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Packed courtroom supports Luis Barrios
Published Dec 14, 2006 7:50 PM
About 100 activists, supporters and allies of social justice packed a New York
courtroom Dec. 11 in solidarity with the Rev. Luis Barrios.
Police unjustly arrested Barrios, a longtime Puerto Rican pro-independence and
social-justice activist, and 15 other activists outside the United Nations on
Sept. 19. The activists were protesting the presence of war criminal President
George W. Bush and challenging the “protest-free” zone.
In an act of silent and organized protest, all of those present at the court
stood up when Barrios’ name was called. The judge and the district
attorney postponed his case until Jan. 23 at 9 a.m., at 100 Centre Street, room
206 (part C).
Geoff Millard, a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War and one of the
activists arrested with Barrios, attended the hearing. Millard and Barrios are
the only two out of the “UN 16” who have charges pending against
them. Millard’s court date is Jan. 16.
For more information call 212-926-5757 or e-mail UN16Defense@yahoo.com.
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