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Noor Elashi, Daughter of Ghassan Elashi of the Holy Land 5 Credit: http://antiauthoritarian.net
Featuring:
Veena Dubal, Asian Law Caucus National Security and Civil Rights Program Staff Attorney: Lejla Duka, family member of the Fort Dix Five: Dominick Calsolaro, Albany Common Council Member: Noor Elashi, Daughter of Ghassan Elashi of the Holy Land 5: Shaheena Parveen, mother of Siraj Matin: Marlene Jenkins, mother of Tarik Shaw: Sharmin Sadequee, sister of Shifa Sadequee: Tamer Mehanna, brother of Tariq Mehanna: Fred Korematsu, formerly interned Japanese American, John Frank, Clerk to Associate Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black; Tsuyako Kitashima, Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress spokesperson; Donald Tamaki, lawyer for Fred Korematsu, Peter Irons, UC San Diego Constitutional Law Professor.
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NYC Town Hall on Preemptive Prosecution
Full audio from December 2010 NYC Town Hall featuring family members of “wrongly accused” terrorists. Recorded by Jaisal Noor.
Full-length Interview with Veena Dubal, Staff Attorney with the Asian Law Caucus
Dubal talks about Preemptive Prosecutions, racial profiling, Department of Justice and White House strategies, and the effect they have on Muslim, Arab, and South Asian communities. Is there a valid comparison to the Japanese internment during WWII?
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For More Information:
ACLU-Northern California Civil Rights Groups Call on Bay Area Police Departments to Cease Joint Operations with the FBI
Asian Law Caucus
San Francisco, CA
Coalition For a Safe San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Council on American Islamic Relations
Washington, D.C.
Free the Fort Dix 5
Fort Dix, N.J.
Korematsu Institute
San Francisco, C.A.
Manufacturing the Muslim Menace:
A report by Political Research Associates
New York University School of Law Center for Human Rights and Global Justice
Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress
Of Civil Rights and Wrongs: The Fred Korematsu Story
San Francisco Human Rights Commission
San Francisco, C.A.
Sikh American Legal Defense & Education Fund (SALDEF)
Articles, Blogs, Reports and Videos:
Muslims Reject SFPD Surveillance Program
San Francisco Human Rights Commission Hearing: US Law Enforcement Profiling & Surveillance of Muslims-Arabs-South Asians
MUSIC:
Halou-Seperation
Halou-Alaska
Mark Lingard-In a Lonely Place
Tags: activism, civil liberties and rights, immigration, international, Middle East, prisons, race, religion, speech/analysis, war and peace
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