Brooklyn For Peace
NYC Regional Conference
Stop FBI and Grand Jury Repression & Intimidation
Saturday, February 19, 1-5 pm
Location: Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, Manhattan
Trains: B/D/A/F/M to West 4thSt; N/R to 8thSt; 6 to Bleecker
Panels, Discussions, & Break-out Groups
Speakers include Hatem Abudayyeh from Chicago and Mick Kelly and Sarah Martin from Minneapolis who were raided and/or subpoenaed by the FBI and ordered to appear at U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald’s Grand Jury
Know Your Rights Training Sessions; When an Agent Knocks; Entrapment; Grand Jury;Targeting of the Palestinian Movement. National Strategy and Tactics
Know Your Rights Training Sessions; When an Agent Knocks; Entrapment; Grand Jury;Targeting of the Palestinian Movement. National Strategy and Tactics
About:
Last September, the FBI raided homes of anti-war and international solidarity activists in Chicago and Minneapolis.Doors were kicked in during the early morning raids and personal belongings including children’s' artwork, posters of Martin Luther King, Jr, were taken, as well as cell phones, computers and boxes of paper records. Fourteen activists from Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan were subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury; however all fourteen announced that they would not participate, and those subpoenas were subsequently cancelled.
In December, the FBI re-activated the subpoenas for three of these activists, and also delivered nine new subpoenas in Chicago to anti-war and Palestine solidarity activists, ordering them to appear before a Grand Jury.
Thus far they have refused to testify.
The FBI claims that evidence is being collected regarding the possible 'material support' of terrorism. The 'material support' statute is so broadly written that it can, and does, criminalize international peace-building activities whose only connection to terrorism is to fight against it.
The Justice Department's own Inspector General has released a report documenting political surveillance by the FBI. We protest this continuing pattern, whose purpose is to intimidate and suppress dissent rather than in any way protecting U.S. citizens.
FBI raids, and subpoenas to the Grand Jury, threaten the First Amendment rights of all of us.
Antiwar activism & international solidarity are NOT crimes!
Dissent is not a crime!
Sponsored by: NYC Working Group to Stop FBI and Grand Jury Repression
Endorsed by: Brooklyn For Peace
Questions? E-mail bfp@brooklynpeace.org or call 718-624-5921 or check out the site
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