PULL PROTESTERS FROM TREE TOPS
>
> abstract:
> June 20th 7am, Evansville Indiana -- In the early morning hours of June
> 20th,
> around 25 police officers from the Indiana State Police (ISP), Indiana
> Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) and the Gibson County Sheriff's
> office descended on the scene of the anti-I69 tree sit, just south of
> State Road 68 in southern Gibson County (20 miles north of Evansville).
> They worked quickly to forcibly and recklessly evict the two tree
> sitters from the trees. After reaching the ground they were arrested,
> having their faces smeared in poison ivy in the process. The whereabouts
> of the ground support crew is still unknown. Visit
> http://stopi69.wordpress.com for more information
>
> Body:
> June 20th 7am, Evansville Indiana -- In the early morning hours of June
> 20th,
> around 25 police officers from the Indiana State Police (ISP), Indiana
> Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) and the Gibson County Sheriff's
> office descended on the scene of the anti-I69 tree sit, just south of
> State Road 68 in southern Gibson County (20 miles north of Evansville).
> The police officers, many of them trained specifically for this
> purpose, brought in "cherry pickers" and other platform raising
> equipment in order to reach the sitters. The two people in the trees at
> the time of eviction were lowered to the ground, after being forcefully
> and dangerously approached by Conservation Officers of the IDNR.
>
> Sitting
> on platforms suspended 40 feet above the ground, the tree-sitters were
> not in positions from which they could be easily and safely removed.
> Arresting officers' reckless behaviors, however, resulted in
> protesters' quick eviction. One protester was not attached to a
> safety line during the eviction, but was still hostilely handled by
> the Conservation Officers. As they reached her with the cherry picker,
> they pulled her unattached to anything that would have prevented her
> tumbling to the ground, putting her life in great danger.
>
> After
> evicting the first sitter, officers moved on to the second. They raised
> the cherry picker below the platform to threaten the sitter, and then
> lifted the platform with the cherry picker. They proceeded to cut the
> support line that was holding it in the tree. This protester had locked
> himself onto the ropes using a "lock box" device intended to help him
> evade eviction. The officers cut that rope, leaving this protester also
> without any form of safety.
>
> After the tree-sitters were forcibly removed from their tree top
> positions, they were lowered,
> cuffed and placed on the ground below the trees. From a telephone
> recording made during the eviction, it is clear that the arresting
> officers purposefully laid one of the protesters face down into a patch
> of poison ivy.
>
> People not involved in the tree-sit eviction this
> morning have reported to the media office that state police officers
> are pulling people over on the state highways in the vicinity of the
> sit. One person reports that they were surrounded by 5 police vehicles
> when stopped. As well, it has been reported that one car had its tires
> blown out by the state police in order for them to arrest all of the
> occupants of that vehicle.
>
> The
> information in this press release was compiled by the I-69 Media
> Office, an independent anti-I69 media clearinghouse.
>
> links:
> http://stopi69.wordpress.com
>
> picture links:
> http://stashbox.org/119436/i69SiteThreeBanners.jpg
>
>
>
>
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> Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
>
> <html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;}
> --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new
> york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span style="font-weight:
> bold;">header:</span><br>INDIANA, UNITED STATES- ANTI I-69 TREE
> SIT<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">title:</span><br>ANTI-I69
> TREE SIT EVICTED, POLICE RECKLESSLY PULL PROTESTERS FROM TREE
> TOPS<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">abstract:</span><br><span
> style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;"
> class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1213968115_3">June 20th 7am</span>, Evansville
> Indiana -- In the early morning hours of <span style="border-bottom: 1px
> dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts"
> id="lw_1213968115_4">June 20th</span>,
> around 25 police officers from the Indiana State Police (ISP), Indiana
> Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) and the Gibson County Sheriff's
> office descended on the scene of the anti-I69 tree sit, just south of
> State Road 68 in southern Gibson County (20 miles north of Evansville).
> They worked quickly to forcibly and recklessly evict the two tree
> sitters from the trees. After reaching the ground they were arrested,
> having their faces smeared in poison ivy in the process. The whereabouts
> of the ground support crew is still unknown. Visit
> http://stopi69.wordpress.com for more information<br><br><span
> style="font-weight: bold;">Body:</span><br><span style="border-bottom:
> 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts"
> id="lw_1213968115_3">June 20th 7am</span>, Evansville Indiana -- In the
> early morning hours of <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0,
> 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts"
> id="lw_1213968115_4">June 20th</span>,
> around 25 police officers from the Indiana State Police (ISP), Indiana
> Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) and the Gibson County Sheriff's
> office descended on the scene of the anti-I69 tree sit, just south of
> State Road 68 in southern Gibson County (20 miles north of Evansville).
> The police officers, many of them trained specifically for this
> purpose, brought in "cherry pickers" and other platform raising
> equipment in order to reach the sitters. The two people in the trees at
> the time of eviction were lowered to the ground, after being forcefully
> and dangerously approached by Conservation Officers of the <span
> style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background:
> transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer;
> -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin:
> -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"
> class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1213968115_5">IDNR</span>.<br><br>Sitting
> on platforms suspended 40 feet above the ground, the tree-sitters were
> not in positions from which they could be easily and safely removed.
> Arresting officers' reckless behaviors, however, resulted in
> protesters' quick eviction. One protester was not attached to a
> safety line during the eviction, but was still hostilely handled by
> the Conservation Officers. As they reached her with the cherry
> picker,
> they pulled her unattached to anything that would have prevented her
> tumbling to the ground, putting her life in great
> danger.<br> <br>After
> evicting the first sitter, officers moved on to the second. They raised
> the cherry picker below the platform to threaten the sitter, and then
> lifted the platform with the cherry picker. They proceeded to cut the
> support line that was holding it in the tree. This protester had locked
> himself onto the ropes using a "lock box" device intended to help him
> evade eviction. The officers cut that rope, leaving this protester also
> without any form of safety.<br><br>After the <span style="border-bottom:
> 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts"
> id="lw_1213968115_6">tree-sitters</span>
> were forcibly removed from their tree top positions, they were lowered,
> cuffed and placed on the ground below the trees. From a telephone
> recording made during the eviction, it is clear that the arresting
> officers purposefully laid one of the protesters face down into a patch
> of poison ivy.<br><br>People not involved in the tree-sit eviction this
> morning have reported to the media office that state police officers
> are pulling people over on the state highways in the vicinity of the
> sit. One person reports that they were surrounded by 5 police
> vehicles
> when stopped. As well, it has been reported that one car had its tires
> blown out by the state police in order for them to arrest all of the
> occupants of that vehicle.<br><br>The
> information in this press release was compiled by the I-69 Media
> Office, an independent anti-I69 media clearinghouse. <br><br><span
> style="font-weight:
> bold;">links:</span><br>http://stopi69.wordpress.com<br><br
> style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">picture
> links:<br></span>http://stashbox.org/119436/i69SiteThreeBanners.jpg<span
> style="font-weight: bold;"><br></span></div></div><br>
>
>
>
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