From COINTELPRO to the PATRIOT Act: Liberation Movements & the
Fight Against State Repression

Saturday, May 13th, 2006. Toronto Reference Library Auditorium, 789 Younge St. (Just North of Bloor, East side of Younge)

Susan Tipograph has been a criminal defence lawyer in New York City for 30 years. A long-time member of the National Lawyers Guild, she has been a staunch defender of activists, organizers and others made the target of state repression. Some of Susan's notable trials include the Ohio 7 prosecution, the state and federal cases arising from the 1981 Brinks incident in Rockland County, New York (defending Judith Clark, Silvia Baraldini and David Gilbert) and the 1998 rebellion in New York City's Tompkins Square Park. Among her clients have been Raise the Fist webmaster Sherman Austin, Lynne Stewart, former Black Panthers including Robert 'Seth' Hayes and Herman Bell, members of the FALN, Macheteros and other Puerto Rican independistas, as well as countless civil disobedience and demonstration arrestees arising out of the anti-globalization, HIV/AIDS, anti-war and other movements.

In addition to Susan's talk, US Political Prisoner (and former member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army) Robert ‘Seth’ Hayes will address the audience prison and local organizers will give an update about Seth's parole campaign.

This event is organized by the Law Union of Ontario and the Toronto Robert ‘Seth’ Hayes support committee, and is sponsored by the Law Union of Ontario, the Toronto Seth Hayes Committee, Upping the Anti, OCAP, 81 Reasons Campaign, Prisoners Justice Action Committee, Common Front Legal Collective, Prisoners' HIV/AIDS Support Action Network (PASAN) and others TBA.

For more information or to book a space to table at the event please e-mail info@sethhayes.org or go to www.sethhayes.org.