Welcoming our Newest Blogger, Emberlea!

Emberlea McCullighFree Keene welcomes our newest blogger, Emberlea McCulligh! Here’s her bio from the Bloggers page:

Emberlea relocated to NH from Tampa, Florida in late February 2012. She is a voluntaryist and an agorist who enjoys participating in protests. She advocates for the peaceful evolution of society, unschooling, and for jury nullification. Emberlea is the coordinator for the Voluntaryist Volunteers national group. She owns her own agorist business, supports civil disobedience activists, and is a single parent of a teenage son. She is a vegan and has three lovely dogs! She believes that a voluntary society is within our reach!

Keeniacs Successfully Refuse to be Placed in “Free Speech Zone”!

Before Biden arrived at his recent campaign appearance at Keene State College, Free Keene’s Kelly Voluntaryist and Cop Block‘s Graham Freeman were located outside the event as people waited in a long line to gain entrance. Off in the distance was a cordoned-off area where people with signs were standing, obediently. Kelly and Graham proved that in order to be free, you have to claim it and exercise your rights. They refused to enter the free speech zones, and the government goons backed down! Dave Ridley reports:

Radio Free Keene News 2012-05-23

Radio TowerRadio Free Keene News is a five minute newscast which is available as a podcast and also will air at the top of some hours on LRN.FM.

Topics covered include the Keene police getting away with murder and activist response to Joe Biden’s visit to Keene. Here’s the archive:

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Julian Heicklen Expatriates

News has broken today that fully informed jury activist Julian Heicklen has fled the country to avoid a pending warrant out of Santa Ana, California, where he is wanted yet again for distributing educational fliers on the rights of jurors. On May 22, Julian is said to have been granted Israeli citizenship at customs. It is unclear whether the eighty year old pamphleteering pioneer plans on returning to the United States. Freedoms Phoenix has the story.

http://freedomsphoenix.com/Article/112245-2012-05-23-julian-heicklen-flees-united-states.htm

Keene’s Jared Chase Allegedly Set Up By Government Informants

Jared ChaseAccording to an attorney with the National Lawyer’s Guild on Democracy Now, Jared Chase of Keene was set up by people working for the government when he was busted at the NATO protests in Chicago a few days ago over molotov cocktails:

Michael Deutsch, an attorney for the protesters with the National Lawyers Guild, accused Chicago police of entrapment.

MICHAEL DEUTSCH: Obviously, we don’t have access to all the information that the state has. But what we do know is, is that there were police—undercover police officers that ingratiated themselves with people who come from out of town. And from our information, these so-called incendiary devices and the plans to attack police stations, attack the mayor’s office, is all coming from the mind of the police informants and are not coming from our clients, who are nonviolent protesters. They are not anarchists. They don’t belong to a Black Bloc organization. They’re involved with nonviolent protest. And what we believe is, is that this is a way to stir up prejudice against the people who are exercising their First Amendment rights.