Subject: Urgent: Forum TONIGHT-War, civil rights, and police brutality
From: "TJ Johnson" <tjjohnson@scattercreek.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 04:59:46 -0800


Community Forum on Police Response to Port Demonstrations
Tonight (Sunday, November 11)
6:30 pm
Traditions Cafe

Yesterday, citizens of this community were brutally victimized by the 
Olympia Police for taking non-violent direct action to oppose the use 
of our public port by the military. 

Others, including myself, were pepper sprayed and shoved with batons 
for doing nothing more than being there to witness and document the 
events, and for trying to help the injured.

The war abroad has now become the war at home.  And it’s a war being 
waged against your friends and neighbors. 

Regardless about how you feel about the use of our port by the military, 
it is important to understand that what is happening to your friends 
and neighbors who demonstrate against it is a threat to the civil rights 
and liberty of everyone.

There will be an important community forum tonight at 6:30pm at Traditions 
to document and discuss what happened.  It is very important that the 
people of this community turn out to bear witness to the stories of 
brutality, and to help the victims process their trauma.

Please, please, please.  Clear your schedule of other obligations and 
join us at Traditions tonight at 6:30 pm.

Contact me if you have questions, and please share this widely.

TJ Johnson
tjjohnson@scattercreek.com


"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people"
- Howard Zinn

"One can either curse the darkness or light a candle to find the way out" 
- Adlai Stevenson

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter" 
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy" 
- Henri de Lubac