Friends: Next week Jerry Brown's minions will try to convince Judge Philip Moscone that there is enough evidence to take the SF8 to trial.  

In the middle of this week, the letter to Jerry Brown will be published in the SF Bay Guardian demanding that he drop these ridiculous charges.    Attached to the letter will be the signatures of some  of the thousands who have signed the letter.   If you have not signed this letter already, please go to the the SF8 web site and sign on. 

Please come to court on June 8th, and If you have not already committed to further dates to attend the hearings, please let me or someone else in the committee know when you can attend. 

See you on June 8th!

Scott

Forwarded Message Follows:

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD FAR AND WIDE!

SF 8 PRELIMINARY HEARING STARTS MONDAY JUNE 8

8 AM RALLY TO DROP THE CHARGES
9 AM COURT HEARING
850 Bryant St. @ 7th., San Francisco

The SF 8 are Black community elders and activists arrested in January 2007 on charges related to the 1971 killing of a San Francisco police officer.  The case against the SF8 is a frame up based on torture-induced "confessions" and fabricated evidence. The same case was thrown out of court 30 years ago but was revived after 9/11 with money from Homeland Security. After two and a half long years, the preliminary hearing is finally starting on June 8 and is expected to last for three months. The hearing will determine whether or not the SF8 will go to trial. 

In an effort to bolster the very weak case against the SF8, the San Francisco Chronicle just published a sensationalistic article filled with racist innuendos and unsubstantiated implications.  Without offering one shred of evidence, the article (John Koopman, 5/24) implies that the murder of a young white woman in 1971 is somehow linked to the SF8.  We must demand that the Chronicle and other corporate media stop circulating such blatant misinformation!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/23/MNU217OU14.DTL

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP:

• Attend court during the preliminary hearing from June to September
• Sign the open letter demanding that Attorney General Jerry Brown drop the charges against the SF8 -http://www.freethesf8.org/what_to_do.html
• Write the SF Chronicle demanding that they retract Koopman's inflammatory article (letters@sfchronicle.com)
• Invite a speaker from the SF 8 Defense Committee to your school or organization
• Donate to support the work to free the SF8 - http://www.freethesf8.org/donate.html
• Sign up to get regular information and updates about the SF8 case -http://freedomarchives.org/mailman/listinfo/CDHRsupport_freedomarchives.org

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 415-226-1120 OR GO TO WWW.FREETHESF8.ORG