{"id":7855,"date":"2010-10-01T12:23:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T20:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=7855"},"modified":"2010-10-01T12:23:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T20:53:13","slug":"fbi-raids-homes-of-antiwar-and-pro-palestinian-activists-in-chicago-and-minneapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=7855","title":{"rendered":"FBI Raids Homes of Antiwar and Pro-Palestinian Activists in Chicago and Minneapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/embed_show_v2\/300\/2010\/9\/27\/story\/fbi_raids_homes_of_anti_war\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div>\n<h1>FBI Raids Homes of Antiwar and Pro-Palestinian Activists in Chicago and Minneapolis<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/images\/story\/97\/19197\/fbi-raid.jpg\" alt=\"Fbi-raid\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Antiwar activists are gearing up for protests  outside FBI offices in cities across the country today and Tuesday after  the FBI raided eight homes and offices of antiwar activists in Chicago  and Minneapolis Friday. The FBI\u2019s search warrants indicate agents were  looking for connections between local antiwar activists and groups in  Colombia and the Middle East. We speak to the targets of two of the  raids and former FBI officer Coleen Rowley. [includes rush transcript]<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"segment_media\">\n<div>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 14px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/email\/story\/11290\">Email to a friend<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/pages\/help\/streaming\">Help<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2010\/9\/27\/fbi_raids_homes_of_anti_war#\">Printer-friendly version<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/store\/show\/2010\/9\/27\">Purchase\u00a0DVD\/CD<\/a><\/div>\n<table style=\"height: 20px;\" border=\"0\" width=\"10\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Guests:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/appearances\/jess_sundin\">Jess Sundin<\/a><\/strong>,  longtime antiwar activist in Minneapolis. Her home was raided by the  FBI early Friday morning. She\u2019s a member of the Anti-War Committee,  whose offices were also raided.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/appearances\/joe_iosbaker\">Joe Iosbaker<\/a><\/strong>,  employee of the University of Illinois in Chicago and a steward for  SEIU Local 73. He helped coordinate buses from Chicago to the protests  at the Republican National Convention in 2008. His home was one of two  raided in Chicago Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/appearances\/coleen_rowley\">Coleen Rowley<\/a><\/strong>, former FBI special agent and whistleblower based in Minnesota. She was named <em>Time Magazine<\/em>\u2019s Person of the Year in 2002.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3><a name=\"transcript\"><\/a>Rush Transcript<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/get_involved\/donate\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>AMY GOODMAN: <\/strong>Antiwar activists are gearing up for  protests outside FBI offices in cities across the country today and  tomorrow after the FBI raided eight homes and offices of antiwar  activists in Chicago and Minneapolis Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI\u2019s search warrants indicate agents were looking for  connections between local antiwar activists and groups in Colombia and  the Middle East. Eight people were issued subpoenas to appear before a  federal grand jury in Chicago. Most of the people whose homes were  searched or who were issued subpoenas had helped organize or attended  protests at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota,  two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The federal law cited in the search warrants prohibits, quote,  &#8220;providing material support or resources to designated foreign terrorist  organizations.&#8221; In June, the Supreme Court rejected a free speech  challenge to the material support law from humanitarian aid groups that  said some of its provisions put them at risk of being prosecuted for  talking to terrorist organizations about nonviolent activities. Some of  groups listed by name in the warrants are Hezbollah, the Popular Front  for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of  Colombia, or FARC. The warrants also authorized agents to to seize items  such as electronics, photographs, videos, address books and letters.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s raids come on the heels of a Justice Department probe  that found the FBI improperly monitored activist groups and individuals  from 2001 to 2006.<\/p>\n<p>For more, I\u2019m joined now by three guests.<\/p>\n<p>Joining us from Minneapolis, longtime antiwar activist Jess  Sundin, whose home was raided by the FBI early Friday morning. She\u2019s a  member of the Anti-War Committee, whose offices were also raided.<\/p>\n<p>Joining us via <em>Democracy Now!<\/em> video stream from Chicago is  Joe Iosbaker, whose home was one of two raided in Chicago Friday. He\u2019s  an employee of the University of Illinois in Chicago and a steward for  SEIU Local 73. He helped coordinate buses from Chicago to the protests  at the Republican National Convention in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Also in Minneapolis we\u2019re joined by former FBI special agent and whistleblower Coleen Rowley. <em>Time<\/em> named her Woman of the Year, Person of the Year in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>We welcome you all to <em>Democracy Now!