Thursday, Nov. 15: "Fighting for Freedom Here at Home" (Speaker: Jim McNamara)

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

Fighting for Freedom Here at Home:
Civil Liberties after 911

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@xxxxxxx> or 614-668-6554; or Keith Kilty at
<kilty.1@xxxxxxx> 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>