From: "Action Center" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 13:05:19 -0500 To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [IAC] Ramsey Clark Speaking NYC Thu 12/13 The Antiwar Movement Responds to Ashcroft's Targeting of 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." ------------------ Send replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
