[WCUSP] "American Movement for Israel" uses U-M police to choke anti-war speech on campu

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Dear Odile and other fellow WILPFers, what do you know about this?   Love, 
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_The "American Movement for Israel" decides who will get arrested,  on this 
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"Trial starts for woman charged after '06 talk: 
Wilkerson charged with obstructing  police at lecture"

By Julie Rowe, Daily Staff  Reporter
11/27/07

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A  trial is set to begin today for an Ann Arbor doctor charged with impeding 
police  and emergency medical technicians after an incident last year in which 
 protesters were arrested after disrupting a lecture in the Michigan  League.


Jury selection for the case took place yesterday in 15th  District Court.


Prosecutors will try to show that Catherine Wilkerson  interfered with the 
arrest of Blaine Coleman, a protester at the November 2006  event.


Wilkerson's attorneys, Hugh Davis and Wilson Tanner, will  assert that 
Wilkerson was responding to police brutality and harmful treatment  of Coleman by an 
emergency medical technician, Davis said.


The  lecture on U.S. foreign policy in Iran, given by Georgetown University 
Prof.  Raymond Tanter, was met with protest from several Ann Arbor residents, 
who  heckled and interrupted Tanter throughout his speech.


Protesters chanted "Hands off Iran" and "Tanter  is a pig". Tanter said he 
abandoned his planned remarks in response to the  interruptions and instead 
answered questions from audience members and  protesters.


The protesters were accusing Tanter of being a supporter  of unjustified 
military action in Iran and the Middle East.


Wilkerson  is charged with two misdemeanors charges for attempting to 
assault, obstruct or  resist a police officer and an emergency medical  technician.


According to the Diane Brown, Department of Public Safety  spokeswoman, 
several warnings were issued to the protesters that their  interruptions violated 
the University's policies for protest during a  speech.


"No matter how controversial a speaker is, that speaker needs  to be able to 
speak. That's the whole point of freedom of speech," Brown said.  "You can't 
just say 'I don't like what they've got to say.' They must be able to  hold 
their event."


The University's Standard Practice Guide for  Freedom of Speech and Artistic 
Expression attempts to balance the rights of  speakers and protesters by 
allowing heckling that does not impede the message of  speakers.


After American Movement for  Israel Chair Josh Berman and other organizers 
issued three warnings to  protesters, DPS officers attempted to remove one of 
the female  protesters. Coleman attempted to prevent the officers from removing 
her. Both  responded to DPS attempts to remove them by going limp.


Brown told  The Michigan Daily after the incident that this is a tactic used 
frequently by  protesters.


The sequence of events following Coleman's removal from  the room will be 
contested at the trial.


During pretrial activities  yesterday, Davis said, "There were numerous 
witnesses outside. Each saw  something; almost none saw everything."


In an article Wilkerson  submitted to CounterPunch - a political newsletter - 
she claimed that the DPS  officials removed the two from the room by force. 
Wilkerson said she then left  the room to investigate the "commotion" she heard 
in the hallway.


She  said she believed the officer was pinning Coleman to the ground in such 
a way  that would prevent his lungs from inflating. After telling the officer 
she was a  doctor, she instructed him to turn Coleman onto his back. The 
officer followed  her direction.


In the article, Wilkerson said that after Coleman was  turned over, she 
noticed that he was unconscious.


Though Brown would  not specifically name Coleman, she disputed the claim 
that the man lying on the  ground was badly hurt.


"One of the people who claimed he was hurt  during this whole thing was 
supposedly laying on the ground receiving medical  attention," she said. "But 
periodically his eye would open up."


After  paramedics arrived, police removed Coleman's handcuffs and attempted 
to revive  him. One tactic they tried was the use of ammonia inhalants.


In the  article, Wilkerson said that she then told the paramedic: "What 
you're doing is  punitive and has no efficacy."


Wilkerson said she complied with an  Ann Arbor police officer's order to step 
away from Coleman. Wilkerson claimed  that as she left, the Ann Arbor officer 
attacked her from behind and used  excessive force to restrain her.


Coleman was taken to the University  hospital to treat a cut on his forehead. 
He and two other protesters were  charged with resisting a police officer. 
All three pled guilty and were  sentenced to a fine and probation.


