Timony a criminal
Dear AGR staff,
While I was pleased to learn that the “Timoney-three” have
been allowed to go free according to the page one story in the April
15 issue.. I feel that two important issues regarding Police Chief John
Timoney should have been included in your coverage. First, he was responsible
for the outrageous behavior of police in Miami during the trade summit.
Under his direction, Miami became a “war zone”... uncalled
for repression of citizens to peacefully gather and protest. Due to
false information he fed the public through corporate media, the city
went into a lock-down mode fearing violence from the citizens exercising
their Constitutional rights when it was the police authorities who instigated
violence.
Secondly, this same provocative agent has not been hired as a consultant
for security has been hired as a consultant for security measures...
not for the Republican Convention in New York City... BUT by the Democratic
Party for its convention later this year. I have already conveyed my
ire to the national office of the party... I urge you to do the same.
If we don’t Timoney will again be in a position to repeat the Philadelphia
and Miami repressions.
Lastly, regarding your article on the US nuclear industry... 25 years
after Three Mile Island... The Nuclear Monitor, a publication of publication
of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, recently devoted the
entire issue to the real story of the accident and later consequences.
Two ways to learn more... web: www.nirs.org or write NIRS, 1424 16th
St. NW, #404, Washington DC 20036 to order a printed copy.
Jessica Claydon
Hendersonville, NC
US benefits off slave labor
Dear friends at AGR,
Thank you for your free subscription. It is shared with others at this
prison camp, including Ardeth Platte, a 68-year-old nun and peace activist
who was sentenced to three-and-a-half years for “sabotage”
of a minute man missile silo. She says that AGR is the best newspaper
she’s read. I agree with her. In issue #271 there was an article
in the “Labor Briefs” section concerning Bush violating the
embargo on goods made in Burma/Myanmar. Apparently the Federal Bureau
of Prisons also violates the embargo. I’m enclosing a tag from
the underwear that are issued to women. I don’t know if L.S.I.
provides underwear for all of the women’s prisons or just the FCI
and prison camp at Danbury. Other underwear that is issued to us under
the Fruit of a Loom brand is made in El Salvador. Our bras are “assembled
in Mexico of US components.” All goods are shoddy, the Fruit of
the Loom underwear are “seconds.” The underwear comes apart
and shrinks; we have to order larger sizes.
The U$ [sic] government uses prisoners as slave laborers and purchases
items made, no doubt, in sweatshops that use slave labor also.
Thanks again for the fine, informative newspaper. I look forward to
every issue.
Sincerely,
Beatrice Codianni-Robles
Penbrook Federal Prison Camp
Danbury, CT
EDITORS’ NOTE: Attached to the letter was a tag reading “L.S.I.,
SIZE: 10, 60% COTTON 40% POLYESTER, RN 106124, MADE IN BURMA (MYANMAR)”
