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Roundup: "Don't F*ck With Our Activists" - Community Responds to FBI Raids | Twin Cities Indymedia | Movement Media for Minneapolis-St. Paul

source: http://tc.indymedia.org/2010/sep/roundup-dont-fck-our-activists-community-responds-raids

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Over 150 people attended a community meeting at Walker Church Friday night, most on less than six hours notice, to begin to respond to Friday morning's FBI raids and subpoenas to local antiwar and international solidarity organizers. (See video of the meeting at right.) At the church, activists confirmed that five homes and the Anti-War Committee's office were raided.

Organizers also announced two upcoming events: a protest outside the Minneapolis FBI office, 111 Washington Ave. S., at 4:30pm on Monday; and a solidarity committee meeting on Thursday at 7pm, location to be determined. The subpoenas ask activists to appear before a grand jury in Chicago, where a solidarity vigil was held last night as a raid was still ongoing in that city, on or around October 19, reported a Chicago Indymedia post.

Those following international news on Friday noticed an eerie coincidence--or perhaps not. On Thursday, the Colombian military assassinated the #2 leader of the guerrilla group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia, or FARC. On Friday, President Obama met at the U.N. General Assembly to schmooze with incoming Colombian President Juan Manual Santos, leading to clear suspicion of U.S. involvement in the assassination. FARC is among the resistance groups termed "foreign terrorist organizations" by the U.S. and is listed in the warrant for Mick Kelly's residence. Another bit of interesting timing: just earlier this week, the FBI's Inspector General criticized the FBI for lying to the Justice Department about raids and surveillence of peace groups after 9/11.
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  • Incredulous
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    • Yeah, those look like some mighty dangerous terrorists in that room. NOT the GOD DAMN change we voted for Obama, and if this shit keeps up you sure as hell won't have your job next election. This bullshit has got to stop. People have a right to oppose the war and lie machine that corporate powers have turned this nation into, and if you don't call your dogs off of American citizens who are exercising their Constitutional rights, you're going to have your own revolution to deal with.

      NOT THE CHANGE WE VOTED FOR!

      If you can claim immunity for your friendship with ex Weatherman William Ayers, then what the hell are these FBI goons with guns doing to peaceful activists?

    • 1 year ago
  • Nephwrack
  • Incredulous
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    • Nephwrack:

      really....and you think he has no clue what's going on? I don't buy it anymore. He re-issued the Patriot Act without the changes he led us to believe were going to take place, and I am damn sick and tired of this kind of bullshit taking place...I want change, and I want it now. I am sick of the Federal government preying on American citizens for a different reason every week. I expect him to step up to the plate, be a man, and tell the Feebs to get their feeble dicks back in their pants and stop fucking with people who don't want to pay for wars and covert CIA operations. We have a right to object to what's going on.

    • 1 year ago
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