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Free the San Francisco Eight! [/align]


[align=center]http://www.freethesf8.org/index.html%23CDHR[/align]


[align=center]Committee for the Defense of Human Rights[/align]


[align=center]http://freedomarchives.org/BPP/torture.html[/align]


[align=center]Legacy of Torture: The Video [/align]


[align=center]http://www.freethesf8.org/index.html%23profiles[/align]


[align=center]Profiles

Free the San Francisco 8 – Arrested on 30-year Old Charges


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L-R, top to bottom: Ray Boudreaux, Herman Bell, HankJones, JalilMuntaqim, FranciscoTorres, RichardO'Neal, HaroldTaylor, RichardBrown, the late JohnBowman[/align]


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[align=left]Murder Charges Against Former Black Panthers Based on Confessions Extracted by Torture. Eight former Black Panthers were arrested January 23rd in California, New York and Florida on charges related to the 1971 killing of a San Francisco police officer. Similar charges were thrown out after it was revealed that police used torture to extract confessions when some of these same men were arrested in New Orleans in 1973. Richard Brown, Richard O'Neal, Ray Boudreaux, and Hank Jones were arrested in California. Francisco Torres was arrested in Queens, New York. Harold Taylor was arrested in Florida. Two men charged have been held as political prisoners for over 30 years – Herman Bell and Jalil Muntaqim are both in New York State prisons. A ninth man -- Ronald Stanley Bridgeforth – is still being sought. The men were charged with the murder of Sgt. John Young and conspiracy that encompasses numerous acts between 1968 and 1973.

Harold Taylor and John Bowman (recently deceased) as well as Ruben Scott (thought to be a government witness) were first charged in 1975. But a judge tossed out the charges, finding that Taylor and his two co-defendants made statements after police in New Orleans tortured them for several days employing electric shock, cattle prods, beatings, sensory deprivation, plastic bags and hot, wet blankets for asphyxiation. Such "evidence" is neither credible nor legal.

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• Learn more. Join the e-mail list. Write the defendants. Donate. Distribute flyers. Host a house party. Organize a video showing. Come to court. Details on these activities and more on our;

[align=center]http://www.freethesf8.org/what_to_do.html[/align]


[align=center]What You Can Do" page[/align]


[align=center]http://prisonactivist.org/pps%2bpows/bell.html[/align]


[align=center]More about Herman[/align]


[align=left]Ray Boudreaux, 64, of Altadena. "Actually for the last 25 years I've lived a pretty peaceful and quiet life. My politics are still the same. It's just that I'm not active. People come to me sometimes as a peace-maker. And all of that has to do with all of my experience." Write to him - 2301300, 850 Bryant Street, San Francisco CA 94103.[/align]

[*]Richard Brown, 65, of San Francisco. "For the past six years I have been a Community Court Judge Arbitrator working with the San Francisco District Attorney's office. We place a lot of emphasis on restorative justice, so most of the community service done will be done in our own community where the offender can give back to the community." Write to him - 2300819, 850 Bryant Street, San Francisco CA 94103. Henry W. (Hank) Jones, 70, of Altadena. "I [have lived] under the constant threat of another ... incarceration. In essence I have been robbed of peace of mind, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I am therefore compelled to resist these tactics and inform the public of my recent experience, feeling that something similar could happen to anyone given the climate of fear, paranoia, and abuse of authority that is rampant in our country today." Write to him - 2301301, 425 Seventh St, San Francisco CA 94103.

[*]Jalil Muntaqim (Anthony Bottom), 55, of San Francisco, a political prisoner in New York since 1978. "The United States does not recognize the existence of political prisoners. To do so would give credence to the fact of the level of repression and oppression, and have to recognize the fact that people resist racist oppression in the United States, and therefore, legitimize the existence of not only the individuals who are incarcerated or have been captured, but also legitimize those movements of which they are a part." Write to him when he gets to San Francisco; he is now in transit.
[align=center]http://www.freejalil.comMore about Jalil[/align]

[*]Richard O'Neal, 57, of San Francisco. Richard works as a custodian for the city. He had previously worked at the city's Hall of Justice and has been a city employee for more than 25 years. Write to him - 2300818, 850 Bryant Street, San Francisco CA 94103.

[*]Harold Taylor, 58, of Panama City. "In 1971, two brothers and I were set up by the FBI. We didn't learn about COINTELPRO until years later. In 1973 I was arrested in New Orleans and was beaten and tortured for several days. in 2003 the detectives that were responsible for my torture came to my house to try and question me. I have not been the same since." Write to him - 2305584, 850 Bryant Street, San Francisco, CA 94103.

