[Vision2020] Megaload protest leads to 3 arrests

[Tom Hansen]

Helen - 

I am including Vision 2020 as addressee of this reply as I do not believe that your comments were posted to V2020.

Please include me in your updates as I will post them to "Moscow Cares".

Furthermore, you may register with Vision 2020 and include it in your updates, as well as any other items concerning the megaloads.

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Thanks,

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change and the Realist adjusts his sails."

- Unknown


On Aug 28, 2011, at 13:02, Helen Yost <helen.yost at vandals.uidaho.edu> wrote:

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> Hi everyone,
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> Thanks to the generous and passionate activists in our anti-megaload community who provided gas funds and posted and delivered bond for me and one of two young, female activists who hitchhiked from Portland to participate in our Thursday protest (but arrived on Friday evening).  We were arrested around 12:30 am on Saturday morning while sitting without seat belts in a stopped vehicle pulled over on Highway 95 (and cited for not wearing seat belts).  When we refused to provide ID (not required of passengers under Idaho state law), the Idaho State Police cuffed and transported us to jail.  Upon release from the Kootenai County jail around 2 pm on Saturday, our visiting comrade had not even received a citation, although we both were held for 12 hours and posted $300 bond.  ISP has handed us, as another protester stated, an excellent "civil liberties court case on a silver platter."
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> Because the following news article was submitted from a second/third-hand source (our allies in Spokane/Coeur d'Alene who have joined the anti-megaload protesting/monitoring fray), we are working today to release more first-person information to the media.  If any of you on the Moscow Vision 2020 list would like to receive notices and updates directly from Wild Idaho Rising Tide about this issue, please contact us by email.  We would also appreciate your suggestions of effective civil liberties-oriented lawyers...
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> Helen Yost
> Wild Idaho Rising Tide
> wild.idaho.rising.tide at gmail.com
> wirisingtide.wordpress.com and on facebook
> 208-301-8039
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> P.S.  More monitoring of mystery megaloads tonight: We need your assistance, as, obviously, some of us are unwelcome on Highway 95 these days...  I will send a WIRT message about Monday and Tuesday daylight monitoring of the Highway 12 megaloads, court dates for the protesters, and other news later today.
>  
> 
> Subject: Megaload protest leads to 3 arrests
> From: thansen at moscow.com
> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 05:20:17 -0700
> CC: marilynbeckett at gmail.com; LoisB at q.com; fprd09 at gmail.com; bhaverstick at yahoo.com; chicory at wildblue.net; indigo3239 at msn.com; fritzknorr at gmail.com; jeannemchale at hotmail.com; wild.idaho.rising.tide at gmail.com; helen.yost at vandals.uidaho.edu
> To: Vision2020 at moscow.com
> 
> 
> Courtesy of today's (August 28, 2011) Spokesman-Review.
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> Megaload protest leads to 3 arrests
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> Three more protesters were arrested early Saturday in Coeur d’Alene as a megaload shipment of oil-excavation equipment passed through the Lake City.
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> Law enforcement officers confirmed that the Idaho State Police made the arrests, but the protesters’ names were not released.
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> One woman taken into custody refused to identify herself, officials said.
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> Nine people have now been taken into custody in North Idaho while protesting the 208-foot-long truckload, which left the Port of Lewiston on Thursday night.
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> The megaload’s permit allows night travel, according to the Idaho Transportation Department.
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> Six protesters were arrested in Moscow early Friday morning, according to the Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
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> In Coeur d’Alene, Tierra Linda, a spokeswoman for the protesters, said concerned residents from North Idaho and Eastern Washington converged on U.S. Highway 95 when the megaload shipment arrived about 12:30 a.m.
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> According to the ITD, the load was scheduled to leave the Latah-Benewah county line at 10 p.m. Friday and travel through Coeur d’Alene, stopping by 5:30 a.m. at milepost 33 at a pullout on Interstate 90.
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> It was to continue on Saturday night and early today to Lookout Pass and the Idaho-Montana state line.
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> The load weighs 413,000 pounds and measures 24 feet wide and 14 feet high. It is permitted to travel 35 mph. The plan calls for allowing vehicles to pass at more than two dozen locations on the route through North Idaho.
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> Linda described the protest as a “nonviolent public witness to challenge the shipment of ExxonMobil tar sands strip-mining equipment to Canada’s threatened Athabasca River Valley.” Oil extraction in the tar sands would create an “Appalachian moonscape over central Canada’s boreal forests and river valleys,” Linda said.
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> The people arrested in Coeur d’Alene were legally following the ExxonMobil convoy to monitor any safety violations and they did not obstruct the equipment, she said. The protesters plan to continue monitoring the megaloads, she said. In Latah County, court records identified the protesters arrested in Moscow as Vincent Murray, 61; Brett Haverstick, 38; Mitchell Day, 40; David Willard, 52; Gregory Freistadt, 26; and William French, 55.
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> They were all charged with misdemeanor unlawful assembly, disturbing the peace and refusal to disperse.
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> French was also cited by the Latah County Sheriff’s Office for malicious injury to property for allegedly breaking out the side window of a jail van, Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson said.
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> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
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> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change and the Realist adjusts his sails."
> 
> - Unknown
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