<p><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1042836/flyer-2010-12-17.pdf">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1042836/flyer-2010-12-17.pdf</a><br> <br>THE<br>GROWING MENACE<br>of FBI<br>REPRESSION!<br> <br>BOSTON UNAC, JOINED BY BOSTON MAY DAY COALITION, THE STOP THE WARS COALITION, CODE<br>
PINK BOSTON, BOSTON COALITION FOR PALESTINIAN RIGHTS, WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL<br>LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM, BOSTON NEW SOCIALIST PROJECT, INTERNATIONAL<br>SOCIALIST ORGANIZATION, BOSTON UNIVERSITY ANTIWAR COALITION, NATIONAL LAWYERS<br>
GUILD–MASS. CHAPTER, INVITES YOU TO A FORUM ON FBI REPRESSION AND HOW TO RESIST IT!<br> <br>FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2010, 7:30 P.M.<br> <br>STEPHANIE WEINER, CHUCK TURNER<br>AND THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD<br> <br>FIRST PARISH CHURCH, CAMBRIDGE<br>
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</p>
<p>BACKGROUND: On September 24, the FBI raided seven Chicago and Minneapolis homes of wellknown<br>anti-war and international solidarity activists. Their ranks included a number of trade<br>unionists. Also raided was the office of the Minneapolis – St. Paul based Anti-War Committee.<br>
The FBI took computer hard drives, cell phones, documents, newspapers and children’s artwork.<br>They took 28 boxes out of one Chicago home, including a framed photo of the Rev. Dr. Martin<br>Luther King, Jr., shaking hands with Malcolm X. The FBI subpoenaed 14 activists in Illinois,<br>
Minnesota and Michigan to testify at a grand jury. According to the FBI, the goal of the raids was<br>to show material support for terrorism charges. It is outrageous! The U.S. government is trying to<br>put people in jail for anti-war and international solidarity activism. These people have done<br>
nothing wrong. They have given money to no one. Their freedom is at stake.<br> <br>Those targeted are well-known leaders in the antiwar movement and many helped to organize<br>the huge protest against the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, MN in September 2008.<br>
This is the suppression of our democratic rights. It threatens our families, our children and our<br>communities. This is a U.S. government attempt to silence those who support resistance to<br>oppression in the Middle East and Latin America, by putting people in jail.<br>
<br>Stephanie Weiner has taught English in Chicago<br>City Colleges for 25 years. In 2007-2008, she was<br>honored as Wright College Adult Educator of the<br>Year.<br> <br>Stephanie is active with the Palestine Solidarity<br>
Group. One of their campaigns is to end the<br>Chicago Sister City relationship with Petach Tikva, a<br>city near Tel Aviv.<br> <br>Stephanie is a founding member of the American<br>Federation of State, County and Municipal<br>
Employees Local 3506. She had previously served<br>on the executive board and on the bargaining<br>committee.<br> <br>Stephanie was active in the struggle in her<br>community in opposition to police brutality and<br>wrongful convictions. Her work in the Committee<br>
Exigimos Justicia helped win freedom for a number<br>of people.<br> <br>Stephanie has been active in the peace and justice<br>movement since childhood, when her parents took<br>her to anti-war marches. She is married to Joe<br>
Iosbaker, and is the mother of two sons. She also<br>enjoys making art based on social justice issues.<br>is also the advisor to Wright College<br>Students for a Democratic Society and had been<br>the advisor to the Peace and Justice club since<br>
2002.<br> <br>Chuck Turner has been a community organizer and<br>civil rights activist in Boston since 1966. Referred to<br>as one of the best-known agitators in the city, he<br>was elected to the Boston City Council in 1999<br>
where he served until an FBI campaign resulted in<br>his removal from council this year.<br> <br>He graduated from Harvard in 1963. He joined the<br>influential civil rights group, the Northern Student<br>Movement. In 1966, he joined the South End<br>
Neighborhood Action Program where he fought<br>gentrification. Turner worked with the community<br>to pressure the city to provide trash clean-up in<br>black neighborhoods. A leader of the United<br>Community Construction Workers, he crusaded<br>
against job discrimination. In 1991, unsatisfied with<br>the mayor’s enforcement of fair employment<br>practices, Turner led a sit-in resulting in a number of<br>key concessions.<br> <br>His strategies and skills spearheaded other efforts.<br>
He played a leading role in a successful campaign to<br>stop a highway planned to run through<br>predominantly black neighborhoods. As a city<br>council member, Turner continued his defense of<br>civil and human rights. He authored an ordinance<br>
protecting the transgendered from discrimination.<br>He successfully led an effort to protect the<br>affirmative action when Governor Mitt Romney<br>attacked it.</p>