[Omd] supporting J18 defendants

[john.hollingsworth at sympatico.ca]

There's a lot in there worth talking about, and some nuts-and-bolts stuff to deal with too.

Can we set a D/T/L for an OMD meeting? I think that everyone other than Joeli is around.

John

> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:59:55 -0700
> From: mattm-b at resist.ca
> To: omd at lists.resist.ca
> Subject: [Omd] supporting J18 defendants
> 
> hey folks,
> 
> so i'm wondering a few things:
> 
> a) has roger indicated what, if any, kind of support he'd like? if no one
> has asked him recently, can someone who is in contact with him do so?
> 
> b) same for claude
> 
> c) i would like some omd folks to take on speaking about the case and
> situation - right now i find that speaking about it, and saying the thinsg
> i fele need to be said, really does my head in and negatively effects my
> mental health.  i feel that it is important to clarify the facts of the
> case as there has been a great deal of distortion in the media, as well as
> in diverse activist communities.  i know people are busy, but i would like
> us to be a bit more pro-active about this.  otherwise, i am still trying
> to deal with the whole experience of being arrested and going to jail.  i
> think i've reached a point where i am able to start dealing with it and
> with various other things, which is good.  i would expect that roger, when
> he gets out, will also be dealing with trauma and maybe "post-traumatic
> stress disorder" and perhaps we can think about how we can support him.  i
> expect people have been thinking about this, actually.
> 
> i am hoping to get some government id soon, so maybe i'll be able to go
> visit roger - although given that he hasn't answered any letters or called
> me, i'd like ot be sure that he's ok with that.
> 
> i have started to contact various people and groups to see about getting
> them (them in this case being mostly commonists and commonist groups)
> involved in supporting roger.  jon hunt suggested trying to do something
> at an international level, which i thought was a very interesting
> suggestion, both practically and in terms of the benefits of having
> roger's case known internationally. the obvious place to start is the
> states, maybe with the abc's there - a few people from new york wrote me
> while i was at innes.  in any case, i asked them to start supporting
> roger, but i didn't give them any concrete ways to do so - aside from
> writing him, which i suggested. it would be good to have a clearer idea of
> what exactly supporting J18 defendants looks like at the moment.
> 
> those are my thoughts.
> 
> love and solidarity,
> matt
> 
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