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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><b><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">For Immediate Release<span
style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">--</span>April <span
style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">9</span>, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></b>
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<p class="Logo" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Logo"
style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal;"
align="left"><b><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">What:</span></b><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <b>SHUT
DOWN THE SPY CENTERS, National Day Of Action</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Logo"
style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal;"
align="left"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Logo"
style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal;"
align="left"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">When</span></b><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">: <b>April 10, 11am</b>
at the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center, located at the
San Francisco Federal Building, 450 Golden Gate Blvd <i>to be followed
with a rally</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Logo"
style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal;"
align="left"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">6:00
in Oakland at the Oakland City Hall, </span><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Logo"
style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal;"
align="left"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Logo"
style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal;"
align="left"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Who:</span></b><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> In San Francisco:
Nadia Kayyali, Electronic Frontier Foundation<span
style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">;</span> Isaac Ontiveros, Critical
Resistance<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">;</span> Brian Hofer,
Oakland Privacy Working Group<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Logo"
style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal;"
align="left"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In
Oakland: Cinthya Munoz, Causa Justa:Just Cause<span
style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">;</span> Dustin Craun, Lighthouse
Mosque/PICO<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">;</span> Matthew
Kellegrew, Bill of Rights Defense Committee<span
style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">; </span>Cat Brooks, ONYX Organizing
Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Contact: </span></b><b><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Brian Hofer, Oakland
Privacy Working Group, (510) 303-2871, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:brian.hofer@gmail.com">brian.hofer@gmail.com</a></span></b><b><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">On April 10<sup>th</sup>,
activists across the country will come together to say:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1. Shut down all
fusion centers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2. Stop funding fusion
centers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3. Release all
suspicious activity reports and other secret files<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">An estimated 85 fusion
centers across the country, partially funded by the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS), “fuse” information from local, state, and
federal law enforcement and other agencies, creating an unprecedented
level of total information awareness for law enforcement. Fusion
centers were originally intended to provide shared intelligence
information to prevent terrorist attacks. They have become panopticons
that enable racial profiling and political repression.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Here in the Bay area,
we say NO to dragnet surveillance in our communities. We know that our
local law enforcement already has problems: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Oakland Police
Department has been continuously embroiled in litigation around violent
suppression of political speech and vigilante justice targeting people
of color. In March, Oakland narrowed but did not end plans to move
forward with its own mini fusion center, a “domain awareness center”
funded partly by DHS dollars, even as harassment of the city’s Arab and
Muslim populations by the FBI skyrocketed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">San Francisco is
undergoing a violent wave of gentrification aided by police. On March 21<sup>st</sup>,
a young unarmed man of color, Alex Nieto, was shot dead by the SFPD in
a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood after a suspicious person called the
police on him. We also know that SFPD participates wholesale in
suspicious activity reporting to fusion centers, that the Arab, Muslim,
and South Asian community of San Francisco has been targeted by the
FBI, and that both police departments work directly with the FBI
through Joint Terrorism Task Force agreements. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We cannot ignore the
connection between dragnet surveillance and biased and oppressive
policing. Dragnet surveillance and fusion centers enable police to
target communities ever more precisely. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">What’s more, fusion
centers do not operate in a vacuum. In March the New York Times
revealed that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC)
approved the sharing of raw NSA data with the National Counterterrorism
Center (NCTC), the agency that coordinates information sharing among
various intelligence agencies. NSA spying has come home to roost;
through fusion centers, your local police may have access, without a
warrant, to all the data the NSA has on you.<b> </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Bay Area events
are part of a nationwide “Shut down the Spy Centers” coalition. Events
have been confirmed for April 10 in: Chicago, IL, Los Angeles, CA;
Washington, DC, Boston, MA; Charlotte, NC; and Dallas, TX. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">###<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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