Open Letter from Professors and Academics

The following Open Letter from Professors and Academics was initiated by Students for a Democratic Society.

Dear Colleague,

As you may know, on Friday, September 24, 2010, the FBI raided seven houses and an office in Chicago and Minneapolis, serving subpoenas to 14 anti-war and international solidarity activists from Minneapolis and Chicago to appear before a Grand Jury.

The raids were coordinated nationally, and many other activists have been visited and personally threatened by the FBI, in states such as Wisconsin, North Carolina, and California. These activists are being investigated under a law commonly referred to as ‘Material Support of Terrorism’. It is being used to intimidate these and other activists, unconstitutionally limiting the ability to criticize the foreign policies of the Federal Government. More information can be found at www.stopfbi.net.

This is a dangerous attack on the constitutional rights of free speech of every social justice, antiwar and human rights activist and organization in the U.S. today. Dissent, whether or not we agree with the views of those involved, is an important part of any democracy. This is especially true in one such as ours which claims to value the rights of the individual. One must have the freedom to criticize if one is to be free. Any incursion upon this freedom is dangerous to us all.

This suppression of civil liberties is aimed at anti-war activists, trade unionists, and those who dedicate their time and energy to supporting the struggles of the Palestinian and Colombian peoples against U.S. funded occupation and war. The activists are involved with many groups, including: the Twin Cities Anti-War Committee, the Palestine Solidarity Group, the Colombia Action Network, Students for a Democratic Society, and Freedom Road Socialist Organization. This is a dangerous national effort to shut down growing opposition to U.S. wars. It cannot be allowed.

The FBI and the U.S. government must end this campaign of intimidation against anti-war and international solidarity activists. I am outraged at this disrespect of democratic rights. I ask that you support the call to:

Stop the repression against anti-war and international solidarity activists.
Immediately return all confiscated materials: computers, cell phones, papers, documents, etc.
End the grand jury proceedings against anti-war activists.

As members of the academic community, many look to your leadership on these and other issues in our society. Please consider adding your name to the list of academics opposing the raids and grand jury; writing your Representatives in Government; donating money for legal defense; holding events in your community; and writing articles to the media to support these activists who care so much about the world we live in.

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#	Name	University	Position	State	Message
1	Peter Bohmer	The Evergreen State College	faculty, economics and poliitcal economy	WA	The September 24th raids in Chicago and Minneapolis are an attack on the anti-war and solidarity movements and on all activists and organizers in these movements. It is the responsibility of all of us to stand up and support these people who are being seriously and unjustly harassed and face prison time for supporting global justice.
2	Christina Sabee	San Francisco State University	Associate Professor, Communication STudies
3	Rebecca Opsata	Diablo Valley College	Professor of Communication	CA
4	Matthew Weinstein	University of Washinton-Tacoma	Professor of Education	WA	Dissent and protest is the foundation of democracy, not its enemy
5	Karen Lovaas	San Francisco State University	Associate Professor	CA
6	John Trumpbour	Harvard Law School	Research Director, Labor & Worklife Program	MA	Let freedom ring. Give people back their telephones now!
7	Martha Aby	University of Minnesota	Community Faculty in School of Social Work	MN
8	john womack jr	harvard university	professor of history, emeritus	MA
9	Richard Rubenstein	George Mason University	University Professor of Conflict Resolution and Public Affiars	DC	Thank you for conducting this important campaign.
10	Gordon Fellman	Brandeis University	Professor of Sociology and Chair, Peace, Conflict, and Coexistence Studies	MA	It is flattering that peace activism threatens some people, but chipping away at it is chipping away at democracy itself.
11	Gordon Fellman	Brandeis University	Professor of Sociology and Chair, Peace, Conflict, and Coexistence Studies	MA	It is flattering that peace activism threatens some people, but chipping away at it is chipping away at democracy itself.
12	M.Brinton Lykes	Boston College	Professor of Community-Cultural Psychology	MA
13	Masao Suzuki	Skyline College	Professor of Economics	CA	I was one of those questioned by the FBI, but not subpoenaed or raided. At least one of my neighbors was also questioned when I refused to answer any questions, and the FBI agent said that he might ask my co-workers about me, which I saw as a threat to my academic freedom. I think that this is an outrageous fishing expedition and witch hunt aimed at criminalizing one's political views if they go against the government's policies of war and military support for oppressive regimes. I urge you to support the efforts of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression.
14	Jeffrey Dixon	Texas A&M University - Central Texas	Assistant Professor of Political Science, Department of History & Political Science	TX	I am writing in my personal capacity to condemn the tactics being used by the FBI against antiwar and solidarity activists. As a political scientist, I know that today's Court might actually allow these tactics, but I also know that the deprivation of fundamental rights (whether the courts recognize such rights or not) is an assault on the dignity of the person. All humans have the rights of free association and free speech, whether the FBI likes it or not. The government must be sensitive when treading near these freedoms, but in this case it has trampled them, abusing the grand jury system in the process. This is a prime example of the problems with warrants that allow the seizure of computers and cell phones -- rather than in situ examination and copying strictly limited by protocols to preserve privacy.
15	Paul Dosh	Macalester College	Associate Professor of Political Science	MN
16	Craig Heinke	University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada)	Assistant Professor of Physics		As a US citizen, I'm horrified by the criminalization of dissent.
17	Jigna Desai	University of Minnesota	Associate Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies	MN
18	Joanna OConnell	University of Minnesota	Assoc. Prof. Spanish
19	Dr. Helen Hoy Hoy	University of Guelph	Professor of English
20	James Dimock	Minnesota State University, Mankato	Associate Professor of Communication Studies	MN	As a pacifist, I believe that we must always bear in mind the words of Kennedy, that "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." The suppression of lawful dissent will only make us safer any more than it will preserve freedom.
21	Naomi Scheman	University of Minnesota	Professor of Philosophy	MN
22	Tracey Deutsch	University of MInnesota	Associate Professor of History
23	Qadri Ismail	University of Minnesota	Associate-Professor, English	MN
24	John Boyer	Lafayette College	Debate Coach, Office of the Dean	PA
25	Peter Rachleff	Macalester College	Professor of History	MN
26	Jani Scandura	University of Minnesota	Associate Professor of English	MN
27	Beth Cleary	Macalester College	Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance	MN
28	stanley aronowitz	Graduate Center, City University of New York	Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Urban Education	NY	Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to re-live it. It was Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat who persecuted Eugene V. Debs and raided the offices of anti-war dissenters. And MCarthyism began with the subversive lists of Harry Truman's Attorney General, J. Howard McGrath. The Republicans are always happy to let the Democrats take the lead and follow up. But the Red scare is a bi-partisan game.
29	Joel Weisberg	Carleton College	Stark Prof. of Physics and Astronomy and the Natural Sciences	MN
30	Robin Kelley	University of Southern California	Professor of History and American Studies	CA
31	Chris Chiappari	St. Olaf College	Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology	MN
32	Teri Caraway	College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	Associate Professor of Political Science	MN
33	Pamela Butler	University of Notre Dame	Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies	MI
34	Eileen Boris	University of California Santa Barbara	Hull Professor and Chair of Feminist Studies	CA
35	michael pelias	Long Island University Brooklyn	Member of Philosophy department	NY
36	Karin Aguilar-San Juan	Macalester College	Associate Professor of American Studies	MN	The attacks on anti-war and international solidarity activists in Minneapolis and Chicago are acts of repression that hamper democracy. Restore civil liberties now!