At the end of January, Wilkerson  and four other protesters filed a complaint 
of police brutality with the Ann  Arbor Police Department. The Ann Arbor 
police investigated the incident, but  determined that officers didn't respond in 
an inappropriate manner, the Ann  Arbor News reported.


The Washtenaw County prosecutor trying the case,  Margaret Connors, declined 
to  comment.

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Why was A.M.I. allowed to command U-M Police?
posted 11/27/07 @ 7:16 AM EST 
Why was the American Movement for Israel allowed to  "warn", and then hurl 
the police against, their own audience? When they  determined that some audience 
members were opposed to War on Iran, and opposed  to War on Palestine, was 
A.M.I. justified in getting them forcibly pounded into  the floor? That is no 
way to run this campus. 
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"Drop the  charges against Catherine Wilkerson:
a Michigan doctor facing criminal charges
for  defending a protester" 


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As mass sentiment against the U.S. occupation of  Iraq continues to grow 
across the world, many activists on college campuses are  experiencing increased 
police repression and attacks on their First Amendment  rights. One of these 
instances occurred on Nov. 30, 2006, in Ann Arbor,  Michigan—home of the 
University of Michigan.

As a result of that  protest, Dr. Catherine Wilkerson, a respected community 
physician who provides  medical care to working-class people at a local 
clinic, was charged with two  crimes stemming from an encounter with local and 
campus police. On Nov. 26,  2007, her trial is set to begin in Ann Arbor.

The ANSWER Coalition  is supporting the efforts of the Committee to Defend 
Catherine Wilkerson to  demand that all charges against her be dropped. _Click 
here to show your support by signing a  petition that will be hand delivered to 
University of Michigan President Mary  Sue Coleman and Washtenaw County 
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Background

During a protest against the war on Iraq and threats of war on Iran,  
University of Michigan police brutalized and arrested three activists. Police  
tactics included the use of pressure point control tactics. PPCT is a pain  
compliance tactic that essentially uses painful pressure and manipulation of the  body 
in order to force the victim to comply.

After brutalizing one  protester and threatening him with pepper spray 
directly in the face, the police  then pinned him to the ground in a manner that can 
result in suffocation. As the  man groaned in agony, the officer used his 
knee and his substantial physical  bulk to crush the protester's chest, face down 
against the floor. Between  desperate gasps, the man told officers that he 
could not breathe, and then fell  unconscious.

Dr. Wilkerson identified herself as a physician and  demanded access to the 
man in order to examine him and determine if his life was  in danger. After 
much resistance from the police, Dr. Wilkerson was allowed to  examine the man 
and determined that he was still alive. As this was occurring,  an ambulance 
with paramedics, the fire department and the Ann Arbor police  arrived on the 
scene.

Dr. Wilkerson was forcibly kept aside. One of  the medics then held a 
succession of three ammonia inhalants directly under the  patient's nose, culminating 
with cupping his hands over the man's nose while he  forced him to inhale the 
third capsule of the noxious gas. This caused the man  to retch and nearly 
vomit as the medic taunted him, "You don't like that, do  you?"

Dr. Wilkerson was outraged by the punitive and dangerous  actions of the 
police and medics. She told the medics, "What you are doing has  no efficacy and 
is punitive, and you know it."

For speaking out,  Dr. Wilkerson too was brutalized by the police.

Police grabbed her  from behind, wrenched her arms behind her, then slammed 
her against a wall and  held her there as she begged him to release his painful 
grip. The officer then  detained her against her will for a protracted period 
of time, forcing her to  stand in a hallway despite her continued extreme 
shoulder pain.

Dr.  Wilkerson was not arrested at this time, however, as she did not break 
any laws  and was simply attempting to fulfill her ethical obligations as a  
physician.

Dr. Wilkerson later registered a complaint of police  brutality at City Hall. 
One week after filing her complaint, she was shocked to  find a letter in the 
mail from the county prosecutor informing her that she was  being charged 
with attempted assaulting/resistinDr. Wilkerson later registered a complaint of 
police  brutality aDr. Wilkerson later register

The charges are a blatant example of police retaliation  against a respected 
doctor and community activist for complaining about police  misconduct.

Dr. Wilkerson faces jail time and hefty fines if she is  convicted. She has 
refused to take the prosecutor's plea deal because she has  done nothing wrong. 
In fact, her intervention in the police riot prevented  possible grave 
injuries for those attacked by the cops.


