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Ten reasons not to talk -- or listen -- to CSIS
Over past months, reports have multiplied of Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) visits to the homes and even workplaces of people working for social justice. In addition to its longstanding and ongoing harassment and intimidation of indigenous peoples, immigrant communities, and others, the spy agency has become much more visible in its surveillance of movements for social justice.
Two activists speak out about G8/G20 CSIS intimidation: Freda Guttman's story
Two Montreal activists, Freda Guttman and Stefan Christoff, say they and their friends have been targeted by CSIS in the run up to the Huntsville G8 and Toronto G20 summits. Both write exclusively for rabble.ca on what they are experiencing.
Freda Guttman's story is below. Read Stefan Christoff's by clicking here.
On April 7, 2010, a knock at my door brought me face-to-face with a CSIS agent who asked if he could come in and speak to me. Fortunately, knowing that I had no legal obligation to speak to him, I refused his invitation to chat and shut the door in his protesting face.
Two activists speak out about G8/G20 CSIS intimidation: Stefan Christoff's story
Two Montreal activists, Freda Guttman and Stefan Christoff, say they and their friends have been targeted by CSIS in the run up to the Huntsville G8 and Toronto G20 summits. Both write exclusively for rabble.ca on what they are experiencing.
Stefan Christoff's story is below. Read Freda Guttman's by clicking here.
Over recent months, phone calls to me from friends across Montreal have been filled with a distressing tone, a request to meet me in person over coffee, and vague references to unwelcomed visits by Canadian government intelligence officials.
Two activists speak out about G8/G20 CSIS intimidation: Stefan Christoff's story
CSIS has paid five visits to friends of this Montreal human rights supporter. Now he and Freda Guttman, another Montreal activist who received an unwelcome CSIS visit, want the public to know.
