Insomnia Cookies Brings Police Assault Down on Legal Picket
E PURE QUESTI DE IWW ME HANNO SCASSATO A MINCHIA COI PICCHETTI LEGALI! se mettessero no gatto siamese!
Last night the Cambridge Police swarmed a totally legal picket of Insomnia Cookies, demanded we shut down our PA (which we did), then attacked, punched, bloodied, threw on the trunk of a car, threw on the ground and dragged away IWW member Jason Freedman who has been charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and assaulting a cop. Jason sustained injuries to his back and arm. This was a completely unjustified attack on Jason, on civil liberties, labor rights and free speech. It was provoked (and lent legitimacy in the eyes of the cops) by a false report from the company that picketers were obstructing the sidewalk in front of the store. Feel free to register protests with Henrietta Davis, Mayor of Cambridge, at mayor@cambridgema.gov.
http://iwwboston.org/2013/11/15/insomnia-cookies-brings-police-assault-down-on-legal-picket/