John's scentence was done, and he was due before the board - he could have kept his head down, and broken contact with his anarchist friends and joined the jobsworths in demonising the ABC's as terrorist groups; but John has too much integrity to do such a thing, and in fact done the opposite-wrote and advised the Brighton ABC to sue-so he probably ain't getting an easy time in there.

So if you can't get to Scotland on Friday 25th at 2pm, try and show your solidarity and support for a man and prison support groups that have shown it to plenty of others.

And this is about more than just John Bowden. With the new S.O.C.P.A. being used against more and more protesters, instead of nonces like it should, and with the 'War on Terror' being used as an excuse to bring this sort of draconian legislation in, with the U.S. and their Patriot Act, the always on-going class war has become more clearly defined.


Can we really let the state get away with punishing a prisoner who has served his time, proved he is no danger to the public by working about 2 years with mentally and physically vunerable people and been having home leave for a fair while now and who had gone thru the prison system to an open prison, where he was due before the board and getting made ready for probable release to be suddenly ghosted back and locked in a higher security prison, all cos some reactionary social worker said that John admits he is an anarchist and has written some articles and said he supports most of the aims and principles of Brighton Anarchist Black Cross.. And because John saw 2 members of ABC who the social worker called, and local paper reported that they were identified as a terrorist organisation by this eejit social worker.

ARE WE GONNA LET THE STATE HOLD ANARCHISTS HOSTAGE COS OF THEIR POLITICAL BELIEFS AND AFFILIATIONS??

Next time it could be you that gets unlucky in a demo and charged with assalting the filth, we can not let the British state use this to set a precedent where-by a person's politics become part of their punishment; if they are not views the state deems acceptable.

So if you cannot make it to Scotland, please try and do something, either as a group, or even making sure that the scottish prison service and/or whoever is mentioned above gets a great big heap of postcardsfrom all over the country showing solidarity with john on friday to tie in with the demo.YOU NEED TO POST CARDS TODAY 1ST CLASS for them to get there FRIDAY.

If your at home or college or work where you have access to a computer LETS BOMBARD THEM WITH E-MAILS, especially on Friday at 2pm, but any other day and time will help.

If you wanna meet up with like-minded people and HOLD A SMALL SOLIDARITY DEMO in your town or city, contact people and let them know.

i will be in LONDON trying to get some people together(if possible) and can probably print of some flyers if anyone wants to meet up and hand them out or something.

PUBLICISE ANARCHISM IS NOT A CRIME AND ABC's are not TERRORISTS. print out these leaflets, or contact the above people or even me and i send you some, PHONE everyone on your phone and ask them to just take 5 minutes to send a card and an e-mail.
POST OR BULLENTIN this or others articles from leeds abc or myspace profile and send them to everyone on your e-mail list.
SEND A CARD TO JOHN- LET HIM AND THE STATE KNOW HE HAS SUPPORT AND SOLIDARITY.