<\/em> Let\u2019s begin in Minneapolis with Jess Sundin. Tell us what happened.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JESS SUNDIN: <\/strong>Friday morning, I awoke to a bang at the  door, and by the time I was downstairs, there were six or seven federal  agents already in my home, where my partner and my six-year-old daughter  had already been awake. We were given the search warrant, and they went  through the entire house. They spent probably about four hours going  through all of our personal belongings, every book, paper, our clothes,  and filled several boxes and crates with our computers, our phones, my  passport. And when they were done, as I said, they had many crates full  of my personal belongings, with which they left my house.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMY GOODMAN: <\/strong>Were you the only one there that morning?<\/p>\n<p><strong>JESS SUNDIN: <\/strong>No, my partner and my first-grade daughter were also there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMY GOODMAN: <\/strong>And what exactly did they show you to get in?<\/p>\n<p><strong>JESS SUNDIN: <\/strong>Well, we have a porch where you can\u2019t see  exactly who\u2019s outside. And so, they had already let themselves into the  porch by the time my daughter\u2014my wife opened the door. And when they  came in, they showed us this four-page document that listed, as I said,  all the kinds of things that they were entitled to look\u2014to search for in  my home, as well as a subpoena to appear before a grand jury. My name  was listed on the search warrant, but both myself and my partner  received subpoenas for the grand jury in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMY GOODMAN: <\/strong>Let\u2019s go to Chicago, to Joe Iosbaker. Describe what happened to you on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE IOSBAKER: <\/strong>Well, it\u2019s the exact same story. It was a  nationally coordinated assault on all of these homes. Seven a.m., the  pound on the door. I was getting ready for work, came down the stairs,  and there were, I think, in the area of ten agents, you know, of  the\u2014they identified themselves as FBI, showed me the search warrant. And  I turned to my wife and said, &#8220;Stephanie, it\u2019s the thought police.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMY GOODMAN: <\/strong>And they came in?<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE IOSBAKER: <\/strong>They came in, and they proceeded to set up  their operation in our living room, and they proceeded to photograph  every room in our house. And over the next, I don\u2019t know, thirty or  forty-five minutes, they proceeded to label every room and then  systematically go through every room, our basement, our attic, our  children\u2019s rooms, and pored through not just all of our papers, but our  music collection, our children\u2019s artwork, my son\u2019s poetry journals from  high school\u2014everything.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMY GOODMAN: <\/strong>And were they explaining to you what they were doing as they were raiding your house?<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE IOSBAKER: <\/strong>There was\u2014there were\u2014some of the officers,  you know, were telling us what they were doing. Most of them were not.  But they gave us some explanation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMY GOODMAN: <\/strong>What exactly did they say to you?<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE IOSBAKER: <\/strong>Well, they\u2014all they said in terms of the  content of what they were looking for is that they\u2014you know, they showed  us the search warrant, and I was\u2014my wife and I were both subpoenaed, as  well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMY GOODMAN: <\/strong>What organizations are you involved with, Joe? What do you think they\u2019re looking for?<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE IOSBAKER: <\/strong>Well, as you said at the start, I\u2019m a trade  unionist primarily. That\u2019s how most people know me. I\u2019m also the staff  adviser at UIC for the Students for a Democratic Society chapter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMY GOODMAN: <\/strong>That\u2019s University of Illinois, Chicago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE IOSBAKER: <\/strong>Correct. And, you know, I\u2019ve been a  political activist for thirty-three years, so I\u2019ve been a member of a  lot of organizations and campaign.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMY GOODMAN: <\/strong>Coleen Rowley, you\u2019re a former FBI agent, whistleblower, named <em>Time<\/em> Person of the Year in 2002. Can you explain what you think is happening  here? And also, put it in the context of this very interesting Justice  Department IG\u2014Inspector General\u2014report that has just come out on their  surveillance of whistleblowers\u2014rather, the surveillance of activists  over the last almost decade.