Tuesday, October 12 Stop FBI RALLY 4:30pm

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Several more peace activists have been visited by FBI and some have been visited at work.

Help restore 1st amendment rights.

Our next MN action is on the day that the next wave of activists - most of
the Minneapolis folks - are "scheduled" to appear before the Grand Jury in
Chicago, after the FBI raids that happened on Sept. 24.

For this action, we are mixing it up a bit, location and target-wise.

Tuesday, October 12
4:30 p.m. until 5:30 or so
Minneapolis Federal Building
300 S 4th St, Downtown Minneapolis

The day the 2nd wave of our activists were ordered before a grand jury in
Chicago, after the FBI raids on Sept. 24, 2010

Join us as we tell the U.S. Attorney to get our message to the thugs in
Washington, D.C. :

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



For more info

www.StopFBI.net

and is more secure in war-dominated authoritarian anti-democratic
anti-people times. So being anti-war is in effect to be anti-ruling class.
The FBI is there to serve the ruling class. Therefore it attacks antiwar
activists. How dare they challenge the hog trough of the rich! If millions
must die to make the rich richer, well, that's the American Dream. If the
world has to be destroyed to save it, briefly, for the rich, well, so be
it. Ditto if we all have to die. Just who do we think we are, to mess with
glorious schemes of the rich? Since they have all the rights, that leaves
us with none. -ed]

The grand jury subpoenas are part of the fishing expedition targeting these committed activists and organizers. The use of grand juries to conduct sweeping investigations dates back to the Nixon administration’s attack on the social movements in the 1970s. The grand jury is neither fair nor even handed, no matter who is in charge.

A grand jury is a panel of jurors who hear evidence from a prosecutor and decide whether or not to charge someone with a crime. The grand jury can subpoena pretty much anyone they want and ask about anything, and people can be jailed for contempt if they do not answer questions. The jurors are hand-picked by prosecutors with no screen for bias. All evidence is presented by a prosecutor in a cloak of secrecy. The prosecutor has no responsibility to present evidence that favors those being investigated. Grand jury witnesses have no right to have a lawyer in the room to object to how the prosecutor is conducting the proceedings.

The grand jury has been used as a tool of political repression against many movements for social change in this country. From the pre-civil war abolitionist movement to the Civil Rights movements, the movement against the war in Vietnam, the American Indian Movement, the Central America solidarity movement, the Puerto Rican Independence movement, animal rights and environmental movements, there have have been many targets of political repression and grand jury inquisition.

We believe we have been targeted because of what we believe, what we say and who we know. The grand jury process is an attempt to violate the inalienable rights under the constitution and international law to freedom of political speech, association and the right to advocate for change.

One does not even need to be opposed to U.S. foreign policy to recognize that the government is working here to establish a dangerous precedent in targeting us. This case endangers the right of every person in the U.S. to organize for and express their views.

We fear the the government may be seeking to use the recent Supreme Court decision in Holder vs Humanitarian Law to attack conduct that clearly falls under the realm of freedom of speech and that we never imagined could be construed as “material support for terrorism.”

Those with Grand Jury dates for October 5 and those whose subpoenas are pending have declared that we intend to exercise our right not to participate in this fishing expedition. The next legal step is in the hands of the Department of Justice. They could cancel the grand jury. They could carry on, but leave us alone. They could send subpoenas again giving us the option to talk or go to jail. We don’t know when they will take the next step, or what it will be. We do know what our next steps will be.

We will not be silent. We will not allow the harassment of activists to quiet our opposition to immoral policies. We will continue to speak out against the unjust investigation, the unjust law, and the unjust foreign policies of the US government. Our communities are strong, and are already showing amazing solidarity around the country with 60 demonstrations last week, many statements of solidarity and a very successful call in day yesterday. We will need that support to continue to push back against this attack.

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1. LIst of groups who have made support statements

this is a growing list..

http://stopfbi.net/solidarity-statements/ you can click on most of the groups to read their statements



Solidarity Statements

Organizations in the United States and around the world are standing in solidarity with those targeted by the FBI for their anti-war organizing and international solidarity work.


1. International Action Center
2. ANSWER Coalition
3. United for Peace and Justice
4. Voters for Peace
5. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador
6. North Carolina Labor Against the War
7. Defenders for Freedom, Justice, and Equality
8. International Network in Solidarity with all Colombian Political Prisoners
9. Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
10. Black Workers for Justice
11. Fight Imperialism – Stand Together
12. MADRE
13. School of the Americas Watch
14. Students for a Democratic Society
15. Green Party of the United States
16. San Francisco Labor Council
17. Baltimore-Washington Area Peace Council
18. International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
19. American Muslims for Palestine
20. Freedom Socialist Party
21. Radical Women
22. US Palestinian Community Network
23. Northland Anti-war Coalition
24. Philadelphia Socialist Action
25. LOK MORCHA
26. Kamëntsás
27. Opposition to War & Occupation
28. United National Antiwar Committee
29. Unión del Barrio
30. National Lawyers Guild
31. Houston Communist Party USA
32. Grand Jury Resistance Project
33. Green Party of Minnesota
34. American Jewish World
35. Alliance for Global Justice
36. American Indian Movement
37. Muslim Public Affairs Council
38. Socialist Party USA
39. Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee
40. Arab American Action Network
41. Mobilization Against War & Occupation
42. International Socialist Organization
43. Council on American-Islamic Relations
44. Workers World Party
45. Civil Liberties Project of Political Research Associates
46. Socialist Action
47. Socialist Workers Party
48. Bring the Ruckus
49. Socialist Alternative
50. Solidarity
51. African People’s Solidarity Committee and Uhuru Solidarity Movement
52. Socialist Alliance (Australia)
53. Muslimah Writers Alliance
54. North Eastern Federation of Anarchist Communists
55. Freedom Road Socialist Organization/Organización Socialista del Camino para la Libertad
56. AFSCME Council 5
57. Chicago Committee to Free the Cuban Five
58. International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
59. U.S. Marxist-Leninist Organization
60. Project SALAM
61. FIRE Collective
62. National Network on Cuba
63. Veterans for Peace
64. Veterans for Peace, Minnesota Chapter 27
65. Center for Constitutional Rights
66. CODEPINK
67. Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America
68. 8th Day Center for Justice Staff
69. American Friends Service Committee – Chicago Office
70. Arab Jewish Partnership for Peace and Justice in the Middle East
71. Chicago Faith Coalition on Middle East Policy
72. Community Media Workshop
73. Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago
74. Fellowship of Reconciliation
75. First Chicago Church of the Brethren
76. Fox Valley Citizens for Peace & Justice
77. North Suburban Peace Initiative
78. Voices for Creative Nonviolence
79. Witness for Peace-Great Lakes Region
80. League of Revolutionaries for a New America
81. Arab Resource and Organizing Center
82. Defending Dissent Foundation
83. Project South
84. All-African People’s Revolutionary Party
85. News & Letters
86. People’s Tribune
87. International League of Peoples’ Struggle
88. Labor for Palestine
89. Iraq Freedom Congress
90. War Times/Tiempo de Guerras
91. Labor/Community Strategy Center
92. FMLN Minnesota
93. Peace and Justice Studies Association
94. Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
95. Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
96. United States Palestinian Community Network
97. Friends for a Non-Violent World
98. Latin America Solidarity Coalition
99. Black is Back Coalition
100. Workers Solidarity Alliance

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2. Ask your State Senator and State Rep to condemn the raids.

We still only have one DFL who has spoken out Karen Clark.

Please ask your State Rep and Senator to support and vote for Rep Clark's resolution condemning the raids and grand jury that she will bring up at the special session.