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CHICAGO—On Dec. 21, four new subpoenas were issued to antiwar activists here, in the Justice Department’s McCarthy-style attacks on the antiwar movement. A total of 23 people have now been subpoened.
The witch hunt dates back to Sept. 24, when 14 homes were raided by the FBI in Chicago and Minneapolis in an alleged attempt to investigate “material support” for terrorism.
Federal agents carried away boxes of papers, books, computers, and personal belongings from the victims of the raids.
These activists are clearly being targeted for their public support and organizing on behalf of the people of Palestine and Colombia in their struggle against repressive U.S.funded regimes, and their support of U.S.based socialist and international-solidarity organizations. The U.S. Justice Department is attempting to silence these activists while sending a message to activists around the country that antiwar activism will be treated as a crime.
Nine of the subpoenaed activists have been ordered to appear before a grand jury on Jan. 25. All 14 of the originally subpoenaed activists invoked their Fifth Amendment rights when they were called to the grand jury in October. Since then, three of those activists—Tracy Molm, Anh Pham, and Sarah Martin—have had their subpoenas reactivated.
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Name Address City Phone E-mail Craig Lassig / AP ity with Palestine were subpoenaed, two more activists on Dec. 8, and four more on Dec. 21.
It is expected that U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald may offer some or all of the subpoenaed activists conditional immunity at the grand jury, eliminating their Fifth Amendment rights, and thereby compelling them State Zip 9) To mobilize support for the demands it adopts, the EMERGENCY more concrete demands than the ones outlined above. • Ashland, Ore.: [email protected] • Ashland, Wis.: [email protected] • Boston: bostonsocialistaction@gmail. com (781) 630-0250 • Carrboro, N.C.: (919) 967-2866, [email protected] • Chicago: P.O. Box 578428 Chicago, IL 60657, [email protected] • Connecticut: (860) 478-5300 • Duluth, Minn.:
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A protest is being organized outside the federal courthouse on Jan. 25 in Chicago and outside FBI and federal buildings in cities across the country, demanding an end to the grand jury and an end to the FBI raids.
Activists around the country have continued to organize in defense of the targeted activists. On Dec. 10 in Chicago, over 200 people attended the annual People’s Thanksgiving fund raiser organized by Fight Back newspaper and raised more than $7000 for the legal defense. Many student and civil-liberties groups and trade-union bodies have passed resolutions denouncing the raids and subpoenas, including AFSCME Council 5, St. Paul Labor Federation, San Francisco Labor Council, Troy Area Labor Council, SEIU Local 73, Teamsters Local 705, and the Chicago Teachers Union.
On Dec. 23, about 75 people attended a press conference inside the Federal Dirksen Building in Chicago to respond to the latest subpoenas. Palestine solidarity activist Maureen Murphy, editor of the website The Electronic Intifada and one of those subpoenaed on Dec. 21, read the following statement:
“I have no intention in participating in the government’s witch hunt. It is very clear that no crime has been committed and that the government’s motivation in issuing these subpoenas is to have us name the names of other activists not only here in the United States, but also in places like Palestine and Colombia, where many of us have traveled to learn about the human rights situations in those places.
“We can only assume that the U.S. government shares intelligence with the governments of Israel and Colombia, whose repressive military rule the U.S. bankrolls at the U.S. taxpayers’ expense. And it is essentially a prison sentence or worse for human rights activists in Palestine and Colombia to be singled out and identified in this way. And I have no intention in playing any role in that.” For information on the nationwide protests on Jan. 25, see www.stopfbi.net. n For info about Socialist Action and how to join: Socialist Action National Office, P.O. Box 10328, Oakland, CA 94610, [email protected], (510) 268-9429 Socialist Action newspaper editorial offices: [email protected] Website: www.socialistaction.org WHERE TO FIND SOCIALIST ACTION • Philadelphia: [email protected] • Portland, Ore.: (503) 233-1629 [email protected] • Providence: [email protected], (401) 419-1706 • San Francisco Bay Area:
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