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FREE JAGGI SINGH!!
by Adam Davidson-Harden 7:46am Sat Apr 21 '01
address: 4-125 King st. East, Kingston Ontario K7L 2Z9 phone: 613 536
5052
3ajd7@qlink.queensu.ca

Jaggi Singh, Montreal activist and member of the CLAC, was surrounded by
three members of the police/security forces dressed as activists (in
bandannas etc), shoved to the ground, beaten, thrown in a van and driven
off. No details of charges or where Jaggi is being held have been
released. This smacks of police repression of civil rights and racism. FREE
JAGGI!!

FREE JAGGI SINGH!!

Naomi Klein reports in today's Globe and Mail (April 21) that only
minutes after she had been speaking to him on the phone, Jaggi 
Singh was surrounded by three policy/security force members 
dressed as activist, shoved to the ground and kicked, thrown in 
an unmarked van, and driven away. When his friends tried to 
liberate him, they were fought off with batons and the police 
identified themselves.

The fact that Jaggi was encouraging people to move away from
the fence, and wasn't engaged in any violent activity that day might 
have less to do with the fact that some powerful people 1. don't like 
what he has to say, 2. are apprehensive of his name and ethnicity, 
3. are apprehensive of his dark skin colour. In short, racism and 
repression of free speech have a lot to do with Jaggi's arrest. At 
this point, no one knows where he is being held. Must we live in a 
police state rife with racism, whether in Cincinnati or Quebec city? 
Must we have our civil rights curtailed and suspended by the police
and their powerful executive at a whim?

FREE JAGGI SINGH!!

Police and the mainstream media label the 'dangerous factions' of
protests 'anarchist', and use this as an excuse to detain anyone, 
let alone an articulate, considerate individual like Jaggi who 
identifies with this political ideology. Is this Stalinist Russia, where 
dissidents could be rounded up and imprisoned for their political 
views, despite the fact they had done nothing? The police's 
labelling of Jaggi and the CLAC is a facile excuse for repression, 
as anarchism or any other political ideology has little to do with 
individual acts of violence - whether the shot of a rubber bullet or 
the throwing of a piece of concrete.

One of Jaggi's most powerful messages has been that the free market
inflicts violence on the world's poor and the environment. He has 
been followed covertly, been beaten, taken and had his civil rights 
suspended without recourse. He has been made a victim of arbitrary 
silencing and oppression, while leaders inside the fence muse about 
democracy.  What hypocrisy.

FREE JAGGI SINGH!! Bear witness to police repression!! DEMAND 
JAGGI'S RELEASE!!



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