Statement from Dr.  Wilkerson

>From "Scenes from a cop riot"  by Dr. Catherine Wilkerson:

When I became a doctor I knew I would encounter a lot of  human suffering, 
but I never envisioned a time when my efforts to alleviate it  would get me 
brutalized by the police, then charged with a crime. I never  envisioned a time 
when I would witness another health "professional" brazenly  violate the most 
fundamental principle of medical ethics: first do no harm.  But thirty years 
after graduation, at a political event on the campus of the  University of 
Michigan, those things happened.

_Click here to read Dr. Wilkerson's entire  statement._ 
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Take  action
All the charges should be dropped on Dr. Wilkerson  immediately. Community 
activists, medical workers and all progressive people  should join in this 
demand. The ANSWER Coalition is supporting the efforts of  the Committee to Defend 
Catherine Wilkerson to demand that all charges against  her be dropped.

_Click here to show your support by signing a  petition that will be hand 
delivered to University of Michigan President Mary  Sue Coleman and Washtenaw 
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But students are NOT allowing the  "American Movement for Israel" to censor 
all debate about Palestine, at the  University of Michigan: 
 
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_Brutality of Zionism recognized at University of  Michigan_ 
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"His book under fire, author speaks at  'U':
"Kovel's book started controversy  at University Press"

By Andy Kroll,
Daily Staff  Reporter
11/27/07

 
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last  night. Kovel is the author of an anti-Zionist book distributed by the 
University  of Michigan Press that sparked controversy earlier this semester. 
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College Prof. Joel Kovel, who spoke at Rackham Amphitheatre last night. (SAM  
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Before a capacity crowd at Rackham  Amphitheatre last night, Joel Kovel, 
author of the controversial book published  by the University Press "Overcoming 
Zionism," emphasized the importance of  protecting critical voices in discussion 
involving the Israeli-Palestinian  conflict. 
"There is an absolute need for critical  voices and not allowing us to 
succumb to pressures that are trying to stifle  open discussion," said Kovel, whose 
lecture was sponsored by Students Allied for  Freedom and Equality, a 
pro-Palestinian group. 
Kovel discussed what he believes is the only  solution to the 
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is also the focus of  "Overcoming Zionism", the creation 
of a single, secular, democratic state. 
Although Kovel, who is a professor of social  studies at Bard College, said 
he'd faced significant resistance and intimidation  from pro-Israel 
organizations like Stand With Us regarding his book's message,  he told those in 
attendance that he felt the momentum shifting away from the  "oppressive" Zionist 
groups. 
"I think that (Zionist groups) have  overreached themselves and got caught up 
in promoting a hideous war in Iraq and  they're paying for it," Kovel said. 
"The debacle of Iraq may yet prove to be the  opening point for a profound 
reassessment of the Zionist lobby." 
The University of Michigan Press currently  distributes Kovel's book as part 
of its distribution contract with the  London-based left-wing publisher Pluto 
Press. 
Although the University halted distribution  of the book in August, citing 
"serious questions" raised by "members of the  University community," it resumed 
distribution of the book a month later. 
The University Press is currently facing  pressure from several pro-Israel 
groups - including Stand With Us and the  Anti-Defamation League - and several 
members of the University Board of Regents  to terminate its distribution 
contract with Pluto. 
Andrew Dalack, co-chair of SAFE, said his  organization brought Kovel to 
speak at the University in order to counter  misinformation circulating on campus 
regarding Kovel's beliefs and the message  in "Overcoming Zionism." 
"As an organization dedicated to bringing  intelligent information on all 
sides of this conflict to the campus community,  we felt his voice was wanted and 
desired here on campus," Dalack said. 
Jonathan Calt Harris, director of the  Michigan chapter of Stand With Us, a 
pro-Israel organization, described Kovel's  comments as typical of the 
anti-Zionist perspective. 
Although Kovel received several standing  ovations during his lecture, Harris 
attributed the author's support to an overly  sympathetic and anti-Zionist 
audience. 
"I think he got what we all expected, even  though there was no real 
substance in his speech," Harris said. "It was pretty  much a rambling narrative - 
like his book." 
Nick Israel, the Midwest campus coordinator  for the Zionist Organization of 
America, said in an e-mail interview that no  matter how much support Kovel 
received at the lecture, the distribution of his  book by the University Press 
directly contradicts the University's commitment to  diversity. 
"We cannot allow our campus to become a safe  haven for what UM Press 
Director Phil Pachoda characterized as 'hate-speech'  when describing Kovel's book," 
said Israel, who graduated from the University  earlier this year. 
Naomi Goldberg, a Public Policy School  graduate student, said Kovel's 
lecture was "amazing" and "brave," but she said  was disappointed by the actions of 
some student groups in the audience. 
In particular, Goldberg said those University  students in attendance wearing 
"Michigan Zionist" shirts in the University's  colors blatantly misrepresents 
Jewish students at the University who might not  be Zionist. 
"By wearing these shirts, they're saying  you're either on this side with us 
or you're not," Goldberg said. "They make it  appear as if there's no room for 
discussion." 
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A very good piece. I was intrigued to read that  regents are involved in 
attempting to suppress the university's distribution of  Dr Kovel's book. Could 
you kindly identify them? 
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Author is too light on Kovel
posted 11/27/07 @ 4:12 AM EST 
The article was a bit too sympathetic of  anti-semite AND anti-zionist Kovel. 
Kovel calls for Israel to be gone, which is  a point that the author forgot 
to mention.

