[OccupyCU] Fwd: Get on the Bus for the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington

[jesse phillippe]

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From: C-U Socialists (ISO) <info at newsletters.isouc.org>
Date: Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:29 PM
Subject: Get on the Bus for the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington
To: japhillippe at gmail.com


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In this week's newsletter

*1. Get on the Bus for the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington.*

*2. Defend a Greek Marxist from persecution by the increasingly fascist
Greek state!!*

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We are trying to put together a group of people who are interested in going
to the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, in Washington,
D.C., on August
24. So if you are interested, please let us know by emailing
japhillippe at gmail.com:

 *We will be discussing the details at out regular weekly meeting, this
Tuesday at 7:00 pm at the Urbana Free Library, downstairs in the smaller
Conference Room.*

Buses will be leaving from Springfield, Kankakee, and Chicago (we are
hoping for available seats in the Kankakee and Chicago buses, but are
currently waiting to find out from Kankakee, since it is closer).

50th Anniversary of the March on
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 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington

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Sign a petition (which is in Greek, hence all the % signs in the URL) here:
http://www.change.org/petitions/eek-%CE%BD%CE%B1-%CE%B1%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%81%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%86%CE%B8%CE%B5%CE%AF-%CE%B7-%CE%BC%CE%AE%CE%BD%CF%85%CF%83%CE%B7-%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD-%CE%BD%CE%B1%CE%B6%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CF%8E%CE%BD?utm_campaign=signature_receipt&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition
He needs your help against the fascists

Bertell Ollman, a professor of politics at New York University, appeals for
solidarity on behalf of a Greek scholar facing legal threats from the
fascist Golden Dawn party.
 August 19, 2013

[image: Savvas Matsas]Savvas Matsas

SAVVAS MATSAS is an exceptionally talented Greek philosopher, literary
critic and Biblical scholar who is also the leader of a Marxist political
party, the Workers Revolutionary Party (EEK, by its initals in Greek), in
his country. He is very well known in left circles in the U.S., the U.K.
and France for his invariably enlightening and spirited participation over
the years in a variety of our conferences and seminars.

Today, Savvas stands charged with "defaming" the Greek neo-Nazi party
Golden Dawn--whose brutal assaults on immigrants and others most of you
will have heard about--"inciting violence" against them, and "disturbing
the peace." His case goes to trial on September 3. The evidence for the
charge of "defamation" seems to be that he called them "criminals"; for the
charge of "inciting violence" that he appealed publicly for a fight against
fascism; and for the charge of "disturbing the peace" that he wrote a tract
calling for a demonstration against them.

Meanwhile, the Golden Dawn party, which continues its rise on the Greek
political scene, has been conducting a virulent campaign against Savvas,
whom they've called "an agent of the international Jewish conspiracy
against the Greek nation who is trying to provoke a civil war in order to
establish a Jewish-Bolshevik regime." Sound familiar?

Perhaps as outrageous as the charges against Savvas is the fact that
Greece's conservative government, which has several cabinet members whose
origins lie in the extreme right, should consider such legally protected
behavior as worthy of judicial action. This may even be the first time that
any country that pretends to be a democracy has made opposition to fascism
into a crime, and if it succeeds in Greece it won't be the last.

Savvas has called for letters that support his "right" (I would have
preferred "duty") to fight fascism in all the ways listed in the charges
above be sent to him as soon as possible. The trial, again, is on September
3. Even one line will do. Letters are already beginning to flood in from
Greece and several other countries.

We have a chance to make a difference here--for Savvas, perhaps for Greece,
and maybe even for ourselves. Take a moment right now and write, and then
forward this appeal to all your contacts who take--or should take--the
fight against fascism (and the state's protection, bordering on open
support, of the fascists in its midst) as seriously as Savvas does.

Savvas' e-mail address is savvasmatsas at gmail.com.

In solidarity,
*Bertell Ollman*
Department of Politics, New York University



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