37	David Pellow	University of Minnesota	Professor of Sociology	MN	Support people's right to engage in free expression and dissent. These are among the foundational freedoms of any democracy and must be protected at all times.
38	Robert Entenmann	St Olaf College	Professor of History and Asian Studies	MN
39	Clay Steinman	Macalester College	Professor of Media and Cultural Studies	MN
40	Robert Hullot Kentor	School of Visual Arts	Chair, Program in Critical Theory and the Arts	NY
41	Keya Ganguly	University of Minnesota	Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature	MN
42	Michael Goldman	University of Minesota	Associate Professor of Sociology	MN
43	Sarah Holtman	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	Associate Professor of Philosophy	MN
44	Alice Kim	University of Illinois at Chicago	Adjunct, Gender and Women's Studies	IL
45	Daniel Cronn-Mills	Minnesota State University, Mankato	Professor of Communication Studies	MN
46	mark solomon	harvard university	Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow - W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research	MA
47	Elizabeth Hoover	St. Olaf College	Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies	MN
48	Mark Johnson	Chicago State university	Emeritus Prof of Economics	IL
49	Lauren DeLand	University of Minnesota	Ph.D candidate, Department of Art History	MN
50	Eric Sheppard	University of Minnesota	Regents Professor, Geography	MN
51	Richard McCormick	University of Minnesota	Professor and Chair, Dept. of German, Scandinavian & Dutch	MN
52	Brandon Inabinet	Furman University	Assistant Professor of Communciation Studies	SC
53	Mel Rothenberg	University of Chicago	Professor Emeritus of Mathematics	IL	These raids constitute an attempt to nip in the bud a broad but poorly articulated public opposition to an administration policy of reinvigorated imperialism and militarism. I fear that the raids are the first step in a relaunch of cold war repression which is intended among things to distract concern over the period of economic downturn and pain we have entered.
54	Christine Salomon	University of Minnesota	Assistant Professor, Center for Drug Design	MN
55	Peter Webb	University of Minnesota	Professor of Mathematics	MN
56	Anne Aby	Minnesota West Community & Technical College	Professor of History & Pol Science, retired	MN
57	Rose Brewer	University of Minnesota	Professor of African American & African Studies
58	Joan Liaschenko	University of Minnesota	Professor, Bioethics and Nursing
59	Roderick Stackelberg	Gonzaga University	Professor of History, Emeritus	WA	Stop the repression! Return confiscated materials! Stop judicial harassment!
60	Suzanne Berg	Bowling Green State University	Graduate Assistant	OH
61	Randall Lake	University of Southern California	Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
62	Chris Mato Nunpa, Ph.D. (RETIRED) Now, Community Faculty, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN	Southwest Minnesota State University, Marshall, MN 56258	Associate Professor Indigenous Nations & Dakota Studies, in Social Studies Dept.	MN	For a nation that purports to be a democratic nation which encourages free speech, I find it discouraging and outrageous that people cannot speak out against U.S. imperialistice and war-mongering policies without fear of FBI invading their homes and being arrested and without fear of other repressive activities by the U.S. government.
63	Marcia Johnson	Minnesota West Community & Technical College	Librarian	MN
64	Susan Kang	John Jay College of Criminal Justice/City University of New York	Assistant Professor of Political Science	NY
65	Adrienne Pine	American University	Assistant Professor of Anthropology	DC
66	Joan Gero	American University	Professor Emerita of Anthropology	MD
67	August Nimtz	University of Minnesota	Professor of Political Science and African American and African Studies	MN
68	Bruce Braun	University of Minnesota	Associate Professor of Geography
69	Walter Zeichner	Buena Vista University	Adjunct Professor, General Studies	VT	If we are to have a government of, by, and for the people, then the people must be able to freely redress their grievances, without reprisal or oppression, as guaranteed in the Constitution.
70	George Ciccariello-Maher	Drexel University	Assistant Professor of Political Science	PA
71	Dennis Potter	Utah Valley University	Associate Professor of Philosophy	UT
72	Samah Selim	Rutgers University	Assistant Professor of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures
73	Claudio Morales	University of Alabama in Huntsville	Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics	AL	The right to freely express our opinion is the foundation of a democratic system.
74	Cheryl Avenel-Navara	Minnesota West Community and Technical College	Counselor--retired	MN
75	Robert Wallace	University of Minnesota	Visiting Scholar, Institute for Global Studies	MN
76	Harvey Sarles	U. of Minnesota	Professor of Culural Studies & Comp. Litl
77	Mary Adams	University of Rochester	Research Nurse, Department of Medicine	NY
78	Mike Alewitz	Central CT State University	Associate Professor, Department of Art	CT
79	benjamin page	quinnipiac	professor of philosophy	CT
80	Philip Goldstein	University of Delaware	Professor of English, Associate in Arts Program
81	Eden Torres	University of Minnesota	Associate Professor, Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies	MN	There is no freedom without the right to dissent.
82	Mike King	UC - Santa Cruz	PhD candidate	CA
83	Michael Sacco	University of Illinois	Visiting Lecturer, School of Labor and Employment Relations	IL	This is an outrageous attack on speech and the freedom of association. It represents a grave threat to the republic and must be stopped.
84	Jane Blocker	CLA	Associate Professor of Art History	MN
85	Robert Dobrow	Carleton College	Associate Professor of Mathematics	MN
86	Helen Scharber	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Ph.D. Candidate, Economics	MA
87	Emir Benli	UMASS Amherst	Graduate Student/ Comparative Literature	MA
88	Joel Olson	Northern Arizona University	Associate Professor of Politics & International Affairs	AZ
89	Jesse Knutson	U.C. Berkeley	Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies	CA
90	David Vine	American University	Assistant Professor of Anthropology	DC
91	Chris Courtheyn	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography	NC
92	Lawrence Grossberg	University of North Carolina	Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies	NC
93	Altha Cravey	University of North Carolina	Associate Professor of Geography	NC
94	Sara Smith	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Assistant Professor of Geography	NC
95	Scott Kirsch	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Associate Professor of Geography	NC
96	Renee Craft	University of North Carolina at Chapel HIll	Assistant Professor of Communication	NC
97	Steve Macek	North Central College	Associate Professor, Speech Communication	IL
98	Sebastian Cobarrubias	UNC-Chapel Hill	Post Doctoral Research Fellow-Department of Geography	NC
99	shamshad ahmad	state university of new york at albany	lecturer, physics	NY	It is very important that freedom of expression and spirit of the constitution are fully respected and maintained. It seems that the these values are being taken away, bit by bit, in the name of security.
100	David Klein	California State University, Northridge	Professor of Mathematics	CA
101	Ian Barnard	California State University, Northridge	Associate Professor of English
102	Warren Bland	California State University, Northridge	Professor Emeritus of Geography	OR
103	Sirena Pellarolo	California State University, Northridge	Professor of Spanish and Latin American Cultural Studies	CA
104	Traci Schlesinger	DePaul University	Assistant Professor of Sociology	IL	It is through dissent that democracy breathes, stretches, sometimes even dances; without dissent, there is no democracy. If we allow the state to criminalize dissent, we are participating in the death of democracy.
105	Alexandria Wright	UC Berkeley	PhD student, Rhetoric	CA
106	Michelle VanNatta	Dominican University	Assistant Professor of Criminology	IL
107	Anna Woodard	Notre Dame	PhD student, Physics	IN
108	stephen Till	London Metropolitan University	Visiting Lecturer Department of Humanities, Arts and Education		Sickened at what America is becoming.
