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Fw: [ANSWER]: Call to Action: JUNE 29 - MARCH ON THE FBI in DC!
- Subject: Fw: [ANSWER]: Call to Action: JUNE 29 - MARCH ON THE FBI in DC!
- From: "Nello Margiotta" <animarg at tin.it>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 20:19:28 +0200
----- Original Message ----- From: "A.N.S.W.E.R." <answer.general at action-mail.org> To: <answer.general at action-mail.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 2:21 AM Subject: [ANSWER]: Call to Action: JUNE 29 - MARCH ON THE FBI in DC! > CALL TO ACTION: > Saturday, June 29 @ 12 noon > > MARCH ON THE FBI AND JUSTICE DEPARTMENT > headquarters in Washington DC > Pennsylvania Ave. between 9th and 10th St. NW > > - Say no to the FBI attacks on civil rights and civil > liberties > - Stand up against racism and racial and religious > profiling > - No new COINTELPRO > - Defend the Arab American, Muslim and South Asian > communities > - Stop the new witchhunt against political and religious > organizations > - Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier & all political > prisoners in the U.S. > - Money for jobs, education and healthcare - not > repression and war > > The Bush administration announced in the last week of May > that the FBI would be seizing vast additional powers to > spy on the people of the United States. We must act now > to stop this assault on our rights. > > These powers pose a grave danger to civil liberties and > civil rights, and will - unless defeated by the people - > lead to a new round of persecution of people based on > their political or religious convictions. > > There was no vote in Congress. No public referendum. No > judicial review. George Bush, Attorney General John > Ashcroft and FBI director Robert Mueller decided to > unleash the FBI on people targeted by the Bush > administration - not because they have committed a crime, > not because they are being investigated for a crime. They > will be targeted because the government has determined > that their political or religious views or affiliations > warrant surveillance, infiltration, and disruption of > their personal lives or the organizations to which they > belong. > > Ashcroft and Mueller are adopting the tactics of the > vicious reign of J. Edgar Hoover's secret police tactics > that were used against unions, progressive groups, and > African American, Latino and American Indian civil rights > organizations. Tens of thousands of people lost their > jobs, were falsely imprisoned, were deported or went into > exile and were subject to government harassment. Scores > of political activists in the Black Panther Party, the > Young Lords Party and in many others movements were > murdered by FBI COINTELPRO (counter-intelligence) > programs. > > Pressure brought to bear on the government from the mass > people's movements of the 1960s and 1970s eventually led > to the government adopting new guidelines, purportedly > designed to curb FBI abuse of people's rights. In fact, > this kind of FBI abuse has never stopped. What is new is > that the FBI is overtly shifting from focusing on criminal > investigations into focusing on counter-intelligence > programs - a code word for an attack on dissent and on > political and religious organizations that Bush and > Ashcroft have decided should be targeted. Following on > the heals of the Patriot Act - which has put the CIA back > into the business of domestic spying - the FBI and the CIA > are teaming up to conduct secret police activities. > > Since September 11, 2001, thousands of Muslim, Arab > American and South Asian people have been subjected to the > complete violation of their civil rights and civil > liberties. Charitable organizations have had their assets > seized. Thousands have been illegally detained. > Educational institutions, homes and businesses have been > raided. And the FBI has carried out a massive > interrogation campaign of people based on race, religion > and ethnicity. > > Bush, Ashcroft and the ultra-right are taking advantage of > the so-called war on terrorism to beat back the First > Amendment and the Bill of Rights. They think that people > will be frightened and intimidated and unwilling to carry > out a political mobilization to stop this attack on free > speech. > > As Bush proclaims endless war and diverts billions of > dollars from social services to the military-industrial > complex in the coming years, the government is putting > into place repressive mechanisms aimed at stopping the > growing anti-war movement in the United Sates. > > We can defeat this attack on civil rights and civil > liberties. We must unite against racism and racial > profiling. > > More than anything, the people of this country need to be > back in the streets to let the government know that we > will not be silenced and we will not be intimidated. > Everything that we have learned from the union movement, > the civil rights movement and the anti-war movements of > the past is that the people can defeat the government's > plans through their own mobilization. > > WHAT CAN YOU DO? > > *ENDORSE the June 29 protest! Email ANSWER at afgj.org with > your/your group's endorsement. > > *DONATIONS are urgently needed! Tax-deductible > contributions can be made at > http://www.internationalanswer.org/donate.html > > *HELP GET THE WORD OUT - organize others to come to > Washington DC on June 29. For more information, see > http://www.internationalanswer.org (downloadable flyers, > local contacts and more will be available). We are calling > on all nearby cities in the East Coast, South and Midwest > to come to Washington DC on Saturday, June 29 for a > regional demonstration at the FBI headquarters. If you > can't make it to DC, organize a local action at a Federal > Building on Friday, June 28. > > FOR MORE INFORMATION > http://www.internationalanswer.org > email: dc at internationalanswer.org > NY: 212-633-6646 > DC: 202-332-5757 > Chicago: 773-583-7728 > SF: 415-821-6545 > LA: 213-487-2368 > > ------------------ > Send replies to answer at action-mail.org > > This is the ANSWER activist announcement > list. Anyone can subscribe by sending > any message to <answer.general-subscribe at action-mail.org> > To unsubscribe <answer.general-off at action-mail.org>
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