Earth Liberation Prisoners! Bulletin

Dear friends ELP has five lots of news for you today:

1 (USA) Three new eco-pris­on­ers
2 (Italy) Mar­co Mar­torana under house arrest
3) (Britain) Jan Lawrence released
4 (USA) Mes­sage from Kevin Tubbs sup­port cam­paign
5 (USA) More mail restric­tions for the 7th Decem­ber arrestees.

1) ELP has just learnt about the arrests of three peo­ple in Amer­i­ca who have been accused of plan­ning to car­ry out Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front activ­i­ty. As we under­stand it, they have not been accused of actu­al­ly doing any­thing, just accused of “plan­ning” to do some­thing. (Does this sound famil­iar to any­one?)

The news of the arrests has lit­er­al­ly only just come in so we have very lit­tle details, how­ev­er below is a main­stream media arti­cle which reports the arrests.

Please send urgent let­ters of sup­port to:

LAUREN WEINER X‑4198634 BKGF
Sacra­men­to Coun­ty Main Jail
651 “I” Street
Sacra­men­to, CA 95814
USA

ZACHARY JENSON X‑4198632 BKGM
Sacra­men­to Coun­ty Main Jail
651 “I” Street
Sacra­men­to, CA 95814
USA

ERIC MCDAVID X‑2972521 BKGM
Sacra­men­to Coun­ty Main Jail
651 “I” Street
Sacra­men­to, CA 95814
USA

If any­one has oth­er fur­ther infor­ma­tion about Lau­ren, Zachary or Eric or their alleged offences please do get in con­tact. And here is that main­stream media arti­cle we promised you:

FBI Arrests 3 Sus­pect­ed ELF Mem­bers In Auburn, Foils Plot To Blow Up Cell Tow­ers And Pow­er Plants

(CBS 13) SACRAMENTO The F.B.I. has foiled an alleged plot to blow up cell tow­ers, pow­er plants and U.S. For­est Ser­vice sites by arrest­ing three sus­pect­ed ELF mem­bers in Plac­er Coun­ty.

The FBI made the arrests this morn­ing after a long inves­ti­ga­tion. 20-year-old Zachary Jen­son of Mon­roe, Wash­ing­ton, 20-year-old Lau­ren Wein­er of Philadel­phia and 28-year-old Eric Tay­lor McDavid of Foresthill, Cal­i­for­nia were tak­en into cus­tody in a shop­ping cen­ter park­ing lot in Auburn. The FBI says the three were act­ing on behalf of the Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front.

The FBI says the arrests were based on evi­dence that the three were plot­ting to use explo­sives to blow up sev­er­al sites. Their alleged tar­gets includ­ed facil­i­ties owned by the Unit­ed State For­est Ser­vice, cell tow­ers and pow­er plants. Although, the FBI says they do not believe there was any imme­di­ate dan­ger to the pub­lic.

The fed­er­al gov­ern­ment calls the Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front an envi­ron­men­tal ter­ror­ist group with no known leader. They have claimed respon­si­bil­i­ty for dozens of attacks that have caused an esti­mat­ed $40 mil­lion in dam­age.

This is not the first ELF arrest in Plac­er Coun­ty. In Feb­ru­ary of last year, 21-year-old Ryan Lewis of New­cas­tle was arrest­ed in con­nec­tion with a series of explo­sive devices found at sev­er­al Plac­er Coun­ty sites. The FBI says he also was act­ing on behalf of the ELF.

2) Despite the bad news of the above arrests, ELP does have some good news. Ital­ian anar­chist Mar­co Mar­torana has been released from prison under house arrest.

3) Stay­ing with the good news. British ani­mal rights activist Jan Lawrence has been released from prison under the elec­tron­ic tag­ging sys­tem.

