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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 Image <https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t31.0-8/10457715_460609654081537_1788423044020292442_o.jpg> 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. ----------------- 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 _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
