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April 17, 2009
 

The Meaning of Easter

This year, Easter was a powerful metaphor for the anniversary we celebrated on the same day last Sunday. April 12 was also a turning point in Farouk's struggle, one which could well be described as a man who laid...
 

December 27, 2008
 

Appealing for the Release of Farouk's Full FBI File

Last week, with some further coaching from Michael Kuzma (member of Leonard Peltier's defense team), I wrote and faxed in my Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) appeal asking a judge to order the FBI to release the 893 pages...
 

August 20, 2007
 

Communities in Support of the Khalil Gibran International Academy

Monday, August 20, 6pm
Tweed Courthouse
52 Chambers Street
NYC
 

July 11, 2007
 

Getting the FBI's files on Farouk

I filed a Freedom of Information/Privacy Act request (commonly known as a FOIA) for the FBI's files on Farouk in March 2006. The first stirrings of a response started coming in December, when I got a voice mail message from...
 

July 21, 2006
 

Vigil Commemorating the Life of Farouk Abdel-Muhti

At the Federal Building, 26 Federal Plaza
Broadway at Worth Street
NYC
 

July 15, 2006
 

RISING UP: THE ALAMS at Asian American International Festival

Saturday, July 15 &
Monday, July 17
NYC
 

May 30, 2006
 

Greyhound bus sweeps for "illegal" immigrants

Hi friends, Last Friday I took a Greyhound bus to Cleveland, Ohio. This bus also stopped in Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo, NY. When we stopped in Rochester a man whose uniform and truck said USBP -- U.S. Border Patrol I...
 

February 23, 2006
 

NSA Surveillance and the Case of Sherman Austin

Editor's note: I came across this article, contacted the email given for supporters and received a reply from his mother, who as you can imagine suffered immeasurably through the political imprisonment of her son. She gave me permission to...
 

February 04, 2006
 

Revolution in the Gulf Coast

Being a pretty minimal blogger, I don't usually follow up on events I participate in -- I wonder how many people in documentary production have the time. But I have to take a moment to praise Common Ground Relief. If...
 

November 12, 2005
 

On the Road with Sander Hicks: 9/11 Truth on Tour

From October 23 through November 5 I was on the book tour for Sander Hicks' The Big Wedding: 9/11, the Whistle-blowers, and the Cover-Up. More specifically I was in a Chevy Uplander minivan with Sander and his wife, folk singer...
 

November 01, 2005
 

Gitmo Hunger Strikers: Attorneys Win Access to Medical Records

source: Center for Constitutional Rights 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...
 

October 13, 2005
 

Surviving Katrina: fundraiser/screening

Thursday, October 13, 2005
White Rabbit
145 East Houston Street
New York City
Doors open 6:30pm
Screening at 8:00pm
 

October 08, 2005
 

"Rising Up: The Alams" at BAM

Sat, Oct 8 at 4:30, 9:15pm
BAM Rose Cinemas
Peter Jay Sharp Building
30 Lafayette Street, Brooklyn, NY

 

August 20, 2005
 

Rising Up... in Philly

Saturday, August 20
Center City
Co-hosted by Community Youth Organizing Committee
8:30 pm @Jamaican Jerk Hut
1436 South Street
Philadelphia, PA

 

August 05, 2005
 

FUNDRAISER FOR TWO UNJUSTLY DETAINED TEENAGERS

Friday, August 5
5 PM-11PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, NYC
(on the West Side Highway
between Bank & Bethune Streets)

 

April 08, 2005
 

Tribute to Farouk this Tuesday on WBAI

This coming Tuesday (April 12th) will mark the one year anniversary since the release of our brother and comrade in struggle, Farouk Abdel-Muhti, from custody in the immigration jails of the United States Immigration authorities, on an alleged visa violation....
 

March 10, 2005
 

Apology to Commenters

I just discovered that my comment spam blocker, MT-Blacklist, has systematically told all commenters "Your comment could not be submitted due to questionable content." This was because it had been mistakenly set to block comments containing a colon, INCLUDING THE...
 

February 24, 2005
 

The Magic of Internment

Michelle Malkin appeared on KPCC to argue that the internment and removal of Japanese from the West Coast in World War II was justified. Author Eric Muller represented the opposing view; you can give a listen at the link above....
 

February 22, 2005
 

Lynne Stewart Convicted

I know anyone with the slightest interest in this trial knows this by now, but civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart, whom I know through her support of Farouk, has been convicted of, I think, all the charges against her including...
 

January 21, 2005
 

FBI, MEDIA GENERATE UNFOUNDED CHINESE TERRORIST SCARE

On Wednesday an anonymous tipster called the California Highway Patrol, claiming that four Chinese people had come into the U.S. from Mexico and were to receive a shipment of "nuclear oxide" to be used in a terror plot in Boston....
 

November 03, 2004
 

11/13/04 Memorial for Farouk Abdel-Muhti

Contact: Sharin Chiorazzo,(201)951-6919 abufkheida@maktoob.com David Wilson,(212)674-9499 freefarouk@yahoo.com FOR RELEASE: Immediately MEMORIAL MEETING FOR PALESTINIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST: A celebration of the life of Farouk Abdel-Muhti, who died July 21, 2004, 100 days after being released from a post-September 11,...
 

August 22, 2004
 

War on Terra

"We actually misnamed the war on terror. It ought to be [called] the struggle against ideological extremists who do not believe in free societies and who happen to use terror as a weapon to try to shake the conscience of the free world."
 

August 09, 2004
 

Pro-internment book launched today

One thing is true that Malkin says on her site; we can't criticize her book without reading it. The problem is figuring out how to read her book without paying for it. I agree with Malkin on one thing: a...
 

August 06, 2004
 

MAJOR ASIAN AMERICAN PUNDIT WRITES BOOK JUSTIFYING THE INTERNMENT

Michelle Malkin's book purports to justify the removal and incarceration of the Japanese Americans, in the service of advocating racial profiling by the Bush Administration.
 

July 22, 2004
 

Victory in Loss

He's gone, but his freedom endures.