Talk about supressing free  speech. Naomi Goldberg doesn't like the t-shirts 
people were wearing? Too bad. 
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LOTR
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Kovel looks like Golam from The Lord of The Rings  in that picture. 
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Kovel is right
posted 11/27/07 @ 6:37 AM EST 
Dr. Kovel spoke, also, of the horrifying atrocities  committed against the 
occupied population of Palestine. Such as Israel soldiers,  and their 
commanders, maiming small children, to habituate the troops to an  unspeakably brutal 
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National coverage of today's  trial: 


 
_At University of Michigan:

"Nuking Iran wouldn't be a bad  idea..."_ 
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"Welcome to the Jackboot State, Ann  Arbor Division: 
"The Ordeal of Catherine Wilkerson,  M.D."

By ALEXANDER COCKBURN

November 24 / 25,  2007

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Welcome to the jackboot state, not  to mention the jackboot campus, anno 
domini 2007. A doctor gives verbal advice  to protect the life of an unconscious 
man and she duly gets hit with attempted  felonies by vindictive campus cops, 
with the connivance of the University of  Michigan. Jury selection for her 
trial starts on Monday in a county courthouse  in Ann Arbor.


This case began with an on-campus  talk about Iran last November 30 by 
Raymond Tanter, a former Reagan  administration foreign policy advisor and nutball 
cofounder of the Committee on  the Present Danger. More recently he's 
co-founder of the Iran Policy Committee.  Tanter has said publicly on more than one  
occasion that nuking Iran wouldn't be a bad idea. 


The audience at November 30 event  was lively and contentious. On the campus 
that Columbia's Lee Bollinger once ran  there's an elaborate policy about free 
speech, but those precepts were promptly  flouted. As is now the fashion at 
many universities, the U of M campus guards are gun-toting goons who  decided 
to wade in aggressively at the behest of the event's organizers. 


Here's how Wilkerson described  what happened next, _on this site on March 
13_ (http://www.counterpunch.org/wilkerson03132007.html)  of this year.



I heard a commotion in the hall  and stepped out of the room. In the hall I 
saw the same huge cop on top of the  second protester who'd come to the first 
victim's aid. The cop had the man, a  relatively small guy in his forties, 
pinned down, arms pulled behind his back,  getting handcuffed. The cop used PPCT 
against this person also, not once but  twice. The man writhed and cried out in 
pain.


The cop used his far-greater  strength and body weight, along with the force 
of his knee on his victim's  back to press his chest against the floor. It 
would be impossible for a person  to inflate his lungs pressed against the floor 
with his hands cuffed behind  his back like that. Asphyxiation being a 
well-known cause of death of people  in custody, when the man started calling out 
that he couldn't breathe, I  approached, identified myself as a doctor, and 
instructed the cop to turn him  over immediately. The victim went limp. The cop 
turned him onto his back. I  saw that the victim had a wound on his forehead and 
blood in his nostrils. He  was unconscious. Reiterating numerous times that I 
was a doctor, I tried to  move to where I could assess the victim for 
breathing and a pulse. The cop  shoved me, until finally, after my imploring him to 
allow me to render medical  care to the victim, he allowed me to determine that 
the victim was alive. But  he refused to remove the cuffs despite my requests. 
A person lying with hands  cuffed beneath his body risks nerve damage to the 
extremities and, moreover,  cannot be resuscitated. I continually re-assessed 
the man, who had now become  my patient, and who remained unconscious.


