I live just over the river...just what is our position on the actions of
Greepeace??  Are we for them or against them?  Let me know so I can draw up my
protest sign and be SHA correct!

Sister Mary
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It is within the boundaries of love that you discover life. Enjoy it!


Quoting George Myers <[log in to unmask]>:

> Civil Rights, Environmental Leaders Call on Ashcroft to Drop Greenpeace
> Prosecution; Cite Threat to First Amendment Rights
>
> 12/8/03 4:35:00 PM
>
>
>
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>
> To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor
>
> Contact: Betsy Ensley of Environmental Media Services, 202-463-6670 or Kalee
> Kreider or Cara Zarcone, 202-822-5200, both of Fenton Communications
>
> News Advisory:
>
> -- Civil Rights, Environmental Leaders Call on Ashcroft to Drop Greenpeace
> Prosecution; Cite Justice Department Threat to First Amendment Right to
> Peaceful Protest
>
> Leaders from a wide range of advocacy groups will join with Greenpeace at a
> Dec. 11 press conference to call on Attorney General John Ashcroft to drop
> his prosecution of Greenpeace for a nonviolent protest by several of its
> supporters.
>
> The criminal prosecution of an advocacy group for the free speech activities
> of its members -- and the chilling effect on its activities -- is
> unprecedented in the United States. It sets a dangerous precedent threatening
> the First Amendment right to peaceful protest.
>
> Greenpeace is facing criminal charges by the Justice Department for an action
> in which two activists boarded a ship carrying illegal mahogany off the coast
> of Miami. They carried a banner urging President Bush to stop illegal
> logging. The Ashcroft Justice Department indicted Greenpeace by unearthing an
> 1872 law enacted to prevent "sailor mongering" -- whereby owners of brothels
> and taverns sought to lure sailors off their ships. There are only two
> prosecutions on record under this law -- the last one 113 years ago.
>
> This press conference takes place on the eve of a Dec. 12 hearing in Miami,
> at which Greenpeace will ask the federal court to dismiss the indictment
> against it.
>
> WHAT: EMS Press Conference to Call for Halt to Greenpeace Prosecution
>
> WHEN: Thursday, Dec. 11, 10 a.m. EST
>
> WHERE: The J.W. Marriott Hotel -- the Russell Room, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue,
> NW, Washington, D.C. (14th & Pennsylvania Ave)
>
> WHO:
>
> -- Julian Bond, chair, NAACP
>
> -- Ralph Neas, president, People for the American Way
>
> -- Gerd Leipold, executive director, Greenpeace International
>
> -- John Passacantando, executive director, Greenpeace USA
>
>
> http://www.usnewswire.com/
>