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Attendees at regional conferences Feb. 19 in New York City and Chapel Hill, N.C., enthusiastically applauded anti-war and solidarity activists who have stood up to extreme intimidation and refused to testify before a Chicago grand jury.... Posted Mar 3, 2011

The Committee to Stop FBI Repression (www.stopfbi.net) has called regional conferences the weekends of Feb. 12 and 19.... Posted Feb 17, 2011

Workers World newspaper contributing editor Bryan G. Pfeifer interviewed Tom Burke of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization and spokesperson for the Committee to Stop FBI Repression, about the FBI-led attack on anti-war and solidarity activists starting Sept. 24, when Burke was subpoenaed.... Posted Feb 17, 2011

When the FBI delivered subpoenas for nine Palestine solidarity activists in Chicago to appear before a grand jury on Jan. 25, the response was loud and clear: Protests, press conferences and forums were held in more than 45 cities in the U.S. and around the world on that date to stand in solidarity and say no to FBI repression.... Posted Feb 5, 2011

Workers World newspaper places its full support behind the proposal from the Committee to Stop FBI Repression for everyone who can to join the day of action set for Jan. 25.... Posted Jan 9, 2011

The house was packed on Dec. 17 in Cambridge, Mass., as a wide spectrum of organizations and activists came out to a forum on the growing menace of FBI repression.... Posted Dec 22, 2010

About 100 protesters came together outside U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar’s office here Dec. 2, in response to news that three Twin Cities anti-war and social justice activists will be getting new orders to appear before a federal grand jury in Chicago.... Posted Dec 9, 2010

The Committee to Stop FBI Repression continues to denounce the FBI raids on activists in the Midwest on Sept. 24 and to demand an end to the grand jury witch-hunt.... Posted Nov 24, 2010

“Stop the grand jury!” That was the main message of a Nov. 6 meeting here called to form a national defense committee to defend anti-war, anti-racist and international solidarity activists from the Midwest who were hit by FBI raids on their homes on Sept. 24.... Posted Nov 12, 2010

The Committee to Stop FBI Repression is convening a national meeting in New York City on Nov. 6 at 6:30 p.m. Everyone who is interested in building the movement against FBI raids and the grand jury attempt to criminalize anti-war and international solidarity activists is invited to attend. For information, see www.stopFBI.net.... Posted Nov 4, 2010

Among the 115 groups that have taken a stand against the Sept. 24 FBI raids targeting anti-war activists are a growing number of labor unions, federations and organizations.... Posted Oct 31, 2010

The Committee to Stop FBI Repression is convening a national meeting in New York City on Nov. 6.... Posted Oct 31, 2010

On Oct. 19 the office phones of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama are expected to ring all day as they did a week earlier. Concerned labor, community and anti-war callers will demand that the government end repression of anti-war and international solidarity activists, return all materials seized in the raids on their homes and office in September and call off the grand jury.... Posted Oct 24, 2010

Support throughout the progressive movement in the U.S. and worldwide continues to grow for the anti-war and international solidarity activists whose homes were invaded by the FBI on Sept. 24.... Posted Oct 14, 2010

The movement is growing ever more united in defense of activists whose homes the FBI invaded on Sept. 24 in a coordinated attack on the anti-imperialist and anti-war movement.... Posted Oct 6, 2010

Excerpts from a resolution adopted unanimously by the San Francisco Labor Council delegates’ meeting on Sept. 27.... Posted Oct 6, 2010

The National Network on Cuba protests the ... FBI raids on the homes and offices of international solidarity and anti-war activists in Chicago and Minneapolis.... Posted Oct 6, 2010

Anti-war, anti-racist and left political activists in the United States have responded with unprecedented energy and outrage against nationally coordinated FBI raids on the homes of well-respected political organizers. ... Posted Sep 29, 2010

The International Action Center supports the call from the Minnesota Antiwar Committee for Emergency Actions at federal buildings and FBI offices on Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 28 and 29, to support anti-war and international solidarity activists and stop FBI raids and harassment, and urges you to participate in one of the actions listed or to organize an action in your city if one is not already planned.... Posted Sep 26, 2010

The International Action Center condemns the FBI raids on anti-war and solidarity activists homes on Sept. 24 and supports the right of all social justice activists to defend the rights of workers here at home and to be in solidarity with our sisters and brothers around the world resisting occupation and military dictatorship.... Posted Sep 24, 2010

Ahlam Mohsen, a 22-year-old Arab-American and Michigan State University student, was arrested Aug. 16 and charged with two felony counts of stalking and assault after she pied U.S. Sen. Carl Levin at a Democrats meeting in the Michigan town of Big Rapids.... Posted Sep 9, 2010

Ahlam Mohsen, the 22-year-old Michigan State University student and anti-war activist arrested for throwing a pie at U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, is now the subject of an FBI investigation and faces possible federal charges of assaulting a member of Congress.... Posted Sep 2, 2010


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