Please join us for a multimedia presentation by FBI target Leslie James Pickering on the FBI frame-up attempt against a radical bookstore in Buffalo, NY.
WHEN:
Saturday, November 12
7pm
WHERE:
The Democracy Center
45 Mount Auburn St,
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
For two years beginning in 2012, the FBI used informants & extensive surveillance in an eco-terrorism conspiracy investigation into Buffalo’s radical bookstore, Burning Books. Undercover agents were sent to public events at Burning Books while co-owners had their mail copied, were placed on a secret list for airline travel, were subject to over a dozen federal grand jury subpoenas, were followed around & had their photographs secretly taken by teams of FBI agents & much more.
Leslie James Pickering, alleged “mastermind sociopath” of the conspiracy & former Spokesperson for the Earth Liberation Front Press Office, exposes secret FBI files, tactics deployed by the FBI against activists & strategies for resisting state repression in this shocking & eye-opening presentation.
Join us at The Democracy Center to welcome Leslie James Pickering and hear him speak about activism, community, and his experience with surveillance and harassment from the FBI and federal government.
Attorney Michael Kuzma of the National Lawyers Guild has led Leslie’s legal team through a series of Freedom Of Information Act lawsuits, forcing the FBI to release the over 30,000 pages of files it has on him by July of 2017. See: http://www.lesliejamespickering.com.
Co-sponsored by Black & Pink and the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild
more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1134358393324836
(note: the Democracy Center is not wheelchair accessible)