desaparecidos in USA

["Nello Margiotta" <animarg at tin.it>]

 Please organize committees to defend people's civil and human rights and
 liberties like we are doing here in Hamilton, Ontario. We have started a
 small Ad Hoc Committee to Defend Civil Liberties and we need it to grow in
 our area. More urgently, we need to link up with other groups who fear
these
 new "anti-terrorism" laws.

 Ultimately, all liberties under capitalism are a facade and are arbitrarily
 removed when there is money to be made and power to be gained, but for now
 we need to begin fighting what is threatening our right to organize against
 oppression--the patriot act in the U.S., the proposed Bill C36 in Canada
and
 others throughout Europe.

 I we all do not act, Arabs and dissidents will begin turning up dead and
 tortured [disturbing article below]. The FBI already wants to torture
 detainees. They also want to move their "official" operations into Canada,
 maybe beyond!

 We must link our groups together into a coalition of people who want to
 defend themselves from the new "anti-terrorist" laws and their secret task
 forces. We need to organize large actions.

 Please contact defeat_bill_c36 at hotmail.com to begin building a coalition to
 defend average people from "counter-terrorism" (a euphemism for
 state-terrorism).

 Eyes wide open and wishing to wake up from this nightmare,
 Lysander

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 "Disappeared" in the USA

 FULL ARTICLE AT: http://rwor.org/a/v23/1120-29/1126/disappeared.htm

 "We have Arab men disappearing from the neighborhoods of Brooklyn. No one
 hears from them. No one hears about them. They're arrested and they
 disappear. Is it secret evidence? Whose secret is this? Why? What's going
 on? We'd like to know."
 Samia Halaby, from Al-Awda
 (Palestinian Right to Return Coalition),
 at a New York City press conference for
 October 22nd National Day of Protest

 "The secret detention of [hundreds of] people over the past few weeks is
 frighteningly close to the practice of 'disappearing' people in Latin
 America."
 Kate Martin, director of Center
 for National Security Studies