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FEBRUARY 20, 2002
NATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH MUSLIM, ARAB AND SOUTH ASIAN IMMIGRANTS
In the wake of September 11th, over 1500 people, mainly Arabs, South Asians and Muslims, have been rounded up by the FBI and INS.  They are being kept in detention, many on the basis of secret evidence or no evidence at all, and without contact with a lawyer or their loved ones.  The government has refused to reveal their identities or whereabouts.  They have "disappeared."

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11:00 AM - 3:00PM: Speak Out against hate & intolerance
Columbia University, Low Plaza, West 116th Street & Broadway, Manhattan, NYC
1, 9 to Columbia University/116th Street Station -Contact: LSY7@columbia.edu

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM: RALLY AT THE INS BUILDING
26 Federal Plaza, Broadway and Duane Street, Manhattan, NYC
#4,5,6 to City Hall, #A, C, E, 1, 2, 9 to Chambers Street

5:00 PM: MARCH TO WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK
bring your creative energies, instruments, spoken word acts, and voices to this important event.  In the coming weeks, we will be organizing a performance night in association with this day of solidarity so keep your eyes out for it and contact us if you'd be interested in performing info@SALAAMtheatre.org

7:30 PM: Cultural Artists Perform followed by Dinner
Haveli Party Hall - 46 Coney Island Ave., Brooklyn
Directions: take the Q train to Ave H stop
Corner of Ave. H and Coney Island Ave

We invite all who have been targets of the current INS disappearances, detentions, deportations, racial profiling and random hate crimes to express your stories, concerns and needs. Help build a community of resistance against these injustices.

for more information:
http://www.laresistencia.org
Phone: 212.330.8097

First they came for the Communists and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me, but by that time,
no one was left to speak up.

--Pastor Martin Niemoeller, Nazi Germany