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Thursday, August 14, 2014

About Joe Iosbaker

About Joe Iosbaker ---
tags: Committee to Stop FBI Repression, anti-American, Chicago,  Drones, FBI investigation for links to terrorists, Iran,  PressTV,  traitor,

He has been interviewed by Iran-sponsored PressTV, protests against Boeing and Israel, supports Gaza struggle. He protests that he and his wife, Stephanie Weiner were unjustly targeted by the FBI for their anti-war and socialist activities.

His official bio:  Joe Iosbaker is a 20 year civil service employee at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).  Last year he was chosen Staff Person of the Year by the students in the College of Medicine where he had worked.

Joe IosbakerAt UIC, Joe is the chief steward for 1300 clerical workers in the Service Employees International Union Local 73.  He is also on the executive board of the union.  In the 1990s, the workers at UIC, mostly Black and Latino, fought to win wage parity with the University’s mostly white work force at their downstate campus in Urbana.  Joe played a leading role in this struggle.

Joe is the advisor to the campus chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society, and was the Chicago bus coordinator for the protest at the Republican National Convention in 2008.

Joe has been active in struggles for social justice since 1977.  Joe is married to Stephanie Weiner.  They have two sons.  Joe and Stephanie moved to Chicago in the mid 1980s to support the movement for Black and Latino political empowerment after Harold Washington was elected mayor.


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*Topics

*FBI investigation

Breitbart: story about a trade union official’s suspected connection with terrorism both in South America and in the Middle East.
Investor’s Business Daily reports and comments:
The FBI raids the Chicago home of a local union leader looking for terrorist connections as the union’s former chief is investigated for corruption. Why are we not surprised?
Thuggery and corruption are not quite synonyms for unionism, but it gets very close when you consider the Service Employees International Union, formerly led by Andy Stern.
That’s the extreme left revolutionary Andy Stern who was reported last October, 2009, to be more often received by Obama at the White House than any other visitor.
From being involved in fraudulent voter registration in Texas to beating up Tea Party activists outside town hall meetings in Missouri, SEIU’s reputation is well-established.
Now we can possibly add a linkage to terrorism.
On Friday, the FBI searched eight addresses in Minneapolis and Chicago. Among those addresses was the North Side home of Chicago anti-war activists Joe Iosbaker and his wife, Stephanie Weiner, whose home was searched for 12 hours.
The agents said they were looking for evidence relating to terrorist activity. Warrants suggested agents were looking for links between anti-war activists and terrorist groups in Colombia and the Mideast. An FBI statement said those investigated were suspected of activities “concerning the material support of terrorism.”
The national media largely ignored the story, and the Chicago media reported it as … anti-war activists being intimidated and investigated and manhandled by oppressive law enforcement. …
Iosbaker is … the Chief Steward for SEIU Local 73One would think that a high-ranking union official linked to support of international terrorism would be national news …
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  2. www.nbcchicago.com/.../Anti-War-Activists-Targeted-in-FB...

    WMAQ‑TV
    Sep 27, 2010 - Joe Iosbaker and his wife, Stephanie Weiner, say they're being unjustly targeted by the FBI for their anti-war and socialist activities. Monday  ...
  3. 'US Empire Using Murder Vehicles Of Boeing To Oppress ...



  4. Jul 19, 2014
    Joe Iosbaker, a leader of the United National Antiwar Committee, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Thursday, ...

  5. Joe Iosbaker « CBS Chicago

    chicago.cbslocal.com/tag/joe-iosbaker/

    WBBM‑TV
    Antiwar Activists Targeted In Raid Wonder Where Investigation Is Going. Tw


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