"Inaction is the price of Priviledge"

international | environment | other press Tuesday August 09, 2005 05:59 by JEFF - PRISON TIME

Dispatch from US political prisoner Jeff 'Free' Luers

Jeff is in USA prison for 22 years for burning a couple SUVs
This is a dispatch from prison.

Back in '98 when a friend and I started the Fall Creek Treesit, we sat alone in that forest; no ground-support, no other treesits - just us. We watched from our perch high in the canopy as Grandmother and Grandfather trees were felled to build the road. I remember spilling the coffee I was brewing on our little stove as I watched. My friend, the most mean and cynical man I've ever known, said the first and only kind words I've ever heard escape his lips...