[LCM Events] Immigrant Civil Liberties - Sat., Nov 19

[Heidi Knuff]

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>GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR: Immigrant Civil Liberties, National 
>Security and the American Dream
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>Carl Takei
>Boston College, School of Law
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>Nancy Murray
>American Civil Liberties Union
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>John Pollack
>Detainee Working Group of the National Lawyers Guild
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>Professor Shahid Alam
>Northeastern University Professor, who will discuss academic freedom 
>and his personal case
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>Professor Paul Watanabe
>Dept. of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston
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>Moderated by Professor Kenneth Oye, Center for International 
>Studies, MIT and  Merrie Najimy of the Arab American 
>Anti-Discrimination Committee
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>Saturday, November 19, 2005
>3:30-6:00 pm
>Building E25, Room 111
>45 Carleton Street
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=E25-111
>Four years ago, following the heinous attacks of September 11, the 
>Japanese American Citizen's League of New England, the American-Arab 
>Anti-Discrimination Committee of Massachusetts, and the MIT Program 
>on Human Rights and Justice sponsored a conference to compare and 
>contrast experiences on the effect of security crises on the civil 
>liberties of ethnic minorities. In 1942, Americans of Japanese 
>ancestry, citizens and non-citizens alike, where forcibly interned 
>in prison camps. In the immediate aftermath of 9-11, vigilantism 
>against Sikhs and Arabs was extensive, private acts of 
>discrimination were endemic, and US official policies were still 
>being formed. The conference found that Arab and Muslim immigrants 
>were most vulnerable. The political freedoms, personal privacy, and 
>economic status of these newest Americans were most at risk.
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>FOUR YEARS AFTER 9-11, join the JACL, the ADCMA, and the MIT PHRJ in 
>an afternoon discussion
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>- To take stock of legal and political developments in the "War on Terror"
>- To appraise how the "War on Terror" affects Arab and Muslims 
>living in New England
>- To assess legal and political strategies to help protect the most 
>vulnerable among us
>Sponsored by American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, MA 
>(ADCMA), The Japanese American Citizens' League, NE Chapter (JACL), 
>MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice (PHRJ), The American Civil 
>Liberties Union (ACLU), and The National Lawyers Guild (NLG)
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