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[Sarah Lazare]

via Michigan IMC
EAST LANSING- Students for Economic Justice, the United Students Against 
Sweatshops affiliate at Michigan State Univeristy is participating in a 
nationwide project by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), that 
involves requesting information on police infiltration, surveillance and FBI 
information gathering on activist groups, particularly following 9-11, the 
implementation of the PATRIOT Act and the growth of the antiwar movement. 
This campaign is being undertaken through use of rights provided by the 
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). This national ACLU campaign is about 
making a showing on a national level of how concerned people are about the 
actions of the police and intelligence agencies, and attempting to see what 
kind of activities they are up to in the post 9-11, "everyone could be a 
terrorist," world.

SEJ was asked to participate along with many other groups across the country 
due to its previous interactions with intelligence agencies and police. In 
2000-2001, an undercover police officer, posing as a student, infiltrated 
SEJ for six months before being identified by one of our members. The 
infiltration was approved by the university president, Peter McPherson and 
included work by both the MSU police and the FBI.