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Some of you are familiar with this issue from the Indy: http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/why-is-the-fbi-interested-in-the-anti-war-movement/Content?oid=1786829

Please come to this important conference against FBI and Grand Jury repression at the UNC School of Law. Visit the Committee to Stop FBI Repression website for the complete agenda: http://www.stopfbi.net/conference/north-carolina.

Southern regional organizing conference of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression. Read the press release here.

The conference will be held Saturday Feb. 19 at the UNC Law School in Chapel Hill, NC, from 10:00AM to 5:00pm. Please register now.

You can make an online donation to support the conference - please put "FBI Conference" in the "designation" section of the donate form.

Directions and parking information are available on the UNC School of Law website.

Registration

• Conference is free and open to the public, but we are asking for $5-20 sliding scale donation to help cover costs.
• Lunch is $5, no one will be turned away.
• Need childcare? Let us know the number of kids and their ages.
• Need housing? Contact housing coordinator ncstopfbi@gmail.com

Follow this link to register for the conference

Agenda

9:30am - 10:00am Registration and breakfast

10:00am - 10:10am Welcome to the conference, opening remarks from conference organizers

10:10am - 10:30am

Keynote address from subpoenaed activists

Subpoeaned activists Meredith Aby (Twin Cities Anti-War Committee) and Steff Yorek (Freedom Road Socialist Organization) provide an overview of the September 24 FBI raids on antiwar and solidarity activists.

10:30am - 10:45am Call for donations to the legal support fund

11:00am - 12:15pm

Panel: History of FBI and Political Repression Against People's Movements

• Moderated by Elena Everett from Raleigh FIST.
• Lewis Pitts; Raleigh NC.
• Efia Nwangaza, US Human Rights Network; Atlanta GA.
• Theresa El-Amin, Southern Anti Racism Network; Columbus GA
• Dianne Mathiowetz, International Action Center, Atlanta GA.

12:15 - 1:15pm Lunch (will be provided, please bring $5 donation if possible)

1:15pm - 2:45pm Panel

Panel: Grand Juries, Material Support of Terrorism, the Legal and Political Context of the September 24 Raids

• Moderated by Kosta Harlan, Triangle Committee to Stop FBI Repression
• Peter Gilbert, UNC Center for Civil Rights; Durham NC.
• Lela Ali of In the Name of Humanity; Rocky Mount NC.
• Khalilah Sabra, MAS Freedom; Raleigh NC.
• Maureen Murphy, Palestine Solidarity Group; Chicago IL.
• Meredith Aby, Twin Cities Anti-War Committee; Minneapolis MN.
• Jennifer Rudinger, ACLU; Durham NC.

2:45pm - 3:00pm Break

3:00pm - 3:45pm

Discussion: Organizing reports from around the South

Opportunity for activists to discuss the protests that they have held, outreach to legislators, building community support.

3:45pm - 4:30pm Discussion of a plan from the Committee to Stop FBI Repression for future actions and protests

4:30pm - 5:00pm Summing up the conference, led by Steff Yorek

Sponsors of this conference include

1. ACLU of North Carolina
2. Asheville Committee to Stop FBI Repression
3. Atlanta International Action Center
4. Balance & Accuracy in Journalism (BAJ)
5. Blackwater Watch
6. Durham Bill of Rights Defense Committee
7. Durham County Libertarian Party
8. Freedom Road Socialist Organization
9. Freedom Road Socialist Organization/Organización Socialista del Camino para la Libertad (FRSO/OSCL)
10. Green Party of the United States
11. In the Name of Humanity
12. Internationalist Books
13. Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD-USA)
14. Jews for a Just Peace
15. Libertarian Party of North Carolina
16. Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation
17. National Lawyers Guild at UNC Chapel Hill
18. NAACP--Chapel Hill/Carrboro Branch
19. NC Stop Torture Now
20. North Carolina Peace Action
21. Orange County Bill of Rights Defense Committee
22. Orange County Peace Coalition
23. Orange Chatham Progressive Democrats
24. Peace and Justice Committee, Community Church of Chapel Hill UU
25. Raleigh F.I.S.T.
26. Raleigh Fruitcakes
27. SDS - Asheville
28. SDS - Tuscaloosa
29. SDS - UNC Chapel Hill
30. Southern Anti-Racism Network
31. Triangle Committee to Stop FBI Repression
32. UE Local 150
33. US Human Rights Network
34. Veterans for Peace, Eisenhower Chapter
35. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom --Triangle Branch

UNC press release via Sierra Club mailing list:

CHAPEL HILL -- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Solar Energy Research Center is holding a public forum and information session on renewable energy issues and needs. 

The free event, "Putting Solar Energy in [Its] Place," will be Jan. 14 at the William and Ida Friday Center in Chapel Hill. 

The event begins at 5 p.m. with interactive displays, videos and posters from university, government, non-profit and business representatives. 

From 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., an open discussion with a panel of experts will consider the promise, problems and alternatives for solving the world's energy and climate problems. 

The forum will address the science, policy and economics of renewable energy. Both the displays and the discussion session offer attendees opportunities to learn and talk informally with experts about different forms of solar energy and other alternative power sources, such as wind, nuclear, natural gas, biofuels and clean coal. Other topics include public policy issues, investment, storage and smart grid technologies, conservation and energy efficiency.

Scheduled panel speakers include Thomas J. Meyer, center director and Arey Professor of Chemistry in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences; U.S. Rep. David Price, D-Chapel Hill; and Olee Joel Olsen, founder and managing director of O2 Energies, a North Carolina-based solar power plant development and consulting company.

This is a free event, and no registration is required. Refreshments will be provided. For more details, seehttp://www.serc.unc.edu/forum/index.html.

The public forum is part of the center's third annual scientific conference, "Solar Fuels: Catalysis and Photoconversion," which takes place Thursday, Jan. 13 and Friday, Jan. 14. The symposium is sponsored and organized by the UNC Energy Frontier Research Center, a U.S. Department of Energy-funded center that focuses on solar fuels and next generation photovoltaics. The conference's principal co-sponsor is the Research Triangle Solar Fuels Institute, with additional support provided by the UNC Institute for Advanced Materials, Nanoscience and Technology the UNC Institute for the Environment, Progress Energy, Duke Energy and the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.

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