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22nd Annual Mesa FilmFest
Monday, Nov 21
8:30am
Middle East Studies Association
1219 North Santa Rita Avenue
The University of Arizona
Tucson AZ

Rising Up: The Alams

Documentary, 11 minutes, MiniDV

director/DP: Konrad Aderer

In this short documentary we meet the Alams, a Bangladeshi family living in Coney Island, Brooklyn. Mohammed Alam, father to two young U.S.-born daughters, is one of 13,000 immigrants facing deportation as a consequence of Special Registration, a post-9/11 policy which targeted nationals of Muslim countries. But the Alams are not just victims. Learn how they fight back as members of South Asian community organization D.R.U.M. (Desis Rising Up and Moving).

Rising Up: The Alams was produced as part of the non-profit media project Life or Liberty, as part of Third World Newsreel's Call For Change series.

Posted by Konrad at 08:30 AM | Permalink

On October 25, 2005, in Washington, D.C., United States District Court Judge Gladys Kessler issued an opinion in the case of four Saudi nationals on hunger strike at the Guantánamo Bay prison camp. In an emergency hearing the week of October 14, lawyers with the New York-based law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, which is working in conjunction with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued for contact with their clients and immediate access to their medical records. The attorneys voiced grave concern for their clients’ health, which has reached critical condition since the men began a hunger strike in early August 2005.

Read the story.

Posted by Konrad at 01:15 PM | Permalink

NOVEMBER 1st VIGIL 1pm
Department of Justice

26 Federal Plaza New York, NY.

(there will also be an evening event/IFTAR 4-6 pm)

The Shame and Horror of Guantánamo is known around the world. Since early 2002, hundreds of men have waged desperate hunger strikes to protest their detention without trial. The current hunger strike began in August 2005 with over half of the estimated 540 prisoners participating. Many are now prepared to die if they do not receive a fair hearing or humane treatment. Mnay are also being brutally forcefed by riot guards.

Has the community forgotten these men? It is time WE do something.

PLEASE join the Center for Constitutional Rights & the New York Coalition of Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Muslim and Other Religious Communities in a Fast for Justice on November 1, 2005 to show your solidarity. Will we accept this dirty secret forever?
Does this really make American safe?

To sign up for the fast & for more information, go to our website; CCR-NY.ORG or call 212 614 6477;
Adem Carroll ICNA Relief 917 602 4450
Please call to confirm.

Posted by Konrad at 01:00 PM | Permalink