<\/p>\n<p><strong>COLEEN ROWLEY: <\/strong>Well, I can\u2019t really detail all of the  legal factors that have changed since 9\/11, but there simply has been a  sea change. For instance, when I taught constitutional rights in the  FBI, one of the main top priorities was First Amendment rights. And  while this is not the first time that you\u2019ve seen this Orwellian turn of  the war on terror onto domestic peace groups and social justice  groups\u2014actually, we had that begin very quickly after 9\/11, and there  were legal opinions, Office of Legal Counsel opinions, that said the  First Amendment no longer controls the war on terror\u2014but even so, this  is shocking and alarming that at this point we have the, you know,  humanitarian advocacy now being treated as somehow material support to  terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve also just seen, ironically, four days before this national  raid, we saw the Department of Justice Inspector General issue a report  that soundly criticized the FBI for four years of targeting domestic  groups such as Greenpeace, the Thomas Merton Center in Pittsburgh,  different antiwar rallies, even involving a finding that the FBI  director had given them a falsehood to Congress as to the justification  for the FBI to monitor a peace group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMY GOODMAN: <\/strong>What about what\u2019s happened in Iowa, Coleen Rowley?<\/p>\n<p><strong>COLEEN ROWLEY: <\/strong>Well, that\u2019s another instance. And that one  is actually after the scope of the IG investigation. The IG  investigation only went to 2006. There have been requests for that IG to  go further. Obviously there\u2019s been four more years. And in 2008, we  found out through a Freedom of Information request that there\u2019s 300  pages of\u2014I think it was four or five, six agents trailing a group of  students in Iowa City to parks, libraries, bars, restaurants. They even  went through their trash. So, this is another reason why peace groups,  and certainly law professors, have to be very concerned now about this  misinterpretation that says advocacy for human-rights\u2014I just have to  mention, we have a famous Minnesotan who wrote <em>Three Cups of Tea<\/em>.  And he obviously sets up schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. His name  is Greg Mortenson. Obviously, people like him and Jimmy Carter are even  at peril, given this wide discretion now to say that anyone who works in  a foreign country, even for peace or humanitarian, anti-torture  purposes, could somehow run afoul of the PATRIOT Act.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMY GOODMAN: <\/strong>The Church Committee in the 1970s really blew  the lid open on CIA spying at home, and also guidelines then,  regulations, were passed afterwards. How do they apply today, when  Americans are being surveilled, infiltrated, spied on at home?<\/p>\n<p><strong>COLEEN ROWLEY: <\/strong>Well, that\u2019s another one of the factors,  besides this Supreme Court ruling. Right after 9\/11, the Attorney  General began to erode those guidelines. He basically said that FBI  agents could go into mosques and places like that to monitor, so that  was the beginning. The very\u2014almost the last official act that Bush did  in 2008 was that he totally erased those prior AG guidelines. There is  really no need to even show factual justification now. The presumption  is entirely reversed. And basically the FBI need only say that they were  not targeting\u2014that they were not targeting a group solely based on  their exercise of First Amendment rights. So the presumption really did,  again, a complete flip-flop.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, that\u2019s why you see these various scandals now  coming out. It should be no surprise to someone that if there\u2019s no  restraints, the green light is on, that you see, of course\u2014I actually  kind of sympathize with the FBI. I used to train these agents, and I can  understand the enormous pressure they\u2019re under. And, of course, this is  why it\u2019s so incredibly important to get the word to the officials who  are in charge of using their discretion that they should use their  discretion to look for real terrorists instead of to go after peace  groups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMY GOODMAN: <\/strong>Jess Sundin, what are your plans now? I mean,  over the weekend I saw online the video of your mass emergency  meeting\u2014many people came out for this, rallying around\u2014and also talked  about the RNC 8, the eight people who were preemptively arrested in the  lead-up to the Republican convention, all charged on terror counts. All  of those terror counts have been dropped now. But it certainly was a  very frightening time. What are your plans now?<\/p>\n<p><strong>JESS SUNDIN: <\/strong>Well, as you mentioned, in the Twin Cities we  had a meeting the night that the raids happened. There were more than  200 people who gathered, and really every organization in the Twin  Cities. But I\u2019d say countless organizations across the country have  contacted us to ask us how they can help. There will be, today and  tomorrow, as you mentioned earlier, demonstrations in at least twenty  cities around the country. We\u2019ve had word of plans for demonstrations at  embassies in other countries, as well, at US embassies.<\/p>\n<p>So, one of the things we\u2019re doing is trying to call attention to  what\u2019s happened and really make it clear to people that we have done  nothing wrong. There is no basis to the claim that we\u2019ve in any way  given support to terrorist organizations. But in fact, we are being\u2014we  are being\u2014there is attention on us because of our work in the antiwar  movement, and in particular, our perspective of solidarity with people  in the countries where the US war and militarism are happening.<\/p>\n<p>We, following up on these demonstrations, are going to be pulling  together a network of people from many of these organizations that have  expressed their concern. Folks who want to get tied into that can find  us through the Anti-War Committee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwarcommittee.org\/\">website<\/a>,  which is very outdated. We\u2019re doing our best to get it up. Of course,  as we explained, all of our computers were seized. So we\u2019re doing a lot  of catch up, trying to get ourselves organized.