Join the “Irvine 11” in calling for the the immediate dismissal of the Orange County District Attorney, Tony Rackauckas, from the case on the basis that he issued illegal subpoenas and conducted a discriminatory investigation. In a packed courtroom in Santa Ana, CA, nearly 200 community leaders, students, parents and interfaith leaders gathered to support the 11 UC Irvine and UC Riverside students, who were set to be arraigned for one count of misdemeanor conspiracy to disturb a meeting and one count of misdemeanor disturbance of a meeting for peacefully protesting a speech by Israeli Ambassador, Michael Oren, at UCI more than a year ago. The attorneys for the students requested that California State Attorney General, Kamala Harris, handle the prosecution. The judge continued the arraignment to April 15, when he will address the motion presented by the attorneys. After the arraignment, Irvine 11 defense attorneys Reem Salahi and Daniel Mayfield, UCI Professor Irene Tucker, Rabbi Haim Beliak and Ali Mohammad Sayeed (one of the 11 students facing prosecution) held a press conference on the steps of City Hall to discuss the case and the arraignment. “The Orange County D.A. is absolutely wrong in interjecting himself into this process and attempting to criminalize these students who did not commit any violence, did not resist arrest, did not engage in property damage and did not voice hate speech,” Salahi said. “These students merely stood up and expressed deeply rooted political dissent in a manner that was peaceful and tempered.” Demand the DA remove himself from the Irvine 11 case by signing the petition today!