URGENT SUPPORT NEEDED FOR ACTIVISTS PROTESTING THE FTAA

["nello margiotta" <nellomargiotta55@virgilio.it>]

The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition calls on all those who have 
been involved in the anti-war movement to show their 
support for those in Miami protesting at the FTAA 
negotiations who are being brutalized and incarcerated in 
a coordinated police state action designed to stifle 
dissent in the United States.

Police have attacked protestors with tear gas, pepper 
spray, concussion grenades, stun guns and by shooting 
activists with rubber bullets. Medics have not been 
allowed in through the police lines to treat the injured.

Protestors have been grabbed, seemingly at random, and 
taken off the street in snatch operations conducted by 
police in unmarked vehicles. The police are also directly 
targeting the legal support for the demonstrators, 
including National Lawyers Guild Legal Observers. Many who 
have been taken away have been beaten.

Your urgent help is needed now. The National Lawyers Guild 
and the Miami Activist Defense are asking that you contact 
the Mayors, the City Attorney, Police Chief Timoney and 
the media. Below is contact information -- please call or 
email now and let them know their actions will not be 
tolerated.

The attack on the protestors gives lie to the claim that 
the U.S. is fighting for democracy abroad -- when people 
who participate in political dissent at home are subject 
to brutal systematic police abuse and government 
repression.

The U.S. government in pursuit of corporate globalization 
uses all methods in its arsenal - from invasion and 
bombing to economic sanctions and IMF imposed austerity 
plans. The FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) is 
merely another mechanism to extend the exploitative reach 
of corporate domination over the people of the Americas.

Show your solidarity with the people in the streets of 
Miami. Miami Activist Defense asks that the following be 
contacted:

ALEX PENELAS
Mayor, Miami-Dade County
305-829-9336 home
305-375-5071 office

MANUEL A. DIAZ
Mayor, City of Miami
305-250-5300
305-375-5071
mannydiaz@ci.miami.fl.us

JOHN TIMONY
Chief of police
305-673-7925
305-579-6565

ALEJANDRO VILARELLO
City Attorney
305-416-1800
law@ci.miami.fl.us

JOE ARRIOLA
City Manager
jarriola@ci.miami.fl.us

JOHNNY WINTON
Miami City Commissioner
305-858-7344 home
305-250-5333 office

KATY SORENSON
Miami Dade County Commissioner
305-375-5218
305-378-6677

Local media has been grossly biased in their coverage. 
While this is somewhat to be expected the following are 
numbers that people could call.
CBS4: 305-639-4551, 305-639-4601, 305-639-4426
WPLG channel 10: 305-576-6397
WSUN Fox: 954-524-0388 (Rosh Lowe)

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