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The Newburg Sting
January 13, 2015 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
PHILIPSTOWN FOR DEMOCRACY
Tuesday, January 13 at 6:30 PM
DESMOND-FISH LIBRARY MEETING ROOM
(enter at back of library building)
Rte 403 & Rt. 9D, Garrison
Join us to watch the HBO Documentary
“The Newburg Sting”
Terrorists or Targets? This film documents an FBI sting operation on four
poverty-stricken men from Newburgh, NY who were recruited by an FBI
informant to take part in a terrorist plot created, planned, and supplied
by the FBI.
A panel discussion will follow the showing of the documentary. Included on
the panel will be Elizabeth McWilliams, the mother of one of the men snared
by the FBI, Daniel Berger, Executive Director of the NYCLU, Lower Hudson
Valley chapter, and Bennett Weiss, Orange County Peace and Justice
All are welcome.
The film showing will begin promptly at 6:30 PM.
Refreshments will be served.
[Snow date – Tuesday, January 20]