From MLK to Today – FBI Attacks Peace and Justice Activists
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Read MoreDouble Standards Apply to Peace Activists
BY MARGARET SARFEHJOOYE
If you speak out against U.S.-sponsored human rights violations, and you are not rich or powerful, you might get a visit from the FBI. The recent “witch-hunt” against peace activists is expanding, and there are now 24 grand jury subpoenas served to peace activists based mostly in Minneapolis and Chicago. Although there have been no charges, the activists were informed that this investigation is about providing material support for foreign terrorist groups.
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The repeal of don’t ask, don’t tell for gays in the US military is not a positive step for equality,
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The repeal of don’t ask, don’t tell for gays in the US military is not a positive step for equality,
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Read More“Don’t Spy On Us, FBI” Say Minneapolis Activists
It was a declassified FBI document that Lucia Wilkes Smith held up before a crowd of Minneapolis peace activists. It was declassified in name only because nearly every word on the dozen or so pages had been blacked out for national security reasons.
“The first letter I got from the FBI said ‘we don’t have anything on you’, said Wilkes Smith a well-spoken gray-haired woman. She had made a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request of the FBI. The American Civil Liberties Union and others had urged her to file the request because the FBI had been spying on anti-war groups in Minnesota prior to and during the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul.
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Read MoreEmergency Alert – Acute Dange of War Over Korea
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The right-wing government in South Korea is once again threatening live-fire war “exercises” from an island right off the coast of north Korea (the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea). The DPRK has made it very clear that this would be an act of war to which it would respond vigorously.
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