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Terrorist by Association

September 24 began like any other Friday for Joe Iosbaker and Stephanie Weiner. Then, at 7 a.m., FBI agents knocked on the door of the Chicago couple’s house in the city’s North Side.

Armed with a search warrant, more than 20 agents examined the couple’s home, photographing every room and combing through notebooks, family videos and books, even their children’s drawings. Some items were connected to their decades of anti-war and international solidarity activism, but others were not. “Folders were opened, letters were pulled out of envelopes,” says Weiner, an adult education professor at Wilbur Wright College. “They had rubber gloves and they went through every aspect of our home.”

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Justice Department Prepares for Ominous Expansion of “Anti-Terrorism” Law Targeting Activists

In late September, the FBI carried out a series of raids of homes and antiwar offices of public activists in Minneapolis and Chicago. Following the raids, the Obama Justice Department subpoenaed 14 activists to a grand jury in Chicago and also subpoenaed the files of several antiwar and community organizations. In carrying out these repressive actions, the Justice Department was taking its lead from the Supreme Court’s 6-3 opinion last June in Holder v. the Humanitarian Law Project, which decided that nonviolent First Amendment speech and advocacy “coordinated with” or “under the direction of” a foreign group listed by the Secretary of State as “terrorist” was a crime.

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Justice Department Prepares for Ominous Expansion of “Anti-Terrorism” Law Targeting Activists

In late September, the FBI carried out a series of raids of homes and antiwar offices of public activists in Minneapolis and Chicago. Following the raids, the Obama Justice Department subpoenaed 14 activists to a grand jury in Chicago and also subpoenaed the files of several antiwar and community organizations. In carrying out these repressive actions, the Justice Department was taking its lead from the Supreme Court’s 6-3 opinion last June in Holder v. the Humanitarian Law Project, which decided that nonviolent First Amendment speech and advocacy “coordinated with” or “under the direction of” a foreign group listed by the Secretary of State as “terrorist” was a crime.

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Take Action! | Solidarity with the Free Gaza Flotilla

June 2010

We, the Anti-War Committee, stand firmly with the people of the Free Gaza Flotilla.  They were brave people trying to bring aid to the people of Gaza including medicines, food, water purification systems, and prefabricated houses.  Their actions were a heroic attempt to break the illegal blockade of Gaza which even Israeli officials have accurately called “economic warfare”.  The attack on the Free Gaza Floatilla was not an isolated incident.  It is a part of a wide

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Take Action! | Solidarity with the Free Gaza Flotilla

June 2010

We, the Anti-War Committee, stand firmly with the people of the Free Gaza Flotilla.  They were brave people trying to bring aid to the people of Gaza including medicines, food, water purification systems, and prefabricated houses.  Their actions were a heroic attempt to break the illegal blockade of Gaza which even Israeli officials have accurately called “economic warfare”.  The attack on the Free Gaza Floatilla was not an isolated incident.  It is a part of a wide

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End Aid to Israel! Solidarity with Gaza!

Speech given by Karen Sullivan, Anti-War Committee member, at a Gaza solidarity demonstration on June 12, 2010

The past few weeks Israel has been trying to play the victim of the “poor misunderstood victim”. They claim this recent massacre is really just an “accident”. They claim that they are just trying to protect their borders, that they are really just trying to protect themselves from “terrorists” trying to supply weapons to Hamas. But we know they are not the victims, they are the murderers, the occupiers and the prison guards of Gaza!

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