4) ELP has received the fol­low­ing mailout from Kevin Tubbs sup­port cam­paign.…

Hi Every­one,

Just want­ed to send out an update on Kevin Tubbs. Kevin is still being housed at the Lane Coun­ty Jail in Eugene, Ore­gon. He is await­ing trans­port to the fed­er­al deten­tion cen­ter in Sheri­dan, Ore­gon, but we have no way of know­ing when this will hap­pen. This may be as soon as next week, or may be in a cou­ple of months. In the mean­time, all of the let­ters of sup­port from peo­ple are real­ly keep­ing Kev­in’s spir­its up. He tries very hard to respond to each per­son that he receives a let­ter from. Jail is a very cold and lone­ly place, and mail call is the high­light of the day. Check out all of Lane Coun­ty Jail’s rules of cor­re­spon­dence. He can receive let­ters and cards as long as there is no glit­ter, stick­ers, sta­ples, any­thing taped or glued down, etc.… Envelopes are with­held from him so please remem­ber to also write your return address on the let­ter itself. (But a return address label stuck on the let­ter will be reject­ed)

Kevin turns 37 this com­ing Wednes­day, Jan­u­ary 18th. Please take the time to send Kevin a birth­day greet­ing! It real­ly means a lot to him. We would love to flood him with cards and let­ters from friends and strangers. It will only take a minute and it will mean so much to him! Let­ters can be sent to:

Kevin Tubbs #1213751
Lane Coun­ty Jail
101 West 5th Ave
Eugene, OR 97401
USA

As soon as we have a new address for him we will post it to his sup­port web­site, www.supportkevintubbs.org . Please con­tin­ue to check the web­site for updates.

Kevin can use sup­port in the form of books, let­ters and mon­ey. Right now, we are hold­ing off on send­ing him a lot of books, because if and when he is trans­ferred, he will not be able to take any per­son­al belong­ings with him. We will post a read­ing wish list to his web­site soon.

Any dona­tions of sup­port can be sent to: Kevin Tubbs Sup­port Fund c/o PO BOX 3025 Eugene, OR 97403. Checks or mon­ey orders can be made out to Kevin Tubbs. A con­trib­u­to­ry account has also been set up at Ore­gon Com­mu­ni­ty Cred­it Union and dona­tions can be deposit­ed direct­ly into the account that is held in trust for him. Kevin has a large fam­i­ly of res­cued cats and dogs and is very con­cerned about being unable to pro­vide for their long-term care. Any dona­tions of sup­port are great­ly appre­ci­at­ed.

You can also con­tribute to Kev­in’s com­mis­sary fund at the jail so he can buy paper, postage and oth­er neces­si­ties. You must send mon­ey orders only, with his full name and pris­on­er ID num­ber on the mon­ey order, mailed in a sep­a­rate enve­lope from any card or let­ter to the same address as above.

We will send out anoth­er update as soon as he has been trans­ferred and has a new address. Thanks for all of your sup­port,

Friends and Fam­i­ly of Kevin Tubbs

5) As men­tioned above, there are some very strict restric­tions on what can and can not be sent to the pris­on­ers, arrest­ed on the 7th of Decem­ber 2005, who are held at Lane Coun­ty Jail. Anoth­er “rule” the jail has come up with is that NOTHING may be attached to the enve­lope oth­er than stamps and address labels. Any let­ter which is sent to the prison which con­tains any­thing else attached to the enve­lope will be reject­ed, this includes Air Mail stick­ers! Just recent­ly British ELP had copies of our newslet­ter, Spir­it of Free­dom, reject­ed by the prison because they arrived in envelopes that had Air Mail stick­ers on them! If you are writ­ing to the 7th of Decem­ber pris­on­ers from out­side Amer­i­ca and send­ing your let­ter by Air Mail please do not use an Air Mail stick­er, but instead just man­u­al­ly write Air Mail where the stick­er should be. ELP will nat­u­ral­ly keep you informed as to all the crazy rules Lane Coun­ty Jail is com­ing up with.

Also just to let peo­ple know, ELP has dis­cov­ered that Lane Coun­ty Jail is NOT allow­ing the 7th of Decem­ber pris­on­ers to write to over­seas sup­port­ers. There­fore if you live out­side of Amer­i­ca and have not received a reply to your let­ter of sup­port, please don’t feel dis­ap­point­ed. Your let­ter was very much appre­ci­at­ed. Its just the pris­on­er isn’t allowed to reply to you. How­ev­er please don’t let the fact the pris­on­er can not reply to your let­ter stop you from writ­ing again. As men­tioned above, the pris­on­ers love receiv­ing your let­ters and as Kev­in’s sup­port cam­paign men­tions, for many pris­on­ers the high­light of their day is when the mail arrives.

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“Prison is a weapon used by the State to crush indi­vid­u­als who step out of line” (Michael Collins — for­mer May­day 2000 pris­on­er)

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