Antiwar activism & international solidarity are
NOT crimes!CONFERENCE
FBI & Grand Jury Repression
Building Resistance
Saturday
FEB. 19
1-5 p.m.
Judson Memorial Church –
Main Hall, 55 Washington Square South, NYC
There will be food and refreshments (Donations requested)
Please register for the
conference at www.StopFBI.net
Send Donations to STOPFBI.NET/DONATE
Join us for Panels, Discussions and Break-out Groups
PANEL I-
The Climate of Repression and Building a Fightback Against Anti-Muslim
Repression,
Preemptive Prosecution, Entrapment
Panel to include families and/or lawyers from Project Salam, Newburgh
4, Fort Dix 5, Holy Land Case, Siraj Matin
and Fahad Hashmi cases and Pardiss Kebriaei (Center for Constitutional Rights)
on the Guantanamo cases.
Special Section: Know Your RIghts
When an Agent Knocks/ Entrapment/ Grand Jury.
PANEL II
Updates on FBI & Grand Jury Repression & Review of Past Grand
Jury Witchhunts
Speakers include Hatem Abudayyeh from Chicago, Mick Kelly and Sarah
Martin from Minneapolis who were raided by the FBI and/or subpoenaed to appear
at U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald's Grand Jury and National Lawyers Guild
Attorneys Jim Fennerty and Bob Boyle.
Break-out Groups and Discussion
Action Plans for the Future of this Fight, Know Your Rights Training
Sessions,
Targeting of the Palestinian Movement, Labor Outreach, Religious Outreach and
Media Outreach.
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BACKGROUND.
On September 24, 2010 the FBI, on orders from U.S. Attorney Patrick
Fitzgerald, raided seven Chicago and Minneapolis homes of well-known anti-war
and international solidarity activists. Their ranks included a number of
trade unionists.
Also raided was the office of the Minneapolis–St. Paul based Anti-War
Committee. The FBI subpoenaed fourteen activists in Illinois, Minnesota and
Michigan to testify at a federal grand jury in Chicago. Then in December 2010,
nine more people — all Palestinians or Palestine solidarity activists in
Chicago — were ordered to testify before the same grand jury.
According to the FBI, the goal of the raids was to show material support for
terrorism charges. It is outrageous!
The U.S. government is trying to put people in jail for anti -war and
international solidarity activism.
These people have done nothing wrong, yet 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
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 23 targeted activists are refusing to be pulled into conversations with
the FBI about their political views
or their organizing against war and occupation.
The NYC Working Committee includes representatives from:
● Anti-Repression Committee of the NYC National Lawyers Guild ●
NYCISPES ● Veterans For Peace Chapter 34 NYC
● Fight Imperialism Stand Together (FIST) ● NYC International
Socialist Organization ● BAYAN USA
● Pakistan USA Freedom Forum ● May 1 Coalition for Workers
& Immigrant Rights ● Muslim Solidarity Committee
● Friends and Family of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade ● Committees of
Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
● Marxist-Humanist Initiative ● Freedom Socialist Party ●
Resistance in Brooklyn
● Al Awda Palestine Right to Return Coalition NY ●
International Action Center
● Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace ● NYC School of the Americas Watch
● World Can't Wait
● War Resisters League ● Coney Island Avenue Project ● Free
Mumia Coalition
● Picture The Homeless ● Brooklyn For Peace
● Workers World Party ● Todd Eaton of NYprotest ●
Event Announcement Listserv ● Project SALAM
Major Event SAT Feb 19 vs. FBI & Grand Jury Repression, NYC
