[Peace] Fwd: A Letter from the Hospital

[Pamela Rochford]

Anyone familiar with this group?

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> From: "Marlowe D Thorne" <mdthorne at insightbb.com>
> Date: 8 September 2007 18:48:47 BDT
> To: "Dorotha Russell" <dmruss61 at insightbb.com>
> Cc: "Pamela Rochford" <pamela.rochford at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: Fw: A Letter from the Hospital
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tina Richards
> To: mdthorne at insightbb.com
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 10:16 PM
> Subject: A Letter from the Hospital
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> Grassroots America, A Non Profit
> September 6, 2007
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EAfPgX7gs0
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> All Power to the People
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> As many Iraq vets called shortly after my release and asked, "why  
> you?" I responded, "If not me then who, If not now, when?"
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> On September 6, 2007 I arrived at a press conference where Adam  
> Kokesh and I wanted to demonstrate the legal application of the  
> September 15 coalition.  An attorney scouted the area prior and  
> this utility box was chosen to be in legal compliance with the  
> law.  As this coalition doesn't have millions of dollars to  
> advertise like Ari Flesher's latest campaign, putting up lawful  
> posters is a way to inform the grassroots cost-effectively.
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> As the video shows (and there are many other getting uploaded as I  
> write), the hostile and violent manner in which the police reacted  
> to our lawful act of free speech shows how afraid they are.
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> I have been asked if knowing all that would happen, the  
> intimidation, the injuries and pending legal costs, would I do it  
> again.  "Yes," I have answered.  "Any day is a good day for the  
> first amendment."
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> Grassroots America survives on small donations from around the  
> country and as I focus on organizing the grassroots, I often don't  
> find time for fundraising. Now faced with medical bills and legal  
> fees, it may become more than I am able to continue.  If you have  
> been thinking of donating to Grassroots America, please donate now.  
> We are a 501 (c) 3 with all donations tax deductible. Without  
> yourdonation, this maybe the last month we operate.
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> Thank You,
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> Tina Richards
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> WASHINGTON (AFP) - Mounted police charged in to break up an outdoor  
> press conference and demonstration against the Iraq war in  
> Washington on Thursday, arresting three people, organizers and an  
> AFP reporter said.
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> "The police suppressed the press conference. In the middle of the  
> speeches, they grabbed the podium" erected in a park in front of  
> the White House for the small gathering, Brian Becker, national  
> organizer of the ANSWER anti-war coalition, told AFP.
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> "Then, mounted police charged the media present to disperse them,"  
> Becker said.
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> The charge caused a peaceful crowd of some 20 journalists and four  
> or five protestors to scatter in terror, an AFP correspondent at  
> the event in Lafayette Square said. No one appeared to have been hurt.
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> Three people -- Tina Richards, the mother of a marine who did two  
> tours of duty in Iraq; Adam Kokesh, a leader of the Iraq Veterans  
> Against the War group; and lawyer Ian Thompson, who is an organizer  
> for ANSWER in Los Angeles -- were arrested, Becker said.
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> The ANSWER coalition is trying to rally support for an anti-war  
> demonstration in Washington that is due to take place on September 15.
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> Last month, the movement was threatened with a fine of at least  
> 10,000 dollars unless it removed posters in the city announcing the  
> September 15 march.
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> Washington city authorities have said the posters had to come down  
> because they were stuck on with adhesive that did not meet city  
> regulations.
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> "At our demonstration today we were showing the media that the  
> paste we use conforms to the rules," Becker said.
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> "One of our activists was making a speech when the police barged in  
> and grabbed the podium. At that point, Tina Richards started to put  
> up a poster, so they arrested her and two others."
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> "This strategy of suppression has not worked. We expect many tens  
> of thousands of people" in Washington for the September 15 anti-war  
> demonstration, he said.
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> The march has been timed to coincide with the release of a report  
> by the US military commander in Iraq,General David Petraeus, and  
> will be part of a week of protests led by veterans of the Iraq war.
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> A petition calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush,  
> allegedly carrying one million signatures and endorsed by former US  
> attorney general Ramsey Clark, will also be submitted to officials  
> during the week's activities, ANSWER has told AFP.
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> "There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so  
> odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you  
> can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies  
> upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the  
> apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to  
> indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that  
> unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at  
> all!" - Mario Savio
> Tina Richards
> Grassroots America, A Non Profit
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Pamela Rochford
B.A.(Hons) PGCE Dip Hom(UK) PCH MARH



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