[*]Francisco Torres, 58, of New York City. Cisco born in Puerto Rico and raised in this country. He is a Vietnam Veteran whofought for the grievances of Black and Latino soldiers upon his return to the states. A fomer Black Panther, he has been a community activist since his discharge from the military in 1969. Write to him - 2307534, 850 Bryant Street, San Francisco, CA 94103.


Support the SF8:

• http://www.freethesf8.org/what_to_do.html%23donate

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• http://www.freethesf8.org/what_to_do.html%23write

[align=center]Write [/align]

• http://freedomarchives.org/BPP/legacyscreenings.html

[align=center]View the video[/align]

• 'http://www.freethesf8.org/what_to_do.html%23video

[align=center]Buy & show the video[/align]

• http://www.freethesf8.org/what_to_do.html%23audio

[align=center]Download & play the radio version[/align]

• http://freedomarchives.org/mailman/listinfo/CDHRsupport_freedomarchives.org

[align=center]Get e-mail alerts[/align]

• http://www.freethesf8.org/what_to_do.html%23flyers

[align=center]Print & distribute flyers[/align]

• http://www.freethesf8.org/what_to_do.html%23myspace

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• http://www.freethesf8.org/what_to_do.html%23court

[align=center]Come to court 4/27[/align]


News
The national radio series, Making Contact, has released a radio version of the video –



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[align=center]download MP3s and info[/align]


[align=center]'http://kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch%3d18853[/align]


[align=center]Hard Knock Radio - Without Walls[/align]


[align=center]Feb. 23 audio begins at 12:15 with a letter from Harold Taylor; Dorsey Nunn interviews Soffiyah Elijah and Claude Marks

http://www.freethesf8.org/hunting_the_dead.html[/align]


[align=center]FBI Hunting the Dead Feb. 22, 2007 by Soffiyah Elijah

http://kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch%3d18712[/align]


[align=center]Interview with Kamel Bell Feb. 15, 2007 by JR on Flashpoints – Herman Bell's son takes a long view of the case (interview begins at 38:30 into the audio program)

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[align=center]SF8 court appearance draws support[/align]


[align=center]Feb. 14, 2007 – also http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_045160746.html[/align]


[align=center]video footage

http://www.freethesf8.org/Hanlon_speaks.html[/align]


[align=center]Interview with attorney Stuart Hanlon Feb. 2007 by JR from The Block Report

http://www.freethesf8.org/NLGcondemns.html[/align]


[align=center]National Lawyers Guild SF condemns arrests Feb. 13

http://counterpunch.com/jacobs02082007.html[/align]


[align=center]The Men the Authorities Came to Blame ... The Case of the SanFrancisco8 [/align]


[align=center]Feb.8, 2007 story by Ron Jacobs

http://www.freethesf8.org/erasing_legacy.html[/align]


[align=center]Arrest of Former Black Panthers Aims to Erase Revolutionary Legacy Jan.31, 2007 story by Sérgio Ramires

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid%3d07/01/26/155925[/align]

[align=center]http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid%3d07/01/26/1559250[/align]

[align=center]Democracy Now, Jan.26, 2000 Amy Goodman interviews attorneys for two of the SF8 (audio)

http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch%3d18392[/align]




[align=center]Hard Knock Radio Jan.26, 2007 Greg Bridges interviews Richard Brown and http://freedomarchives.org/BPP/torture.html Legacy of Torture producers Andres Alegria and Claude Marks (recorded before the arrests – audio)

http://www.freethesf8.org/CCR.htmlCenter for Constitutional Rights Press Release Jan.23, 2007 on these recent arrests and torture

]http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section%3dlocal%26amp;id%3d4964954');]Profile of Richard Brown and Richard O'Neal Jan.23, 2007 story with video

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[align=center]Africa Today Jan.22, 2007 with Walter Turner interviewing Claude Marks (2nd half of radio program).

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/jacobs050107.html[/align]




[align=center]A Legacy of Torture: From Cointelpro to the Patriot Act by Ron Jacobs

http://freedomarchives.org/BPP/torture.html[/align]




[align=center]Legacy of Torture: The Video Jan. 2007

http://freedomarchives.org/BPP/docs/TransAfrica_Torture_Forum.pdf'[/align]




[align=center]TransAfrica forum on torture Dec.8, 2005 in U.S. jails and Abu Ghraib (3-page PDF)

http://www.freethesf8.org/John_Bowman_tribute.html[/align]




[align=center]John Bowman remembered

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• http://kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch%3d10569%26amp;page%3d1%26amp;type%3 dall

Africa Today Oct.10, 2005[/url] with Walter Turner and Claude Marks - includes recording of Ray Boudreaux in 2005 and New Orleans torture victim Ruben Scott in 1975 (audio)




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