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From: Action Center <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 1:05
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Subject: [IAC] Ramsey Clark Speaking NYC Thu
12/13
Immigrants & Civil Rights
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark to speak at a
Public Forum titled "What is Really Behind the 'War on
Terrorism'?
Thursday, December 13, 2001
6:30 PM
Community Church of New York
40 East 35th Street (between Madison and Park)
New York City
$5-$10 donation
Speakers Include:
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard - Partnership for Civil Justice
Larry Holmes - Co-Director, International Action Center
Dr. Asha A. Samad - Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition
Yoomi Jeong - Korea Truth Commission
Gamil M. Tawfik - Arabic Channel (TAC)
Daniel Vila - NY Coalition for Peace and Justice
Next Thursday evening, December 13, 2001, former U.S.
Attorney General Ramsey Clark will be joined by a panel
of legal activists, anti-war organizers and others
convening a public forum titled "What is Really Behind
the War on Terrorism"?
"Before September 11, Attorney General Ashcroft was
notorious for both his public support of the Confederate
south and his deep desire to end abortion rights," said
Teresa Gutierrez, a co-director of the International
Action Center. "Now, using the cover of a false 'war on
terrorism' - one that will have claimed the lives of
thousands of civilians in Afghanistan through bombing
and/or refugee starvation - Ashcroft is seizing the
moment to spearhead a vast attack on civil rights, civil
liberties, immigrants and other people of color."
This week the INS announced its plan to turn over to the
FBI 314,000 names of people at risk of deportation, to be
placed on the "National Crime Information Center"
database. INS Commissioner James Ziglar said on Wednesday:
"If you don't want to be one of the guests in a detention
center while we're getting your documents together, you
might want to just go on home."
"The so-called war on terrorism is a thin cover for the
long-held right-wing desire to criminalize immigrants and
expand the power of the government to harass them," said
Gutierrez. Gutierrez said Ashcroft's actions have
strengthened racism and anti-immigrant violence. "On
Tuesday, hours before the FBI raid on the Holy Land
Foundation office in Chicago, that city's Arab American
Community Center was hit by arson. The office space of
the Committee for a Democratic Palestine was totally
gutted. Now is the time for the progressive movement to
come together and fight for civil liberties and against
racism."
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