Eventually an ambulance arrived,  along with the fire department and a 
contingent of Ann Arbor police officers.  While the paramedics went about their 
business, the first thing being to have  the cop un-cuff the patient, I tried to 
fulfill my obligation to my patient. I  tried to oversee what the paramedics 
were doing, which, contrary to protocol  and the normal relationship between 
physician and paramedic, was all that I  was allowed to do. I was forced to stay 
away. What I witnessed in the course  of their treatment appalled me. When the 
patient didn't respond to a sternal  rub, one of the paramedics popped an 
ammonia inhalant and thrust it beneath  the patient's nostrils. If you're 
interested in what's wrong with that, google  Dr. Bryan Bledsoe, foremost authority 
on paramedicine, and read his article  condemning this dangerous practice. That 
it's "just bad medicine" is  sufficient to make the paramedic's actions 
unacceptable, but what happened  next made my blood curdle. He popped a second 
inhalant and a third, then  cupped his hands over the patient's nostrils to 
heighten the noxious effect.  "You don't like that, do you?" he said.


At that point I issued a direct  medical order for him to stop, but he 
ignored me. "What you're doing is  punitive," I said, "and has no efficacy." Then as 
the patient retched, rather  than rolling him onto his side to avoid the 
chance of his choking on his own  vomit, a firefighter held his feet down and 
yelled, "don't spit." In thirty  years of doctoring, I have never witnessed such 
egregious maltreatment of a  patient. Again I spoke up, "this is punitive." I 
hoped to shame the  paramedical into stopping his unethical behavior."



Please note that at no point did  Wilkerson do anything other than offer 
verbal advice.


The police--by now not just campus  but also city cops were on the scene -- 
ordered her to leave. As she was doing  so, a city cop seized her and put her 
under arrest. His superiors soon  determined there were no grounds for arrest 
and she was released without having  been handcuffed or requested to produce 
ID. 


Wilkerson has made her career  serving low-income patients. For the last 5 to 
6 years she's worked at a  community medical clinic. She takes the U.S. 
Constitution seriously and filed a  complaint about the incident alleging police 
misconduct. It took seven weeks for  the cops to answer the charges, which they 
did by the expedient of filing a  report plump with mendacity about 
Wilkerson's conduct the night of the arrests.  The Washtenaw County Prosecutor, Brian 
Mackie, at the apparent request of the UM  police, charged her with two 
attempted felonies based on "attempted  interference" with the police officer who had 
seized her.


Her attorney, civil rights lawyer  Buck Davis, tells me that that county 
judge Elizabeth Pollard Hines recently  threw out two subsequent charges, claiming 
that Wilkerson had tried to interfere  with the campus police as well as the 
police officer. 


This coming week Wilkerson faces  jury trial at the 15th District Court in 
Ann Arbor. Wilkerson's lawyers will  bring in eyewitnesses to the events on 
November 30, 2006, plus expert witnesses  including Brian Bledsoe, a Texas 
attorney who has testified in cases across the  country on the use of ammonia. 
(Ammonia was involved in the death of Martin Lee  Anderson at a juvenile 'boot camp' 
detention facility in  Florida.)


Buck Davis tells me that "ten or  fifteen years ago this case would have been 
a slam dunk, on First Amendment and  medical privilege arguments, with no 
physical contact with the cops, all in  liberal Ann Arbor." Wilkerson would have 
been swiftly acquitted. 


"But now people are scared to  death. They know the social system is falling 
apart. They no longer have a  generous spirit. I've learned that the erosion 
of the economic and social fabric  means people want to believe the cops. 
They're frightened. So I'm not as  arrogant about 'slam dunk' cases as I once was."


The case will probably run all  week, except Thursday. If you can, show up in 
court to support Catherine  Wilkerson.



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