The recent successes of Sholom Across America’s educational videos and materials have underlined the need for the public to see first-hand the true facts of the insidious case against Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin.
Time after time, campaign volunteers have encountered individuals who have explained that after seeing the evidence in the case for themselves and not just reading about it, they have come to their own supportive conclusion.
Although much information is available publicly, it is often difficult to sift through the enormous amount of documents and recorded information.
Sholom Across America will therefore begin to post already publicly available audio transcripts from the Iowa state trial in an organized and accessible manner.
The state trial on over 9,000 counts of child labor violations originally commanded flashing headlines and appalled op-ed articles.
Yet even before the trial began only 83 charges remained, and the state case ended with a whimper and an acquittal. Needless to say, the headlines were not as grandiose when it came time to Sholom’s full exoneration.
It is the audio from this case that will be presented, shedding a new light on the witch-hunt-like spirit of the prosecution and their win-at-all-cost methods.
Sholom Across America will not be editing the content, but will be giving background information that will put the clip in context and organizing it in a coherent manner.
In the audio you will hear shocking testimony, some of which was not heard by the jury. Such as the testimony of a Spanish-speaking woman who came to Postville following the government raid, where she saw labor organizers coaching immigrants to testify that they had been abused by the Rubashkins, and promising them visas in exchange.
Or how the governments star witness Mr. Derrick, who was called upon to testify from jail where he serving time for contempt of court (i.e. lying to the court) about the Rubashkin’s abuses, only to be discredited by multiple witnesses who in turn implicated Derrick himself as a serial abuser and racist who hated his workers and wanted them “packed like sardines and shipped back to Mexico”.
These clips, amongst many others that will be presented, will help to better inform a public that is already more informed than it was just a short time ago.
Sholom Across America’s next stop will be in the form of Sholom Across Canada as we cross our northern border into Montreal shortly after Rosh Hashana. Our Montreal campaign will kick off with a inspiring evening for woman with Mrs Leah Rubashkin. Stay tuned for more exciting events.
You can hear a sample clip below of Defense Lawyer Mark Weinhardt making it clear in court what the trial has to be about and what the State of Iowa wants to turn it into.
To hear the audio files as they are released and to donate, please visit SholomAcrossAmerica.com
To #4:
No, they updated this morning and said they will post the prosecution’s response to one argument. They do not seem to be planning to publish the full case against him. Nor are they planning to publish the audio or transcripts from the bank fraud case.
If you had went to their web site and a actually taken the time to read the posts you would have seen that they are posting both sides so the public can hear.
If they truly desire to provide the public with the “true” facts of the case, why don’t they publish the trial in its entirety? Or cut the full trial down into organized segments. Give the public the ability to judge the full case on the merits, rather than provide only selected bits of defense testimony and argument.
dreams my friend. let me remind you we are in america rubashkin may go free but there will be nothing he can do for the damage caused to him
#1 is there a chane that could happen
While it would suffice for me if Sholom was acquitted of all charges and set free, I would love to see this investigation go all the way up to the top.
I want to see this judge brought to her knees, and I want to see all those “federal officials” including those the senate and congress who helped perpetrate this blood-libel against Sholom be brought down.