[act-ma] The Growing Menace of FBI Repression, Fri., Dec. 17th, 1st Parish Church, Cambridge

[Susan Serpa]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1042836/flyer-2010-12-17.pdf

THE
GROWING MENACE
of FBI
REPRESSION!

BOSTON UNAC, JOINED BY BOSTON MAY DAY COALITION, THE STOP THE WARS
COALITION, CODE
PINK BOSTON, BOSTON COALITION FOR PALESTINIAN RIGHTS, WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL
LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM, BOSTON NEW SOCIALIST PROJECT, INTERNATIONAL
SOCIALIST ORGANIZATION, BOSTON UNIVERSITY ANTIWAR COALITION, NATIONAL
LAWYERS
GUILD–MASS. CHAPTER, INVITES YOU TO A FORUM ON FBI REPRESSION AND HOW TO
RESIST IT!

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2010, 7:30 P.M.

STEPHANIE WEINER, CHUCK TURNER
AND THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD

FIRST PARISH CHURCH, CAMBRIDGE
3 C h u r c h S t , H a r v a r d , M A 0 1 4 3 2 , h t t p : / / b i t . l
y / 1 s t P a r i s h

BACKGROUND: On September 24, the FBI raided seven Chicago and Minneapolis
homes of wellknown
anti-war and international solidarity activists. Their ranks included a
number of trade
unionists. Also raided was the office of the Minneapolis – St. Paul based
Anti-War Committee.
The FBI took computer hard drives, cell phones, documents, newspapers and
children’s artwork.
They took 28 boxes out of one Chicago home, including a framed photo of the
Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., shaking hands with Malcolm X. The FBI subpoenaed 14
activists in Illinois,
Minnesota and Michigan to testify at a grand jury. According to the FBI, the
goal of the raids was
to show material support for terrorism charges. It is outrageous! The U.S.
government is trying to
put people in jail for anti-war and international solidarity activism. These
people have done
nothing wrong. They have given money to no one. Their freedom is at stake.

Those targeted are well-known leaders in the antiwar movement and many
helped to organize
the huge protest against the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, MN
in September 2008.
This is the suppression of our democratic rights. It threatens our families,
our children and our
communities. This is a U.S. government attempt to silence those who support
resistance to
oppression in the Middle East and Latin America, by putting people in jail.

Stephanie Weiner has taught English in Chicago
City Colleges for 25 years. In 2007-2008, she was
honored as Wright College Adult Educator of the
Year.

Stephanie is active with the Palestine Solidarity
Group. One of their campaigns is to end the
Chicago Sister City relationship with Petach Tikva, a
city near Tel Aviv.

Stephanie is a founding member of the American
Federation of State, County and Municipal
Employees Local 3506. She had previously served
on the executive board and on the bargaining
committee.

Stephanie was active in the struggle in her
community in opposition to police brutality and
wrongful convictions. Her work in the Committee
Exigimos Justicia helped win freedom for a number
of people.

Stephanie has been active in the peace and justice
movement since childhood, when her parents took
her to anti-war marches. She is married to Joe
Iosbaker, and is the mother of two sons. She also
enjoys making art based on social justice issues.
is also the advisor to Wright College
Students for a Democratic Society and had been
the advisor to the Peace and Justice club since
2002.

Chuck Turner has been a community organizer and
civil rights activist in Boston since 1966. Referred to
as one of the best-known agitators in the city, he
was elected to the Boston City Council in 1999
where he served until an FBI campaign resulted in
his removal from council this year.

He graduated from Harvard in 1963. He joined the
influential civil rights group, the Northern Student
Movement. In 1966, he joined the South End
Neighborhood Action Program where he fought
gentrification. Turner worked with the community
to pressure the city to provide trash clean-up in
black neighborhoods. A leader of the United
Community Construction Workers, he crusaded
against job discrimination. In 1991, unsatisfied with
the mayor’s enforcement of fair employment
practices, Turner led a sit-in resulting in a number of
key concessions.

His strategies and skills spearheaded other efforts.
He played a leading role in a successful campaign to
stop a highway planned to run through
predominantly black neighborhoods. As a city
council member, Turner continued his defense of
civil and human rights. He authored an ordinance
protecting the transgendered from discrimination.
He successfully led an effort to protect the
affirmative action when Governor Mitt Romney
attacked it.
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