From the North Woods to the West Bank
You are invited to a presentation at by Ryan Olander, a Minnesotan returning home from Palestine after a lengthy deportation
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Sunday, August 16, 2026
“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.
Read MoreFBI Expands Probe into Antiwar Activists
The FBI’s probe into antiwar activists is growing. In September, FBI agents raided the homes and offices of activists in Chicago and Minneapolis. Subpoenas that were withdrawn have been reactivated, and a new subpoena was served to a Palestinian solidarity activist in Chicago. We speak with two of the people targeted and two former FBI agents.
Read MoreU.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald Expands Witch Hunt – FBI delivers subpoenas to four more anti-war, solidarity activists
The FBI came unannounced to knock on doors at two apartments in Chicago this morning. FBI agent Robert Parker, under orders from U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald’s office, delivered a subpoena to Maureen Murphy. Murphy, like several other individuals served subpoenas, is an organizer with the Palestine Solidarity Group-Chicago.
This continues the repression unleashed by Fitzgerald on the anti-war movement since September 24th, when fourteen subpoenas were delivered to anti-war, labor, and solidarity activists in coordinated raids involving more than 70 federal agents. Armed FBI agents raided homes, taking computers, phones, passports, documents, notebooks, and even children’s artwork. A total of 23 subpoenas have been served to activists around the country.
Read MoreMeredith Aby Interview on FBI Raids Against the Anti-War Movement
Meredith Aby has been an anti-war and international solidarity activist since 1994. She started out doing student activism at Macalester
Read MoreYear-end appeal for your support
December 20, 2010 Hello friends, Across the country, people are celebrating holidays, gathering together with friends and family, hoping for
Read MoreEmergency Alert – Acute Dange of War Over Korea
SIGN the ongoing ONLINE PETITION to the Obama Administration and s. Korean Govt.
at http://www.iacenter.org/korea/stopattackondprk NOW! (join with thousands who have already signed on)
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.
Read MoreTake Action: Don’t Spy on Us!
Why are they spying on you? Find out on Dec. 21, when you, your organization and others from the Twin
Read MoreTake Action: Don't Spy on Us!
Why are they spying on you? Find out on Dec. 21, when you, your organization and others from the Twin
Read MoreVideo: Solidarity in a Post 9-11 World: How the US’ War on Terrorism Affects Movements for Peace & Justice at Home & Abroad
Thursday, December 9th @ 6:30 pm @ Walker Library Large Meeting room, 2880 Hennepin Avenue (Hennepin & Lagoon) Minneapolis Video
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