*The following resolution was endorsed by the UW-Madison Teaching Assistants Association (AFT Local 3220). It passed unanimously at its General Membership Meeting on 11/14/2011.* ## Resolution Against FBI Repression of Social Activists
*The following speech was given by [Sarah Smith](/profile/sarah-smith), one of the Midwest 23.* I would like to welcome everyone here today to our very first national conference hosted by the Committee
Over 150 people gathered in Chicago on November 5 for the first national conference of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression. Conference organizer Tom Burke said, “The national conference was a grand success.
**For Immediate Release** **November 1, 2011** – FBI finishes copying more than 50,000 pages of materials seized from homes of Minneapolis peace and international solidarity activists – now they give back the originals – Serious
Whereas, on the morning of September 24, 2010, the home of Joe Iosbaker, SEIU Local 73 Executive Board member, Chief Steward at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and union activist, and his