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David Horowitz and his army of Campus Republicans are launching "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" October 22-26 on hundreds of campuses across the country. They are ominously calling this "the biggest conservative campus protest ever." Invoking ‘60’s themes like "free speech" and combating the "oppression of women in Islam" as a cover, they plan to harass Muslim Student Associations and Women’s Studies Departments, and silence anyone that questions the Bush regime’s official narrative, including even those concerned about global warming!

Given the Bush regime’s escalating threats toward Iran, the danger of a complicit campus environment cannot be underestimated. The College Republicans can claim to be the victim of the "academic left," but people like them run this country and dominate the world. They are the ones holding "catch an illegal immigrant day" at the same time as the Bush regime’s ICE raids are ripping apart immigrant families. This is not just a question of campus politics and a few loud mouth bigots. If we ignore them, they will NOT go away. They have their sights set on the last remaining bastions of critical thinking with the aim of transforming all of society. If they can create an atmosphere at these colleges where it is okay to be openly racist and reactionary, where progressive faculty are intimidated by ridiculous claims of "left-wing academic dictatorship," and radical dissenting ideas are ruled beyond the pale and off the table…then they have won, not only at the universities, but in their efforts to remake the social fabric of this country in a fascist way.

On the other hand, if we can politically confront these college Republicans and their "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week," expose their real agenda, raise awareness of the growing danger of U.S. fascism and the real fascist direction that the Bush regime has been taking this country in—the endless war, the torture, the Patriot Act, the unlimited domestic spying, and the whole police state infrastructure, the Christian Fundamentalism that is undermining women’s rights, gay peoples rights, science, and rational thought—and if we can bring forward a radical student movement that refuses to choose between Islamic Fundamentalism and the Bush Regime’s Christian Fascist war on the world…then we can turn Horowitz’s plan upside down. 

This week will either strengthen their side or strengthen OUR side. 

By bringing forward a determined and uncompromising student movement on campuses October 22-26th we can paralyze Horowitz' ability to further target and blacklist professors and be a major part of transforming campuses into centers of intellectual ferment, activism, and organized resistance that are so desperately needed at times like these.

Hit the House of Representatives and you will have access to all the so-called Reps, Directories, etc.

These are the lackeys for corporations, our " http://www.senate.gov/"> U.S. Senate for whom we pay handsomely. Give them a call, fax them a note, write a letter and just say Thanks, but No Thanks. If you did not pay lavishly for their re-election, they will not talk to you, but if you do not make some noise they will make you pay more for their mistakes.

Leonard Peltier is still inprisoned because he was framed by the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover.

Please, Take Immediate Action

http://www.aimovement.org/peltier/index.html

http://www.petitiononline.com/balpsg01/petition.html

To:  The Judiciary Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Congress

On November 20, 2003, a congressional report accused federal officials in Boston and Washington, DC, of inflicting “incalculable damage” on the public by protecting murderous government informants over the last 38 years.

The House Committee on Government Reform (HCGR) detailed misconduct by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and their supervisors (right up to former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover), in the 1965 murder of Edward “Teddy” Deegan. This is a case in which the FBI cultivated a Mafia hit man as a star informant and then government witness, and watched silently as he falsely accused four men of the murder.

Internal FBI documents show that FBI agents and their supervisors knew the identities of the real killers all along. Federal officials also took “affirmative steps” to make sure that the four innocent men convicted in the Deegan case “would not obtain post-conviction relief and that they would die in prison.” Two of the men DID die in prison.

There have been “no adverse consequences” for the law enforcement officials who permitted these atrocities to occur.

Is the Government Reform Committee really surprised by the outcome of their investigation? Are you, Congressmen?

For decades claims of official misconduct have been levied against the FBI by U.S. citizens, but Congress has turned a blind eye to such charges for the most part.

For nearly 30 years, for example, Congress – steeped in denial and fully believing the myth that has grown up around the FBI, i.e., that of premier law enforcement agency, protector of American rights, and defender of the U.S. Constitution – has failed to fully investigate the “Reign of Terror” on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota during the 1970s. It also has failed to investigate the now documented FBI misconduct in the case of American Indian activist Leonard Peltier.

I know the Deegan case isn’t an isolated incident. The case only provides additional proof of what many people – Leonard Peltier among them – already know from bitter experience. The FBI is plagued with a top-down malady characterized by thinking itself above the law, having no concern for justice, and desiring to squash all dissent. The U.S. Constitution is meaningless to an agency that now, as before, thinks the end justifies the means.

The HCGR said the Committee's report should spur a wider investigation. Yes, a wider investigation is indicated. Not just the misuse of informants but ALL FBI misconduct must be uncovered and the responsible parties held accountable.

I’m counting on you to seek out and expose the truth. Any official investigation of FBI misconduct MUST include the “Reign of Terror” on Pine Ridge and the Peltier case where the government has been shown to have: violated international law by using a false affidavit from an incompetent witness to obtain Leonard’s extradition from Canada; withheld critical evidence; fabricated other evidence; intimidated witnesses; hand-picked the trial judge; and prejudiced the jury against the American Indian Movement, in general, and Leonard Peltier, in particular. This was all to ensure that Leonard Peltier, an innocent man, would pay the collective price for the deaths of two FBI agents in 1975. It was and continues to be an act of vengeance only and a shameful perversion of our Constitution.

This is a simple matter of justice, Congressmen. I want it. I want it now. Conduct a full investigation into the FBI misconduct on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the case of Leonard Peltier. Do it now.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

[Go to the links above to sign the petition]

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If you think Jim Crow is dead, check out the Color of Change website for an update on our current condition. See how a trial in Louisiana brings back the horror of a racist 'justice' system. Please join Julian Bond, a true civil rights hero and Chairman of the NAACP, and Michael Eric Dyson, a brilliant and incisive commentator on race, class, and culture in America, in signing the pledge. Lives are at stake: those of the indicted, lives of their families. Now is the time to act is if it is your life.

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