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Things to remember when writing to prisoners:

1. Don't discuss any illegal activity (ALL mail is read by prison officials).
2. Each prison has its own mail restrictions.
3. Do not put any stickers inside or outside the card/letter (including Air Mail/Par Avion stickers, if writing from overseas)
4. Do not include any paperclips, staples or anything extra in your letter.
5. Write your address on the envelope AND inside the letter, since prisoners often are not given the envelope.
6. Do not send money to the prison address (please contact activist's support groups to financially support prisoners).
7. Prisoners appreciate books, but they must be paperback, and must ship directly from the publisher or from online retailers like Amazon.com.
8. Your letters are appreciated , even if you don't receive a response (prisoners are only allowed a limited amount of paper, envelopes and stamps, making it difficult to respond to every letter).

Scott DeMuth
Released December 1, 2009!

Donations: Send checks to Coldsnap Legal Collective with EWOK! in the memo line.

EWOK! c/o Coldsnap
PO Box 50514
Minneapolis, MN 55405

Donations: Send checks to Coldsnap Legal Collective with EWOK! in the memo line.

EWOK! c/o Coldsnap
PO Box 50514
Minneapolis, MN 55405

MURPHY, STEVE JAMES
0910300841
CENTRAL DETENTION CENTER
630 EAST RIALTO AVE
SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415

Charges: Steve Murphy is being charged with a 2006 E.L.F. action in Pasadena, CA. The complaint accuses Steve of allegedly decommissioning a tractor and placing an incendiary device in a housing development construction site in the name of the Earth Liberation Front.

Currently, Steve is being held in the Central Detention Center in San Bernardino. He can receive letters, books and visitors! At this moment, it is unclear how long he will be kept in San Bernardino, but if you are local please visit him as soon as possible.

Donations: can be made to info@supportsteve.org or visit  http://supportsteve.org/ and click on the PayPal "donation" button.

William James (BJ) Viehl
Inmate #2009-05735
Davis County Jail
800 West State St.
Farmington, UT 84025

Charges: Former remand prisoner Williams 'BJ' Viehl (who is accused of animal rights activity) had his bail revoked three weeks ago after he wrote letters of support to other ALF/ELF prisoners which was a violation of his terms of bail (his bail terms said he wasn't allowed contact with anyone from the ALF or who is 'straight edge'). Also...their trial has been postponed.

William "BJ" Viehl and Alex Hall were arrested Thursday March 5th by the Joint Terrorism Task Force with the FBI. They were indicted by a grand jury for "suspicion" of a raid at a South Jordan, UT, mink farm in August. As well as "suspicion" of an attempted raid at a second mink farm in October. They are being charged with 2 counts of violating the "Animals Enterprise Terrorism Act". With these charges they face a possible 6 years in prison and $350,000 in fines. Please show your support to these activists. There trial was originally set for May 11th 12th and 13th, But was quickly canceled and has not yet been officially rescheduled. We will keep you informed. Please donate. And thank you for your support.

Donations:

SLAAM
PO Box 2555
SLC, UT 84110

Alex Hall
Inmate #2009-06304
Davis County Jail
800 West State St.
Farmington, UT 84025

Charges: Alex was nabbed as well for an unpaid ticket and is now in custody as well. More details to come about this. Also...their trial has been postponed. We dont know the exact date but we will keep everyone updated when we find out.

William "BJ" Viehl and Alex Hall were arrested Thursday March 5th by the Joint Terrorism Task Force with the FBI. They were indicted by a grand jury for "suspicion" of a raid at a South Jordan, UT, mink farm in August. As well as "suspicion" of an attempted raid at a second mink farm in October. They are being charged with 2 counts of violating the "Animals Enterprise Terrorism Act". With these charges they face a possible 6 years in prison and $350,000 in fines. Please show your support to these activists. There trial was originally set for May 11th 12th and 13th, But was quickly canceled and has not yet been officially rescheduled. We will keep you informed. Please donate. And thank you for your support.

Donations:

SLAAM
PO Box 2555
SLC, UT 84110

Jordan Halliday
Released!

Charges: JORDAN HALLIDAY was taken into federal custody for refusing to cooperate with a gran jury investigating the animal rights community of Utah. He is currently in Cache County Jail being held on contempt of court charges. Jordan Halliday has now been federally indicted with felony contempt of court. He was released on bail on June 29, 2009. This charge carries no maximum penalty. If he is convicted at his trial, Jordan could be facing even more jail time, at the judge's discretion.

Grand juries are unconstitutional fishing expeditions that have been used throughout U.S. history to disrupt and destroy social justice movements. They take away rights to force answers to questions, without being able to have a lawyer present. Jordan was well aware of the exploitation and abuse of these tactics and resisted the proceedings which resorting in him being arrested.

Donations: Karen Halliday
PO Box 25581
SLC, UT 84125

Kevin Olliff #1300931- Back in Jail!!
TTCF 161 d-pod
450 Bauchet St.
Los Angeles CA 90012

Charges: Arrested again April 16 after indictment by a secretive Grand Jury in Los Angeles. Charges are unclear at this time but apparently stem from peaceful, legal demonstrations against UCLA primate vivisectors. Kevin is a committed animal rights activist who has organized against Huntingdon Life Sciences.

09-06-09: Kevin Olliff has a court date on September 18th (8:30 am) at Los Angeles Superior Court Dept 102 (210 W Temple Street, Los Angeles CA), where his lawyers will be challenging the constitutionality of his current stacked charges regarding three year old protest activity, to lower his bail amount. Both Kevin and Lindy Greene were charged with several counts of conspiracy, criminal threats, and stalking, with an added gang enhancement that will also be challenged on Kevin's defense. Lindy posted bail and was released on house arrest with direct orders not to communicate with other activists. Letters of support to Kevin are strongly encouraged; please send to the above address!

