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Tomorrow -- RACISM & THE WAR: At Home & Abroad, 7:30 pm -- pls fwd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anne Pollock)
Sun May 4 11:11:51 2003
Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 11:11:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Anne Pollock <apollock@MIT.EDU>
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Here is a great-sounding event happening at Harvard tomorrow...Anne
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RACISM & THE WAR: At Home and Abroad
Monday, May 5 -- 7:30 pm -- Emerson 105
panel t o b e f o l l o w e d b y discussion forum
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* How has U.S. foreign policy both been affected by and contributed to
racism?
* How is the media racist in its coverage of "national security" issues?
* Why has it become acceptable to subject Arab Americans to racial
profiling?
* How do current INS detentions of non-citizens parallel the internment of
Japanese Americans during WWII?
* How has the war in Iraq, including military recruitment, impacted
communities of color in the U.S.?
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DID YOU KNOW...
* The FBI has recently reported that anti-Islamic hate crime incidents
rose a dramatic 1,600% in the past year.
* 600 violent incidents directed against Arab Americans or those perceived
to be such (including Sikhs, South Asians and Latinos) were cited between
9/11 and March 27, 2002.
* The INS has indefinitely detained thousands of Arab and South Asian
immigrants since 9/11, simply on basis of their country of origin.
Non-citizens from "terrorist" states have been required to register with
the federal government, and thousands of all nationalities have been
summarily deported.
* African Americans represent 13% of the US population, but in the recent
Iraq war, 20% of US casualties have been black - the highest ever in an
American military operation. 14% were Hispanic.
* Before the war in Iraq, Cheney declared we must fight 50 nations for 50
years -- the nations which house Al Qaeda. Yet Al Qaeda operates in 64
countries. Who were the remaining 14 not on his list? Europe, the U.S.,
and Canada.
* Why are we led to believe that the 3000 American lives lost on 9/11
still outweigh any loss of life that our government has been responsible
for since?
* Do the Iraqi people need to be educated about "democracy" by the USA?
Is the Middle East really a sea of backwardness and "failed states," that
must be saved through a benign colonialism? Why did American soldiers
stand by and watch Iraq's cultural heritage being pillaged? Is the media
trying to foster an image of a people incapable of governing themselves?
There has never been a more important time to discuss and debate the issue
of racism in America.
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SPEAKERS:
Alpana Mehta, community activist
Syed Khan, Muslim Community Support Services
Nancy Murray, ACLU of Massachusetts
Carl Takei, community activist
Tim McCarthy, History & Literature
... plus students Yumi Lee, Toussaint Losier, Elizabeth
Saloom, Aaron Tanaka and others
Speakers will be followed by a discussion forum or multiple small-group
discussions.
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Co-sponsored by the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice, Society of
Arab Students, Harvard Progressive Advocacy Group, Harvard College Greens,
Harvard Islamic Society, Black Students Association, Asian American
Association, the Progressive Jewish Alliance, and the Progressive Student
Labor Movement.
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