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Dear Friends, Here's an event on Saturday that will interest you if you live in the New York area. Also, please note that we now have a mirror website, since the main one has been experiencing technical problems. If http://www.freefarouk.org is down, then try http://freefarouk.netfirms.com. In solidarity, David Wilson for the Committee to Release Farouk Abdel-Muhti ========================================================== Blue Triangle Network-NYC in collaboration with 3RD I NY and Queens Museum of Art PRESENTS VOICES RISING The 3rd National Day of Solidarity with Muslim, Arab and South Asian Immigrants Saturday, February 21, 2004 In New York City, we will celebrate the National Day of Solidarity on February 21st. Around the country on the National Day of Solidarity, many people will come together to voice our outrage at the detentions and deportations, the forced registrations and racial profiling, the surveillance and the overall climate of demonization of Muslims, Arabs and South Asians. On this day we will declare our collective determination to stop this repression; this time they are coming for the Muslims, Arabs and South Asians first but as we have seen in recent times these attacks have already struck much broader sections of people: from the fingerprinting of all immigrants entering the US (except those from European countries), to the surveillance and intimidation of anti-war activists. Films, Queens Museum of Art, 2-5pm, FREE Music, Galapagos Art Space, 9pm, $10* 2:00pm-5:00pm, Queens Museum of Art, FREE Film screenings and panel discussion with filmmakers Featuring: JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE - Jon Osman This feature documentary is based on the brutal murder of two Puerto Rican young men, Antonio Rosario and Hilton Vega who were shot by two NYPD detectives in the Bronx in early 1995. One detective was Mayor Giuliani's former bodyguard. We will show excerpts from the film. B.E.S. (BANGLA EAST SIDE) - Sarita Khurana & Fariba Alam (WORLD PREMIERE) A documentary portrait of four Bangladeshi teenagers growing up in the Lower East Side of New York City as they negotiate the complications of their lives as young immigrant teens in post 9-11 America. FAROUK ABDEL-MUHTI: Political Prisoner - Konrad Aderer Farouk tells his own story from Passaic County Jail, and speaks out against the injustices inflicted on Muslim immigrants since 9/11. MISTAKEN IDENTITIES - by Hima B. Interviews with six queer New Yorkers of South Asian and Arab descent immediately after 9/11. We will show an excerpt from the film. 9:00pm, Galapagos Art and Performance Space, $10* Performances By: Outernational DJ Siraiki (Mutiny, NYC) DJ Abu Jorjj (damar-wa-fawda) *$10 Cover-proceeds go to Blue Triangle Network For more information call: 917-733-1121 or email: BTNNYC@yahoo.com February 20th is an opportunity to open the eyes of many more people to the reality of this repression and mobilize many more into this movement to stop it. On this day, communities of Muslim, Arab and South Asian immigrants can see that there are many others who will stand with them and act fearlessly to stop this repression. Standing together on the National Day of Solidarity sends an important message to the government that they will face a growing multi-national and inter-religious movement of citizens and non-citizens who are organizing an unstoppable fight to end this kind of repression. For a list of events around the country please go to: http://www.bluetriangle.org/events.html Read and endorse the Call for this day: http://www.bluetriangle.org/feb20/feb20_2004.html Details about the films an performances: www.thirdi.org/~ny On February 20th wear a blue triangle with the name of one of the newly "disappeared!" 2/17/04: Farouk Abdel-Muhti has now been held for 663 days
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Committee for the Release of Farouk Abdel-Muhti PO Box 20587, Tompkins Square Station, New York, NY 10009 Phone: 212-674-9499 * Email freefarouk@yahoo.com Websites: http://www.freefarouk.org * http://freefarouk.netfirms.com ========================================================= |
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