Chicago, IL – In building for May Day 2011 events, Tom Burke with the Committee to Stop FBI Repression (CSFR) says, “Anti-war and international solidarity activists are joining events across the country celebrating International Workers’ Day. We are gathering signatures to the ‘Pledge To Resist,’ supporting activists who face government repression today. We plan to reach hundreds, maybe thousands of people this weekend and ask them to take a stand against political repression.”

The CSFR call for May Day 2011 says: “Our movements today take inspiration from the Chicago Haymarket Martyrs’ example – their sacrifice led to dramatic and powerful social change throughout the world.”

The call continues, “Today we face government repression similar to the working class and immigrant leaders who inspired International Workers’ Day back in the 1880s. U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald in Chicago, with his FBI raids and Grand Jury inquisition, is attacking free speech and our right to organize in solidarity with working and oppressed people.”

The Pledge To Resist can be found in both English and Spanish at the links below:

English Language

• Print the pledge petitions in English
• Print the Basic Info flier in English

Spanish Language

• Print the Basic Info flier in Spanish
• Print the pledge petitions in Spanish [scroll down the page to the Spanish link]

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