109	Juan Maria Alberdi	University of The Basque Country	Lecturer, Materials Physics Department.		Courage.
110	Narine Mirijanian	Baker College	Associate Dean	MI
111	Ronald Edwards	DePaul University	Visiting Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences	IL
112	Ramsey Kamar	Rice University	Graduate Student, Physics and Astronomy	TX	I am opposed to the intimidation of these anti-war activists. Maybe we should spend more energy prosecuting the unscrupulous bankers who are holding the U.S. population hostage and not a bunch of young people who are against killing human beings. What a backward society we are becoming!
113	William Nassar	Queens	Professor of Musicology	VA	We Shall Overcome
114	Jim Holstun	SUNY Buffalo	Professor of English	NY	To those wantonly charged: please have courage. Thank you for standing up for all of us. To the Feds: back off, creeps. Lie down, take a nap, read the Constitution, and leave the thug life behind.
115	Patrick Bahls	University of North Carolina, Asheville	Associate Professor, Mathematics	NC	I stand proudly behind those with the courage to fight to uphold basic liberties we all take for granted.
116	Rune Olwen	Universität Flensburg	student		Looks like Cold War all over again.
117	Ori Livneh	MCNY	Adjunct Professor of Ethics	NY	I condemn this attack on the liberty of thought and opinion.
118	Kristi Wilson	Soka University of America	Writing Program Director	CA
119	Phil Roche	Southern Utah University	Assistant Professor - Instructional Services Librarian	UT	Free speech is absolutely essential and one of the hallmarks of the United States.
120	Santiago Zabala	University of Barcelona	ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy
121	David McMurray	Oregon State University	Assoc. Professor, Anthropology	OR	It is chilling to think that speaking out and organizing against US government policies are being equated with support for terrorism.
122	Jukka J. Rintala	University of Turku, Finland	Student of Philosophy & Humanities
123	Kaveh Ehsani	DePaul University	Assistant Professor of International Studies	IL
124	Shailja Sharma	DePaul University	International Studies
125	Michael McIntyre	DePaul University	Associate Professor and Director, International Studies Program	IL
126	Christopher Hunter	Grinnell College	Professor of Sociology	IA
127	Julie Walker	Minnesota State University, Mankato	GTA, Communication	MN
128	Michael Denning	Yale University	Professor of American Studies	CT
129	Manuel Barrera, PhD	Metropolitan State University	Associate Professor	MN
130	Mark Lause	University of Cincinnati	Professor, Department of History	OH	The Justice Department that trembles to investigate, much less prosecute those who deliberately lied this country into war now turn to bullying those of its own citizens daring to notice. For shame.
131	Matthew Bewig	University of Florida	PhD Candidate, History	MO
132	Julieanna Thompson	Univ. of Oregon	former "Editor II", Sch of Educ Admin./Psych; MA candidate Interdisc Studies	CA	And the 'transgressions' of these dissenters?
133	Pankaj Mehta	Boston University	Assistant Professor of Physics	MA
134	Jonneke Koomen	Willamette University	Assistant Professor, Politics Department	OR
135	Jonneke Koomen	Willamette University	Assistant Professor, Politics Department	OR
136	Paul Di Stefano	John Abbott College	Professor, Department of Humanities, Philosophy and Religion
137	Jeffery R. Webber	Queen Mary, University of London	Politics and International Relations
138	Shiera Malik	DePaul University	Assistant Professor International Studies	IL
139	john weber	Elmhurst college	Professor, Art department	IL	The harrassment of citizens for legal behavior, legal association and legal travel, without any hint of illegal activity is outrageous and completely unjustified. The FBI appears to have returned to its old tricks of targeting citizens solely on the basis of their criticism of current government foreign policy. This is completely unconstitutional and immoral. Apparently the FBI STILL does not understand that it is not a political secret police in a totalitarian state, but is, or ought to be, an agency of law enforcement, itself subject to law, dedicated to upholding the constitutional rights and liberties and itself subject to constitutional restrictions. Let us hope that Mr. Holder is not going to lead the Justice Department back into the witch-hunting, race-baiting, union-busting days of J.Edgar's stinking swamp.
140	Cameron Merrill	University of Georgia	Graduate Student of Comparative Politics	GA	It will be nice when people in power realize that their authoritarian overreach works against them in so ways. This hubris, while harmful to many, is how resistance movements are formed. I believe this to be an indication of their lack of intelligence.
141	Tekla Lewin	Syracuse University	Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus	OH
142	Howard Beeth	Texas Southern University	Professor, Department of History	TX
143	David A. Smith	University of California at Irvine	Professor of Sociology	CA
144	Kenneth Kincaid	Purdue University North Central	Assistant Professor of History	IN
145	Judith Wittner	Loyola University	Professor of Sociology	IL
146	Farah Jaleel	Harper College	Adjunct	IL
147	Peter Smith	Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN	Profesor Emeritus of Mathematics	IN
148	JD Fine	Pittsburgh Theological Seminary	Master of Divinity student	PA
149	JD Fine	Pittsburgh Theological Seminary	Master of Divinity student	PA
150	Richard Grossman	Northeastern Illinois University	Instructor, History	IL
151	Marc Becker	Truman State University	Professor, History	MO
152	Robert Shaffer	Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania	Associate Professor of History	PA
153	Edrene McKay	NWACC	Professor of History	AR	Peace activism is not a crime.
154	Margaret Power	Illinois Institute of Technology	Professor	IL
155	Mark Hatlie	various U.S. institutions	adjunct instructor, history and political science
156	Jerise Fogel	Montclair State University	Adjunct Professor of Classics	NY
157	Martin Melkonian	Hofstra University	Adj.Assoc.Professor	NY	End the repression of anti-war activists
158	Felix Masud-Piloto	DePaul University	Professor of History	IL
159	Diane Shammas	University of Southern California	Lecturer, American Studies and Ethnicity	CA
160	Fabien Tarrit	Université de Reims, France	Assistant Professor of Economics		Solidarity from France
161	David Crump	Calvin College	Professor of Religion	MI	These raids have violated the most fundamental principles of American civil liberties. It is another step down the road to tyranny and the death of democracy.
162	Rebecca Zorach	University of Chicago	Associate Professor, Art History	IL
163	Massimo Mandolini-Pesaresi	Saddleback College	Associate faculty in Italian	CA	Do not turn this country into a China-like state!
164	Nada Elia	Antioch University	Professor, Global Studies	WA
165	Dennis Kortheuer	California State University, Long Beach	lecturer, History	CA
166	Stephen Campbell	Johns Hopkins University	Chair, History of Art	MD
167	Stephen Siegel	University of Delaware	Assistant Professor, Department of Computer & Information Sciences	DE
168	Steve Macek	North Central College	Associate Professor of Communication and Coordinator, Urban and Suburban Studies	IL
169	Jason Loviglio	University of Maryland Baltimore County	Associate Professor, American Studies	MD
170	James Mayhew	University of Maryland Baltimre County	Faculty, Visual Arts	MD
171	Brian Dolber	University of Illinois	PhD Candidate, Department of Communication	IL
172	Anne Phillips	Rowan University	Assistant Professor of Education	PA
173	irene gendzier	boston university	professor in the department of political science	MA
174	Charles Young	Southern Arkansas University	Asst. Prof. History	AR	Material aid to terrorists? You think they are doing bake sales to fund Colombians? Ha.
