SEIU Chapter Denounces Raids on Activists
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A 5,000-member strong chapter of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in Minnesota is formally denouncing the FBI's raids on anti-war activists -- many of them "union members in good standing" -- and calling on President Obama "to order an immediate investigation into the circumstances, motivation and propriety of the judicial and police intimidation of our members and others."
The move comes after the FBI in late September raided a half-dozen homes and offices of prominent antiwar activists in Minneapolis and Chicago, ostensibly as part of an investigation into whether the activists provided "material support" for terrorism, which is defined so broadly as to include counseling State Department-designated terrorist groups to embrace non-violence and, well, stop being terrorists.
Just last week the FBI issued three additional subpoenasto Chicago activists who had recently travelled to the Israeli-occupied West Bank, prompting a call to protest from the Committee to Stop FBI Repression, which has labeled the bureau's investigation a "fishing expedition"