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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Scott,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’m confused. What law did she break? Did she have a right to peaceful assembly – even if the police department didn’t like that she chose to exercise that right? Or, is it the case that a police order to disperse carries the weight of a law? Maybe one of the attorneys on V2020 can help me to understand the issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Rose<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Scott Dredge<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 25, 2014 8:10 PM<br><b>To:</b> Tom Hansen<br><b>Cc:</b> viz<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] FW: Solidarity with Ferguson<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>She said 'I was very calm' which is tantamount saying 'I [felt] very calm'. Oh...kayyy?<br><br>Beyond that, is there a point to this story? Old woman knowingly breaks law and is arrested. It's not really ground breaking news. Are the police supposed to be mind readers that she's a holocaust survivor and then give her a a free pass?<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center id=stopSpelling></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] FW: Solidarity with Ferguson<br>From: thansen@moscow.com<br>Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 18:23:57 -0700<br>CC: v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm; vision2020@moscow.com<br>To: scooterd408@hotmail.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>That does not explain how Hedy Epstein felt or what she was thinking. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>It merely explains WHAT SHE AND THE POLICE DID, ok?<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" target="_blank"><span style='color:black'>http://www.MoscowCares.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Moscow, Idaho<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>"There's room at the top they are telling you still.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>If you want to be like the folks on the hill."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>- John Lennon<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br>On Aug 25, 2014, at 6:11 PM, Scott Dredge <<a href="mailto:scooterd408@hotmail.com">scooterd408@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Tom writes:<br><I can hardly imagine how Hedy Epstein felt, and what she was thinking, when she was arrested.><br><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>She offers up detailed a detailed first hand account into how she felt. [Hedy Epstein] said. “This time I was very calm. The police told us to move and we refused. So they arrested us.”</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>“They have a job to do and they did what they had to do,” she said. “They handcuffed us, drove us to the station, and charged us with failure to disperse.”</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center id=ecxstopSpelling></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From: <a href="mailto:moscowcares@moscow.com">moscowcares@moscow.com</a><br>Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 13:14:55 -0700<br>To: <a href="mailto:v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm">v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm</a><br>CC: <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] FW: Solidarity with Ferguson<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I can hardly imagine how Hedy Epstein felt, and what she was thinking, when she was arrested.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Courtesy of the New York Daily News at:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/holocaust-survivor-90-arrested-protest-st-louis-article-1.1909363" target="_blank">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/holocaust-survivor-90-arrested-protest-st-louis-article-1.1909363</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>--------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><h1 style='line-height:25.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box' id=ecxa-header><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#111111;letter-spacing:-.75pt'>Holocaust survivor, 90, is arrested for protesting in St. Louis in support of Michael Brown<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h2 style='mso-line-height-alt:11.25pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box' id=ecxa-subheader><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Hedy Epstein, a German Jew who fled to England as a child before World War II started, has been protesting against injustice since she was a teen. She’s been arrested before for protesting, and was cuffed again Monday in downtown St. Louis during a rally against Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon’s decision to send the National Guard into Ferguson, Mo. ‘I didn't think I would still be doing this when I was 90,” she said. “But we have to stand up for what’s right.'<o:p></o:p></span></h2></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>She may not be the loudest protester, but 90-year-old Hedy Epstein is likely the oldest person demanding justice for Michael Brown.</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>And she has the bruises on her arm to prove it.</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>“The police officers weren’t violent or anything like that, but they put the handcuffs on me pretty tight,” the St. Louis grandmother told The Daily News on Tuesday — a day after she was arrested.</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>“I have been arrested before,” she said. “The bruises will go away.”</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>A German Jew who fled to England as a child before World War II erupted — and whose parents and other relatives were murdered by the Nazis at the Auschwitz death camp — Epstein is a longtime political activist.</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Most recently, Epstein has taken part in numerous protests against the Israeli bombing of Palestinians in Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>On Monday, Epstein said she was in downtown St. Louis to protest Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon’s decision to send the National Guard into Ferguson, Mo.