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The Shire Choir Makes it’s Debut Performance at the State House

by Agent on November 8, 2010 in Shire Choir | Comments { 1 }

Photo by Anton Lee of ShirePhotography.com. From Left to Right: Garret Ean of FreeConcord.org, Sebastian Raine, Weeda Claus, Kat & Russell Kanning, Emperor Evan and Jason Talley.

CONCORD, NH – On the 5th, about 40 Shire Activists answered Rich Paul’s call to “Remember, Remember Disobey in November ” at the New Hampshire State House. This included the newly formed Peaceful Assembly Choir from Free Grafton. Members, including myself, sang “Weeda Claus’s Chronic Christmas Carols” by Sam A. Robrin.

The choir hopes to release MP3s and is excited about going on tour during this holiday season. Stops will likely include the offices, homes and neighborhoods of the individuals employed by the State to wage a war on peaceful people over drugs. We hope to spread holiday cheer along with the message that the good people of the Shire will no longer tolerate the caging of their peaceful friends and neighbors because they’d prefer to smoke a plant rather than buy much more harmful liquor from the State.

The choir and I need a lot of practice so we meet every Thursday at 7PM at the Peaceful Assembly Church. All are welcome and encouraged to sing with the choir. Even if you can’t make choir practice you are still welcome to join in on the caroling. As Russell Kanning says, “it’s fun!”

Signs from the 5th of November’s 420 Celebration read  ”Government is Organized Crime,” “End Prohibition Again,” “Caging Peaceful People is Wrong,” and “Shake Your Chains,” a reference to Rich Paul’s defiant statement to Keene District Court’s Judge Burke who asked what Paul thought about the amount of bail imposed for his victimless crime. “If You’re Happy and you Know it… Shake your Chains” was Paul’s response while shaking his shackles to a furious judge who then doubled the bail.

Stay tuned for Thursday’s Episode of Talley.TV to see and hear the choir’s debut and scenes from the rest of the celebration.

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The Peaceful Assembly Choir Makes it’s Debut Performance at the State House

by Agent on November 8, 2010 in Outreach | Comments { 1 }

Photo by Anton Lee of ShirePhotography.com. From Left to Right: Garret Ean of FreeConcord.org, Sebastian Raine, Weeda Claus, Kat & Russell Kanning, Emperor Evan and Jason Talley.

CONCORD, NH – On the 5th, about 40 Shire Activists answered Rich Paul’s call to “Remember, Remember Disobey in November ” at the New Hampshire State House. This included the newly formed Peaceful Assembly Choir from Free Grafton. Members, including myself, sang “Weeda Claus’s Chronic Christmas Carols” by Sam A. Robrin.

The choir hopes to release MP3s and is excited about going on tour during this holiday season. Stops will likely include the offices, homes and neighborhoods of the individuals employed by the State to wage a war on peaceful people over drugs. We hope to spread holiday cheer along with the message that the good people of the Shire will no longer tolerate the caging of their peaceful friends and neighbors because they’d prefer to smoke a plant rather than buy much more harmful liquor from the State.

The choir and I need a lot of practice so we meet every Thursday at 7PM at the Peaceful Assembly Church. All are welcome and encouraged to sing with the choir. Even if you can’t make choir practice you are still welcome to join in on the caroling. As Russell Kanning says, “it’s fun!”

Signs from the 5th of November’s 420 Celebration read  ”Government is Organized Crime,” “End Prohibition Again,” “Caging Peaceful People is Wrong,” and “Shake Your Chains,” a reference to Rich Paul’s defiant statement to Keene District Court’s Judge Burke who asked what Paul thought about the amount of bail imposed for his victimless crime. “If You’re Happy and you Know it… Shake your Chains” was Paul’s response while shaking his shackles to a furious judge who then doubled the bail.

Stay tuned for Thursday’s Episode of Talley.TV to see and hear the choir’s debut and scenes from the rest of the celebration.

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Rich Paul is Free! Released from his City of Keene Cage this Morning.

by Agent on August 26, 2010 in Misc | Comments { 0 }

UPDATE: Rich Paul calls Porc411 to invite everyone to Keene Central Square for a Night Cap.

Thanks to Ethan Lee Vita for his first hand account of Rich Paul’s release:

We were informed Rich Paul would be released, at the earliest, at 8am Thursday August 26, 2010. There was curiousity as to whether he’d be released at midnight, beginning of the 26th, because they used to release inmates from midnight at the old Westmoreland jail. They informed us, by phone call, that he would be released at 8am. We got there before 8am and went to sit in the lobby. At 8am the lobby secretary called for them to release Rich Paul. Some other people came around 8:10. We were starting to wonder when they’d release him as we waited.

