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

[Nathan Stickel]

I have a meeting with feeding programs of Monroe Park to fight the pushing
out of the homeless, but I intend on dropping by for the beginning of this.
Anyone else intend on going?

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Hermelinda Cortes <
hermelindacortes at gmail.com> wrote:

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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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 <
> vapeoplesassembly at gmail.com>
>
>
>
>
> 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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Always with Solidarity

Nathan
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