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| June 29 Protest in DC against Profiling of Muslims |
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| yunus |
| 06/16/02 at 11:56:30 |
| Salaam There will be a Protest in DC on June 29 against the illegal detention and profiling of Muslims and Arabs also Protest the Patriot Act. The event is being put together by the same people who orginized the April 20th rally. Here is the info > > GET ON THE BUS FOR JUNE 29 MARCH ON FBI & JUSTICE DEPARTMENT > IN WASHINGTON, D.C. TO DEFEND CIVIL RIGHTS > -- SIGN UP ONLINE AT THE LINK BELOW > > Leave 11:30 pm 6/28/02 from Roxbury Community College > parking lot, return Saturday evening > $45 + $5 donation requested to subsidy fund > http://www.iacboston.org/j29bus > > downloadable flyer: http://www.iacboston.org/pdf/boston062902.pdf > > A.N.S.W.E.R. Mobilizing meetings every Friday > 6:30 pm 284 Amory St JP > http://www.iacboston.org/directions > > **** 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@afgj.org with > your/your group's endorsement, or reply at the link below: > http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/0629/endorse.html > > *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 are 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.iacboston.org/ANSWER > http://www.internationalanswer.org > email: ANSWERBoston@iacboston.org > email: dc@internationalanswer.org > Boston: 617-522-6626 > NY: 212-633-6646 > DC: 202-332-5757 > Chicago: 773-583-7728 > SF: 415-821-6545 > LA: 213-487-2368 |
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