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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><font size="3">Green
Party member and 2008 Congressional candidate Rev. Edward Pinkney of Benton
Harbor, Michigan is once again battling political persecution. On July 21, he will
stand trial for circulating recall petitions against Benton Harbor’s
pro-corporate Mayor James Hightower. The state is charging him with five felony
counts and threatening him with up to twenty-five years in prison.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><font size="3">Benton
Harbor has 70% unemployment and 90% of its people living below the poverty
line, and is also home to one of the richest companies in the world, the $19
billion Whirlpool Corporation. <o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><font size="3">Rev.
Pinkney has led residents in a relentless battle against racism in the criminal
justice system, for jobs, for education, for a better life, and against the
state-appointed “Emergency Financial Manager” (EFM) that took over Benton
Harbor in 2011. EFMs are a threat to democracy everywhere, as proven when an
EFM declared the bankruptcy of Detroit in 2013. A federal judge subsequently
ruled that its workers had no right to keep their pensions despite explicit
protection in the Michigan State Constitution, a decision that impacts the fate
of workers as far away as California.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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specific charges against Rev. Pinkney in the recall of Mayor Hightower are that
he altered some of the dates on the petitions. However, the evidence against
him introduced at his preliminary hearing was flimsy and contradictory, as pointed
out in a June 3 article in </font><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><font size="3">Voice of
Detroit</font></i><font size="3">:<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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Benton Harbor resident turned in the recall petitions on January 8, not Rev.
Pinkney.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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Pinkney was formally charged and a warrant issued for his arrest on that same
day, January 8, but the petitions were not turned over to the Michigan State
Police Forensics Lab for examination until February 26.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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March, Berrien County Sheriff Deputies conducted a massive campaign to
interrogate and intimidate petition signers throughout Benton Harbor.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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James Goff, who examined the petitions, is not a certified Forensics Document
Examiner.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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Goff testified that, “I can’t say who altered them or when.”<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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original petitions were admitted into evidence, only copies, and the Berrien
County Sheriff’s Department, Elections Commission, and Michigan State Police
disagree on where the originals are located.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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witnesses who had circulated petitions testified that they saw petition signers
themselves change the dates on their signatures due to errors, and one
circulator testified that she changed a date she herself entered due to an
error.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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Sheriff Sgt. David Zizkovsky stated that he himself asked the Forensics Lab to
change five dates on the petitions.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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was no confession, no certified handwriting expert testimony, no eye witnesses,
no evidence that Rev. Pinkney had exclusive access to the petitions, and lots
of evidence that lots of other people had access to them.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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charges against Rev. Pinkney are an attack on our right to petition for redress
of grievances and our right to take political action independently of the
corporate agenda and the two-party system. The fight to defend Rev. Pinkney is
the fight for democracy and for the future of America. <o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><font size="3">Publicize
this case. Write letters of support for Rev. Pinkney to BANCO (Black Autonomous
Network of Community Organizations) at </font></span><a href="mailto:banco9342@sbcglobal.net"><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><font color="#0000ff" size="3">banco9342@sbcglobal.net</font></span></a><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><font size="3"> Donations for legal defense may be
sent to BANCO, 1940 Union Street, Benton Harbor, MI 49022. <o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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