Updates from San Diego Indymedia

SD Indymedia Tech Problems

You might have noticed that the San Diego Indymedia website has been unavailable.

We are experience technical problems that currently exceed our
abilities to fix. Because SDIMC is also in the process of
transitioning from our current outdated software to a new system, we
are contemplating our options and we will send you in a few days an
estimate of downtime as well as our strategy for bringing SDIMC back
online. Thanks for your patience!

update on green scare trials

As the SDIMC website continues to be down, here are updates on two
important green scare trials, Rod Coronado's trial in San Diego and
Eric McDavid's trial in Sacramento, from Portland Indymedia...

September 12, 2007 Update from Rod Coronado Trial
Defense attorney Tony Serra, having established the day before that
the Officer's report of the San Diego speech was "incomplete and
fragmented", was able to get officer Lehr to admit that the quote he
attributed to a woman in the audience, one that is a cornerstone of
the case, was actually paraphrased. Despite that admission, the
officer repeatedly insisted that he heard the woman ask Rod "how to
build a bomb for an action?"

The real bomb dropped was Tony Serra's introduction of contradictory
evidence to Officer Lehr's sworn testimony. First introduced was the
statement of another undercover officer who attended the event, a
woman from the San Diego Sheriff's department, who used significantly
different terminology in describing the question to Coronado (saying
the woman asked how to make "an incendiary device", as opposed to a
"bomb for an action"). Despite this, Office Lehr stuck to his story
that words he heard were "bomb for an action." Serra then read the
actual question posed by the woman, as he introduced the existence of
an audio recording of the event heretofore unmentioned. It seems
clear that the testimony of this undercover officer of 18 years, who
has infiltrated hundreds of San Diego groups, was fabricated.
READ MORE: http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/09/365019.shtml
(also: http://supportrod.org )

Reports from first week in Eric McDavid's Trial
The US Attorney (USA) began his preview with the words "this case is
about an ecoterror plot to use fire and explosives to attack targets
in Northern California". He said that Eric was the leader of this
conspiracy and that he recruited the three, pumped them up and
provide "philosophical indoctrination".
READ MORE: http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/09/365043.shtml
(also: http://supporteric.org )

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