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>“We were hoping to get him to de-escalate the violence,” said Epstein. “We believe they are inciting the peaceful demonstrators to become violent.”</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Epstein said she “hadn’t given a thought to being arrested.”</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>But just before the protest march kicked off, Epstein said “somebody announced there would be arrests and they asked me if I was willing to take that risk.”<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>“I said yes,” she said. “It was very spontaneous.”</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Epstein said they marched over to a government building and began demanding to speak with Nixon. She said the cops said no and threatened to arrest them if they didn’t scram.</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>“In the past my heart would pound a mile a minute,” she said. “This time I was very calm. The police told us to move and we refused. So they arrested us.”</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Epstein said the officers treated them professionally.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>“They have a job to do and they did what they had to do,” she said. “They handcuffed us, drove us to the station, and charged us with failure to disperse.”</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Epstein, who lived in New York when she first emigrated to the U.S. in 1948, said she has protested against what she sees as injustice “since I was a teenager.”</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>“I didn't think I would still be doing this when I was 90,” she said. “But we have to stand up for what’s right.”</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>--------------------</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, 90, is arrested on Monday during unrest outisde the office of Missouri Gov Jay Nixon in St. Louis.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><hedy-epstein.jpg><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>-------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" target="_blank"><span style='color:black'>http://www.MoscowCares.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Moscow, Idaho<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>"There's room at the top they are telling you still.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>If you want to be like the folks on the hill."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>- John Lennon<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br>On Aug 25, 2014, at 12:40 PM, "Saundra Lund" <<a href="mailto:v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm">v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Paul wrote:</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>“While I'm in a condemning mood, I would also like to condemn the people involved in the looting that has occurred.”</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Me as well. Two (or more) wrongs don’t make a right, but again, I think there’s a world of difference between a handful of thugs acting badly and State agents acting really, really badly.</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>And, I’ll just add a bit. I realize that I’m just as privileged as everyone else who was fortunate enough to be born white in this country with the protection of the US Constitution. That said, there is something soul-changing -- at least there was for my daughter and me and many, many others on our train -- that happens when encountering a militarized police presence on domestic soil. There is something terrifyingly soul-changing when one – even in a crowd -- is surrounded and held captive by a militarized police presence with assault rifles trained on the crowd, bellowed threats for doing nothing wrong, surrounded by big military vehicles, and helicopters swirling overhead.</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>While watching live coverage of the protests, I was reminded – again – that our Constitutional rights don’t matter one bit in the face of militarized police forces (and other instances of LE abuse of power).</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>And, I was incredibly sad that many of those hundreds and hundreds of protestors who did absolutely nothing wrong have now had that soul-changing experience.</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Finally, as the survivor of a violent crime, I can tell you that my first-person experience that really terrible things do, indeed, happen to good people at the hands of criminals pales in comparison to the soul-changing experience of being surrounded and held captive by a militarized police force.</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Saundra</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Moscow, ID</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That's the essence of inhumanity.</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>~ George Bernard Shaw</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> Paul Rumelhart [<a href="mailto:paul.rumelhart@gmail.com">mailto:paul.rumelhart@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 25, 2014 10:48 AM<br><b>To:</b> Saundra Lund<br><b>Cc:</b> Moscow Vision 2020<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] FW: Solidarity with Ferguson</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I did not realize that this event was to protest the way the police had handled the protests in Ferguson. I had assumed that the event was to protest the killing of Michael Brown, which is what I was talking about when I said I didn't have enough information to know whether or not to be enraged over this. That was my mistake. My apologies for not reading the entire message.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I wholeheartedly think the cops in Ferguson went overboard in how they handled this entire event, from the first press conferences to the curfews to the way they have handled the crowds and journalists. The way they have handled journalists is exceptionally bad and at complete odds with the First Amendment. Even third-world countries are smart enough not to do that.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>While I'm in a condemning mood, I would also like to condemn the people involved in the looting that has occurred. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Saundra Lund <<a href="mailto:v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm" target="_blank">v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Are you saying, then, that the domestic militarization of police in this country is OK in some places/situations but not in others? Did I completely misunderstand your previous posts about police militarization? “</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>I really think the militarization of the police is a bad idea.”</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You do understand, don’t you, that with respect to Ferguson, the topic of police militarization refers to the LE response to unarmed non-violent protestors exercising their Constitutional rights & journalists covering the police response and not to Darren Wilson’s shooting of unarmed Mike Brown, Jr., right?</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>What facts are you waiting for before you decide whether <b>those</b> actions are OK with you? Did not scene after scene after scene of LE pointing assault rifles at unarmed and non-violent citizens reinforce the position you’ve taken about the militarization of police being a bad idea? Did it not concern you that journalists and civilians were ordered to stop filming LE response over and over and over again? Did not the targeted deployment of tear gas canisters and concussion grenades at a news crew with no protestors nearby concern you? There’s the now infamous incident of that unhinged St. Ann cop who pointed a loaded semi-automatic assault weapon at unarmed protestors, some of whom had their hands up, and journalists and announced, “I’ll f*cking kill you,” but that’s certainly not the only unhinged cop I saw or heard during the protests.</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Just Curious,</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Saundra</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Moscow, ID</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> Paul Rumelhart [mailto:<a href="mailto:paul.rumelhart@gmail.com" target="_blank">paul.rumelhart@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 25, 2014 7:51 AM<br><b>To:</b> Saundra Lund<br><b>Cc:</b> Moscow Vision 2020</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] FW: Solidarity with Ferguson<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Paul's waiting for more actual facts before he gets enraged over this.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Saundra Lund <<a href="mailto:v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm" target="_blank">v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Glad to see you're sticking to type, Scott, with your predictable denial that race has anything to do with anything. I put that in the same category as the idiotic comment you made that felons don't have problems finding jobs & housing. Just plain ignorant and living in some imaginary World According to Scott that has no connection to reality.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>For me, there are lots of things that concern me about Ferguson, and yes, race is one of the things, although not necessarily with respect to the actual killing of Mike Brown Jr. That's a question I don't think will ever be answered.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>But, the fact of the matter -- for me -- is I think anyone who isn't concerned when police shoot & kill unarmed people is an idiot. That concern doesn't necessarily mean that the killing was dirty, but to not concerned? Idiotic. I actually think gun-wielding agents of the State have a higher duty to preserve life than do thugs. Go figure.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I also think Ferguson gave the whole country -- at least those not living under rocks -- a good picture of the real life consequences of the militarization of the police. Paul, I think, has posted on that topic a few times, so it's . . . curious to me he didn't bring up the topic with such a great real world example.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>There are several other significant concerns, but I really don't see much reason to engage in discussion with you since you predictably want to boil everything down to "race baiting."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#888888'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#888888'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#888888'>Saundra</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>On Sun, Aug 24, 2014, at 01:50 PM, Scott Dredge wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I'd guess they will show up in droves. Race baiting and anti-establishment sentiment are effective in mobilizing young people who are more driven by peer pressure and emotion in jumping to conclusions rather than rationally waiting for all for the facts surrounding this tragic event to emerge and coming to an informed opinion.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>As for me, I'll keep an open mind that this could be 'racist cop shoots and kills black kid minding his own business', but until I'm convinced beyond a reasonable doubt I won't be rendering a verdict.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>-Scott<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>On Aug 24, 2014, at 3:12 PM, "Saundra Lund" <<a href="mailto:v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm" target="_blank">v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Here’s hoping our local college students make me proud </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> I’ve given my hubby a head’s up to be aware & hopeful that some of his students walk out tomorrow morning and to not take it personally </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’m curious: is anyone here planning on going to Spokane Tuesday to participate in the rally?</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Saundra</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> Amnesty International USA [<a href="mailto:alerts@takeaction.amnestyusa.org" target="_blank">mailto:alerts@takeaction.amnestyusa.org</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 24, 2014 9:59 AM<br><b>To:</b> <br><b>Subject:</b> Solidarity with Ferguson</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=650 style='width:487.5pt;background:white'><tr><td colspan=3 style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=650 style='width:487.5pt;background:white'><tr><td width=25 style='width:18.75pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:0%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=25 height=104 id="ecx_x005f_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CFC0A4.AE3FF3B0" alt="Image removed by sender. template image"></span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=242 style='width:181.