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, we\u2019re also very concerned with making legal plans  to protect ourselves. A number of people have been called before a  grand jury in Chicago. And we, you know, don\u2019t want to be\u2014you know, a  case to be framed up around us. All of us are quite confident that  nothing that was found in our homes will give substantiation to the  claims against us. And there\u2019s, in fact, no charges against us. But we  want to do everything we can to both protect ourselves legally while at  the same time working with the movement to call attention to what\u2019s  happened.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMY GOODMAN: <\/strong>Joe Iosbaker, I wanted to ask you about the  other house that was raided. Just looking at an AP piece, FBI agents in  Chicago took a laptop and documents from the home of Palestinian  American antiwar activist Hatem Abudayyeh, who is the executive director  of the Arab American Action Network. His attorney, Jim Fennerty, said,  The government\u2019s trying to quiet activists. The case is really is  scary,&#8221; he said. Abudayyeh is an American citizen. Can you talk about  your work on Israel-Palestine, who Hatem Abudayyeh is?<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE IOSBAKER: <\/strong>Well, I actually have to talk about my  wife\u2019s work. My wife is a longtime solidarity activist in the Palestine  solidarity movement. And\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMY GOODMAN: <\/strong>Stephanie Weiner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE IOSBAKER: <\/strong>Correct. She was also subpoenaed. And really  everyone in the antiwar movement in Chicago knows Hatem. You know, if  you look back online at video of the protests here of thousands of  people marching when Israel assaulted Gaza two years ago, Hatem was the  emcee at almost every major rally. And the Arab American Action Network  was the first center of the Arab community in the city, founded back in  the late 1960s and early 1970s. So Hatem is the most prominent  Palestinian activist in the city of Chicago. It\u2019s no surprise that they  targeted him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMY GOODMAN: <\/strong>And you\u2019re organizing, Joe Iosbaker, around  Colombia. In a minute we\u2019ll be joined by Ingrid Betancourt, who was,  well, as you know, held captive\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE IOSBAKER: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMY GOODMAN: <\/strong>\u2014for more than six years. But what about your  work around Colombia, since it seems that Israel-Palestine and Colombia  were major focuses of this FBI raid?<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE IOSBAKER: <\/strong>Well, I actually think that I should defer that question to Jess, who has much more experience in Colombia solidarity work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMY GOODMAN: <\/strong>Jess Sundin in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JESS SUNDIN: <\/strong>Yeah, the antiwar movement has long been  concerned with places that the US funds wars abroad, and there\u2019s a major  civil war unfolding in Colombia, and it\u2019s the third-largest recipient  of US military aid, so Colombia is very much an issue for the antiwar  movement. I have traveled to Colombia and understand that it\u2019s the most  dangerous place in the world to be a trade unionist. And, in fact,  anyone involved in the social movement there is viewed by the  government, as well as the paramilitary death squads, as a rebel and  treated as such. And so, I know that the investigation is very  interested in travel\u2014I have traveled to Colombia\u2014and [it] tried to  establish some sort of organizational ties, which there aren\u2019t. But that  said, I do support the Colombian struggle and have been very involved  in that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMY GOODMAN: <\/strong>Coleen Rowley, how do civil rights compare,  what you\u2019re seeing today under the Obama administration, to President  Bush, someone you certainly blew the whistle on?<\/p>\n<p><strong>COLEEN ROWLEY: <\/strong>Well, I can\u2019t talk for another couple hours  here, because that\u2019s how long it would take me. I actually urged the  FBI from early on\u2014I even wrote a chapter, &#8220;Civil Liberties and Effective  Investigation.&#8221; And unfortunately, these warnings have just been  largely\u2014of myself and many others\u2014have been largely ignored. Even the  9\/11 Commission focused\u2014three of their recommendations, out of  forty-one, were on creating a privacy and civil liberties oversight  board. And Bush pulled the rug from under that board early on. And  Obama, two years later, has never appointed any people, any of the five  seats to that board, which is just incredible in light of what\u2019s gone  on, even including the revelations of torture and warrantless  monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>What people need to do is to basically ask for more than just an  IG investigation. They need to ask for Congress to actually take on  something like a new Church Committee. And that\u2019s actually been asked  for. Barbara Lee, I think, actually had a proposal a year ago for  something like that. So we should all contact our elected  representatives and ask for Congress to take on greater oversight of  this\u2014what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMY GOODMAN: <\/strong>Well, we will certainly continue to follow  this case as it unfolds. I want to thank you, Coleen Rowley, former FBI  agent, whistleblower, named <em>Time<\/em> Person of the Year in 2002. Jess  Sundin and Joe Iosbaker, thanks so much for being with us. I know this  is a very difficult time for you. Both of their homes were raided,  computers, notes, other things taken. That happened on Friday morning.  