Monica went up to talk to the lady and they said he’d be coming out the door outside so we waited outside there under 5 minutes. He stepped out in a jail t-shirt he didn’t like at about 8:30am. We displayed a t-shirt we got for him that read, “I noticed that you’re gangster. I’m pretty gangster myself.” He shook Wes’s hand, mine, hugged Monica etc., calling everyone dudes or dudettes as is appropriate. I believe there were around 9 people there, including myself, Brooke Kelley, Wes Gilreath, Monica Granger, Jacqueline Lemieux, Dave Dixon, and a new guy . I handed him some money I earned him while he was in. We walked to the car where we gave him his gun and he loaded it in front of the jail.

Monica and Rich went topless walking from the jail, through 101, to Humdinger’s while we called a Porc411 to meet there. Once we realized it was closed, we showed him where we did the nightcap candlelight vigil on the side of the road. He talked about getting fireworks tonight, or if not tonight, soon, and shooting them off for people on the inside. Supposedly we have an inside man who will have envelopes and stamps ready if an activist ends up in his cell block; that way they don’t have to wait to get their own supplies.

We then walked back and agreed to meet to smoke a bowl in Central. As we were doing that, more people, Ian, Hunter, and JJ, showed up and we took him to eat at Lindy’s Diner, where Richard and Dale showed up. After that, he went to be with Monica at the movie shoot for Intense! and that was the last I saw him.

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Heika Courser arrested, Free Keeniacs ejected from court after standing for Rich Paul instead of Judge Burke

by Agent on July 27, 2010 in Uncategorized | Comments { 1 }

The following details are provided by calls from the invaluable Porc 411 and Facebook and cover events sparked by Rich Paul’s hearing today at Keene District Court. It was a procedural hearing to assign an attorney and according to George Donnelly, Rich Paul “is in jail till Aug 28. Sentenced to 30 days and 300 suspended days.”

10:24AM Ian Freeman: “a bunch” of Free Keene activists were kicked out of court for “standing when Rich Paul was called up.”

10:49AM Shawn Murphy: Heika was arrested outside of the Keene District Court for “using a bullhorn” Someone, maybe Heika, could be heard yelling “Free Speech!” in the background.

Ian posted the following to Free Keene:

I arrived on-scene as Heika was being loaded up into a KPD cruiser. Her crime? “Free” speech over a megaphone. We were kicked out of the court earlier by the robed man because a bunch of activists stood for Rich Paul when he was called. It was because we were kicked out of court that Monica went to get the megaphone – I had run home at this time to make a phone call I was late for, and when I returned, Heika was being arrested for “disorderly conduct”. According to witnesses, Heika was not on the megaphone when police arrived. They didn’t give her a warning that she was being “disorderly” – they just came up and arrested her. They are calling it a bail violation, so she’s in jail at least for the night and the arraignment is expected for tomorrow. Hopefully she won’t lose her job.

10:50AM Monica: Called to report that Heika was arrested for “conditions of violating her bail” by using a bullhorn. Singing could be heard in the background of this call.

10:51AM Christopher Booth: The police is attempting to take the bullhorn away from Monica Granger. You can hear someone in the background, probably Monica, saying “that’s my property.”

10:52AM Unknown female: “Nobody stood for the Judge, everybody stood for Rich Paul.” Three Keene Police Department cruisers responded to the peaceful protest in front of the courthouse at Keene Central Square.

11:12AM Unknown Male from Massachusetts: Asked “Desk Jockey’s at work” to express “concern or outrage” over the violation of people’s rights and “wasting of taxpayers dollars on the abuse of the people” by calling the following phone numbers:

  • Keene District Court: 603.352.2559
  • Court Coordinator, Barbara Sweet: 603.271.2030
  • Keene Police Department 603.352.2222
  • Judge Edwin W. Kelly, administrative judge of the District Court of the Courts

11:29 Previous Caller: suggested that Judge Edwin W. Kelly, Administrative Judge of the District Court of the Courts, receive calls at 603.271.6418 to request he “Reel Judge Burk in.” His message expressing his “feelings on the situation as a taxpayer” was left with Kelly’s assistant, Linda.

11:50 Ian Freeman: According to the Keene District Court, the arraignment for Heika will be tomorrow morning at 9AM. She is accused of violating her bail by using a megaphone but was not using it when the police arrived. She will be spending the night in one of Keene’s cages.

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