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?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Hermelinda Cortes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hermelindacortes@gmail.com">hermelindacortes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Date: Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 9:37 PM<br>Subject: Tues., Sept. 28 in Richmond: Protest FBI raids against peace activists<br>To: Defender Announcement <<a href="mailto:defenders-announcements@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">defenders-announcements@googlegroups.com</a>>, VAWN <<a href="mailto:vawn-organizers@lists.mayfirst.org" target="_blank">vawn-organizers@lists.mayfirst.org</a>>, Virginia People's Assembly <<a href="mailto:vapeoplesassembly@gmail.com" target="_blank">vapeoplesassembly@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;" align="center"><font color="#280099"><font face="Arial Black, sans-serif"><font size="4">Tues., Sept. 28: Richmond Emergency Protest</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;" align="center"><font color="#280099"><font face="Arial Black, sans-serif"><font size="4">to demand “No FBI Raids on Peace Activists!”</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>An emergency protest has been called in Richmond to protest </b></font></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>recent FBI raids against peace activists in several states. </b></font></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Other protests will take place this week in nearly 20 other cities.</b></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>The Richmond protest will take place:</b></font></font></p>
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<p style="font-weight: normal;" align="center"><font face="Arial Black, sans-serif"><font size="3">Tuesday, Sept. 28 – 4:30 - 6:30 pm</font></font></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;" align="center"><font face="Arial Black, sans-serif"><font size="3">Federal Courthouse</font></font></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;" align="center"><font face="Arial Black, sans-serif"><font size="3">701 E. Broad St., Richmond, VA 23219</font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>For more information, contact: Rain Burroughs - (804) 380-3564</b></font></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Facebook page: “No FBI Raids on Peace Activists!”</b></font></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149920585045184" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149920585045184</a></b></font></font></p>
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<p style="font-weight: normal;" align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">This is a description of the FBI raids, from the Sept. 24 edition of The New York Times:</font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/25/us/politics/25search.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print" target="_blank"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 9pt;" size="2">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/25/us/politics/25search.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print</font></font></a></u></span></font></p>
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<h1 style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="4">F.B.I. Searches Antiwar Activists’ Homes</font></h1>
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<h6 style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="2">By COLIN MOYNIHAN</font></h6>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.06in;" align="justify"><font size="2">F.B.I. agents executed search warrants Friday in Minneapolis and Chicago in connection to an investigation of support of terror organizations. </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.06in;" align="justify"><font size="2">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. </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.06in;" align="justify">“<font size="2">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.” </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.06in;" align="justify"><font size="2">Steve Warfield, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Minneapolis, said the agents executed six warrants in Minneapolis and two in Chicago. </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.06in;" align="justify">“<font size="2">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.” </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.06in;" align="justify"><font size="2">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. </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.06in;" align="justify"><font size="2">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. </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.06in;" align="justify"><font size="2">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. </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.06in;" align="justify"><font size="2">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. </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.06in;" align="justify"><font size="2">During the Republican gathering in 2008 he was a primary organizer of a march that drew thousands of participants. </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.06in;" align="justify"><font size="2">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. </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.06in;" align="justify"><font size="2">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. </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.06in;" align="justify">“<font size="2">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.” </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.06in;" align="center"><font size="2">###</font></p></div></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Hermelinda Cortes<br>Richmond, VA<br>804-386-7798<br><a href="mailto:hermelindacortes@gmail.com" target="_blank">hermelindacortes@gmail.com</a><br>
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