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Bring Marc Emery home to Canada
We want the Canadian government to bring Marc Emery home, to serve his sentence in Canada.This is a normal process called "Treaty Transfer" whereby American and Canadian prisoners are transferred home to serve their sentences in their native country. This is normally done so that prisoners can be closer to their families, and be better monitored and reintegrated into society.
Once Emery is sentenced in the USA, his lawyers will try to initiate the treaty transfer process. They expect no objection from American authorities, but there must also be support from Canada’s Public Safety Minister.
Originally we were fighting for Canadian officials to block Marc's extradition entirely. Now we are simply asking the Public Safety Minister to accept Marc's treaty transfer and allow him to serve some of his sentence in Canada.
The Canadian Minister of Public Safety is Vic Toews (pronounced "Taves"). Please contact Mr. Toews and tell him that you want him to support Marc's prison transfer back to serve his sentence in Canada.
Pease be polite and respectful – but very firm – when contacting Vic Toews office.
The best way is to write a letter to Vic Toews, postage free:
The Hon. Vic Toews
Parliament Hill
Suite 306, HC Justice Building
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
You can also call Vic Toews office at: 204-326-9889 and 613-992-3128
Vic Toews can be reached by email at: Toews.V@parl.gc.ca and toewsv1@mts.net
Send Marc Emery Mail or Money in US Prison
To be safe, please send only hand-written or hand-typed letters. Photos are permitted, but PLEASE don't send pictures of bongs, marijuana, plants, nudity, or anything illegal or inappropriate because it will be refused.
ALL MAIL IS THOROUGHLY READ BY PRISON OFFICIALS. Do not write about illegal activities or anything that you want to keep private. The official guidelines are listed below.
Please write to Marc about what you're doing in your life, the activism you've done, the silly little pleasures and joys of your day, the news about what's happening in the world and your area, etc. Prison life is just endless boring repetition, cut off from the outside. Nothing ever changes and nothing new ever happens, so Marc would really appreciate getting reports from the outside world!
MARC SCOTT EMERY
#40252-086 Unit DB
PO BOX 13900
FDC SEATAC
SEATTLE, WA
98198-1090 USA
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Marc Emery's US Federal Prison blog #7: Letter to Jodie
Dear Jodie: What a wonderful day-after-our-4th anniversary visit! After we kissed goodbye, I went into the anteroom where I get stripped down and take all my clothes off, I'm asked to riffle my fingers through my hair, open my mouth, move my head from side-to-side and bend my ears, show my underarms, lift up my “sac”, turn around and show the bottoms of my feet and – there's no other way to say it – spread my ass cheeks, to make sure I have not taken any contraband from you (though it would be impossible). My clothes and shoes are checked, and then I'm clear to get dressed and I'm brought back to my unit, Delta Bravo as it’s called, or DB.Cheech & Chong take pot shots at Stephen Harper
MONTREAL—Cheech and Chong have got some pretty blunt advice for Prime Minister Stephen Harper when it comes to Canada’s marijuana’s laws.“Wise up, you douchebag,” Cheech Marin says with some glee when asked what he’d tell the prime minister.
Chong, who hails from Edmonton, nods in agreement.
The team of tokers is miffed that Canadian authorities, after nearly decriminalizing pot a few years ago, have made a 180-degree policy shift which culminated in a rash of recent marijuana arrests.
Marc Emery's US Federal Prison blog #6
I've been keeping myself very busy since being let out of solitary confinement on June 24th. I have many books, magazine and newspaper subscriptions, and letters to keep me occupied, so the days sometimes fly by as I read and write back to people.Inmates here who have family come visit from out-of-state are allowed to apply for extended visits, of 3 to 5 hours (visits are normally 2 hours long). It took a while for me to get a response from my application to have Jodie get extended visits, since she comes from out-of-country, but I finally got a response on July 14th; I can have an extended 5-hour visit with Jodie one day every month, but only if I don't have any other visits for the rest of the month. Well, I'll certainly take two two-hour visits every week instead of one 5-hour visit a month!
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