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From: Mom=*Family First* (291120563)
To:
Date: Mar 14, 2009 12:41 PM
Subject: HELP! Animal Rights Activist Jailed for Resisting Grand Jury


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From: Media For Animal Liberation
(www. myspace. com/420512659)
Date: Mar 14, 2009 12:29 PM
Subject: HELP! Animal Rights Activist Jailed for Resisting Grand Jury


---HELP! Animal Rights Activist Jailed for Resisting Grand Jury---

(Background: two activists, Alex Hall and BJ Viehl, were arrested and charged on March 4th regarding a mink liberation and an attempted mink liberation.
You can add their MySpace support page at myspace. com/supportbjandalex )

Utah animal rights activist, Jordan Halliday, has been jailed today (March 13) for "contempt" by resisting a grand jury that supposedly is regarding the 2008 mink liberations. Judge Tena Campbell granted him immunity, but Jordan has persisted in refusal to cooperate with the grand jury. Judge Campbell chose to forego adding a fine penalty to the contempt of court. Jordan is being held to "compel" him to answer all questions posed by the grand jury which so far have only consisted of questions about who is his family and friends. The next time the grand jury convenes is on Wednesday, March 18th.


(1) Call the Jail to Provide Vegan Food
(2) Write Letters of Support to Jordan
(3) Fight the Green Scare
(4) Background of What Has Happened
(5) Educate Yourself Regarding Grand Juries and Resisting the Witch Hunt
(6) Video: Debunking Myths About Mink Liberations

(1) Call the Jail to Provide Vegan Food

Please call and demand *politely* that he receives vegan meals and ask that he be released as he has not been charged with any crime. Salt Lake County Metro Jail: (801) 743-5000 Dial 1 then 0 to get to an operator or (801) 743 5500 .
Please e-mail the sheriff at http://www.
slco. org/sheriff/forms/shriff_form .


(2) Write Letters of Support to Jordan

Please send letters of support to:

Jordan Halliday #324013
c/o Salt Lake County Metro Jail
3415 S. 900 W.

Salt Lake City, UT 84119

Please view the list of acceptable correspondence:
http://www. slsheriff. org/metrojail/support/mail. html

For up to date information, please visit supportjordan.
com

(3) Fight the Green Scare

Defend Jordan with supportive comments on the article!

Animal Rights Activist Jailed for Contempt
http://www. deseretnews. com/article/1,5143,705290644,00. html

(4) Background of What Has Happened

Utah Activists Resisting "Green Scare" Grand Juries
http://www. greenisthenewred. com/blog/utah-aeta-arrests-response/1122/



(5) Educate Yourself Regarding Grand Juries and Resisting the Witch Hunt

READ THIS: Everyone should educate themselves about grand juries and resisting grand juries. Please read the information below.
It is VERY important that you do so!

1) If you have been indicted, subpoenaed, or contacted by the federal government call the National Lawyers Guild Hotline at 415-285-1041.
This is good advice even if this doesn't involve a grand jury.
I am not a lawyer. Grand jury rules can differ from state to state. Getting into touch with a lawyer, especially one from the NLG, is very important and could be very much in your benefit to do so.


2) Do not cooperate with a grand jury --whatsoever. This is true even if you don't think you have done anything and even if you think you don't know anything. The purpose of a grand jury when it targets activists serves to disrupt, intimidate, chill, sow distrust in, and attack activist communities. If you are aware of the history of government efforts like COINTELPRO and the civil rights movements, this shouldn't be that shocking to you.


3) Not cooperating means refusing to answer *any* questions -- even if the questions seem 101% harmless and unimportant.


4) Invoke your First Amendment and Fifth Amendment rights: respectively, the rights to freedom of speech and association and the right against self-incrimination. Both rights which a grand jury, by design, denies you. In a grand jury, you are also denied the right to have your own attorney present.


5) Tell the media. Most people are unaware of the long history of grand juries being misused purposefully to disrupt, intimidate, chill, and attack social movements.


6) If you have been subpoenaed, also seek support and prepare for needing it if you are put into jail for contempt.
For example, there are political prisoner support websites such as GreenScare. org @ http://www. greenscare. org/.


(Source: Grand Jury Resistance Project @ http://grandjuryresistance. org/)

For more detailed information, read over/save this following pdf pamphlet @ http://midnightspecial. net/projects/grandjury/files/GJRP_Brochure. pdf

A good article by the magazine No Compromise about grand juries:
http://www. nocompromise. org/issues/06crushgj. html

(6) Debunking Myths About Mink Liberations

For good measure, educate yourself about common myths and lies that the fur industry (and the non-fact-checking corporate media) often quips about mink liberations:




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Media is key to shaping views. And views are key to shaping choices.


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