GROWING FBI REPRESSION: Solidarity Activists Targeted

Hear from activists facing FBI repression related to their free speech and association. Find out how to get involved in the STOP FBI movement.

MAUREEN MURPHY managing editor of Electronic Intifada and co- chair of the Chicago Committee Against Political Repression, subpoenaed to appear before a Grand Jury along with 8 other Chicago area Palestine solidarity activists. She refused to appear. Hear about her case and get updates on what’s going on nationwide.

ELAINE HAGOPIAN Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Simmons College, will speak about the targeting of Palestine solidarity activists and Arab- Americans throughout the past several decades, putting recent events in historical context.

This event is sponsored by the STOP FBI Boston committee, Stop the Wars Boston, UJP, Boston UNAC, New Socialist Project, & B.U. Anti-War Coalition. To add your organization, email stopfbi.boston@gmail.com by 2/21/11

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Also, the following night:

Developments in Material Support Law

March 3, 2011 at 6pm

Austin North at Harvard Law School

Claude Bruderlein, Director of the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at the Harvard School of Public Health,

Susan Akram, Clinical Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law,

Tyler Giannini, Clinical Professor of Law and Clinical Director of HRP at Harvard Law School, and

Maureen Clare Murphy, organizer of the Palestine Solidarity Group-Chicago and Managing Editor of The Electronic Intifada; subpoenaed on December 23, 2010

This panel will explore the implications of the the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project and the current landscape for material support prosecutions in the US.

Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program at HLS, the Islamic Legal Studies Program at HLS, Justice for Palestine at HLS, the National Lawyers Guild – HLS Chapter, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, ACLU-HLS, and ACS.