August 5th Fundraiser!

AMERICA'S CIVIL RIGHTS CRISIS

::DISAPPEARED IN AMERICA Opening::
::PANEL on Arts & Activism in Age of Crisis::
::FUNDRAISER for two detained teenage girls::

The Brecht Forum
451 West St. (West Side Hwy betw Bank & Bethune 1-1/2 blocks
north of W. 11th)
NY, NY 10014

1,9,2,3 A,C to 14th st.
(212) 242- 4201
http://www.disappearedinamerica.org
http://www.detainthis.blogspot.com

1.) 5pm 'Disappeared in America' Exhibition Opening
 DISAPPEARED IN AMERICA exhibition (VISIBLE Collective)
 New work by Chitra Ganesh
2.) 7pm Panel Discussion: Arts and Activism in Age of Crisis
 Avideh Moussavian, New York Immigrant Coalition (NICE)
 Aziz Huq, NYU Brennan Center for Justice
 Fariba Alam, director, BANGLA EAST SIDE
 Konrad Aderer, director, LIFE OR LIBERTY, The ALAMS
 Naeem Mohaiemen, VISIBLE Collective
3.) 8pm Fundraiser for Detainees: Speakers (Family members
  of detainees), Multicultural Music Extravaganza
 Bengali musicians from the Bangladeshi Institute of
  performing Arts
 Guinean musicians (Ahmadou Bah & Others)
 Mor Dior Bamba of Senagal
 Coumba Siddibe Shangan of Mali with Guinean accompaniment
 Dawoud of Mystic JAz.
 Bangla comedian Aladdin Ullah

Suggested Minimum: $10 (no one will be turned away)

Bring checkbooks if you want to make larger donations to the
fund for the detained teenagers

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Friday, August 5
5 PM-11PM

5 PM:
DISAPPEARED IN AMERICA exhibition (VISIBLE Collective)
&
New work by Chitra Ganesh

Exhibiting from Aug 5-Aug 30

Since 9/11, thousands of Muslim immigrants were detained in
a security dragnet. The majority of those detained were from
the invisible underclass of cities like New York. They are
the recent immigrants who drive our taxis, deliver our food,
clean our restaurant tables, and sell fruit, coffee, and
newspapers. The only time we see their faces are when we
glance at the hack license in the taxi partition, or the ID
card around the neck of a vendor.

Already invisible in our cities, after detention, they have
become "ghost prisoners." In this, there are eerie parallels
to past witch-hunts, including the 1919 detention of 10,000
immigrants after anarchists bombed the Attorney General's
home; the 1941 internment of 110,000 Japanese-Americans; the
trial and execution of the Rosenbergs; and the HUAC Black-
listing under Senator Joseph McCarthy. While our work started
in the American context, we have expanded to look at Europe,
in recognition that anti-immigrant xenophobia, coupled with
Islamophobia, is not a new or uniquely American phenomenon.

VISIBLE, is a collective of Muslim and other Artist-
Activists, that created the DISAPPEARED IN AMERICA project.
DISAPPEARED is a walk-through installation that uses film,
soundscape, images, installations and lectures to humanize
the faces of post 9/11 "disappeared" Muslims. It is also a
traveling, multimedia lecture that has been shown in
Stuttgart, London, Stockholm, Helsinki and other cities.

More information is available at
www.disappearedinamerica.org.

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7 PM: PANEL DISCUSSION on Arts & Activism in Age of Crisis
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8 PM: FUNDRAISER:  America's Civil Liberties Crisis:
Respond with Music and Solidarity!

FUNDRAISER FOR TWO TEENAGERS UNJUSTLY DETAINED & accused of
being a threat to national security:

Tashnuba Hyder (Bangladesh): detained and deported with family
Adama Bah (Guinea): detained and eventually released, all
 charges dropped

Family and friends of Tashnuba & Adama talk about the case

Followed by a Multicultural Extravaganza including:
 Bengali musicians from the Bangladeshi Institute of performing
  Arts
 Guinean musicians (Ahmadou Bah & Others)
 Mor Dior Bamba of Senagal
 Coumba Siddibe Shangan of Mali with Guinean accompaniment
 Dawoud of Mystic JAz.
 Bangla comedian Aladdin Ullah

For more info iamourhaj@aol.com or call or 917 602 4450  All
proceeds will be divided by the two families!

If you cannot attend, but wish to make a donation, go to:
http://detainthis.blogspot.com/

Or mail check to
Emergency Families Fund / CAIR
c/o 9-11 relief program / Adem Carroll
166-26 89th Avenue
Jamaica, NY, 11432
Donations are tax-exempt

Sponsored by
Ad Hoc Coalition for Adama & Tashnuba
Visible Collective (disappearedinamerica.org)
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
Justice For James Yee Ad Hoc Committee
AltMuslim.com