[Pnews] Prison Breaks NOT Prison Parties - Update and action for those beaten and arrested

[Prisoner News]

fyi all... I was there for over an hour (before the arrests).  It was 
good to protest this so-called prison party and the energy was strong 
and positive.  Really too bad that folks ended up beaten and arrested!

Diana Block

For Immediate Release: June 29, 2014
Contact: gayshamesf at yahoo.com <mailto:gayshamesf at yahoo.com>

Trans and Queer Activists Beaten and Arrested During SF Pride

San Francisco's Mission District – At least six people were arrested on 
Saturday night after a protest against a prison-themed Kink.com party.

The six included a National Lawyers' Guild Legal Observer; several 
protesters were clubbed and beaten to the ground after a protest 
numbering several hundred marched to the Armory at 14thand Mission 
Streets in the Mission District, from a 10 p.m. gathering at the 16th 
Street BART Station. Two of the arrestees have been released; four are 
still in custody as of 4 a.m. Sunday morning.

The promoters of the Kink.com party mockingly invited people to "get 
arrested" and enjoy "solitary confinement, showers, jailbreak, love and 
lust, freedom and confinement." The protesters argued that the party was 
a crude event that profited off of the brutality suffered by trans women 
and gender nonconforming people of color, who are so often funneled into 
the prison industrial complex.

"This is a travesty--on the anniversary of the famed Stonewall 
Rebellion, where trans and queer people rose up against police 
brutality, that six people would be arrested for protesting an SF 
Pride-sanctioned party that celebrated state violence and prison rape," 
said Mary Lou Ratchet, a Gay Shame (gayshamesf.org 
<http://gayshamesf.org/gayshamesf.org>) representative. The march was 
organized by Gay Shame and LAGAI (www.lagai.org 
<http://gayshamesf.org/www.lagai.org>).

A coalition of community groups and members of the gay community, 
including Pride Grand Marshals, had already signed on to a petition 
condemning the event:http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/ 
51040/p/dia/action3/common/ public/?action_KEY=14295 
<http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/%2051040/p/dia/action3/common/%20public/?action_KEY=14295>

take action:

Please join us in continuing and advancing the struggle for liberation 
from the prision industrial complex by calling in to the SF DA's office 
to demand that the charges against Rebecca, Prisca, and Sarai are dropped.

Please call in to either
(415) 553-1751
(415) 553-1754

basic ask:

"We demand that the DA's office Drop the Charges against Rebecca Luisa 
Ruiz-Lichter, Prisca Carpenter, Sarai Robles-Mendez."

Please feel free to add any additional comments and spread the word.


Petitioning Office of San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón Drop 
the Charges against Rebecca Ruiz-Lichter, Prisca Carpenter, Sarai 
Robles-Mendez 
<http://www.change.org/petitions/office-of-san-francisco-district-attorney-george-gasc%C3%B3n-drop-the-charges-against-rebecca-ruiz-lichter-prisca-carpenter-sarai-robles-mendez?share_id=ywvAdyzJTu&utm_campaign=share_button_action_box&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition>

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