[act-ma] 5/17 Sat: Protest DOJ Harassment of Solidarity!

[boscispes at speakeasy.net]

**SAVE THE DATE: Saturday May 17** 

Take to the streets with the Committee In Solidarity with the People of El
Salvador (CISPES) to denounce the Department of Justice’s politically motivated
harassment!  (Background information at the end of this email) 

We Reject U.S. Efforts to Silence Our Solidarity!

Protest Saturday, May 17 @ 1pm
In front of the JFK Federal Building 
(intersection of New Sudbury & Cambridge St, Boston; near Gov’t Center T) 

COME OUT AND MAIL BACK A GAG TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, WITH A SPECIAL MESSAGE!

WE SAY: “WE DON’T WANT YOUR GAG, TAKE IT BACK!”

Lend your voice and support to this day of fiery speakers, chants, music and
unhesitating political dissent!

For more information or to get involved organizing this event, please contact us!

Boston CISPES
2161 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02140

tel: 617.576.1709
email: mailto:boscispes at speakeasy.net

Hasta la victoria siempre!

Background on this most recent targeting by the Feds:
For the first time since the 1980s, we’ve been singled out for attack by none
other than the Department of “Justice.”  On January 9 we received a letter from
their National Security Division that they suspected us of being an “agent of a
foreign principal” and wanted us to register under the “Foreign Agents
Registration Act.” Their justification?  They claimed that the leftist political
party—the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, FMLN, had hired CISPES to do
public relations and fundraising support in the US for their 2009 presidential
campaign.

Our response is:

-CISPES solidarity with the FMLN began in 1980 and continues today. 

-It is based on a shared vision of a more just world; there is no financial or
contractual agreement.  We have a solidarity relationship—what we have in common
is a commitment to building a cross-border movement that will unite the poor and
working people of the US and El Salvador in our struggle for social justice.

-Therefore we will not register with the US government, but rather assert that we
will continue our support for the Salvadoran struggle for social justice as part
of our democratic right to free speech.

-Any attempt by the US government to infringe on those rights will not be to
retreat one inch but rather to build the strongest, broadest resistance movement
we can.

For the Department of Justice letter, CISPES’ response and press release, go to:
http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=356&Itemid=27