‘An injury to one is an injury to all’
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Following are remarks by John Kirkland, a member of Philly Against War and the United National Antiwar Committee, at a Jan. 25 Philadelphia press conference called as part of the National Day against FBI Repression. The conference was organized by the First Amendment Network, Philly Against War, International Action Center, and other groups. I Egypt. There were mass demonstrations in both countries come here today inspired by the events in Tunisia and today. There are 100,000 in the streets of Cairo, with people demanding democracy, the right to eat, and the right to a job at a living wage—things our grandparents and parents, and we, are fighting for. The U.S.-financed dictatorships are being shaken to the core with something that scares the U.S. imperialists to death—the threat of democracy.
Government spying on and disruption of dissident political movements is nothing new. It has a history that goes back at least as far as the Red Scares and Palmer Raids after the First 4 Socialist Action FEBRuary 2011
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