Protest Attacks on Immigrants! Oppose Mass Detention Shrouded in Secrecy! Fight Racial Profiling! Defend Civil Rights & Liberties!
*** Kate Martin of the Centre for National Security Studies in Washington said: "It is quite remarkable that they have detained so many people and have refused to give their identities. The secret detention is frighteningly close to the practice of 'disappearing' people in Latin America."
She said some reports suggested that only around 10 out of 1,087 arrested were suspected of terrorist connections but information about them was still being withheld. <http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,585365,00.html> ***
Bring posters, banners, drums!
Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: Joseph P. Kinneary U.S. Courthouse (= the Federal Courthouse) 85 Marconi Boulevard, Columbus, OH For maps & directions, visit <http://ohsd.uscourts.gov/mapsdir.htm>.
For more info, contact Anti-Racist Action at <aracolumbus at hotmail.com>.
FYI:
* American Civil Liberties Union, "Safe and Free: Safe and Free in Times of Crisis" at <http://www.aclu.org/safeandfree/> * Nancy Chang, Senior Litigation Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights, "The USA PATRIOT Act: What's So Patriotic About Trampling on the Bill of Rights?" at <http://www.ccr-ny.org/whatsnew/usa_patriot_act.asp> * Michael Ratner (with the Center for Constitutional Rights) at <http://www.humanrightsnow.org/> * National Lawyers Guild: <http://www.nlg.org/> * Security for Activists: Overcoming Repression (from the Public Eye: Website of Political Research Associates) at <http://www.publiceye.org/liberty/Security_for_Activists.htm> -- Yoshie
* Calendar of Anti-War Events in Columbus: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html> * Anti-War Activist Resources: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/activist.html> * Student International Forum: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osu.edu/students/CJP/>