[Peace-discuss] Action Alert: Call in to Stop FBI Repression of Anti-War activists

Tue Oct 19 14:41:36 CDT 2010

I recommend calling the second number first - the Attorney General, because
I got through right away. For the White House comment line, I had to hold
for a bit.

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Date: Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 2:22 PM
Subject: Strategy Center Action Alert: Call in to Stop FBI Repression of
Anti-War activists
To: "naiman at justforeignpolicy.org" <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>

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*Please Call in to Stop FBI Repression of Anti-war Activists*
 *President Obama,*

**

   - Stop the FBI aggression
   - Stop the raids
   - Stop the grand jury harassment
   - Stop the subpoenas
   - Return all confiscated materials

*Dear friends and allies of the Labor/Community Strategy Center,

Please join us, today, **Tuesday, Oct. 19 for t**he 3rd National Call-In Day
to **stand in solidarity with anti-war activists targeted by the September
24, 2010 FBI raids and Grand Jury subpoenas.*

*Call:*

*President Obama (202)-456-1111 *

*U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (202)-353-1555*

**

*Demand:*

***End repression of anti-war and international solidarity activists!*

*
**Return all materials seized in the raid!*

*
**Call off the Grand Jury!***

*Today, *the third group of activists is scheduled to appear at the Grand
Jury.  All of the activists are refusing to testify, so the Assistant U.S.
Attorney Brand Fox has withdrawn the subpoenas thus far.  The Grand Jury
continues however, and arrests, or subpoenas offering immunity—forcing
activists to talk under the threat of imprisonment–are possibilities.  We
need your support.  Please circulate this national call widely.

*The Strategy Center is participating in the national Campaign to Stop FBI
Repression against anti-war and international solidarity activists. This is
a time for action!*

We are working to protect the human rights of all people and the inherent
right of mass social movements to protest the oppressive and repressive
practices of the U.S. government.

We oppose the criminalization of our communities and the militarization of
our schools. We seek the removal of all US military bases from foreign and
domestic lands and an end to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Office of Homeland Security and its affiliates such as the FBI and ICE
are aggressively attacking basic human rights, long fought for civil rights,
and civil liberties long exercised in the United States. In the name of the
War on Terrorism, this repressive apparatus is making an historic shift in
the rule of law, now the innocent are called “guilty” and fear is made the
backbone of popular mass sentiment.

We join with all international anti-war and international solidarity
activists and organizers to denounce the raids of the US government
on US-based Palestinian solidarity activists, anti-war activists, and other
international solidarity workers that took place in several U.S. cities on
Friday, September 24th, 2010. We denounce the daily raids on immigrants and
the repression of Arabs and Muslims who stand up for their families and
communities.

For more information please go to the Committee To Stop FBI Repression
www.stopfbi.net<http://simplesend.com/simple/t.asp?S=271&ID=39691&NL=3440&N=51179&SI=2919721&URL=http://www.stopfbi.net/>

*The Story: Grand Jury, FBI, *

On September 24, the FBI raided two Chicago and five Minneapolis homes of
well-known anti-war and international solidarity activists.  Also raided
were the offices of the Minneapolis-Saint Paul based Anti-War
Committee.  Subpoenas to answer questions at a Grand Jury in Chicago were
delivered to other activists at their homes and work places.  In the past
week, the FBI continues to attempt to harass other anti-war activists at
their homes and work.

When dozens of FBI agents stormed in, they took computer hard drives, cell
phones, documents, newspapers and children’s artwork.  They took 28 boxes
out of one Chicago home, including a framed photo of the Reverend Doctor
Martin Luther King Jr. shaking hands with Malcolm X.  The FBI subpoenaed 14
activists in Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan to testify at the Grand
Jury.  According to the FBI, the goal of the raids was to show material
support for terrorism charges.  It is outrageous!

All the activists publicly announced they are refusing to testify and want
the Grand Jury called off.  The Assistant U.S. Attorney Brandon Fox withdrew
the subpoenas at this point, but it is not over.  The government may force
people to testify under threat of imprisonment or make arrests.  The U.S.
government is trying to put people in jail for anti-war and international
solidarity activism.  These people have done nothing wrong.  They have given
money to no one. Their freedom is at stake.

Those targeted are well-known leaders in the anti-war movement and many
helped to organize the huge protest against the Republican National
Convention in St. Paul, MN in September 2008.  This is the suppression of
our democratic rights.  It threatens our families, our children and our
communities.  This is a U.S. government attempt to silence those who support
resistance to oppression in the Middle East and Latin America, by putting
people in jail.

The targeted activists are refusing to be pulled into conversations with the
FBI about their political views or their organizing against war and
occupation. The activists are involved with many groups, including the
Palestine Solidarity Group, Students for a Democratic Society, Twin-Cities
Anti-War Committee, Colombia Action Network, the Freedom Road Socialist
Organization and Fight Back! newspaper.

For more information please go to the Committee To Stop FBI Repression
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