Jan. 11th-Support PRican Grand Jury Resisters

PROLIBERTAD ALERT

FBI/NYPD Grand Jury Subpoenas Target Boricuas:

The FBI/NYPD Anti-Terrorism Task Force (Joint Terrorist Task Force) has been visiting Puerto Ricans and serving them with Grand Jury subpoenas. In one case they claimed to be investigating the “extremist group: The Welfare Poets”. Two others have been served with Grand Jury subpoenas
to appear at the Federal Court at 225 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn on Friday, January 11, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. and, as of this communication, one is being sought to be served.

As was the case with the assassination of Machetero Leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios on September 23, 2005, a key historical date for the Puerto Rican Independence Movement, the FBI/U.S. Justice Department has chosen the date of January 11 for the Grand Jury hearing in New York, a date when independence forces celebrate the birth and contributions of Eugenio
Maria de Hostos to the independence struggle against Spain.

To date, subpoenas to appear before the Grand Jury have been issued to; Tania Frontera, a graphic designer, pro-independence activist and participant in the Vieques struggle, activist and social worker Christopher Torres and filmmaker Julio Pabón, Jr. In addition, there are indications that Hector Rivera, one of the founders of the political/cultural group the New York based “Welfare Poets,” was visited to be served with a subpoena but was not home in NY at the time.

In Puerto Rico the group La Nueva Escuela convened a meeting with a broad range of pro-independence political forces to plan the response and mobilize legal and political resources. They also appealed to those active in the FBI Out of Puerto Rico campaign. A demonstration in front of the Federal Court House in San Juan has been called for January 10th.

In New York City on Saturday, December 29, 2007, Puerto Rican
pro-Independence activists, organizations and allies met with some of the subpoenaed activists, family members, legal advisors, friends and allies, to update themselves on the activities of the FBI/NYPD anti-terrorism agents leading to the Grand Jury hearings on January 11th. A call for a mass protest on January 11th at the Federal Court House in Cadman
Plaza, Brooklyn was made, work committees were formed, a list of legal resources was presented and a general call outlined for support for these latest targets of Federal Grand Jury repression. A flyer is being drafted, and everyone is urged to mobilize.

The Hostos 111 Grand Jury Resistance Movement is the tentative name of this mobilization and an email has been established while a toll-free number is setup where messages and endorsements can be left.

The email is: resistgrandjury@gmail.com

Organizations are asked to email endorsement for the demo on January 11th.

ALL OUT JANUARY 11TH!

RALLY AGAINST GRAND JURY REPRESSION OF PUERTO RICAN INDEPENDENCE ACTIVISTS

FRIDAY JANUARY 11TH, 9:30 A.M.

Brooklyn Federal Court
225 Cadman Plaza East
Brooklyn, New York

Take subways: A/C Subway to High Street, 2/3 to Clark Street, M/R to Court St-Boro Hall, 4,5 to Borough Hall, F to Jay St-Boro Hall, G to Hoyt-Schermerhorn).

U.S.A./F.B.I. – Out of Puerto Rico!

Unity In Action, Against Repression!