Increasingly, the US government is using Grand Juries, to repress political activists and dissidents. There are currently grand juries ongoing in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, New Jersey and other cities, which are targetting activists organizing for animal rights, environmental justice, and against oppression. Katya Komisaruk is a criminal defense lawyer with the Just Cause Law Collective, in Oakland, California. She served five years in federal prison, following a protest against nuclear weapons in 1987.