Demanding FBI Disclosure of Surveillance (links to petitions)

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Sign On to
Defend the First Amendment,

Oppose the FBI's Targeting
of the Antiwar Movement


http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/fbi/index.html
As of December 16, over 20,000 organizations and individuals have already signed the following statement in support of the First Amendment and in opposition to the FBI's targeting of the antiwar movement (over 6000 on the first day!).



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Partnership for Civil Justice
and National Lawyers Guild Attorneys

File FOIA Request on behalf
of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition

Demanding FBI Disclosure of Surveillance
Activities Against Antiwar Movement

December 16, 2003

Yesterday, attorneys with the Partnership for Civil Justice and the National Lawyers Guild Mass Defense Committee filed a Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA) with the FBI on behalf of the A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism) Coalition. The FOIA request follows media revelations of FBI domestic spying targeting the antiwar movement, and is part of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition's Campaign to Defend the First Amendment.

On Sunday, Nov. 23, a front-page New York Times story under the headline "F.B.I. Scrutinizes Antiwar Rallies" cited an internal FBI memorandum circulated ten days prior to the Oct. 25 demonstrations that drew 100,000 in Washington D.C. and 20,000 in San Francisco initiated by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition and co-sponsored by United for Peace and Justice. The memo urged law enforcement agencies to report on protest activities to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces.

http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/fbi/foia.html