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<p style="font-family: Arial; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">**SAVE
THE DATE: Saturday May 17**</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; font-family: Arial;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Take to the streets with CISPES to
denounce the Department of Justice’s politically motivated harassment!
(Background information at the end of this email)<BR>
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<h2 style="font-family: Arial; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We Reject <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> Efforts to Silence Our
Solidarity!</span><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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Protest Saturday, May 17 @ 1pm</span><BR>
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In front of the JFK Federal Building </span><BR>
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(intersection of New Sudbury & Cambridge St, Boston; near Gov’t Center T) </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12pt;">COME OUT AND MAIL BACK A GAG TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, WITH A SPECIAL
MESSAGE!<BR>
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WE SAY: “WE DON’T WANT YOUR GAG, TAKE IT BACK!”<BR>
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Lend your voice and support to this day of fiery speakers, chants, music and
unhesitating political dissent!<BR>
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For more information or to get involved organizing this event, please contact
us!<BR>
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Boston CISPES<BR>
2161 Massachusetts Ave<BR>
Cambridge, MA 02140<BR>
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tel: 617.576.1709<BR>
email: <span style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12pt;">boscispes@speakeasy.net<BR>
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Hasta la victoria siempre!<BR>
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Background on this most recent targeting
by the Feds:<BR>
</span>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.<BR>
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Our response is:<BR>
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-CISPES solidarity with the FMLN began in 1980 and continues today. <BR>
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-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.<BR>
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-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.<BR>
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-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.<BR>
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For the Department of Justice letter, CISPES’ response and press release, go
to: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" lang="ES-TRAD">http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=356&Itemid=27<br style="">
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