event details posted by: begins: Jan 1, 5:00 am ends: Jan 1, 5:00 am location: City Hall, West Side, 15th & market

A Public Media Event & Celebration of Free Speech, Dissent, and Civil Liberties

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 11a.m.- 1p.m. - Phila. City Hall west side 15th & Market Sts.

Speakers, Music, Displays, Tabling

Citizen activist groups across Pennsylvania have been tracked by the PA Department of Homeland Security (PA-DHS) in ‘Terror Watch’ bulletins compiled by the Institute for Terrorism Research & Response (ITRR) in a no-bid $125,000 contract with PA-DHS. ITRR is an Israeli/U.S. private security firm that is part of the mega-billion post 9/11 growth in the private for-profit surveillance and spying industry in the U.S.

Tracked in the ‘Terror Watch’ bulletins: groups speaking out peacefully for peace and human rights, the environment, Immigrant support groups, and a range of political groups.

Just weeks ago, reminiscent of the Vietnam war era FBI COINTELPRO operation of spying and harassment of anti-war and social justice activists, the FBI raided the homes of anti-war activists in the mid-west. Who will be next?

Citizens throughout U.S. history have had to protect our most fundamental civil liberties, from politicians and the powerful that, by using the fear of communism, minorities, terrorism, the foreigner or immigrant, would stifle dissent, trample the constitution and violate our civil liberties.

Join the First Amendment Network (FAN), comprised of community, environmental, human rights, and anti-war groups tracked in the PA ‘Terror Watch’ bulletins, and other citizen groups fighting to protect our civil liberties, free speech, and the right to dissent.

DON’T SPY ON US! Demand that the Governor-Elect END the tracking and spying of activist and protest groups in Pennsylvania, regardless of the overseeing agency – PA Department of Homeland Security, The State Police, etc.

Join us November 10 on the west side of Phila. City Hall

For more information: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 215-592-1513 ext.122, www.aclupa.org/ or Brandywine Peace Community, (610) 544-1818, www.brandywinepeace.com