[Peace] Fwd:[ANSWER]: ENDORSE the June 29 Call to Action - DEFEND CI

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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 21:14:42 -0400
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JUNE 29
DEFEND CIVIL RIGHTS!
March on the FBI and Justice Department headquarters in  Washington DC - Gather @ 12 noon at Pennsylvania Ave. 
between 9th and 10th St. NW

ENDORSE THE JUNE 29 CALL TO ACTION!
Fill out the easy-to-use form at 
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/0629/endorse.html#endo  to add your/your group?s endorsement today.

HELP GET THE WORD OUT FOR THE JUNE 29 MARCH IN DC! Download flyers at 
http://www.internationalanswer.org/download.html (requires  acrobat reader) or call 202-332-5757 to have flyers sent  to you.

COME TO DC FOR THE PROTEST AT FBI & JUSTICE DEPT.  HEADQUARTERS!
Find buses, vans and car caravans at 
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/0629/contacts.html  or email dc at internationalanswer.org to let us know where  you?re coming from.

POST THE JUNE 29 CALL TO ACTION WIDELY!
See below or go to 
http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/0629/index.html  for text of the Call to Action.

MARCH ON THE FBI & JUSTICE DEPARTMENT JUNE 29 IN  WASHINGTON DC 
Saturday, June 29 @ 12 noon
Pennsylvania Ave. between 9th and 10th St. NW

- Say no to the FBI attacks on civil rights and civil 
liberties 
- Stand up against racism and racial and religious 
profiling 
- No new COINTELPRO 
- Defend the Arab American, Muslim and South Asian 
communities 
- Stop the new witch hunt against political and religious 
organizations 
- Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier, Imam Jamil 
Al-Amin  & all political prisoners in the U.S. 
- Money for jobs, education and healthcare - not 
repression and war
- Stop the attacks on immigrant rights
- Defend out unions

The Bush administration announced in the last week of May  that the FBI would be seizing vast additional powers to 
spy on the people of the United States. We must act now to  stop this assault on our rights.

These powers pose a grave danger to civil liberties and  civil rights, and will - unless defeated by the people - 
lead to a new round of persecution of people based on 
their political or religious convictions.

There was no vote in Congress. No public referendum. No  judicial review. George Bush, Attorney General John 
Ashcroft and FBI director Robert Mueller decided to 
unleash the FBI on people targeted by the Bush 
administration - not because they have committed a crime,  not because they are being investigated for a crime. They  will be targeted because the government has determined  that their political or religious views or affiliations 
warrant surveillance, infiltration, and disruption of 
their personal lives or the organizations to which they 
belong.

Ashcroft and Mueller are adopting the tactics of the 
vicious reign of J. Edgar Hoover's secret police tactics 
that were used against unions; progressive groups; 
women?s, l/g/b/t and anti-war groups; African American,  Latino and American Indian civil rights organizations. 
Tens of thousands of people lost their jobs, were falsely  imprisoned, were deported or went into exile and were 
subject to government harassment. Scores of political 
activists in the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords 
Party and in many others movements were murdered by FBI  COINTELPRO (counter-intelligence) programs.

Pressure brought to bear on the government from the mass  people's movements of the 1960s and 1970s eventually led  to the government adopting new guidelines, purportedly  designed to curb FBI abuse of people's rights. In fact, 
this kind of FBI abuse has never stopped. What is new is  that the FBI