NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY--TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12 (Again we need your help) Stop the FBI

[annm4peace]

More anti-war and international solidarity activists are scheduled to appear before a Grand Jury in Chicago on Tuesday October 12th. The first group of activists subpoenaed on October 5th decided not to testify. On Tuesday we are organizing a NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY to support the anti-war activists targeted by the September 24 raids.

>>>CALL US Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald at 312-353-5300<<<
Fitzgerald is in charge of the Northern District of Illinois and responsible for the FBI raids and Grand Jury investigation.

Demand:
**End the repression of anti-war and international solidarity activists!
**Return all materials seized in the raid!
**Stop the Grand Jury Subpoenas of activists!

Please make the call and keep the pressure on so the people don't lose the right to protest.

Our peace and social justice community will continue to protest in front of the federal offices, even with 10 plus cops who stand across from us. We will not be silent, nor will we back down.




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(there is a lot of amazing statements of support by various groups.. and also articles by various people and groups.

For more information please go to the Committee To Stop FBI Repression www.stopfbi.net


Stop FBI Repression: No Grand Jury, No Charges

On September 24, the FBI 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 were the offices of the Minneapolis-Saint Paul based Anti-War Committee.

The FBI 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 a 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. 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, National Committee to Free Ricardo Palmera, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization and Fight Back! newspaper.

http://www.startribune.com/galleries/103733819.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiacyKUbPi87EK_g:D_GD7EaDh_0c:aD:aUr

[annm4peace]

1. Please make the calls today

[sandnsea]

2. I thought Patrick Fitzgerald was above reproach

I guess it's not Fitzmas anymore.

[annm4peace]

3. Tell Fitzgerald to stop wasting our tax dollars

in chicago and minneapolis they are closing schools due to lack of money, yet the FBI has money to spy and raid peace activists.

Tom Hayen wrote about the waste of tax dollars.

http://tomhayden.com/home/new-fbi-raids-millions-more-in-taxes-but-wheres-the-threat.html

New FBI Raids: Millions More in Taxes, But Where’s the Threat?

In the wake of FBI raids and subpoenas against activists in Chicago, Minnesota, Michigan and North Carolina, a Bulletin investigation estimates that hundreds of millions in tax dollars recently have been spent on fortifying local police departments against alleged terrorist or anarchist threats that have never materialized.

The new FBI raids represent a narrowing of First Amendment protections of association and speech under definitions arising from the federal war on terrorism, now applied at home. It has become illegal to have any association with organizations listed as “foreign terrorists”, even if that association is for purposes of dialogue or education.

The FBI seems always to drive and define our domestic politics, from the anti-immigrant raids of the 1920s to the anti-communism of the 1940s-50s-60s, to the evolving “war on terrorism” of the past decade. If recent history is any example, the FBI will now employ more legal tools to chill dissent and frighten the public about the alleged demons among us.

(and it goes on)