Who Are Punand Craig?
PUN PLAMONDON
28 years old; from Traverse City, Mich.
High school dropout '63:attended Lansing Community College '64.
Union organizer, northern Michigan farm workers '65-'66
Joined Trans-Love Energies, multimedia commune/Detroit, '67
Joined staff, Warren-Forest SUN '67
Staff writer, Fifth EstateDetroit '67-68
Spent summer of '68 in Grand Traverse Co. Jail, $20,000 for giving roach to informer, charges later dropped by prosecution.
Co-founder, White Panther Party,1968
Organizer, Ann Arbor's free park concerts '68 and '69
Organizer, 1969 National Underground Media Conference/Ann Arbor
Spent 15 months in Wayne Co. (Detroit) and Kent Co. (Grand Rapids) jails on $100,000 bond on charges of conspiracy to bomb Ann Arbor CIA office, charges dropped by prosecution '69-'7O
Plaintiff in successful suit against Wayne Co. Jail, courts ordered that conditions must improve in WCJ.
Spent nine months in Federal Penitentiary for possession of false draft cards 71-'72
1972 released from Federal Prison, cofounder, Michigan Committee for Prisoners Rights.
Subject of illegal wiretapping by Nixon and Mitchell; principal in landmark Supreme Court decision checking the power of the President to wiretap at will.
Party with John Sinclair and Jack Forrest in $1.2 million suit against U.S Government for illegal wiretapping.
Editorial Board, Ann Arbor SUN, 1972-1972
CRAIG BLAZIER
22 years old; from Dexter, Michigan Senior Class President, Dexter High School, 1968
Attended Washtenaw Community College, '68-70
Joined Rainbow People's Party, 1971
Road manager for the UP, 1970-1971
Active in People's Defense Committee Ann Arbor Tribal Council
Staff, Community Center Project committee
Manager, Ann Arbor People's Ballroom, a non-profit, community-controlled and operated dance ballroom. 1971-1972
State Manager, Ann Arbor Community Parks Program 1972-1973
Stage Manager, Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival 1972
Manager, Energy Sound Co. (a division of Rainbow Energies, a Michigan i prof i t Corporation) 1973
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Freeing John Sinclair
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