175	Peter Buckingham	Linfield College	Professor of History	OR
176	Mary Ann Caton	University of Pittsburgh, Titusville	Assistant Professor of History	PA	To paraphrase Archibald Macleish: The dissenter is the person who resigns from the herd in order to think for herself.
177	Daniel H. Calhoun	University of California, Davis	Emeritus professor of history	CA
178	Andrew Lee Feight	Shawnee State University	Associate Professor of History	OH
179	Thomas Dublin	State University of New York at Binghamton	Distinguished Professor, History Department	PA
180	Judith Smith	University of Massachusetts Boston	Professor of American Studies	MA
181	Jennifer Van Bergen	Santa Fe College	Adjunct English Professor	FL
182	Peter Gilmore	Carlow University	Adjunct Lecturer in History	PA
183	Nathan Godfried	University of Maine	Professor of History	ME
184	Kit Holder	Rowan University	Ass't professor, teacher Education	NJ
185	Sandra Jones	Rowan University	Associate Professor in Sociology Department	NJ
186	David R Applebaum	Rowan University	Professor of History	PA	One can hope that the American Historical Association - having adopted resolutions on free and unfettered discussion - can and will express unqualified opposition to the abuse of state power and the shameful manipulations of fear and terror associated with the assaults on civil liberties.
187	David Lelyveld	William Paterson University	Professor, History	NY
188	Sherna Berger Gluck	California State University, Long Beach	Emerita, Department of History	CA	1950s deja vu
189	Scott Laderman	University of Minnesota, Duluth	Assistant Professor of History	MN
190	Bill Freind	Rowan University	Associate Professor of English	NJ
191	Imogen Michel	University of Edinburgh	MSc Candidate in Modern British and Irish History
192	Kristen Hoerl	Butler University	Assistant Professor of Communication	IN
193	Casey Kelly	Butler University	Visiting Assistant Professor of Media, Rhetoric, and Culture	IN
194	Sarah Ryan	The Evergreen State College	Member of the Faculty	WA
195	M. Thandabantu Iverson	Indiana University Northwest	Assistant Professor, Labor Studies Program	IN
196	Kim Scipes	Purdue University North Central	Assistant Professor of Sociology	IL
197	Paul Mishler	Indiana University	Associate Professor of Labor Studies	KS
198	William Mello	Indiana University	Associate Professor, Labor Studies	IN
199	Benjamin Balthaser	Indiana University-South Bend	Assistant Professor of English	IN
200	Niall Twohig	UCSD	Graduate Student, Literature Department	CA
201	Laura Tanenbaum	LaGuardia	Assistant Professor of English	NY
202	Christopher Vials	University of Connecticut	Assistant Professor, English	CT
203	James Kim	Fordham University	Assistant Professor of English	NY
204	Judith Abbott	Sonoma State University	Professor of History	CA	Bring back the Constitution and Bill of Rights!
205	Judy Ancel	University of Missouri-Kansas City	Department of Economics	MO	Director of Labor Studies
206	Kevin Anderson	University of California, Santa Barbara	Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Feminist Studies	CA
207	Immanuel Ness	Brooklyn College, City University of New York	Professor, Political Science	NY
208	Nancy Gallagher	University of California Santa Barbara	Professor history	CA	Beware of slippery slopes
209	Jose Soler	UMass Dartmouth	Director Arnold M Dubin Labor Education Center	MA
210	Kyla Schuller	Rutgers University	Postdoctoral Associate Women's & Gender Studies	NY
211	Brian Klocke	SUNY Plattsburgh	Assistant Professor of Sociology
212	David Lloyd	University of Southern California	Professor of English	CA
213	Janet Lindman	Rowan University	Professor of History	NJ
214	Frederic Lee	University of Missouri-Kansas City	Professor of Economics	MO
215	Martin Comack	Massachusetts Bay Community College	Adjunct Professor, Liberal arts Institute	MA
216	Jeffrey Broadbent	University of Minnesota	Associate Professor of Sociology	MN	Please do not use government forces to harass and intimidate people in the anti-war and international solidarity movements.
217	Peter Heron	Saint Mary's; Dalhousie	Professor (part-time), Philosophy		Please, America, try to control your worst tedencies and try a little harder and in a more kindly manner to live up to the ideals at the foundation of your country. Terroriizing your own citizens in order to prevent them from helping the dispossesed of other nations does nothing to enhance your character
218	Jennifer Sherer	University of Iowa	Director, Labor Center	IA
219	Carlos Munoz	University of California, Berkeley	Professor Emeritus, Department of Ethnic Studies	CA
220	Luis Ramirez	UC Davis	Doctoral Student in the School of Education	CA
221	Dorinda Moreno	Retired: l970's, SFSU, DQU, Napa and Ohline Jr. Colleges, Professor/Founder La Raza Women's Class	Professor/Founder, La Raza Women's Class	CA
222	Marcy Newman	Independent Scholar	Associate Professor of English	CA
223	James Cockcroft	SUNY	Internet Professor of History and Sociology
224	Charles Schwartz	University of California, Berkeley	Emeritus Professor of Physics	CA
225	Rosaura Sanchez	University of California, San Diego	Professor, Department of Literature	CA
226	Janet Fishman	Rowan University	Adjunct (French), Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures	PA	Peaceful protest is our constitutional right.
227	Sirena Pellarolo	California State University, Northridge	Professor of Spanish and Latin American Cultural Studies	CA
228	Francisca James Hernandez	Pima Community College	Instructional Faculty, Social Sciences	AZ	It is absurd to have to send a petition of this sort in a democracy. That we must is telling of the kind of democracy we have or, more precisely, the lack of it. Power to the people!
229	Jessica Lozano	University Washington	Graduate Student, Anthropology	WA
230	Fran Ansley	University of Tennessee College of Law	Distinguished Professor Emeritus	TN
231	Rodolfo D. Torres	University of Califiornia, Irvine	Professor of Urban Planning	CA	"An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot". Thomas Paine
232	Richard Harris	California State University Monterey Bay	Professor Emeritus of Global Studies	CA	The recent wave of raids, harrassment and intimidation of anti-war and international solidarity activists and the serving of of subpoenas against activists from Minneapolis and Chicago to appear before a Grand Jury carried out by the FBI and the Justice Department represent a dangerous attack on the constitutional rights of free speech of every social justice, antiwar and human rights activist and organization in the U.S. today. Dissent, whether or not we agree with the views of those involved, is an important part of our democracy. The activists are involved with many groups, including: the Twin Cities Anti-War Committee, the Palestine Solidarity Group, the Colombia Action Network, Students for a Democratic Society, and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. They harken back to the illegal and criminal actions undertaken by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies during the Vietnam War period. The FBI and the federal government must stop this outrageous campaign of repression against anti-war and international solidarity activists. It threatens the civil rights of not only those most directly affected but all Americans of all political persuasions. I join other academics around the country in demanding an immediate end to this repression of anti-war and international solidarity activists, and the mmediate return of all confiscated materials: computers, cell phones, papers, documents, etc, as well as the grand jury proceedings against the individuals involved.
233	Robert Austin	University of Melbourne	Fellow, School of Historical Studies		Rumours of McCarthyism's demise appear to have been exaggerated. What a trail of shame! All strength to our activist-colleagues.
234	Dale L. Johnson	Rutgers University	Professor Emeritus, Sociology		Outrageous!!!!
235	erica polakoff	Bloomfield College	Professor, Sociology and Women's Studies	NJ	Invstigation, arrest and repression against anti-war and solidarity activists is a violation of our First Amendment rights. Thus, I urge you to end investigation, arrest and repression against anti-war and international solidarity activists and to immediately return all confiscated materials: computers, cell phones, papers, documents, etc.You must end the grand jury proceedings against anti-war activists. Anit-war activists want peace not war.
236	Thomas F. Slaughter, Jr.	Bloomfield College, New Jersey	Professor of Philosophy	NJ	Defend the Light.
237	beatrice pita	university of california, san diego	Lecturer, Department of Literature	CA	Stop the madness!
238	Michael Benitez Jr.	Iowa State University	Doctoral Student, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies	IA
239	Dale Melcher	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Labor Educator, Labor Center	MA
240	Mayo Toruño	California State University, San Bernardino	Professor and Chair of Economics Department	CA
241	Nancy Rose	California State University - San Bernardino	Professor Emeritus, Economics	CA
242	Manuel Callahan	University of California, Santa Barbara	Adjunct, Chican@ Studies	CA
243	Monica Martins	Universidade Estadual do Ceara	Professora de Ciencia Política, Departamento de Ciencias Sociais
244	Victor M. Rodriguez	California State University, Long Beach	Professor	CA	As a supporter of the expansion of democracy in the United States, I urge you to respect the rights to free expression by anti-war activists. We can't return to the past of COINTELPRO which led to the narrowing of civil liberties decades ago.
245	Jonathan Dregni	University of Minnesota	Assistant Scientist, Entomology	MN
246	Malaquias Montoya	University of CA, Davis	Professor Emeritus	CA
247	Judith Birgen	Chicago State University	Associate Professor of Sociology	IL
248	Scott Kurashige	University of Michigan	Associate Professor of American Culture and History, Director of Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program	MI
249	Robert Price	City College of San Francisco	Professor of Chemistry	CA
250	Kimberly Alidio	St. Edwards University	Adjunct Professor of the Humanities	TX
251	Raya Fidel	University of Washington	Professor of Information Science	WA	•Stop the repression against anti-war and international solidarity activists. •Immediately return all confiscated materials: computers, cell phones, papers, documents, etc. •End the grand jury proceedings against anti-war activists.
252	Kathryn Babayan	university of Michigan	Associate Profesor Near Eastern Studies 7 history	MI
253	Sharon Howell	Oakland University	Professor of Communication	MI
254	Jonathan Appel	Tiffin University	Associate Professor, Psychology and Crminal Justice	OH	"People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both."
255	Carrie Waara	Castleton State College	Professor of History	VT
256	Angela Valenzuela	University of Texas at Austin	Professor	TX
257	Carla J. Magnuson	St. Cloud State University	Adjunct Professor Human Relations and Multicultural Education	MN
258	Eugene Carroll	Cornell University - School of Labor & Industrial Relations	Co-Director, Union Leadership Institute	NY
259	Susan Williams	New York Medical College	Assistant Professor of Medicine	NY	The attempt to suppress and intimidate dissent is destructive and shameful. The FBI and other government institutions must cease and desist harassment of movement activists. End the grand jury inquisition.
260	Dennis Kortheuer	California State University, Long Beach	lecturer, History	CA
261	Michael Eisenscher	Laney College - Peralta Community College District	Instructor - Labor Studies	CA	Did I fall into a tear in the fabric of time and have been thrust back to 1953? Or is it some time during the Nixon Administration? Obama, Holder & Co. ought to read up on what happened to Joe McCarthy and Tricky Dick.
262	Sigrid Schmalzer	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	Associate Professor, History Department	MA
263	Joe Berry	U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	laid off as of 8/15/10 as Labor Education Specialist, labor Education Program	CA
264	Rosalind Bresnahan	California State University San Bernardino	retired, Dept. of Communication Studies	CA
265	Amy Wareham	California State University San Bernardino	Biology Pre-Med Student	CA	Please allow these activists the same freedom of speech that you have allowed to the tea party activists. Fair is fair. If a tea partier can bring a gun to a rally, a peace activist ought to be able to peacefully protest anything.
266	Alfred Kagan	University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign	African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration	IL
267	Ellie Epp	Goddard College	Individualized MA faculty	CA
268	Steve Marquardt	South Dakota State University	Dean of Libraries Emeritus	MN
269	Eva Swidler	Goddard College	Faculty Advisor, IBA program	PA
270	Michael Truscello	Mount Royal University	Assistant Professor, English
271	Vernon Mogensen	Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York	Professor of Political Science	NY
272	Patrick Cuninghame	Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana	Sociology Lecturer		I oppose and condemn the subpoenering of political activists. The FBI and the US Government must not be allowed to abuse the US Constitution and the freedom and political and civil rights of these activists.
273	Kathleen McAfee	San Francisco State University	Associate Professor, International Relations	CA
274	Marcelo Garzo	UC Berkeley	Graduate Student, Ethnic Studies	CA
275	Kevin Escudero	University of California, Berkeley	PhD Student, Ethnic Studies	CA
276	Jan Clausen	Goddard College	Half-Time Faculty, Master of Fine Arts in Writing	NY	Under the banner of the fighting terror, our most basic rights to freedom of thought, expression, and effective dissent are being eroded at a terrifying rate. The freedom to say that imperial wars are wrong, that the vast imbalance in the sharing of earth's resources is wrong, that ecocide is wrong, that capitalism is wrong, that the fundamental racism and contempt for working people embodied in the structural assaults on have-nots imposed in the name of economic "recovery" are wrong...that disdain for and attacks upon women and queer people and immigrants are wrong--this freedom is certainly not "academic," but academics do have a special obligation to speak out on the issues. That's so because (a) it's our job to think and talk about what's going on in the larger world; (b) we have the relative (very relative) privilege to speak and be heard by at least a modest circle of students, colleagues, readers; (c) in the absence of freedom to take action in the public world and to affect history, our supposed opportunity and obligation to promote "knowledge" becomes completely meaningless, or just a cover-up and a fundamental lie. It's time to stop the U.S. government's war on meaningful dissent, the escalation of which is one more in a long list of repugnant symptoms exhibited by a society completely unwilling to face the truth about itself and its position in the world.
277	Katherine King	University of alifornia at Los Angeles	Professor of Comparative Literature	CA	To an academic, few things are more important than free speech. Without free speech, there can be no exchange of ideas, no arguments that lead to new research and findings. It appears to me that the people you have subpoened have all been summoned because of their unpopular speech, since they are all, as far as I know, committed to non-violence. Your action, therefore, will have the effect of chilling speech. Please stop.
278	Rosalyn Baxandall	SUNY Old Westbury	Emerita, Distinguished Teaching Professor of American Studies
279	Mark Mendoza	Miami University	PHD candidate and TA, English	OH
280	Les Levidow	Open University, UK	Senior Research Fellow
281	Dianne Layden	Central New Mexico Community College	Adjunct faculty, English and Cultural Studies	NM	I'm a semi-retired college professor who believes in civil rights and civil liberties.
282	Amy Kaminsky	University of Minnesota	Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, and of Global Studies	MN
283	Naomi Scheman	University of Minnesota	Professor of Philosophy	MN
284	Michelle Garvey	University of Minnesota	Graduate Instructor of Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies	MN
285	Elaine Dorough Johnson	University of Wisconsin-Whitewater	Associate Professor of Spanish Emerita, Department of Languages and Literatures	WI	Repression of civil liberties and dissent cannot be tolerated in a democracy.
286	Jessica R. Barnes	The Ohio State University	Graduate student	OH
287	John Holst	University of St. Thomas	Associate Professor	MN
288	Mark Clinton	Holyoke Community College	Professor of Political Science	MA
289	Noam Chomsky	MIT	Institute Professor (retired), Linguistics & Philosophy	MA
290	Rebecca Hill	Kennesaw State University	Director,MA program in American Studies	GA
291	Rachel Silvey	University of Toronto	Associate Professor, Geography and Planning
292	Erik Davis	Macalester College	Assistant Professor, Religious Studies	MN
293	Laura Pulido	University of Southern California	Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity
294	R Godollei	Macalester College	Professor of Art	MN
295	Scott Hiley	Northwestern University	Assistant Professor of French	IL
296	Stephanie Weiner	Wright College	Foundational Studies - English teacher	IL	Thank you everybody !!!
297	Gary Prevost	College of St. Benedict/St. John's University	Professor, Political Science	MN	I am in full support of all those who have been targeted and call on the government to end its actions against them.
298	Bruce Campbell	St. John's University	Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies	MN
299	Amy Horwitz	Medical University of South Carolina	Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology	SC
300	Rachel Billowitz	Northern Arizona University	Lecturer, Health Sciences	AZ
301	Anthony Newkirk	Philander Smith College	Assistant Professor of History
302	Peter Gran	Temple University	Prof. of History	PA	Look back on the Palmer Raids, the McCarthy period and ask what did they achieve? The lives of many people were damaged; the reputation of the government suffered. History poured ridicule on the politicians and public servants involved. Why do we have to go through this again?
303	CAROL SPAULDING-KRUSE	DRAKE UNIVERSITY	ASSOCIATE PROF OF ENGLISH	IA
304	Robert Wasserman	Michigan State University	Professor of Mathematics Emeritus	MI
305	Jodi Dean	Hobart and William Smith Colleges	Professor of Political Science	NY
306	Jane Gordon	Temple University	Assistant Professor of Political Science	PA
307	Rani Neutill	Yale University	Postdoctoral Associate, American Studies	CT
308	jennifer denbow	university of new england	assistant professor of political science	ME
309	Peter Amato	Drexel University	Associate Teaching Professor
310	Andrew Kliman	Pace University	Professor of Economics	NY
311	Phil Gasper	Madison College	Instructor, Humanities	WI	The Obama administration has continued and intensified Bush's attack on civil liberties. It is particularly important that academics speak out against these efforts to stifle dissent.
312	Dimitria Gatzia	University of Akron	Philosophy, Assistant Professor	OH
313	Helen Hoy	University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada	Professor of English
314	Richard Curtis	Seattle Central Community College	Instructor of Philosophy	WA
315	Sujani Reddy	Amherst College	Five College Assitant Professor of Asian/Pacific/American Studies	MA
316	Agustin Lao-Montes	University of Massachusetts	Associate Professor, Sociology	MA
317	Michael J. Sullivan III	Drexel University	Professor of History and Politics	PA
318	Barbara Carson	Minnesota State University, Mankato	Full Professor, Sociology and Corrections	MN
319	Leah Rogne	Minnesota State University, Mankato	Associate Professor of Sociology	MN
320	Jeff Arellano Cabusao	Bryant University	Assistant Professor, Department of English and Cultural Studies	RI
321	Samantha Montgomery	University of Michigan	Graduate Student Instructor, Psychology and Women's Studies	MI
322	Jesse Mumm	Northeastern Illinois University	Instructor	IL	As educators and persons of conscience, how can we advocate for our students to become informed and involved in the democratic process, if we as a country persecute activists so politically? None of this level of repression has fallen on Tea Party members who openly and publicly advocate violence against the president. This begs the question then why it is only against those left of center. This needs to end now.
323	Michael Vavrus	Evergreen State College	Professor, Teacher Education and Political Economy	WA
324	Arlen Carey	Winona State University	Associate Professor of Social Work	MN	Stop the abuse of our freedom of speech.
325	Lin Nelson	Evergreen State College	faculty, Environmental & Community Studies	WA
326	Alan Nasser	The Evergreen State College	Professor emeritus, Political Economy	WA	The FBI raids on peaceful opposition is a direct repudiation of democracy. There is no evidence that the target groups are involved in illegal or threatening activity. The raids appear to be meant to stifle dissent as such. This is a very dangerous, police-state-like development. It must stop.
327	Majia Nadesan	Arizona State University, west campus	Professor of Communication Studies Division of Social and Behavioral Studies	AZ	We must fight against the erosion of civil liberties before it is too late!
328	David Ewoldsen	The Ohio State University	Professor, School of Communication	OH
329	Roger Stahl	University of Georgia	Associate Professor of Communication Studies	GA
330	Antonio Vazquez	University of Minnesota	Assistant Professor of Political Science	MN
331	Lawrence Grossberg	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies	NC
332	Chad Pearson	University of Alabama in Huntsville	adjunct history	AL
333	Anne Winkler-Morey	Metro State University	Community Faculty	MN
334	Komozi Woodard	Sarah Lawrence College	Professor of History & Public Policy	NY
335	Adam Bledsoe	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	PhD Candidate in Geography	NC	Waging war against anti-war activists is unfair and oppressive.
336	James Anderson	Southern Illinois University Carbondale	Doctoral Student and Graduate Assistant in Mass Communication and Media Arts	IL
337	John Stachel	Boston University	Professor Emeritus of Physics, Director, Center for Einstein Studies	MA
338	John Baldridge	The Evergreen State College	Member of the Faculty	WA	As a teacher of 20th Century US history, currently focusing on the era of Progressive politics in the United States during that period, I am acutely aware of our country's past violations of civil liberties regarding free speech and association. In the early 20th century, US citizens were jailed for speaking out against WWI, and for political speech in support of such groups as the Russian bolsheviks and German socialists. Both of these foreign groups sought, at the time, to promote democratic ideals in their homelands, just as the Palestinians do at present, through such institutions as the Palestinian Authority and its political groups, including the democratically elected leaders of the Palestinian Hamas party. Any threats to these groups' political and monetary support in the US is an unconscionable abrogation of our civil liberties as free citizens. In a country that allows members of the KKK to buy assault weapons, it is inconsistent to penalize people who support Palestinians through donations to pro-Palestinian support groups, backed by Hamas or other groups. So-called "material support of terror" laws are currently enforced as part of a political gambit aimed at suppressing particular views that are largely anti-Israeli government. I urge you to recognize that support (including monetary donations) for democratically elected groups in Palestine does not constitute a violation of US law. And if it does, you should recognize that such a law is a violation of our own country's principles of free speech and association. Dr. John Baldridge Olympia, WA
339	Kurtis Hagen	SUNY Plattsburgh	Assistant Professor of Philosophy	NY	Dissent is not terrorism. War is.
340	Carole Blair	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Professor of Communication Studies	NC
341	Richard Schmitt	Brown Universdity	Professor Emeritus, Philosophy	MA	As a refugee from Nazi Germany, I am appalled by the parallels between Fascist and US FBI behavior. The government must immediately rein in the threats to our traditional American liberties. The current assaults on intellectual and political freedoms makes it look as if the terrorists are winning. They are transforming our free government into a terrorist regime
342	Conor Harrison	University of North Carolina	Graduate Student, Geography
343	Harry Targ	Purdue University	Professor, Department of Political Science	IN	As a professor who teaches United States foreign policy I know of the deleterious consequences of domestic repression that stifled creative dissent against misguided policies in the 1940s,50s, and 60s. We must never return to those dark days and the recent FBI actions have taken us a long wasy down that dark road.
344	Mabel Gergan	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Grad student in Geography	NC
345	Lisa Heldke	Gustavus Adolphus College	Professor of Philosophy and Sponberg Chair of Ethics	MN
346	Pavithra Kathanadhi	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	Graduate Student in Geography	NC
347	Naomi Schiller	Temple University	Assistant Professor of Anthropology
348	Dayo Gore	University of Massachusetts-Amherst	Associate Professor, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies
349	Dayo Gore	University of Massachusetts-Amherst	Associate Professor, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies
350	Dan Berger	University of Pennsylvania	Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg School for Communication
351	Jared Story	East Tennessee State University	Graduate Student, Liberal Studies	TN
352	Sean Smith	European Graduate School	Department of Biological Flow
353	Hyacinth Piel	University of Illinois at Chicago	TA in philosophy	IL
354	Kabby Mitchell	The Evergreen State College	Dance & African American Studies	WA
355	Tyrus Smith	The Evergreen State College	Environmental Studies	WA
356	Jeffrey Hayes	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	Professor of Art History	WI	Sad to say, but this recalls the illegal and unconscionable FBI harassment that I and other members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War experienced 40 years ago!
357	Nancy Feraldi	Kaplan University	Online Instructor, Composition, School of Health Sciences	FL	"You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. . . " Dr. Martin Luther King
358	Sara Ramirez	University of California, Berkeley	Graduate student in Ethnic Studies	CA
359	Lori Rodriguez, Ph.D.	Our lady of the lake university	Coordinator - mcnair scholars program	TX
360	Lawrence Mosqueda	The Evergreen State College	Professo, Political Economy and Social Change	WA
361	Fred Evans	Duquesne University	Professor	PA
362	Amanda Klepper	University of North Carolina	Graduate student, Geography	NC
363	Jared McBride	UCLA	Ph.D. Candidate, History Dept.	NJ
364	Annemarie Mulkey	University of Texas at San Antonio	Academic Coach
365	Jimmy Casas Klausen	University of Wisconsin--Madison	Assistant Professor of Political Science	WI
366	Raya Fidel	University of Washington	Professor, Information School	WA
367	Lisa Hager	University of Wiscons-Waukesha	Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies	WI
368	Margaret Rozga	University of Wisconsin Waukesha	Professor of English	WI
369	Timothy Thering	UW-Waukesha	Associate Professor of History	WI
370	M. Thandabantu Iverson	Indiana University Labor Studies Program/School of Social Work	Asst. Prof. of Labor Studies	IN	The rights to have and express opinions, independently and without interference--without fear of government harassment or torture--are not merely civil, but human. We call upon the offices and personnel of the U.S. government to uphold, and not violate these human rights!
371	Carlos Munoz	UC Berkeley	Professor Emeritus, Department of Ethnic Studies	CA
372	Tom Lewis	University of Iowa	Professor of Spanish and International Studies	IA
373	Kristina Penniston	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Associate Scientist, School of Medicine & Public Health	WI	End the attacks on U.S. citizens and others struggling for peace and justice in the world.
374	Marty Roth	University of Minnesota	Professor emeritus of English
375	Fred Thulin	University of Illinois at Chicago	Learning Center Director, Mathematics	IL
376	Joe Dowling	Nassau Community College	Professor, English Dept.	NY	Stop the harassment of legitmate anti war speech and human rights solidarity actions. Uphold our First Amendment rights.
377	benjamin haas	Louisiana State University	Graduate Teaching Assistant of Communication and Performance Studies	LA
378	John Rice	University of North Carolina Wilmington	Associate Professor, Sociology	NC	Free speech still matters.
379	Dr. William Fusfield	University of Pittsburgh	Associate Professor of Communication and Rhetoric	PA	THE RECENT CIVIL LIBERTIES EVISCERATING ACTIONS UNDERTAKEN BY AN INCREASINGLY CONSTITUTION-DISRESPECTING F.B.I. THAT WE HAVE SEEN RECENTLY IN THE ILLEGAL BREAK-INS, CONFISCATIONS OF PROPERTY, ARBITRARY DETENTIONS, CAPRICIOUS ARRESTS AND INCARCERATIONS, VIOLENT BEATINGS, WORK DISRUPTIONS AND CONTINUAL MINOR TO MAJOR HARRASSMENTS OF PERFECTLY LEGAL FORMS OF DISSENT AGAINST AMERICA’S THREE ONGOING FOREIGN WARS, WHICH WE HAVE JUST SEEN SO GRAPHICALLY DOCUMENTED ONCE AGAIN IN MINEAPOLIS AND CHICAGO, AND REPEATEDLY DIRECTED AGAINST INNOCENT, INDEED PRIMARILY PACIFIST, U.S. CITIZENS WHO HAVE FINALLY BECOME ANGRY ENOUGH, AND COURAGEOUS ENOUGH, TO EXERCISE THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH, ASSEMBLY, DISSENT AND PRIVACY! WHILE VIOLATING THE RIGHTS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN THE U.S. AND ELSEWERE, GEORGE W. BUSH ONCE CALLED THE U.S. CONSTITUTION “JUST A FUCKING PIECE OF PAPER.” EVIDENTALLY MR. OBAMA MUST FEEL THE SAME WAY, SINCE IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO BELIEVE THAT THE F.B.I. WOULD UNDERTAKE SUCH EGREGIOUSLY UCONSTITUIONAL ACTION WITHOUT THE HIGHEST APPROVAL OF THE WHITE HOUSE. AS THOSE WHO HAVE COMMENTED HERE ON THE SIMILARITY OF THESE NEW CIVIL LIBERTIES VIOLATIONS WITH THE NOTORIOUS “COINTELPRO” RAIDS OF THE 1960S AND 1970S, SUCH PATENT ABUSES OF POWER BY THE F.B.I., AND DOZENS OF OTHER GOVERNMENT INTELLIGENCE GROUPS SUPPOSEDLY MERELY CONCERNED ABOUT “OUR” PROTECTION, HAVE BEEN GOING ON FOR DECADES, AND IT IS NOW CLEARER THAN EVER THAT NOTHING WILL EVER BE DONE TO STOP SUCH ABUSES UNTIL YOU AND I, AND THOUSANDS MORE, INSIST THAT THE F.B.I. KEEP THEIR HANDS OFF LEGITIMATE, CONSTITUTIONALLY-PROTECTED DEMONSTRATORS!!
380	Jack Stafford	Emmanuel College	Professor of Philosophy	TN
381	Conor Tomás Reed	Baruch College/City University of New York	Adjunct Lecturer, English Department	NY
382	Stephen Leberstein	Brooklyn College/CUNY	djunct Professor of Political Science	NY
383	Juliana Hu Pegues	University of Minnesota	Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies	MN
384	Robin Brown	University of Minnesota	Morse-Alumni Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature	MN
385	Bianet Castellanos	University of Minnesota	Assistant Professor of American Studies	MN
386	Hoon Song	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	Assistant Professor	MN
387	Crystal Bartolovich	Syracuse	Associate Professor of English
388	Amy Lang	Syracuse University	Professor of English	NY
389	Timothy Brennan	University of Minnesota- Twin Cities	Professor -- Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature	MN	All American citizens have an urgent interest in demanding that these searches and this intimidation of dissidents stop. We should instead encourage more of our fellow citizens to join the protesters in condemning the illegal wars and denial of constitutional rights that have characterized government in the United States for the last three decades, but especially lately. We demand that the subpoenas be withdrawn and those who issued them be investigated for possible crimes, for they are clearly a violation of American law as written in our constitution. Our democracy depends on vigorous opposition to these measures.
