A Teach-in against the War with Jim McNamara Civil Rights Attorney/Anti-Racist Action
Date: Thursday, November 15 Time: 5:00 p.m. Location: 115 Stillman, OSU 1947 College Rd., Columbus, OH
Among the "USA PATRIOT" Act's most troubling provisions are measures that would:
* Permit the Attorney General to indefinitely incarcerate or detain non-citizens based on mere suspicion and to deny non-citizens (including lawful permanent residents) readmission to the United States for engaging in speech protected by the First Amendment. * Minimize judicial supervision of telephone and Internet surveillance by law enforcement authorities. * Expand the ability of the government to conduct secret searches. * Give the Attorney General and the Secretary of State the power to designate domestic groups as terrorist organizations and block any non-citizen who belongs to them from entering the country. Under this provision the payment of membership dues is a deportable offense. * Grant the FBI broad access to sensitive medical, financial, mental health, and educational records about individuals without having to show evidence of a crime and without a court order. * Lead to large-scale investigations of American citizens for "intelligence" purposes and use of intelligence authorities to by-pass probable cause requirements in criminal cases. * Put the CIA and other intelligence agencies back in the business of spying on Americans by giving the Director of Central Intelligence the authority to identify priority targets for intelligence surveillance in the United States. * Allow searches of highly personal financial records without notice and without judicial review based on a very low standard that does not require probable cause of a crime or even relevancy to an ongoing terrorism investigation. * Allow student records to be searched based on a very low standard of relevancy to an investigation. * Create a broad new definition of "domestic terrorism" that could sweep in people who engage in acts of political protest and subject them to wiretapping and enhanced penalties.
"They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
Sponsored by the Student International Forum. Visit <www.osu.edu/map/linkbuildings/stillmanhall.html> for an OSU campus map. Go to <www.osu.edu/students/sif/> for the SIF homepage. Click on <www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html> for a calendar of anti-war events. For more info, contact Yoshie Furuhashi at <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> or 614-668-6554; or Keith Kilty at <kilty.1 at osu.edu> or 614-292-7181.
The flyer for the event is available at <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/mcnamara.doc>. -- 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> * Anti-War Organizing in Columbus Covered by the Media: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/media.html>