BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18660020 SEQUENCE:18733308 CREATED:20100927T050400Z DESCRIPTION:Please forward widely\n\nUnited National Antiwar Committee\n\nhttp://www.nationalpeaceconference.org\n\nUNAC, P.O. Box 123, Delmar, NY 12054; Ph. 518-281-1968\n\n or 518-227-6947 UNACpeace@gmail.com\n\nMedia release/Press conference\n\nLocal contact: Jeff Mackler 510-268-9429\nnocalunac@gmail.com\n\nU.S. Antiwar Movement Under Government Attack!\n\nDefend victims of nationwide FBI/government\n\nraids, seizures and subpoenas!\n\nDemonstrate: Tuesday, September 28, 5:00 pm\n\nFederal Bldg., 7th St. and Mission, San Francisco\n\n On the morning of Sept. 24, FBI agents armed with Grand Jury subpoenas raided the homes of several antiwar and social justice activists in Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois. As we write reports are coming in that FBI agents have been contacting other activists in Wisconsin, North Carolina and California.\n\nAmong those subpoenaed and/or whose organizations are under attack are supporters of the United National Antiwar Committee (UNAC). They attended our founding July 23-25, 2010, Albany, New York founding national conference of 800 activists from 35 states. The UNAC conference approved a 28-point Action Plan culminating in bi-coastal San Francisco/New York mass demonstrations demanding that the U.S. government immediately withdraw of all U.S. troops, mercenaries and war contractors from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Other conference –approved demands were “End U.S. aid to Israel – military, economic and diplomatic. End U.S. support to the Israeli Occupation of Palestine and the siege of Gaza!”\n\n \n\nUsing the pretext of investigating “terrorism,” and with “possibly providing material aid to terrorists,” the FBI agents – 20 in the Twin Cities and 12 in Chicago – were armed with search and seizure warrants signed by U.S. Magistrate Judges and/or representatives of the U.S. Attorney’s office. They seized computers, cell phones, political leaflets and other printed materials. In Minnesota agents worked for 12 hours confiscating material including 30 boxes of literature, photographs of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X and pictures drawn by their children.\n\n \n\nThe individuals targeted included leaders of organizations like the Minneapolis Antiwar Committee, whose office was raided, the Palestine Solidarity Group, the Colombia Action Network and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.\n\n \n\nThe activists were ordered to appear before Grand Juries in various cities investigating criminal activity and possible association with “terrorist” organizations. The earliest subpoena dates were October 5 and 7.\n\nThe FBI also has also served or harassed activists in North Carolina and Wisconsin as part of the same “investigation.”\n\n \n\nThe government’s subpoenas “commanded” the recipients to bring with them to the Grand Jury proceedings:\n\n \n\n“(1) all pictures and videos relating to any trip to Colombia, Jordan, Syria, the Palestinian Territories, or Israel; (2) all items relating to any trip to Colombia, Jordan, Syria, the Palestinian Territories, or Israel; (3) all correspondence, including but not limited to emails and letters, with anyone residing in Colombia, Jordan, Syria, the Palestinian Territories, or Israel; (4) all records of any payment provided directly or indirectly to Hatem Abudayyeh, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (“PFLP”) or the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (“FARC”); (5) all records of any telephonic or electronic communications with anyone in Colombia, Jordan, Syria, the Palestinian Territories, or Israel; and (6) any item related to any support provided to any designated terrorist organization, including the PFLP or the FARC.”\n\n \n\nAll those subpoenaed have refused to discuss their political work and views with FBI agents, as is their right. They have publicly denounced these raids as an attempt by the government to intimidate and repress opposition to U.S. wars of intervention and occupation.\n\n \n\nThe United National Antiwar Committee denounces the government’s raids, seizures and subpoena as an attack on the entire antiwar movement and all organizations seeking social justice and an end to U.S. wars of intervention around the world. We stand in full solidarity with all those who now face government persecution and possible imprisonment.\n\n \n\nThe United National Antiwar Committee demands:\n\n• Stop the repression against anti-war and international solidarity activists.\n\n • Immediately return all confiscated materials: computers, cell phones, papers, documents, etc. \n\n • End the Grand Jury proceedings and FBI raids against all anti-war activists.\n\n \n\nWe call on all antiwar and social justice organization across the country to organize protest demonstrations on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, September 27, 28 or 29 at Federal Buildings or FBI offices.\n\n \n\nDemonstrations have already been called in the following cities:\n\n \n\n Minneapolis MN, Mon: 4:30, FBI Office Monday, 111 Washington Ave. S.\n\n \n\nChicago, IL, Monday: 4:30 FBI Building, 2111 W. Roosevelt Rd.\n\n \n\nNYC, Tues. 4:30 to 6pm Federal Building, 26 Federal Plaza,\n\n \n\nNewark, NJ Tues 5 to 6pm Federal Building Broad Street\n\n \n\nWashington DC, Tues 4:30 – 5:30 FBI Building 935 Pennsylvania Ave NW.\n\n \n\nDetroit MI Tuesday 4:30 McNamara Federal Building\n\n \n\nBuffalo, NY 4:30 at FBI Building - Corner of So. Elmwood Ave. & Niagara St.\n\n \n\nDurham NC on Monday, 12 noon Federal Building, 323 E Chapel Hill St\n\n \n\nRaleigh NC. Tuesday 9 am. Federal Building, 310 New Bern Ave\n\n \n\nAsheville, NC Tuesday\n\n \n\nAtlanta, GA, Tues Noon, FBI Building\n\n \n\nGainesville, FL on Monday, 4:30 PM at FBI Building\n\n \n\nSalt Lake City, Utah, 9 AM on Monday at Federal Building\n\n \n\nAdd your voice to denounce the attacks on antiwar and social justice activists. Call the U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder at 202-353-1555 or write an email to: AskDOJ@usdoj.gov.\n\n \n\nSend copies of all communications to UNAC at the above email address. Affiliate your organization to UNAC now! Join our National Coordinating Committee of antiwar and social justice organizations across the county to immediately end all U.S. wars, interventions. Trillions for jobs, education and human needs not war!\n\n \n\nJoe Lombardo and Marilyn Levin,\n\nCo-coordinators, United National Antiwar Committee\n\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/26/18660020.php SUMMARY:Protest FBI Raids on Antiwar Movement LOCATION:Federal Bldg., 7th St. and Mission, San Francisco URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/26/18660020.php DTSTART:20100929T000000Z DTEND:20100929T010000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR