You Can't Scare Us!
Peace Activists Speak Out Against FBI Witch Hunts
Friday November 12, 6:30 - 9PM
Light refreshments provided by Aladdin Gyrocery at 6:30, Event 7 - 9PM
Location: University Friends Meeting, 4001 9th Ave NE, Seattle 98105
The event is FREE. Funds will be collected for the Minneapolis and Chicago's activists' legal defense fund; If you cannot come to the event, but wish to donate to the defense fund, please write a check to "Committee to Stop FBI Repression " and mail to PO Box 14183, Minneapolis, MN 55414.
On September 24, the FBI raided the homes of 14 well-known anti-war and human rights activists in Chicago and Minneapolis. They also raided the office of the Minnesota Anti-War Committee. According to the FBI, the goal of the raids was to investigate alleged “material support for terrorism". These activists have done nothing wrong, yet face secretive Grand Jury trials, jail time and fines. Their freedom is at stake, along with everyone's freedom to speak our minds and to organize against war and occupation.
Come learn about the recent raids and organizing to oppose FBI repression, the past and current history of FBI attacks on social movements in the US, the current climate of Islamophobia and repression disproportionately targeting Arab and Muslim individuals and communities, and to understand your rights and what you can do to stand in solidarity with those being targeted!
Featuring Jess Sundin, Minneapolis activist targeted by the FBI
Jess will be joined by:
Amin Odeh, Voices of Palestine
Neil Fox, National Lawyers Guild
Arthur Miller, radical journalist and longtime supporter of Leonard Peltier
Sponsored by Seattle United Against FBI Repression
Co-sponsored by Arab American Community Coalition, American Friends Service Committee, Community Alliance for Global Justice, Freedom Socialist Party, Greater Seattle Veterans For Peace (VFP 92), National Lawyers Guild - Seattle Chapter & Seattle University Chapter, Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity (OWLS), Palestine Solidarity Committee, Radical Women, Reclaim the Media, Riseup.net, Seattle CISPES, Seattle Jewish Voice for Peace, Seattle Women in Black, SNOW - Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War, UW Center for Human Rights, Voices of Palestine, Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation (list in formation)
For more info, please contact Ellen at 206.789.5565 or Heather at 206.405.4600 or email ellen@wwfor.org
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