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A noise demo was held on october 23rd at washtenaw county jail at 2201 HOGBACK rd in ann arbor to demand the release of two (of three) comrades who were arrested at a protest of an iof talking tour event put on by U of M’s ‘students supporting israel’ chapter that same evening.
A group of about 100 of us organically assembled at the jail’s main entrance, drumming and clanging as we do at noise demos. After a short period of making noise at the main entrance of the jail (on the washtenaw side), we decided to move around the perimeter of the jail, towards the Hogback side. This is where the two garages are that cops use to bring the people they’ve kidnapped into the jail. We rounded into the garage area and broke out into chants and clangs. At this point some of us decided to make noise using the garage door itself. That garage door sure did shake!
We pounded against these impermanent walls- kicking and throwing our bodies against it as the beat to which we shouted for the release of our comrades. Boy did it piss the pigs off…Sure enough cruisers rounded into the entrances off of hogback in what looked like a potential kettle. We slowly moved back from the garage so as to avoid this, continually chanting and shouting expletives at the approaching officers. After standing ground for about a half hour, people slowly decided to leave.
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