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UBC (AMS) Social Justice Centre executive jailed

Post author By Neal Yonson
Post date September 18, 2007
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Alison Bodine, the Financial Co-ordinator of the riven AMS resource group, the Social Justice Centre, landed in jail this week after trying to caim belongings that had been confiscated from her on re-entering Canada from her native U.S. No charges have been laid, and a hearing that was sceduled for today was cancelled. RCMP has declined comment.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/09/16/bc-arrest.html

Bodine is a well-recognized figure in certain ‘activist’ circles, being a leader in a bewildering assortment of badly named radical/lunatic groups, namely MAWO, CAWOPI and more! In a dramatic coup d’etat last spring, Bodine and some others from her group managed to grab a majority of the executive positions in the embattled AMS-funded resource group. Nobody should be jailed for trying to cross the border with pamphlets (no matter how stupid) though.

To free Alison, check out the Committee To Free Alison Bodine (no joke).

By Neal Yonson

Neal Yonson is a native of Ottawa. He graduated from the University of Toronto with an Hon.B.Sc. in 2006 and will be happy to tell you about how things seemed to work more smoothly there. After traveling across the country for free (protip: strategically arrange grad school visits where they reimburse travel) he came to UBC to start a Ph.D. in chemistry. He was quite happy to avoid student issues until he found out how much it cost to go to the BirdCoop. Since then, he has been involved with a variety of advocacy projects.

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4 replies on “UBC (AMS) Social Justice Centre executive jailed”

So according to today’s Ubyssey, Alison Bodine isn’t even a UBC student anymore, having graduated in May. I wonder if she’s still allowed to control resource group finances.