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Roughly 25 students, community members protest NYU forum featuring NYPD’s Ray Kelly, fmr AG Michael Mukasey, screening Zero Dark Thirty http://antifolcs.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/roughly-25-students-community-members-protest-nyu-forum-featuring-nypds-ray-kelly-fmr-ag-michael-mukasey-screening-zero-dark-thirty/ Roughly 25 students and community members assembled outside NYU Law to demonstrate against NYU Law’s affiliation with the Forum on Law, Culture, and Society, as it invited 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> . Holding signs and chanting, the group demonstrated against NYU Law’s affiliation with the forum. Two demonstrators donned orange jumpsuits simulating the garb worn by prisoners and torture victims at Guantanamo Bay while holding a sign emblazoned “NYU Students Stand against Torture”. [image: IMG_6775] <https://antifolcs.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/img_6775.jpg> The group passed out informational flyers to guests to the forum event. Community journalists were present to document the rally. 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 brought 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. [image: IMG_6777] <https://antifolcs.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/img_6777.jpg>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 also separately hosted 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 called for this protest as part of a growing campaign to get NYU Law to reassess its relationship with the Forum. The coalition has also called on all individuals and organizations concerned to sign their open letter <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Fz8ITgCBt8UHE3neeUtVfmf5X6Zm1t7EHFSi-yA6pCs/> . *Coverage from Press TV:** http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/10/26/383674/nyu-students-protest-antiislamic-forum/ <http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/10/26/383674/nyu-students-protest-antiislamic-forum/>* https://www.facebook.com/events/555481251251132/ antifolcs.wordpress.com _________________________________________________________ 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
