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Despite strong rains and the cold, a number of students, community members,
and others, braved the elements to register their dissent Wednesday night
against anti-Muslim bigot Ayaan Hirsi Ali at the NYU Law FOLCS forum.

https://www.facebook.com/events/607870392654917/?ref=22

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We hope you will join us in demonstration again this Saturday
<https://www.facebook.com/events/555481251251132/?ref=22> and sign our open
letter. Details below.
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Join student groups, faculty, and community groups to register your
concerns about NYU's affiliation with the Forum on Law, Culture, and
Society:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/59187564/FOLCS%20Open%20Letter.pdf

Sign here!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Fz8ITgCBt8UHE3neeUtVfmf5X6Zm1t7EHFSi-yA6pCs/

*JOIN US THIS SATURDAY IN PROTEST & SPREAD THE WORD!*

*NOT IN OUR NAME: Rally against “Stop & Frisk” police commissioner,
pro-torture Bush attorney general at NYU-affiliated film screening of
CIA-vetted torture film *

https://www.facebook.com/events/555481251251132

Where: Outside NYU Law’s Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Sq. South

When: 6:30PM, Saturday, 25 October

NYU Law’s newly acquired -- and grotesquely named -- Forum on Law, Culture,
and Society, is inviting former NYPD police commissioner Ray Kelly and
former attorney General Michael Mukasey to screen CIA-vetted
<http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-obtains-4-to-5-inch-stack-of-overlooked-cia-records-detailing-meetings-with-bin-laden-filmmakers/>
 film* Zero Dark Thirty*, widely interpreted as promoting torture
<http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/zero-conscience-in-zero-dark-thirty>
.

Ray Kelly spent several years engaging in
warrantless spying of Muslim students
<http://www.ap.org/Content/AP-In-The-News/2012/NYPD-monitored-Muslim-students-all-over-Northeast>
and
communities around the East Coast -- including Muslim students at NYU.

Kelly is also responsible for the “Stop & Frisk”
<http://www.nyclu.org/node/1598> program, rife with racial discrimination
and widely condemned as means of harassing people of color in New York.

Despite Kelly’s history of mistreating NYU community members, NYU Law is
nonetheless placing its stamp of approval on his visit through its
affiliation with the Forum.

The Forum will also bring former US attorney general Michael Mukasey, who
defended Bush administration officials from being held accountable for
potential war crimes <http://www.hrweb.org/legal/cat.html>, namely torture
<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15413635>.

*Zero Dark Thirty*, produced in close consultation with the CIA
<http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-obtains-4-to-5-inch-stack-of-overlooked-cia-records-detailing-meetings-with-bin-laden-filmmakers/>,
presents the audience with a stream of demeaning caricatures of Muslims
while alleging -- falsely
<http://bigstory.ap.org/article/senate-torture-report-examines-hunt-bin-laden>
--
that torture was necessary and justified to capture Osama Bin Laden. It is
difficult to see how having individuals complicit in torture and
warrantless spying that reached NYU itself deserve such a warm welcome as
they screen thinly-veiled government propaganda.

The Forum was enthusiastically embraced
<http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/center_studying_law_and_culture_moves_to_nyu>
by
NYU Law Dean Trevor Morrison this summer. Its director and host of
Wednesday’s event, Thane Rosenbaum, opined during Israel’s indiscriminate
bombardment of Gaza last summer that virtually all Palestinian civilians
forfeited their “right[s] to be called civilians” due to how some voted in
a 2006 election. As a slew of critics noted, Mr. Rosenbaum’s commentary
mimicked terrorist propaganda
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/07/thane_rosenbaum_s_wall_street_journal_op_ed_this_new_york_university_professor.html>
designed
to justify massacring innocent people -- including Americans and Israelis.

The Forum is also separately hosting anti-Muslim bigot Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who
has called Islam a “nihilistic cult of death” and has called for the US
constitution to be amended to exclude Muslims from legal rights.

A coalition of student and community groups has called for this protest as
part of a growing campaign to get NYU Law to reassess its relationship with
the Forum.

Meet outside NYU Law’s Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Sq. South, at 6:30PM
on Saturday, 25 October. You are encouraged to bring banners and materials.
E-mail arg...@nyu.edu to add your endorsement. You can also visit us on
Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/antifolcscoalition> and sign our
open letter
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Fz8ITgCBt8UHE3neeUtVfmf5X6Zm1t7EHFSi-yA6pCs/viewform>
.

Protest Endorsers:


NYU Students for Justice in Palestine

NYU Law Students for Justice in Palestine

NYU Law National Lawyers Guild

NYU Incarceration to Education Coalition

Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine

Jews Against Islamophobia Coalition

Jewish Voice for Peace -- New York

Labor for Palestine

Jews for Palestinian Right of Return

Middle East Crisis Response

Hudson Valley Boycott, Divest, Sanctions

NYU ISO

Middle East North Africa Solidarity Network-US

International Action Center

Queers Against Israeli Apartheid
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