[FlyingBrickAnnouncements] Fwd: Tues., Sept. 28 in Richmond: Protest FBI raids against peace activists

[Hermelinda Cortes]

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From: Phil Wilayto <philwilayto at earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 9:37 PM
Subject: Tues., Sept. 28 in Richmond: Protest FBI raids against peace
activists
To: Defender Announcement <defenders-announcements at googlegroups.com>, VAWN <
vawn-organizers at lists.mayfirst.org>, Virginia People's Assembly <
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Tues., Sept. 28: Richmond Emergency Protest

to demand “No FBI Raids on Peace Activists!”


*An emergency protest has been called in Richmond to protest *

*recent FBI raids against peace activists in several states. *

*Other protests will take place this week in nearly 20 other cities.*


*The Richmond protest will take place:*


Tuesday, Sept. 28 – 4:30 - 6:30 pm

Federal Courthouse

701 E. Broad St., Richmond, VA 23219


*For more information, contact: Rain Burroughs - (804) 380-3564*


*Facebook page: “No FBI Raids on Peace Activists!”*

*http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149920585045184*



This is a description of the FBI raids, from the Sept. 24 edition of The New
York Times:


*
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/25/us/politics/25search.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
*

F.B.I. Searches Antiwar Activists’ Homes
By COLIN MOYNIHAN


F.B.I. agents executed search warrants Friday in Minneapolis and Chicago in
connection to an investigation of support of terror organizations.

The searches in Minneapolis took place early in the morning at the homes of
people who have helped organize demonstrations against the war in Iraq and
protests held two years ago during the Republican National Convention in St.
Paul.

“It is rather patently political,” said Ted Dooley, a lawyer who represents
Mick Kelly, a food service worker at the University of Minnesota and one of
those whose homes was searched. “My client denies any wrongdoing.”

Steve Warfield, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in
Minneapolis, said the agents executed six warrants in Minneapolis and two in
Chicago.

“They were seeking evidence related to an ongoing Joint Terrorism Task Force
investigation,” Mr. Warfield said. “They are looking at activities connected
to the material support of terrorism.”

He said no one in Minneapolis had been arrested while the warrants were
executed. He added that agents in Michigan and North Carolina had also
questioned people in connection with the investigation.

Mr. Dooley said the F.B.I. broke down Mr. Kelly’s door around 7 a.m. and
gave a search warrant to his companion. The warrant said agents were
gathering evidence related to people “providing, attempting and conspiring
to provide material support” to terrorist organizations, and listed
Hezbollah, the Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine and the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

The warrant also authorized the agents to look for information connected to
the Freedom Road Socialist Organization and to unnamed “co-conspirators” and
allowed them to seize items including electronics, photographs, address
books and letters.

Mr. Kelly is known in Minnesota as a prominent organizer of the Anti-War
Committee, a group that has protested United States military aid to Colombia
and called for the removal of American soldiers from Afghanistan.

During the Republican gathering in 2008 he was a primary organizer of a
march that drew thousands of participants.

Mr. Kelly was also served with a summons to appear before a grand jury on
Oct. 19 in Chicago. The order directed him to bring along pictures or videos
related to any trip to Colombia, Jordan, Syria, the Palestinian territories
or Israel, as well as correspondence with anyone in those places.

Jess Sundin, another member of the Anti-War Committee whose home was
searched, said a warrant also was executed at the group’s office. She said
she had not done anything to help terror groups.

“I’ve protested the government’s policies and spoken out and tried to
educate people in my community,” Ms. Sundin said. “That is the extent of
what I’ve done.”

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-- 
Hermelinda Cortes
Richmond, VA
804-386-7798
hermelindacortes at gmail.com
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