PREPARE TO TAKE ACTION THE DAY AFTER FEDERAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF INDICTMENTS!
5-7PM Times Square, outside recruiting station
Bring signs and spread the word!
From the Committee to Stop FBI Repression
CONTACT: nycsfrlist@gmail.com or 917-397-0103
Look out for an alert by email or text message
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NEW YORK, NY (May 26, 2011) — Federal indictments could come down any day against anti-war, immigrant rights, and International solidarity activists guilty of nothing more than exercising their rights to travel and free association. If indictments are announced, all activists in the New York metro area should be prepared to take action in response. The evidence is clear that the state is well underway in the process of criminalizing dissent. These sisters and brothers are under attack for their good work of opposing endless war, attacks on immigrants, and oppression in Palestine and Latin America — and we must defend them!
The FBI raided activists’ homes in September 2010 and issued grand jury subpoenas to a total of 23 activists by December. A file of documents the FBI accidentally left behind at one of the raids reveal the government’s willful disregard for the rights of the targeted activists — particularly the first amendment rights to freedom of speech and association. The documents also make it clear that legal activity in solidarity with the peoples of Colombia and Palestine was the basis for FBI investigations. Agents were even prepared to use deadly force in raids on homes with children present.
Federal raids and repression continue. On May 17, the FBI raided the home and arrested Carlos Montes, a Los Angeles Chicano and immigrant rights activist with the Committee to Stop FBI Repression. Police confiscated documents related to his longtime involvement in the struggle for immigrant rights. Also in May, TCF bank, probably in response to federal agencies, froze the account of Chicago community organizer and FBI target Hatem Abudayyeh as well as the account of his wife. However, a mass outpouring of phone calls, emails, and other actions denouncing this act of government-corporate harassment forced the bank to return the funds and prompted federal officials to deny their involvement. Mass solidarity gave us the power to win that victory and it will empower us in the future to stop FBI repression of our movements if and when indictments come down.
Bring signs and noise makers!
Look out for an alert by email or text message
(to receive an SMS alert, reply to this email with a cell phone #.)
Go to StopFBI.net for more details.
