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September 26, 2010
Eric H. Holder, Jr.
Attorney General of the United States
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
Mr. Holder:
I am writing to you in my capacity as President of the
Baltimore-Washington Area Peace Council, a chapter of the U.S. Peace Council.
I am also the elected President of American Federation of
Government Employees (AFGE), Local 17, AFL-CIO. I am as well my union local's delegate
to AFGE Council 1, on whose Executive Board I serve.
I condemn the FBI harassment of anti-war and solidarity
activists in Chicago and Minneapolis, including the coordinated raid and
ransacking of about a half dozen homes and at least one office on Friday,
September 24, 2010; the handing of subpoenas to testify before a federal grand
jury to around a dozen activists in Illinois, Minnesota, and Michigan, and the
attempted intimidation of activists in California and North Carolina.
I urge you to order the FBI to halt at once this harassment
of the peace and solidarity movements, which is aimed at suppressing First
Amendment freedoms of speech, the press, assembly, and petition.
The government's apparent desire to use a grand jury to
frame activists is a disgrace, as are FBI claims here of "material support
of terrorism."
Accordingly, I add my voice to the demand that you stop the
repression against anti-war and international solidarity activists. Immediately
return all confiscated materials (computers, cell phones, papers, documents,
etc.), and end the grand jury proceedings against anti-war activists.
William Angulo Preston, Esq.
President, Baltimore-Washington Area Peace Council,
A chapter of the U.S. Peace Council
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