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:0%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.e-activist.com/ea-campaign/broadcast.response.do?ea.url.id=273186&ea.campaigner.email=BAD5ZdktWlKbKzOfDY5p9fmkGi65H1302t8RM2eLScw=&ea_broadcast_target_id=0" target="_blank"><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=242 height=104 id="ecx_x005f_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CFC0A4.AE3FF3B0" alt="Image removed by sender. Amnesty International USA Action Alert"></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=358 style='width:268.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:0%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=358 height=104 id="ecx_x005f_x0000_i1027" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CFC0A4.AE3FF3B0" alt="Image removed by sender. template image"></span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=25 style='width:18.75pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td></tr></table></div></td></tr><tr><td width=25 rowspan=2 style='width:18.75pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td><td width=600 style='width:6.25in;background:#A00A32;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:22.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:white'>Solidarity with Ferguson, Missouri</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=25 rowspan=2 style='width:18.75pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td></tr><tr><td width=600 style='width:6.25in;padding:11.25pt 0in 7.5pt 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 align=right width=210 style='width:157.5pt'><tr><td style='background:#F2F0F0;padding:0in 0in 3.75pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=210 height=40 id="ecx_x005f_x0000_i1028" src="cid:image004.jpg@01CFC0A4.AE3FF3B0" alt="Image removed by sender. Get Involved"></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br><a href="http://www.e-activist.com/ea-campaign/broadcast.response.do?ea.url.id=273187&ea.campaigner.email=BAD5ZdktWlKbKzOfDY5p9fmkGi65H1302t8RM2eLScw=&ea_broadcast_target_id=0" target="_blank"><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=175 height=175 id="ecx_x005f_x0000_i1029" src="cid:image005.jpg@01CFC0A4.AE3FF3B0" alt="Image removed by sender."></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#999999'>Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>A police officer in Ferguson, Missouri fatally shot unarmed teenager Michael Brown on August 9.<br><br>This week, the Ferguson community is asking us to take to the streets.</span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Dear Saundra & Bill,<br><br>On August 9, Mike Brown, an unarmed 18-year old, was shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. It’s moments like this that draw us in, and that demand solidarity, because all lives matter and human rights are at stake. <br><br>You have taken action online. Now, the Ferguson community is asking for us to take to the streets: </span><o:p></o:p></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>On Monday, August 25, Mike Brown's family is laying him to rest. <b>Ferguson community members are asking college students to <a href="http://www.e-activist.com/ea-campaign/broadcast.response.do?ea.url.id=273188&ea.campaigner.email=BAD5ZdktWlKbKzOfDY5p9fmkGi65H1302t8RM2eLScw=&ea_broadcast_target_id=0" target="_blank">walk out of their classes at 1pm EST/10am PST</a> and assemble in solidarity with victims and survivors of police brutality. <a href="http://www.e-activist.com/ea-campaign/broadcast.response.do?ea.url.id=273189&ea.campaigner.email=BAD5ZdktWlKbKzOfDY5p9fmkGi65H1302t8RM2eLScw=&ea_broadcast_target_id=0" target="_blank">Will you join them?</a></b></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For the rest of the week, people around the world are rallying at U.S. federal buildings and U.S. embassies to <b>call on the Department of Justice to create policies that respect human rights</b>. We'll be joining, and we want you to stand with us and with the people of Ferguson in your own communities. <b><a href="http://www.e-activist.com/ea-campaign/broadcast.response.do?ea.url.id=273190&ea.campaigner.email=BAD5ZdktWlKbKzOfDY5p9fmkGi65H1302t8RM2eLScw=&ea_broadcast_target_id=0" target="_blank">Find a rally here!</a></b></span><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Since arriving in Ferguson, we have witnessed hundreds of people take to the streets daily to demand human rights. We have also seen law enforcement use tear gas in the crowd, and arrest protestors. There have been blockades on West Florissant Street for days; journalists have been cleared from the area, and we’ve been kept from full access to protestors at times. Throughout all of this, we’ve been in awe of the power and resilience of community organizers on the ground who have refused to have their fundamental human rights restricted, and have dedicated themselves to sharing Mike Brown’s story and to demanding change. <br><br>Now is the time for us to join in raising concerns about race and policing, and the impact of militarization on the fundamental right to peacefully assemble. Now is the time to bring together your community to participate in the movement to bring human rights home. <br><br>In Solidarity,<br><br>Kalaya'an Mendoza, Senior Organizer<br>Noor Mir, Associate Field Organizer<br>Amnesty International USA Delegates in Ferguson, MO </span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=3 style='padding:7.5pt 0in 7.5pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.e-activist.com/ea-campaign/broadcast.response.do?ea.url.id=273191&ea.campaigner.email=BAD5ZdktWlKbKzOfDY5p9fmkGi65H1302t8RM2eLScw=&ea_broadcast_target_id=0" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#A00A32;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=109 height=46 id="ecx_x005f_x0000_i1030" src="cid:image006.jpg@01CFC0A4.AE3FF3B0" alt="Image removed by sender. 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