| Dhafir supporters Question Prosecutions—Aref, St. Pats 4 |
[27 Mar 2007|02:01pm] |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
madis@twcny.rr.com
Rafil’s Homepage— www.FreeDhafir.org
Who Told you Attack Islam Mr. Ashcroft?
Dhafir supporters Question Prosecutions—Aref, St. Pats 4
Shine Center, 7 PM Before Ashcroft Speech at SU
Syracuse NY—With the US attorney’s scandal expanding supporters of Dr. Rafil Dhafir (www.FreeDhafir.org ) will be gathering for a Witness at 7 PM in front of the Shine center on the Syracuse University campus ahead of ex-US Attorney General John Ashcroft’s speech to College Republicans (http://suevents.syr.edu/main.php?view=event&eventid=1173714170278 ).
“We will be following in the tradition of the prophets to tell our community, country and world that rules were broken, people intimidated and prosecutions were politically motivated by the US attorneys in the Northern District of NY”, said organizer Madis Senner. The witness will consist of prayers and testimony.
Loyal Bushie
“The Northern NY US attorney’s office epitomizes the meaning of a loyal Bushie”, Senner said. He is referring to recently released emails by the government in relation to the US attorney’s scandal indicating that the US attorney’s office has become politicized under President Bush. And that there was an emphasis to reward those that did the President’s bidding; these US Attorney’s were called “Loyal Bushie’s”.
This will be the first of a series of Witnesses that will take place over in the weeks and months ahead. “Each week we will return to the scene of where we think a crime was committed. Next week we will be at the Federal Bldg in Syracuse, the following week we will be at the Justice Center where Dr. Dhafir’s legal counsel was denied access to see him”; Senner said.
“We look to God, because the US attorney’s scandal shows us that there is no justice left in America,” Senner concluded.
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Background—the following is meant to help those reporting on the Witness. When you piece together all the pieces it is evident that only someone at the highest levels of government could have orchestrated what has happened in Northern NY:
*John Ashcroft smeared Dr. Dhafir as a Terrorist on the Day of his arrest, but never charged him with terrorism: http://www.jubileeinitiative.org/DhafirCharges.htm
*Denying legal counsel access to see Dr. Dhafir:http://www.jubileeinitiative.org/dhafir_motion.pdf ;
http://www.jubileeinitiative.org/DhafirBailInfo.htm
*The selective prosecution of Dr. Dhafir:http://www.jubileeinitiative.org/OperationFreeDhafir.htm
*The Internal Affairs investigation of NYS trooper Charles Jones after he offered to monitor Dr. Dhafir on bail: http://www.jubileeinitiative.org/dhafir_motion.pdf
*The intimidation of 150 Muslim families that donated to Dr. Dhafir’s charity:
http://www.jubileeinitiative.org/Dhafir150.htm
*The transporting of Dr. Dhafir ahead of rally for him at the Justice Center:
http://www.jubileeinitiative.org/DhafirBailInfo.htm
*The continual smearing and treatment of Dr. Dhafir as being a terrorist when he was never charged with terrorism. http://www.syracuse.com/articles/opinion/index.ssf?/base/opinion-1/1173262210305370.xml&coll=1
*The continued listing of Dr. Dhafir as a terrorist on the government’s trophy list when he was never charged with terrorism:http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2006/June/06_crm_389.html
*The political prosecution of Imam Aref/Hossain:
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=570343&category=LEBRUN&BCCode=&newsdate=3/22/2007
http://nepajac.org/Aref&Hossain.htm
*The selective prosecution of the St. Pats 4 under Federal conspiracy charges after they had been found not guilty of local charges. Their prosecution for symbolically pouring blood at an action is the first time conspiracy charges were brought against Catholic workers who have symbolically poured blood at actions for decades. Could it be that living in the northern District of NY had anything to do with it? http://www.stpatricksfour.org/
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| TODAY @ 7pm! Rally Against John Ashcroft @ SU!! |
[27 Mar 2007|02:00pm] |
TODAY @ 7pm! Rally Against John Ashcroft @ SU!!
PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY!!
DhafirTrial.net
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft speaking at the university
-Rally in support of Dr. Dhafir and the 150 Muslim families who
wereinterrogated
Please join in a show of solidarity and witness with Dr. Rafil Dhafir and
the Muslim community of Syracuse, New York, whose civil rights were violated
on February 26, 2003. On that day Dr. Rafil Dhafir, founder of the charity
Help the Needy (HTN) and other HTN associates were arrested. Simultaneous
to the arrests, between the hours of 6a.m. and 10a.m., 150 local Muslim
families who had donated to HTN were interrogated. Many of these families
have connections to Syracuse University as staff, faculty and students.
The rally will be held outside the Schine Student Center, at Syracuse
University, Tuesday, March 27th, 2007.
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We will begin gathering (prayers, reflection, and conversation amongst
ourselves) at 6 pm.
At 7 p.m. we will begin a witness.
Please feel free to attend one or both events.
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On the day of the HTN arrests former Attorney General John Ashcroft
announced that "funders of terrorism" had been apprehended. Yet no charges
of terrorism were ever brought against Dhafir, and the prosecution
successfully lobbied the presiding judge to disallow the charge of terrorism
from being part of the trial. Even so, the government touts the
prosecutions of all the HTN people as "successes" in the "war on terror."
Charged with breaking the sanctions U.S. and U.K. Sponsored UN sanctions on
Iraq and white collar crime, Dhafir was held without bail for 31 months,
denied access to his own records and counsel, convicted after a show trial,
and then sentenced to 22 years in prison.
He was recently moved to a new unit, the Communications Management Unit
(CMU), that houses almost exclusively Arab and/or Muslim prisoners in
complete isolation from the main prison population. Communications in this
unit are severely restricted; all ingoing and outgoing mail is monitored and
copied with a delay of one to two weeks, phone calls are limited to 15 mins.
each week, and no contact visits allowed.
To know more about the case see this article, "Criminalizing Compassion in
the War on Terror: Muslim Charities and the Case of Dr. Rafil A. Dhafi:"
http://www.forusa.org/fellowship/nov-dec06/KatherineHughes.html
To know more about the CMU under which Dr. Dhafir is now being held see,
"Documents show new secretive US prison program isolating Muslim, Middle
Eastern prisoners:"
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Documents_show_new_secretive_new_US_0216.h
tml (If the link does not work you may have to add the "tml" on this line
to get it to work.)
If you care about civil liberties please join us.
Katherine Hughes
For the Dr. Dhafir Support Committee
Www.dhafirtrial.net
To attend the John Ashcroft lecture:
Syracuse University will host a lecture by former U.S. Attorney General John
Ashcroft on Tuesday, March 27, at 7:30 p.m. in the Goldstein Auditorium of
the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center. Event tickets -- free to
SU students with I.D.; $3 for the general public -- are available in person
at the Schine Box Office. Event parking will be free, on a space-available
basis, in the Waverly and Marion lots.
For ticket information, call the Schine Box Office at (315) 443-4517.
Location: Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Price: Free for students, $3 for general public
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| Northeast Anarchist Consulta & Network Proposal |
[24 Mar 2007|04:25am] |
At the Northeast Anarchist Consulta (held in Boston, feb 24th and 25th) participants read a proposal for a Northeast Anarchist Network and agreed to bring the proposal out to our local groups to be discussed and changed, and we will reconverge on April 7th and 8th. At the April meeting we will talk about the Network, as well as organizing coordinated participation in May Day's activities and resistance to the Biotech meeting in Boston.
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