Support Donte and Ken, jailed for protesting the US Army School of the Americas : Houston Indymedia

Information on how to support Ken Crowley and Donte Smith, Houstonians headed for prison for opposing the School of Assasins

Houston ABC recived this information from SOAWatch about Ken and Donte, two Houstonians who are amoung 31 people who were sentenced to jail time for non-violent resistance to the US Army School of the Americas. Houston ABC encourages people in Houston to write letters of solidarity to these commrades and learn about the School of Assasins.

They are in there for us, we are out here for them!
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Ken and Donte are both going to jail on April 11, 2006.

Ken Crowley, lives in Washington, DC. He works at Witness for Peace and was a volunteer educator with abusive parents and abused children. His partner, Nancy Parten, lives in Houston, and his son, Matt, lives and works in Austin, Texas. He was found guilty of “aiding and abetting” and sentenced to six months in prison and a $1,000 fine - the first time that an SOAW activist has been prosecuted for this charge.

Kenneth Francis Crowley #90963-020
FCI Beaumont Low
Federal Correction Institution
PO Box 26020
Beaumont, TX 77720

Donte Smith, 19, is from Houston, Texas. Donte Smith is a student, labor organizer and social justice activist from the starry skies of Houston, Texas. Donte feels that task of ‘tikkum olam’ - translated from Hebrew as - “repairing the world” is a yoke that all humanity bears. Donte enjoys the color teal, origami, knitting and radical anarchol-feminist poetry. Donte was sentenced to three months in prison and a $500 fine.

Donte Smith #91436-020
FMC Fort Worth
Federal Medical Center
PO Box 15330
Fort Worth, TX 76119

More info from SOAWatch on supporting those in prison for opposing the SOA:

http://www.soaw.org/new/article.php?id=129

You can meet Donte and Ken in person this Sunday the 9th at Helios (411 Westheimer) where they will be celebrating their last days before being incarcerated.
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Houston Anarchist Black Cross is a collective of prison abolitionists. We support political prisoners, provide radical information and resources for all prisoners and work to create support for a movement in defense of political prisoners and against the prison system. We maintain an email list for prisoner solidarity activists, with weekly actions to be taken in support of people facing repression:

http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/habc_solidarity

Solidarity is a weapon