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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt'>An Injury to One is An Injury to All:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt'>A Conference in Defense of Civil Liberties and to End Indefinite Detention<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif"'>Saturday December 8, 2012</span></b><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'> </span><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Featuring:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Glen Greenwald</span></b><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'> - Author and Guardian Columnist</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'> Sahar F. Aziz</span></b><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'> - Civil Rights Legal Scholar</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'> Shahid Buttar</span></b><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'> - Executive Director, Bill of Rights Defense Committee</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'> Steve Downs</span></b><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'> - Executive Director, National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'> Nancy Murray</span></b><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'> - Director of Education, ACLU of Massachusetts</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Ruth Wilson Glimore </span></b><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>- Scholar, Activist and Prison Abolitionist</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'> <b>John Woodruff</b> - International Representative of United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'> <b>Muneer Awad</b>—NYC Council on American Islamic Relations and the NYPD/CIA Spying Campaign</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'> And many others!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif"'>Semesters Hall, Student Center</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif"'>Central Connecticut State University</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif"'>New Britain, CT</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> Dear Friends,<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> Our movements and our communities are under assault. Rarely a week goes by without the passage of a new repressive law, grand jury subpoena, raid, sentencing, or court ruling targeting our movements. No minute goes by without new deportations, arrests, illegal frisks, frame-ups and prison sentences that divide and repress immigrant, African American, Latino, Muslim, Arab, South Asian and other communities targeted by our government. The repressive apparatus is strengthened daily. "Secure Communities" or S-Comm, which connects local police forces to federal immigration authorities, has been implemented in nearly every state and will be universal by 2013. The right of the president to detain anyone (including U.S. citizens) without trial has been codified into law, and is now being defended in the courts. The NSA's right to spy on our e-mails and phone-calls without even suspicion of wrong-doing was just approved once again by the House. <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> Deportations have grown to roughly 400,000 a year - between 1.5 and 2 times the rate during 2001-2008. 1 out of every 8 people in prison on planet earth is African American. (about one in four is American) In the last four years double the number of whistle-blowers have been prosecuted under the WWI Espionage act than in all previous years combined.<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> The last few months alone are stunning:<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;text-autospace:none'>• <b>In April, 2012</b> Tarek Mehanna began serving a 17 and one half year sentence for writings he placed online and a trip to Yemen.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;text-autospace:none'>• <b>Between August and October, 2012</b> federal courts jailed three young Pacific Northwest anarchists for refusing to testify in grand-jury fishing operations. All three have spent significant time in solitary confinement. One of them - Leah Plante - was told she would be in solitary for her entire sentence of 18 months. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;text-autospace:none'>• <b>On August 28, 2012</b> Dr. Shakir Hamoodi, an Iraqi-American engineer who spoke out against the invasion of Iraq, began serving a three year sentence for sending money to his family in Iraq which they needed for food and medicine during the U.S. sanctions regime.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;text-autospace:none'>• <b>On Monday, October 29, 2012</b> the Supreme Court declined to hear the case of the Holy Land Five - five leaders of what had been the largest Muslim charitable organization in the U.S. - who are serving sentences ranging between 15 and 65 years for giving charity to Palestinians.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>But on <b>December 8th</b> residents and activists from Connecticut and the region will meet in New Britain to learn about each others struggles and make connections necessary to mount a serious response to this many-sided offensive. December 8th can be a critical step in building a movement capable of defending our brothers and sisters when they are targeted for their speech, their political activity, race, religion, or nation of origin; that can prevent deportations; that can expose and challenge racial profiling and the mass-incarceration of generations; that can defend workers organizing in their work-places; that can overturn reactionary laws that restrict our basic civil freedoms. <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>We are now two weeks from the conference. This is an ideal time to get the word out far and wide. Please contact us if you can contribute financially or in any other way. <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>To endorse, contribute, help out, or for more information contact Dan at<a href="file:///\\localhost\tel\860-985-4576"><span style='color:#386EFF'>860-985-4576</span></a> or <a href="mailto:daniel.adam.piper@gmail.com"><span style='color:#386EFF'>daniel.adam.piper@gmail.com</span></a><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Send advanced registration fee, lit table fees or contributions to: </b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>C/O of Dan Piper<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>103 Elizabeth street<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hartford, CT 06105<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Make checks payable to: "CT Coalition to Stop Indefinite Detention"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> For more information see:<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a href="http://ctstopindefinitedetention.wordpress.com/"><span style='color:#386EFF'>http://ctstopindefinitedetention.wordpress.com/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>or <a href="http://www.facebook.com/StopIndefiniteDetention?fref=ts"><span style='color:#386EFF'>http://www.facebook.com/StopIndefiniteDetention?fref=ts</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <b>Endorsing organizations (in formation):</b><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Bill of Rights Defense Committee; National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms; Project SALAM; New England United; Committee to Stop FBI Repression; Islamic Circle of North America-New London CT; United National Anti-war Coalition; Connecticut Green Party; American Friends Service Committee, Western MA; United Action; National Lawyers Guild--CT; American Civil Liberties Union—CT; Muslim Student Association of CCSU; Stop the Raids, Trinity College; We Refuse to Be Enemies; Unidad Latina en Accion; West Hartford Citizens for Peace and Justice; CT United for Peace; Hartford Catholic Workers; Latin American Students Organization of CCSU; Connecticut Coalition for Peace and Justice-Hartford; Middle East Crisis Committee; Central Connecticut Chapter of Veterans for Peace; Occupy Hartford; Manchester Peace Coalition; Greater Hartford Coalition on Cuba; Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace; Greater New Haven Peace Council; Boston United for Justice with Peace; Reclaiming the Prophetic Voice.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b> Initiated by the Connecticut Coalition to Stop Indefinite Detention</b><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>-- <br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>