Call Today - Thursday, May 30th To Ask for Compassionate Release for Imprisoned Activist Lynne Stewart,
Who Has Terminal Cancer Please Call: US Bureau of Prisons Director Charles Samuels: 202-307-3198-Ext. 3 US Attorney General Eric Holder: 202-514-2001 President Obama: 202-456-1111 Sample Text Below: Reminder: Please make 3 calls for compassionate release for imprisoned activist <http://stopfbi.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8b7315d854bc40ca9fa6dd227&; id=7891193e4b&e=f60bf1660f> Lynne Stewart today. Also, read below for the CSFR statement on the repression of the Associated Press Is this email not displaying correctly? <http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=8b7315d854bc40ca9fa6dd227&id=cc39a8b671 &e=f60bf1660f> View it in your browser. <http://stopfbi.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8b7315d854bc40ca9fa6dd227 &id=1b05b145df&e=f60bf1660f> Committee to Stop FBI Repression (stopfbi.net) * 1. National Call-in Day for Lynne Stewart - TODAY * 2. CSFR statement on Associated Press _____ 1. National Call-in Day for Lynne Stewart - TODAY The Committee to Stop FBI Repression calls for the Compassionate Release of Lynne Stewart Now! National Call-in Day to Obama, Holder and Samuels Thursday, May 30 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (Eastern) Three Calls for Compassion for Lynn Stewart -- US Bureau of Prisons Director Charles E. Samuels: 202-307-3198-ext. 3 -- US Attorney General Eric Holder: 202-514-2001 -- President Obama: 202-456-1111 Sample Text "Dear Director Samuels, My name is ___________and I am calling from [city and state], to ask you to approve the immediate compassionate release of Attorney Lynne Stewart. Ms. Stewart has dedicated her life to the peace and justice movements in our county. Lynne Stewart is beloved by people and leaders from coast to coast. Lynne Stewart deserves to live her final days at home surrounded by friends and family who love her. Please grant this act of kindness and give this freedom fighter the dignity and respect she deserves. The wars must stop and the political repression must end." Background information: Emergency Alert: Lynne Stewart In Grave Danger Just last week the warden of Carswell FCI agreed to forward the compassionate release petition to the DOJ. The time to increase the heat is now. Lynne cannot wait any longer! Stewart Writes: Dear Friends and Supporters: One month ago I made a request for compassionate release, which was honored by the warden at Carswell Federal Medical Center. Today the papers are still on a desk in Washington, D.C. even though the terminal cancer that I have contracted requires expeditious action. Although I requested immediate action by the Bureau of Prisons, I find it necessary to again request immediate action from you, my friends, comrades, and supporters to call the three numbers listed above on Thursday, May 30 and request action on my behalf. This could result in my being able to access medical treatment at Sloan Kettering so that I can face the rest of my life with dignity surrounded by those I love and who love me. Please do this. Yours truly, Lynne Stewart FMS CARSWELL-53504-054 _____ 2. CSFR statement on Associated Press Justice Department Tramples on First Amendment Rights of Associated Press and Anti-war Activists On Monday, May 13th, the Associated Press (AP) announced that the US Justice Department secretly obtained two months worth of reporters' and editors' phone records. The AP says its privacy was violated in an effort by the US government to investigate an exclusive AP report on May 7, 2012. The AP reported that the CIA stopped a plot by an Al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen. The Committee to Stop FBI Repression ( <http://stopfbi.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8b7315d854bc40ca9fa6dd227 &id=4977c34934&e=f60bf1660f> stopfbi.net) demands an end to the Justice Department overreach and fishing expeditions that violate First Amendment freedoms. We have personal experience with this type of privacy and First Amendment violations. AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt protested the extensive privacy intrusion into the AP in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, May 13, 2013: "There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters. These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP's newsgathering operations, and disclose information about AP's activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know. We regard this action by the Department of Justice as a serious interference with AP's constitutional rights to gather and report the news." Anti-war activists are also outraged. This attack on the media is one more way the government tries to stifle protests against US wars and occupations, by keeping the knowledge of these acts from the public in the first place. The Obama administration is not only trying to scare the media, but also to intimidate people of conscience from being whistle-blowers about the role the U.S. plays in massacres and rights violations overseas. The US government wants to hide its acts of war and dirty tricks from the American public. They want to hide U.S. drone strikes; massacres in Afghanistan, and CIA missions in countries the U.S. has determined are "hostile" to US corporate interests. US wars, covert interventions, and deadly drone attacks are unpopular around the world and here at home. The US government is battling isolation on a global scale. The FBI and the Justice Department are increasingly using "terrorism" as the justification for putting the First Amendment through the shredder. On September 24, 2010, the FBI raided and subpoenaed Midwest anti-war and international solidarity activists, revealing that these activists were being investigated for "material support for terrorism" because of their work to end U.S. aid to Israel and Colombia. 23 activists were subpoenaed to appear before a secretive grand jury in Chicago. The Anti-War 23 all refused to testify or to cooperate with the investigation because it was a violation of their constitutionally protected right to organize and free speech. Ironically, only four days prior to the September 24th raids, the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. declared that the FBI had systematically and wrongly spied on political activists. On April 2, 2013, the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund reported that government documents obtained through their FOIA records requests reveal that the Department of Homeland Security conducts daily monitoring of peaceful, lawful protests as a matter of policy. The heavily redacted documents show that Homeland Security's "Threat Management Division" directed Regional Intelligence Analysts to provide a "Daily Intelligence Briefing" that includes a category of reporting on "Peaceful Activist Demonstrations" along with "Domestic Terrorist Activity." The Department of Homeland Security is functioning as a secret political police force against people participating in lawful, peaceful free speech activity. Every time the U.S. government violates the First Amendment in order to promote war and aggression, it damages our rights here at home and jeopardizes people's lives abroad. The Committee to Stop FBI Repression calls on its supporters to call President Obama to say: * Stop the crackdown on journalists & whistle-blowers! * Stop the attacks on the anti-war movement! * Stop the erosion of our civil liberties! Stopfbi.net <https://www.twitter.com/stopfbi/> follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | <http://us2.forward-to-friend1.com/forward?u=8b7315d854bc40ca9fa6dd227&id=cc 39a8b671&e=f60bf1660f> forward to a friend Copyright C 2013 Committee to Stop FBI Repression, All rights reserved. Thanks for your ongoing interest in the fight against FBI repression of anti-war and international solidarity activists! 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