open invitation: Protest this Monday: From the FBI to Quantico: Hands off our activists!

[charrob]

From the FBI to Quantico: Hands Off our Activists!


Monday, January 17 · 12:00pm - 3:00pm

Rally at FBI Headquarters, then convoy to Quantico Marine Base in Virginia for Bradley Manning
935 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC

Organizer: Sue Udry

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Protest FBI Surveillance and Harassment of Activists
Free Bradley Manning: Blowing the Whistle on War is Not a Crime!

Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day and honor the hundreds of courageous civil rights activists who fought for justice during the 1960s and 1970s, but were spied on, harrassed, undercut and villified by the FBI.

...Protest surveillance, infiltration and attempts to entrap peace, environmental, animal rights, civil rights, and solidarity activists.

Stand up for the 29 peace and solidarity activists from Chicago, Minneapolis and Michigan who have been subpeonaed to appear before a grand jury purportedly investigating material support of terrorism, but really meant to intimidate international solidarity activists.

We'll convoy down to Quantico Marine Base at about 1 p.m. for a rally to support Bradley Manning.

Blowing the Whistle on War is Not A Crime!
Bradley Manning, is an army whistleblower who faces decades in prison for revealing truths about the wars in Iraq in Afghanistan and U.S. diplomacy. Manning, a 22 year-old Army intelligence analyst, is suspected of leaking the video “Collateral Murder,” which showed an U.S. helicopter attack that killed at least eleven Iraqi civilians. He is also accused of leaking the "Afghan War Diaries" -- tens of thousands of battlefield reports that explicitly describe civilian deaths and cover-ups, corrupt officials, collusion with war lords and a failing war effort; and thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables revealing , and thousands of documents relating to the war in Afghanistan, and thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables.

Currently, Manning sits in the brig at Quantico Marine Base -- in solitary confinement and under inhumane conditions. Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee and Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) have called for Manning’s execution.

More info: http://cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com/2011/01/fbi-protest-in-dc-and-convoy-to.html

[Reason]

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/valentine8.1.1.html

[charrob]

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/valentine8.1.1.html

so you're saying not to participate in protests because we could be placed on a government list to be assassinated?

in all honesty, i think that's what most fear (including myself). When activists have their homes broken into and raided at 5am in the morning by SWAT teams as a means of harrassment, it makes lots of others think twice about participating in what should be 1st Amendment freedoms.

In many ways i think this is the reason many on the left have refrained from participating as they once did. It's a definite risk, and one many are not willing to make.

[tangent4ronpaul]

Worry about the click of the lock on the door to that "free speech zone", you so peacefully and cooperatively just walked into.

-t

[charrob]

Worry about the click of the lock on the door to that "free speech zone", you so peacefully and cooperatively just walked into.
-t

thanks. Personally i'm torn over what seems to be the right thing to do, and fear. It makes me realize how really courageous people like Martin Luther King were:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b80Bsw0UG-U