The Sedition Committee — December 1988 (Ohio 7 Defense)

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Monthly defense-campaign newsletter from *The Sedition Committee*, the support formation organizing for the Ohio 7 sedition-conspiracy trial in Springfield, Massachusetts (1988–1989). The Ohio 7 — Ray Luc Levasseur, Tom Manning, Richard Williams, Jaan Laaman, Carol Manning, Patricia Levasseur, and Barbara Curzi-Laaman — were prosecuted on seditious-conspiracy and RICO charges in connection with the United Freedom Front (UFF) bombings of corporate and military targets during the early 1980s. The Springfield trial was the largest U.S. sedition prosecution in modern movement history; in November 1989 the jury acquitted on the sedition counts. The newsletter coordinated court-watching, defense fundraising, prisoner correspondence, and political education throughout the trial. December 1988.