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- From: Kerry Miller <ASTINGSH%KSUVM.bitnet@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
- Subject: Defense Fund for John Shumaker
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- DEFENSE FUND ESTABLISHED FOR ACTIVIST
-
- John Shumaker, anti-nuclear and environmental Peace Acivist was
- arrested October 16, 1992 for criminal mischief -- a Class C felony -
- - in Cedar Falls, Iowa. He spent two and a half days in Black
- Hawk County jail in Waterloo, Iowa, and was relesed on his own
- recognizance.
-
- He maintains his innocence, but a defense fund is needed to pay for
- his legal defence. An outstanding environmental attorney, Wallace
- Taylor, is representing John, at $85 an hour. To cover these
- expenses, the John Shumaker Defense Fund has been established.
- Please send your contributions to:
- Terry Rediger
- 1933 Castle St
- Waterloo, Iowa 50702
-
- John has been involved in the defense of Mother Earth since his
- graduation from the Univ. of Iowa in 1979. In 1984, in Portland,
- Oregon, he sat on the tracks to stop the nuclear White Train, and
- worked on the Oregon Ballot Measure 9, which was successfully
- passed to stop radioactive contamination of the Willamette River.
- He was on the Rogue River Walk in support of charges against
- Litton Industries' crimes against humanity through their
- involvement in nuclear weapons production.
-
- John walked in the Great Peace March of 1986, and the Michigan
- and New England Pilgrimages to Groton Conn. in 1987 to protest
- the Trident nuclear submarine production. Annually since then, he
- has witnessed at the Nuclear Test Site in Nevada, for a
- Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and for the rights of the
- Western Shoshone Nation to the land of Newe Segobia, which was
- treatied to them in 1864.
-
- This summer, John participated in the Walk Across America for
- Mother Earth, but, returning home from the culminating Healing
- Global Wounds ceremony at the Nuclear Test Site, was arrested
- for an alleged act of civil disobedience. Local coverage of the
- incident has slandered him, he maintains, injuring his family and
- greatly prejudicing the case.
-
- John Shumaker deserves your help and support. He is available to
- come to speak to your community and your group. Please contact:
- John Shumaker
- 1125 Randolph St
- Waterloo, Iowa 50702
- (319) 234-8630
-
- For Peace and Justice for Mother Earth,
- Kerry Miller
- astingsh@ksuvm.ksu.edu
- Fido 1:14/680.2
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