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<h1 style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">The Growing Menace of FBI Repression</h1>
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<h2 style="text-align:center;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">BOSTON-UNAC presents a FORUM</h2>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><b><i><strong>STEPHANIE WEINER</strong></i> </b> <i>,</i> Chicago antiwar/solidarity activist subpoenaed for grand jury re: false aiding terrorism charges</p>
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<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><b><i><strong>CHUCK TURNER</strong>,</i> </b> <i> </i>Roxbury community activist & City Councillor targeted by FBI</p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><b><i><strong>NANCY MURRAY</strong>, </i> </b> Director, Bill of Rights Education Project, American Civil Liberties Union of Mass.</p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><b><i><strong>LAILA MURAD</strong>, </i> </b> Tarek Mehanna Support Committee. Mehanna targeted by FBI when he refused to spy on Muslim community and now in solitary confinement <b><i><br><em><strong><br>
When:</strong> </em></i> </b> Friday, December 17, 2010, 7:30 pm <b><i><em><br></em><em><strong>Where:</strong></em></i> </b> <i><em> </em></i>First Parish Church • 3 Church St, Harvard Square • Cambridge <b><i><em><br></em><br></i> </b> <i>O</i>n September 24, the FBI raided seven Chicago and Minneapolis homes of well-known 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.<br><br>
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. <br><br>
We all need to join together as the government repression continues and expands. This is an attack on our movement. Go to <a title="http://ww.stopfbi.net/" target="_blank" href="http://ww.stopfbi.net/">ww.stopfbi.net</a> for latest information. These are antiwar and social justice activists and people who have been involved in international solidarity efforts, around Colombia and Palestine.<i><em><br></em></i> <b><i><em> </em><em><strong><br>
e-mail:</strong> </em></i> </b> <i><em><a title="mailto:BostonUNAC@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:BostonUNAC@gmail.com">BostonUNAC@gmail.com</a> for more info.</em></i> <b><i><em><br></em><em><strong>Download flyer here:</strong> </em></i> </b> <i><em><a title="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1042836/flyer-2010-12-17.pdf" target="_blank" href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1042836/flyer-2010-12-17.pdf">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1042836/flyer-2010-12-17.pdf</a> </em></i> <b><i><em><a title="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1042836/flyer-2010-12-17.pdf" target="_blank" href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1042836/flyer-2010-12-17.pdf"><br></a> <strong>Map to location: </strong></em></i> </b> <i><em><a target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/FirstParish%20">http://bit.ly/FirstParish </a> </em></i> <b><i><em><a target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/FirstParish%20"><br></a> </em></i> </b></p>
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<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><i><em>Co-Sponsors: BOSTON COALITION FOR PALESTINIAN RIGHTS, BOSTON MAY DAY COALITION, BOSTON NEW SOCIALIST PROJECT, BOSTON UNIVERSITY ANTIWAR COMMITTEE, CODE PINK BOSTON, INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER, INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST ORGANIZATION, MASS. GLOBAL ACTION, MILITARY FAMILIES SPEAK OUT, NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD–MASS. CHAPTER, NEWTON DIALOGUES on PEACE and WAR, SOCIALIST PARTY, STOP THE WARS COALITION, VETERANS FOR PEACE – SMEDLEY BUTLER BRIGADE, UNITED FOR JUSTICE WITH PEACE, WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM </em><em> </em></i></p>
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<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><em><u> </u></em><strong><em><u>Background</u></em> <br></strong> <br><strong>BOSTON-UNAC </strong>is a newly formed chapter of national UNAC. Its purpose is to implement action campaigns and the April 9<sup>th</sup> national bi-coastal demonstrations as voted on at the UNAC conference in Albany last July. <br><br><strong>Stephanie Weiner</strong> has taught English in Chicago City Colleges for 25 years. In 2007-2008, she was honored as Wright College Adult Educator of the Year. She 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.</p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">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.</p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><strong>Chuck Turner</strong> 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.</p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">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.</p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><strong>Tarek Mehanna</strong> is a young Muslim leader from the Boston area who was targeted and arrested by the FBI after he refused to become an informant against his own community. Tarek has been illegally held in 23-hour solitary confinement in Plymouth, MA for over a year pre-trial. The trial will not even begin until October of 2011. His arrest is part of an ongoing campaign of FBI repression against Arab and Muslim communities.</p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">The Tarek Mehanna Support committee is a grassroots group of activists and community members working to free Tarek, educate the public about the conditions of prisoners, and build a strong network to defend our communities from FBI abuse.<br><br>
Tarek Mehanna Support Committee <a title="http://www.freetarek.com/" target="_blank" href="http://www.freetarek.com/">www.freetarek.com</a> <a title="mailto:freetarek@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:freetarek@gmail.com">freetarek@gmail.com</a></p>
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<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><strong>UJP Task Force: Resisting FBI and Government raids and repression</strong><br><br>
Recently the FBI raided the homes of activists in Minneapolis and Chicago involved in the antiwar, solidarity and labor movements. Several people are facing grand jury subpoenas. In Boston, the FBI decided to "bring down" Chuck Turner. Nationwide, ICE agents continue to victimize immigrants with unwarranted deportations and Muslims are harrassed and arrested for no reason. And now the government is trying to break up Wikileaks.<br><br>
UJP considers the actions of the FBI and other government agencies a dangerous attack on free speech, dissent and the right of people to live without fear of government intimidation. We must defend people targeted for repression now -- who will be targeted next? UJP is forming a task force to take up this work: the purpose is to share information, offer mutual support, and work with the National Committee to Oppose FBI Repression and other Boston area organizations on educational programs and protest actions. Contact Duncan McFarland at <a href="mailto:mcfarland13@gmail.com">mcfarland13@gmail.com</a>.<br>
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