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Duluth New Tribune | Local view: Government’s targeting of anti-war movement troubling

By: Joel Kilgour, Duluth News Tribune

On April 28, 1963, thousands marched on Washington, D.C., for civil rights and jobs. From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr., delivered one of the most powerful and defining speeches in history. “I have a dream,” he told the gathered masses. Not everyone was impressed. “We must mark him now,” FBI Domestic Intelligence Director William Sullivan wrote after the march, “as the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation from the standpoint of communism.”

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Duluth New Tribune | Local view: Government’s targeting of anti-war movement troubling

By: Joel Kilgour, Duluth News Tribune

On April 28, 1963, thousands marched on Washington, D.C., for civil rights and jobs. From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr., delivered one of the most powerful and defining speeches in history. “I have a dream,” he told the gathered masses. Not everyone was impressed. “We must mark him now,” FBI Domestic Intelligence Director William Sullivan wrote after the march, “as the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation from the standpoint of communism.”

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truthout | Raids on Activists May Indicate FBI Abuse of Power

Friday 08 October 2010

by: Yana Kunichoff, t r u t h o u t | Report

On the heels of a series of FBI raids on anti-war activists, an FBI whistleblower and constitutional rights groups are calling out the agency for overstepping its bounds, fearing that its increased powers could infringe on First Amendment rights and silence dissent.

Agents searched the homes of anti-war activists in Chicago, Minneapolis, Michigan and Durham, North Carolina in the last two weeks of September, along with the offices of the Minnesota Anti-War Committee, confiscating computers, cell phones, large amounts of paper and financial records, according to the activists and their attorneys.

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truthout | Raids on Activists May Indicate FBI Abuse of Power

Friday 08 October 2010

by: Yana Kunichoff, t r u t h o u t | Report

On the heels of a series of FBI raids on anti-war activists, an FBI whistleblower and constitutional rights groups are calling out the agency for overstepping its bounds, fearing that its increased powers could infringe on First Amendment rights and silence dissent.

Agents searched the homes of anti-war activists in Chicago, Minneapolis, Michigan and Durham, North Carolina in the last two weeks of September, along with the offices of the Minnesota Anti-War Committee, confiscating computers, cell phones, large amounts of paper and financial records, according to the activists and their attorneys.

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News Conference & Bannering – Tell the U.S. Attorney Hands Off Anti-War Activists!

Tuesday, October 12, 4:30 p.m.
Minneapolis Federal Building,
300 S 4th St, Downtown Minneapolis

Tuesday news conference and banners at Minneapolis Federal Building to protest FBI harassment of anti-war activists

Peace, anti-war and other community groups will gather Tuesday afternoon at the Minneapolis Federal Building at 4:30 PM for a news conference and to hold banners to denounce the FBI and grand jury harassment of anti-war activists.

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News Conference & Bannering – Tell the U.S. Attorney Hands Off Anti-War Activists!

Tuesday, October 12, 4:30 p.m.
Minneapolis Federal Building,
300 S 4th St, Downtown Minneapolis

Tuesday news conference and banners at Minneapolis Federal Building to protest FBI harassment of anti-war activists

Peace, anti-war and other community groups will gather Tuesday afternoon at the Minneapolis Federal Building at 4:30 PM for a news conference and to hold banners to denounce the FBI and grand jury harassment of anti-war activists.

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News Conference & Bannering – Tell the U.S. Attorney Hands Off Anti-War Activists!

Tuesday, October 12, 4:30 p.m.
Minneapolis Federal Building,
300 S 4th St, Downtown Minneapolis

Tuesday news conference and banners at Minneapolis Federal Building to protest FBI harassment of anti-war activists

Peace, anti-war and other community groups will gather Tuesday afternoon at the Minneapolis Federal Building at 4:30 PM for a news conference and to hold banners to denounce the FBI and grand jury harassment of anti-war activists.

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Grand Juries – What are they? How can we resist them?

Sunday, October 10, 2 p.

m. – 4 p.m.@ Walker Church (in the basement), 3104 16th Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55407

In the last week of September, 14 anti-war and international solidarity activists were hit with Grand Jury subpoena’s. These are the most recent but certainly not the only grand jury subpoenas served on activists from different movements around the country.  In this
context it is critical that radicals, activists, and supporters of those targeted understand the use of this shadowy institution– including the “rights” they grant us and the rights we claim for ourselves.

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The Huffington Post | The FBI’s ‘War on Dissent’

By Curtis Black

Posted: October 1, 2010 01:27 PM

FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley points out that last week’s raids on anti-war and solidarity activists in Chicago and Minneapolis came just days after a “scathing review” by the Justice Department’s inspector general, which slammed the agency’s post 9/11 “terrorism investigations” of peace and social justice groups.

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