Donations:

Jonathan Paul #07167-085
FCI Phoenix
Federal Correctional Institution
37910 N 45th Ave.
Phoenix, AZ 85086

Friends of Jonathan Paul
PMB 267
2305 Ashland St. Ste. C
Ashland, OR 97520

SHAC- USA Prisoners

The SHAC 7 are six individuals--Lauren Gazzola, Kevin Kjonaas, Jake Conroy, Josh Harper, Andrew Stepanian, and Darius Fullmer--and the organization Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (USA). They are all serving lengthy prison sentences for simply speaking out! They were found guilty on all charges on March 2nd, and are were sentenced on September 12th in Trenton, NJ. They received the following sentences:

• Kevin Kjonaas: 72 months
• Lauren Gazzola: 52 months
• Jacob Conroy: 48 months
• Joshua Harper: 36 months
• Andrew Stepanian: 36 months
• Darius Fulmer: 1 year, 1 day
  

New Address!

JACOB CONROY
# 93501-011
FCI Terminal Island
Post Office Box 3007
San Pedro, California 90731
lettersforjake@shac7.com

ANDREW STEPANIAN # 26399-050
Released to a half-way house December 14, 2008!

Joyanna "Sadie" Zacher #36360-086
FCI Dublin
5701 8th Street- Camp Parks- Unit F
Dublin, CA 94568

Nathan "Exile" Block #36359-086
FCI Lompoc
3600 Guard Road
Lompoc, CA 93436

New Address!

McDavid, Eric #16209-097
FCI Victorville Medium II
PO Box 5300
Adelanto, California 92301

Charges: Conspiracy to destroy property by means of fire or explosives, facing up to 20 years imprisonment. Lauren Weiner and Zach Jensen, Eric's two co-defendants, are cooperating witnesses against Eric.

May 14, 2009: Eric would like for us to let you all know that he is currently unable to respond to snail mail. Victorville has recently implemented a new, illegal mail policy that requires prisoners to submit a list of people to whom they would like to send mail. This list is kept on file in the prison's Trulincs system, which was originally setup as an email system for prisoners. The BOP has since expanded it's use of the system as a way to keep track of prisoner phone lists, mail lists, and as a log-in system for prisoner access to the legal library. The use of the system for these purposes has numerous legality issues, and Eric and a couple of other prisoners are attempting to fight the new rules from the inside. In the meantime, Eric will not be using the mail-labeling system set up by
Trulincs, which means he is unable to send any written correspondence. This does NOT mean that he cannot receive mail - so please keep those letters coming.

Appeal Status
As you know, Eric is in the process of appealing both his conviction and sentence. We were hoping to be able to post the appeal with this alert, but are awaiting word from the court. Eric's lawyer filed the appeal on May 6, but also had to file a motion to file a brief that is twice the
length of a normal appeal. If the court accepts this motion, then the appeal will officially be filed and we can post it for you all to read. This is nowhere near the end of the process, however. The government will have a month to respond to the brief once it is filed, and then Eric's lawyer will have another two weeks for his final response. We fully expect more delays (the brief was originally due last September). We will keep you posted as things develop.

Eric has been in jail or prison for 3 1/2 years now. His strength and courage continue to remind us all of what it means to stay true to ourselves and the things we hold dear. Our sincerest thanks to all of you who have helped make this journey more endurable.

Donations for Legal Defense to:

Sac Prisoner Support
PO Box 163126
Sacramento, CA, 95816

Certain human cultures have been waging war against the Earth for millennia. I chose to fight on the side of bears, mountain lions, skunks, bats, saguaros, cliff rose and all things wild. I am just the most recent casualty in that war. But tonight I have made a jail break -- I am returning home, to the Earth, to the place of my origins.

Bill Rodgers, 12/21/05 (the winter solstice)

• William Sweet , British anti-bloodsports activist shot dead (January 1976) during an altercation with a man shooting birds.

• Fernando Pereira , Greenpeace activist killed in New Zealand (July 1985) when the French secret service blew up the ship the Rainbow Warrior.

• Bartolomeu Morais da Silva (aka "Brasilia") a Brazilian farmer who led the struggle against illegal logging, land fraud and destructive large-scale infrastructure projects was found murdered from shot gun wounds and his legs broken in July 2002.
  
• Mike Hill , British hunt saboteur deliberately run over by a hunter in February 1991.
  
• Tom Worby , British hunt saboteur deliberately run over by a hunter in April 1993.
  
• Jill Phipps , British activist deliberately run over whilst trying to stop live animal exports in February 1995.
  
• Karel Van Noppen , a Belgium vet who was assassinated in 1993 by hitmen after he exposed mafia connections in the meat industry.
  
• David "Gypsy" Chain , American eco-activist crushed to death in September 1998 when a tree was felled on top of him by an irate logger in California's Headwoods Forest.
  
• Beth O'Brien , an American eco-activist died in April 2002 after falling from a tree she was sitting in and protecting at the Eagel Creek timber sale and camp.
  
• Robert "Naya" Bryan , an American eco-activist who died October 2002 after falling from a tree he occupied in Santa Cruz.
  
• Barry Horne , British Animal Lib prisoner starved to death in November 2001 as a result of a hunger strike protesting the Government's mass slaughter of farm animals during a Foot & Mouth outbreak.