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April 20, 2006

Rising Up: the Alams at the 1st Asian American Film Festival in Hong Kong

Alisha

First Asian American Film Festival
Friday, April 20, 2007
7 p.m
D Hall, MUST
The Hong Kong America Center
Chung Chi College
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin N.T., Hong Kong SAR China

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.

A PANEL DISCUSSION ON IMMIGRANT AND POLITICAL DETENTION

Asian American Arts Centre presents:

A PANEL DISCUSSION ON IMMIGRANT AND POLITICAL DETENTION

with:
Konrad Aderer
(filmmaker focusing on detention and deportation)
Adem Carroll (Islamic Center of North America)
Monami Maulik (Desis Rising Up and Moving)
Visible Collective/Disappeared in America.org

Thursday, April 20th at 6 pm

Asian American Arts Centre
26 Bowery, 3rd floor, NYC
(between Pell and Bayard. Red door to the left of McDonald’s)

212-233-2154
http://artspiral.org

April 10, 2006

A National Day of Action for Immigrants' Rights

April 10th in NEW YORK CITY!
A National Day of Action
Rally for Immigrant Rights at CITY HALL PARK!

There are 3 MARCHES to CITY HALL PARK:

1. Meet at Washington Sq Park, 2:00PM; march via Broadway
(1 to Christopher St, A/C/E or B/D/F to West 4th Street)

2. Meet at Chatham Square, 2:00PM; march via Worth Street
(F to East Broadway)

3. Meet at Cadman Plaza Brooklyn, 3:00PM; march over the Brooklyn Bridge
(A/C to High St., 2/3 Clark St.)

RALLY:

City Hall Park 3:00PM-7:00PM
(R/W to City Hall, 6 or J/M to Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall, 3 to Park Place,
A/C/E to Chambers Street)

Please contact New York Immigration Coalition
Avideh Moussavian 212.627.2227 x244
Angela Lee 212.627.2227 x229

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Dia Nacional de Accion
Abril 10, 2006 en Nueva York
Demostracion por los derechos de los inmigrantes

Marcha

1. Reunirse en Washington Sq Park, 2:00PM
(1 to Christopher St, A/C/E or B/D/F to West 4th Street)

2. Reunirse Chatham Square, 2:00PM
(F to East Broadway)

3. Reunirse Cadman Plaza Brooklyn, 3:00PM
(A/C to High St., 2/3 Clark St.)

Demostracion
City Hall Park 3:00PM-7:00PM
(R/W to City Hall, 6 or J/M to Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall, 3 to Park Place,
A/C/E to Chambers Street)

Para mas informacion favor de contactar
New York Immigration Coalition

Deycy Avitia 212.627.2227 x231
Javier Valdes 212.627.2227 x234

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2) Summary of other feeder marches & meeting points at today's rally

Stand up for Queer & Trans Immigration Rights. (Audre Lorde Project,
Immigration Equality, Pride Agenda, and Queer Immigrant Rights Project.) Meet
under the rainbow flags at 2pm, at the corner of Church and Vesey St. (E to
World Trade Center.) Contact: Adam at 917.573.3773

List of Contingents from NY Activist Calendar (http://www.nycalendar.org):

--Queens Contingent, Immigrant Communities in Action (ICA). Meet at Jamaica
(Hillside Ave & 148th St at Sutphin stop of F train) at 12 noon; or 1 pm in
Jackson Hts (Broadway & Roosevelt at 74th St on E/F/V/R/G trains, 74th St stop
on 7); or 2 pm downtown (World Trade Center station, Church & Vesey at E stop).
Groups from Jamaica & Jackson Hts take trains & all meet up at WTC site to
march together to City Hall. Info: 718-205-3036 (English, Bangla, Urdu, Hindi),
718-298-5083 (Spanish). ImmigrantCommunitiesinAction@gmail.com

--Noon: Drive Out the Bush Regime Contingent: walk out noon;
converge at Union Sq just before 2 pm; march to rally. Sponsor:
The World Can't Wait. Info: 212-969-0772,
nycyouth@worldcantwait.org & http://www.worldcantwait.org

--12:30 pm: QEJ (Queers for Economic Justice) & QuIR (the Queer Immigrant
Rights Project) sign-making, chant-creating, energy- pumping, pre-demonstration
gathering. At 16 W 32nd St #10H (btw 5th Ave & Broadway). Info: 212-564-3608.

--1 pm: NYU Grad Student Organizing Cmt (GSOC/UAW Local 2110). Meet in front of
Bobst library, then join march from Washington Sq Park to City Hall (see below
2 pm). Info: 212-529-2580, gsoc@2110uaw.org

--1 pm: Korean Americans. Meet at Lippman Plaza, Roosevelt Ave
btw Main St & Union Blvd, Flushing, Queens; in Man, 2 pm at 250
Broadway. Info (Korean/Eng): YKASEC, 718-460-5600.

--1 pm: NYU LUCHA (Latinos Unidos Con Honor y Amistad). Meet on
7th fl of Kimmel for sign making, then join Washington Square Park
contingent (see below 2 pm). Info: lucha@forums.nyu.edu

--1:30 pm: Justice 4 Immigrants (J4I) Coalition Filipino contingent. Meet at NE
corner Broadway & Wall St. All welcome. Look for apple green migrante flag.
closest subway stops: Wall St. (4/5 trains) and Rector St. (R Train) Sponsors:
Anakbayan, Critical Filipino/Filipina Studies Collective, Kinding Sindaw,
Migrante International, many others. Info: 718-565-8862,
justice4immigrants@yahoo.com & http:/www.migrante-ny.blogspot.com

--2 pm: Chinatown assembly point. Meet at Chatham Sq (F to East
Broadway), march via Worth St.

--2 pm: NY Immigration Coalition (NYIC), Asociacion Tepeyac, NYU
GSOC/ACLU/LUCHA, many others. Meet in Washington Sq Park (A/C/E, B/D/F to W 4th
St, 1 to Christopher St); march down Broadway. Info: Javier Valdes,
917-679-2971.

--2:30 pm: Pace Students for a Democratic Society feeder, planning to hook up
with IWW-NYC & SDS contingents. At Pace U front plaza at Pace Sq (Park Row near
Frankfort St & Brooklyn Bridge entrance, opposite City Hall Park, 4/5/6 to
Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall, J/M/Z to Chambers, R/W to City Hall, A/C to
Broadway-Nassau/Fulton). Info: kelly@leftist.ws

--2:30 pm: Brooklyn assembly point. Meet at Cadman Plaza Park, Brooklyn (A/C to
High St, 2/3 to Clark St, F to York St); march across Brooklyn Bridge. Info:
Ana Maria Archila, 917-330-5337.

--3 pm: Green Party feeder. Meet at office, 139 Fulton St, #215,
just east of Broadway. Info: a.gronowicz@att.net &
glomatt@earthlink.net

--3:30 pm: NY Jobs w/Justice. Meet on N side of Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn
(A/C to High St, 2/3/4/5 to Boro Hall, F to York St); march
across Brooklyn Bridge. Info: newyorkjwj@mindspring.com

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