390	David Downing	Indiana University of Pennsylvania	Professor of English	PA
391	Louis Mendoza	University of Minnesota	Associate Professor, Chicano Studies	MN
392	Lon Otto	University of St. Thomas	Professor of English	MN
393	Eric Vazquez	Carnegie Mellon	PhD Student, Literary & Cultural Studies Program	PA
394	Daniel Vukovich	Hong Kong University	Asst Professor, Comparative Literature
395	Auritro Majumder	Syracuse University	PhD Student	NY
396	Peggy Pond	University of Minnesota	Undergraduate Community Program Assistant, College of Education & Human Development	MN
397	Laura Wnkiel	University of Colorado at Boulder	Associate Professor of English	CO
398	Angela Todd	Carnegie Mellon University	Archivist/Sr. Research Scholar, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation	PA
399	Peter Gardner	SMC Rome	adjunct Lecturer in Humanities
400	Suzanne Gardinier	Sarah Lawrence College	Writing	NY
401	Young An	University of St. Thomas	Associate Professor of English	MN
402	Kanishka Chowdhury	University of St. Thomas	Associate Professor of English
403	Sandeep Banerjee	Syracuse University	PhD Candidate in English	NY
404	Karyn Ball	University of Alberta	Professor of English and Film Studies
405	richard daniels	oregon state university	emeritus associate professor of English	OR
406	richard daniels	oregon state university	emeritus associate professor of English	OR
407	Karen Ho	University of Minnesota	Associate Professor of Anthropology
408	Chris Jepperson	Central University	Music
409	Patrick Noonan	UC Berkeley	Graduate Student, EALC
410	Terri Ginsberg	Rutgers University	adjunct professor, cinema studies
411	Eugene Holland	Ohio State University	Chair of Comparative Studies	OH
412	Jason W. Smith	Karl Marx University Online	Professor of Archaeology	OK	Keep up the good work!
413	Barbara Carson	Minnesota State University, Mankato	Professor and Chair, Sociology	MN
414	Margaret Matlin	SUNY Geneseo	Distinguished Teaching Professor of Psychology Emeritus	NY	I stand in solidarity with anyone targeted by the FBI for antiwar activities. We must resist the injustice and also the "chilling effect" of such FBI activities.
415	Hicham Safieddine	University of Toronto	Ph.D. Candidate
416	Helene Glaza	Aquinas College	Student, History	MI	This hits home. Not only am I a student of Russian/Soviet History (which at one time could have gotten me in trouble), but I am striving toward being a professor of Russian/Soviet history. If nothing else, my professors taught me how to have an open mind and how to question the world in which we all live. The fact that this government (who imposes 'democracy' on everyone else) is taking away democratic rights and civil liberties is disgusting. When the time comes for me to share my passions with the world, I will not told back facts and figures (nor will I hold back my students for that matter) simply because this government is paranoid. My job as a professor would be to open minds with knowledge, not close them with the chains of fear and the padlock of ignorance. This reminds me of the Allegory of the Cave, in that while professors strive to pull their students out of the darkness of ignorance, this government seeks to push us all back in!
417	Michael Pickar	Saint Cloud State University	Graduate Student, Social Responsibility Program (M.S.)	MN
418	Willie van Peer	University of Munich	Chair of Intercultural Hermeneutics		I fully support the petition against the suppression of civil rights of anti-war activists, trade unionists, and those who dedicate their time and energy to supporting the struggles of the Palestinian and Colombian peoples against U.S. funded occupation and war.
419	Eric Ross	The George Washington University	Professorial Lecturer in Anthropology	VA
420	Dr. Martin E. Rosenberg	Independent Scholar	Writer and Scholar	PA	Clearly, the precendent set by the trial of Steve Kurtz and Robert Ferrell, which I wrote about in 2004, a trial that ended with a federal judge practically accusing the US attorneys involved of prosecutorial misconduct before throwing the entire case out of court, continues. We need to make this activity as public and as transparent as possible to shame the justice department into ending these witchhunts!
421	howard beeth	texas southern university	professor of history	TX
422	Roberta Gold	Fordham University	Visiting Assistant Professor of History	NY
423	Johnny Williams	Trinity College	Associate Professor of Sociology	CT
424	Brad Jones	University of Michigan--Ann Arbor	Graduate Student--Communication Studies	MI
425	Austin Jackson	Michigan State University	Assistant Professor, RCAH	MI
426	Polly Kellogg	St. Cloud State University	Associate Professor emeritus, Human Relations & Multicultural Education	MN	When I publicized a sign making party for an anti-Iraq War march I received a mysterious call from someone I assume was from the FBI who asked about what we doing at the event. It was chilling. Homeland Security spent $50 million to create a police state for the RNC, complete with provocateurs and informants. We must speak up.
427	John Munro	Harvard University	Charles Warren Center Fellow
428	Dorothy Engan-Barker (Scholtz)	Minnesota State University, Mankato	Professor Emerita, Dept. of Education
429	connie cavara	community college of Allegheny County	Student of Nursing and Health Sciences	PA
430	G. Akito Maehara	East Los Angeles College	Adjunct Professor of History, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies, African American Studies, Native American Studies.	CA
431	Roderick Christopher	Jefferson Community & Technical College	Clinical Instructor, Pharmacy Technology	KY
432	Manuel Callahan	University of California, Santa Barbara	adjunct	CA
433	Edward Ferroni	Benedictine University	Professor of Chemistry	IL
434	Paul Haeder	Green River Community College	Instructor of English	WA
435	Robert Haworth	University of Wisconsin-La Crosse	Associate Professor-Department of Educational Studies	WI
436	Joan Landes	Penn State University	Professor, History and Women's Studies	PA
437	Michelle Gales	University of Paris III, la Sorbonne nouvelle	"Chargé de cours" English for Film Studies
438	Kathleen McAfee	San Francisco State University	Associate Professor of International Relations	CA
439	Andrew Madrigal	University of California, Riverside	Student in Geology	CA
440	Nicholas Alexandrov	The George Washington University	Doctoral Student, History	DC
441	Lucia Mascorro	Truman College - Chicago City Colleges	Academic Advisor & College Instructor	IL
442	John Hagedorn	University of Illinois- Chicago	Professor, Criminology, Law, & Justice	IL
443	Krista Steinfeld	Windward CC of the University of Hawaiʻi System	Adjunct, Hawaiian Studies	HI
444	Jaclyn Rodriguez	Occidental College	Professor of Psychology	CA	Democracy.
445	Norman S. Cohen	Occidental College	Professor Emeritus Department of History	CA
446	ernest rosenthal	CSDH	prof.emeritus of art, retired	CA	I fully support the messages - explicit and implicit, in included statements.
447	Dorcas Haller	Community College of Rhode Island	Professor/ Library	RI
448	Jon Corlett	Cannot Afford.	Cannot Afford.	FL
449	Herbert Davis	retired MnSCu	law enforcement	MN	first they came for the trade unionists......
450	Frank Walter	American River College	English	OR	I am a retired member of the ARC staff (85 years old), but I support a just settlement for Palestinians, a two-state solution, and protection of Palestinian human rights.