SF8 Chicago - 2/13-15

[nattyreb]

i don't know why that flyer is so hard to read, it's posted at http://freethesf8.blogspot.com/, please look there for anything you're unable to read here, sorry!

[nattyreb]

i can't in good conscience leave it unreadable like that, because i know it's hard enough to get you to click here once, let alone click somewhere else, too, so i'll just retype it so you'll have all the details right here in one spot (as it should be) and make it easier for us all to broadly distribute as well:

COINTELPRO & ITS AFTERMATH
A Series of Events in Support of the San Francisco 8

SOFFIYAH ELIJAH (attorney)
FRANCISCO TORRES (one of the accused SF8 out on bail)
& CLAUDE MARKS (Legacy of Torture Producer)
Will be in Chicago for these events:

FRIDAY 2/13/09
4-6 PM AT HULL HOUSE
800 2. HALSTED ST.

6:30-8PM AT DEPAUL STUDENT CENTER
2250 N. SHEFFIELD AVE.
Sponsored by DePaul Peace Studies Dept.

SATURDAY 2/14/09
2-4 PM AT CARRUTHERS CENTER FOR INNER CITY STUDIES
700 E. OAKWOOD BLVD.
Sponsored by Black People Against Police Torture
National Conference of Black Lawyers &
The Congress of Black Trade Unionist
MODERATOR: CLIFF KELLEY

6-9PM AT BATEY URBANO
2620 W. DIVISION ST.
A Discussion With SF8 Followed By
The Play 'CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY'
Sponsored by National Boricua Human Rights Network
(NBHRN) & Tamms Year Ten

SUNDAY 2/15/09
12 NOON BRUNCH AT MESS HALL
6932 N. GLENWOOD AVE.

2:30-4:30PM AT
TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
400 W. 95TH ST.

Eight former Black Community Activists -- Black Panthers and others -- were arrested in 2007 on California charges dating back to 1971. Similar charges against the same men were thrown out in 1973, after it was revealed that police tortured them to confess.

Their arrests and torture were the product of COINTELPRO, an FBI program designed to disrupt, neutralize and destroy radical movements, from the Black Panthers to the Young Lords to Anti-War Activists, by infiltrating organizations, framing people with false criminal charges, and assassinating charismatic leaders.

COINTELPRO is not a thing of the past ... it continues to operate today.

Free the SF8 - Committee for the Defense of Human Rights

For more information about these events, Contact sf8chicago@pobox.com