Joint G20 solidarity and Civil Rights Defense Public Meeting : Melbourne Indymedia

Dear Friends,

The G20 arrestee solidarity network (ORGASN) has organised a joint public meeting with Civil Rights Defense at 7pm this Thursday the 26th of April, at the Fitzroy town hall, Reading room (cr Napier and Moor st, enter off Napier).

At the meeting we will hear from:

- Marcus Banks from the Austudy 5 about the successful 'drop the charges campaign' run to defend the Austudy 5.
- Anita from ORGASN will speak about the g20 protests, police and media repression that followed, and will update us on the situation currently facing the G20 arrestees.
- Rob Starry, the lawyer who is defending some of the G20 arrestees and the Barwon 13 and will be able to update us on the legal issues in both cases including how the terror laws are being administered in the case of the Barwon 13.
- Colin Mitchell from Civil Rights Defense will update us on the David Hicks, Jack Thomas, anti-terror laws and Barwon 13 campaigns.

Each speaker has 10 minutes to speak. There will be nibbles supplied by Food not Bombs.
Come and get an update, join the discussion and show your support for these campaigns.

Drop the charges! Defend political protest!

Hi Anita.

You should also invite Anthony Kelly, of the Federation of Community Legal Centres to speak at the meeting. Anthony led a group of independent monitors who recorded incidents of police and protestor violence at the G20 action. It would be great to hear an account from a truly independent perspective, free of any self-interest. It may be pertinent to ask Anthony if any of his people have been subpoened by the police to give evidence of their observations of protestor provocation of police on the first day, and how they might get around this rather 'unfortunate truth'.

Look forward to seeing all of you - and Anthony, hopefully! - on the night.

SM

I don't believe he should be invited. Due to his imperfections: Independent, unbiased, honest, non-violent. (although if Sina lends him one of her martial arts weapons he could be made an 'honorary' activist)