------------------------- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Nov. 28, 2002 issue of Workers World newspaper -------------------------
AFTER VIGOROUS SUPPORT CAMPAIGN, PALESTINIAN ACTIVIST WINS HEARING By Steve Gillis Boston As the Israeli war against the Palestinian people, supplied and inspired by Washington, increases its brutality with deadly attacks on Hebron, Gaza, Jenin and throughout occupied Palestine, so too have U.S. "homeland security" attacks against those speaking for the cause of Palestinian self-determination. On Nov. 15, dozens of supporters comprising the Amer Jubran Defense Committee rallied at the Boston INS headquarters during the early morning rush hour to demand the immediate release of this Palestinian activist from custody. Eleven days earlier, INS and FBI agents had raided Jubran's home in Rhode Island. They have been holding him without charges at the maximum security prison ACI Cranston. Jubran has been a vocal leader at numerous pro-Palestinian and anti-war rallies and marches sponsored by the International ANSWER coalition throughout the eastern U.S., and is the founder of the New England Committee to Defend Palestine. At a press conference, Jubran's attorney, Nelson Brill, announced that the defense committee's efforts to flood the district INS office with hundreds of phone calls and faxes had won Jubran a bond hearing for Nov. 21 at 9:00 a.m. at the JFK federal building in Boston. Other speakers at the press conference included Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner, Nancy Murray of the American Civil Liberties Union, Urszula Masny-Latos of the National Lawyers Guild, Palestinian activist Rawan Barakat, and representatives of Amnesty Inter na tional, Falmouth Anti-War, the Steel workers Union and International ANSWER. People are urged to call, fax and write: INS District Director Steven J. Farquharson; Room 1700, JFK Federal Building; Boston, MA 02203; telephone (617) 565-4214; fax (617) 565-4765. Please send a copy to: Amer Jubran Defense Committee, P.O. Box 755, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130. An online petition to Free Amer Jubran is at www.iacboston.org/amerjubran. - END - (Copyright Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but changing it is not allowed. For more information contact Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011; via e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Support the voice of resistance http://www.workers.org/orders/donate.php) ------------------ This message is sent to you by Workers World News Service. To subscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
