Fwd: NC Alert: Seven Animal Liberationists Already Arrested in Vegas!

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--- No Compromise <NC-Alerts wrote:

> Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:41:54 -0700

> No Compromise <NC-Alerts

> NC-Alerts

> NC Alert: Seven Animal Liberationists

> Already Arrested in Vegas!

>

> Seven animal liberationists have already been

> arrested in Las Vegas for

> protesting at the Stephens international conference.

> More arrests are

> expected, as dozens of more protesters arrive in Las

> Vegas today.

>

> For the latest information on Las Vegas, please be

> sure to check out the No

> Compromise website at http://www.nocompromise.org.

>

> *****

>

> News Reports Follow:

>

> 3/22 (4:46 am) - Stephens Conventioneers Held

> Hostage in Las Vegas.

>

> Speakers and attendees at an investment banking

> seminar hosted by Stephens

> Inc., the unethical investment bankers who bailed

> out Huntington Life

> Sciences, are being held hostage of their own

> security arrangements as, even

> at midnight, more than a dozen police cars line the

> driveways to their hotel

> giving the appearance of an armed camp.

>

> Conference attendees are sequestered behind armed

> guards, undercover police

> and hotel security. They are told to remove their

> convention badges before

> leaving the conference and entering the common area

> of the hotel. They dare

> not carry or wear any Stephens logo.

>

> At protests on Wednesday at the Dessert Inn Golf

> Course and at the Monte

> Carlo Hotel, demonstrators were seriously

> outnumbered as about one hundred

> Las Vegas Police Department officers, assisted by a

> slightly smaller

> contingent of hotel security forces, watched and

> followed the demonstrators

> using about 25 police cruisers, eight or ten vans, a

> few transport trucks, a

> dozen motorcycles, a small fleet of mountain bikes

> and at least two horses.

>

> The area in front of the Monte Carlo Hotel is posted

> as a " Resort District "

> where " no disruptive use " is allowed. Rather than

> challenge activists' right

> to protest, LVPD simply blocked off the entire front

> of the hotel so there

> was no one to disrupt. Had we known, we could have

> stayed home and just

> asked the cops to please hold our signs.

>

> By now, seven activists have been arrested,

> including Jerry Vlasak, M.D.,

> who was assaulted by undercover police outside of

> his hotel room, then

> arrested while police loaded his stuff and moved him

> out of the hotel.

> Protesters have been denied release from jail, while

> interrogators arrive

> from the FBI and other alphabet agencies whose very

> letters are secret.

>

> Hotel security also cancelled the Stephens-Kills

> Hospitality Suite which had

> been rented by IDA and was to have featured Dr.

> Vlasak and Dr. Ray Greek

> doing a video presentation and press conference. The

> press conference has

> been rescheduled at another hotel. Meanwhile,

> reports are that while 100

> police officers were busy baby sitting unethical

> businessmen, a liquor store

> a block away from the demonstration was robbed.

>

>

>

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>

> 3/22 (3:12 am) - Dr. Jerry Vlasak was beaten by

> police and arrested as he

> entered his hotel room in Las Vegas late Wednesday

> night only hours before

> he was due to hold a news conference criticizing

> Stephens Inc. investment in

> Huntington Life Sciences. Police used a choke hold

> on Jerry - who is now in

> Clark County Jail on $2,200 bail. Police did not

> identifiy themselves, were

> in plainclothes and attacked him, according to

> witnesses.

>

> Jake Conroy of Seattle was also arrested about 9:30

> p.m. Wednesday night

> about the same time as Jerry as he was on the Vegas

> Strip. He simply asked

> anofficer to stop filming him and was arrested. His

> bail is $400. The news

> conference was also cancelled by the Monte Carlo,

> where Stephens is having a

> conference this week. A new site will be announced

> for the Thursday news

> conference soon.

>

>

>

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>

> 3/21 (6:22 pm) - I just talked to Katherine Phu (one

> of those arrested). She

> confirmed that they're charged with trespass and

> were told that if they

> " cooperate " they will be cited and released. Support

> people at the jail were

> also told they would be cited. However, shortly

> thereafter, they were

> informed that orders from " higher up " had come down

> saying that they WILL

> NOT be cited out.

>

> So, please keep trying to call Clark County

> Detention Center! (although I

> know it's been busy). 702-455-3710

>

> Inquire about the five demonstrators:

> Matthew Lamont

> Elizabeth Gorda

> Spencer Stegeman

> Stephanie?

> Katherine Phu

>

>

>

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>

> 3/21 (4:58 pm) - The five arrested earlier at the

> Stephens demo at the

> Desert Inn Golf Club are apparently being

> transferred to the Clark County

> Detention Center. We are unsure of their charges,

> but suspect trespass.

> Apparently, they turned into the golf club parking

> lot (without really

> knowing it was the golf club parking lot) and police

> immediately stopped

> them, towed their vehicle, and arrested them

> without--it seemed--giving them

> any notice or opportunity to leave.

>

> PLEASE CALL CLARK COUNTY DETENTION CENTER AND

> INQUIRE ABOUT THE FIVE

> PROTESTERS ARRESTED AT THE DESERT INN GOLF CLUB!

> (702) 455-3900

>

> Names of arrested: Matthew Lamont, Elizabeth Gorda,

> Katherine, Stephanie

> (all from L.A.), and Spencer (from Las Vegas) We are

> told there is a chance

> they would be given Section 2 (cited and released)

> if they only are charged

> with trespass. Please take a few minutes to call!

>

>

>

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>

> 3/21 (mid-afternoon) - I just got word from Gina

> Lynn in Vegas that five

> people have been arrested during a demo at the

> Desert Inn Golf Club. One

> Vegas local and 4 from L.A. were arrested for

> reasons unknown at this time,

> and the car they were driving was towed. We do not

> know the charges or where

> they were transported at this time.

>

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