And, of course, we\u2019ll continue to follow both these cases.<\/p>\n<p>From Malu &#8216;Aina:<\/p>\n<h2>Labeling Peaceful Protest of War\u00a0 a &#8220;Terrorist Act?<\/h2>\n<p>The war on peaceful dissent is gaining speed.\u00a0 Within the last week FBI SWAT teams (members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force) broke down doors in early morning raids of antiwar leaders and activists in several U.S. cities including Minneapolis and Chicago.\u00a0 (So far Hilo has been spared.)\u00a0 An old time labor organizer said anti-terrorism today is becoming worse than the anti-communist McCarthyism witch hunts of the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>The peace activists had their possessions ransacked, and computers, photos, papers, and cell phones taken.\u00a0 No arrests were made nor charges filed. The FBI said the raids were part of &#8220;an ongoing investigation,&#8221; but the raids appear to be a fishing expedition to intimidate dissenters into silence, and ratchet up police state measures by inferring that peaceful protest of war is terrorism.\u00a0 George Bush once said, if you&#8217;re not with us, you must be with the terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>The current FBI raids ignore the just released Dept. of Justice Inspector General&#8217;s (IG) scathing report about improper government terrorism investigations between 2002 and 2006. The IG&#8217;s report said the FBI targeted various peace, justice and religious groups with no apparent justification and improperly conducted surveillance of anti-war rallies in Pennsylvania, and groups such as The Catholic Worker, Quakers, and Greenpeace.\u00a0 According to the IG&#8217;s report, the FBI even placed non-violent activists on terrorist watch lists and placed peace groups &#8220;under its &#8216;Acts of Terrorism&#8217; classification.&#8221;\u00a0 The FBI followed people to parks, libraries, etc. and even secretly searched their personal trash.<\/p>\n<p>Using the guise of anti-terrorism to target and intimidate domestic peace groups and and anti-war activists is a serious abuse of government power.\u00a0 The mindset behind such actions is made clear by a spokesperson for the California Anti-Terrorism Information Center (CATIC) back in 2003 trying to defend unjustified targeting of peace activists without factual evidence.\u00a0 CATIC Spokesperson Van Winkle said: &#8220;You can make an easy kind of a link that, if you have a protest group protesting a war where the cause that&#8217;s being fought against is international terrorism, you might have terrorism at that (protest),&#8221; said Van Winkle, &#8220;You can almost argue that a protest against (the &#8220;war on terror&#8221;) is a terrorist act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By the above account, it looks like we are all terrorists if we want to stop war and have a just and peaceful world for future generations. I suppose things could be worse.\u00a0 We could be put on the kill list (instead of the watch list) &#8212; targeted for assassination by the CIA as a terror suspect as many people, including U.S. citizens abroad, already are. The Obama administration is claiming &#8220;State Secrets&#8221; in a lawsuit challenging such all inclusive executive authority.\u00a0 No Miranda Rights.\u00a0 No right to an attorney. No formal charge, No trial.\u00a0 Just the fast track to summary execution by a CIA hit squad or a missile firing drone aircraft.\u00a0 What ever happened to the Constitutional demand\u00a0 that \u201cno person shall be &#8230; deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law?\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Refuse To Be Silent!\u00a0 Stand Up For Peace!<\/p>\n<p>1. Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject war as a solution. 3. Defend civil liberties. 4. Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, etc.<br \/>\n5. Seek peace through justice in Hawai`i and around the world.<br \/>\nContact: Malu `Aina Center for Non-violent Education &amp; Action P.O. Box AB Kurtistown, Hawai`i 96760.<br \/>\nPhone (808) 966-7622.\u00a0 Email <a href=\"mailto:ja@interpac.net\">ja@interpac.net<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malu-aina.org\/\">http:\/\/www.malu-aina.org<\/a><br \/>\nHilo Peace Vigil leaflet (Oct. 1, 2010 &#8211; 472nd week) &#8211; Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Jim Albertini<\/p>\n<p>Malu \u2018Aina Center for Non-violent Education &amp; Action<\/p>\n<p>P.O.Box AB<\/p>\n<p>Kurtistown, Hawai\u2019i 96760<\/p>\n<p>phone: 808-966-7622<\/p>\n<p>email: <a href=\"mailto:JA@interpac.net\">JA@interpac.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Visit us on the web at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malu-aina.org\/\">www.malu-aina.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Raids Homes of Antiwar and Pro-Palestinian Activists in Chicago and Minneapolis Antiwar activists are gearing up for protests outside FBI offices in cities across the country today and Tuesday after the FBI raided eight homes and offices of antiwar activists in Chicago and Minneapolis Friday. 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