Screenings
February 20, 2012
3:30pm
Union Bank Hospitality Room
Japan Center East Mall
San Francisco Japantown
March 16, 2012
7:30pm
Palmerston Library
560 Palmerston Avenue
Toronto, Canada
February 12, 2012
3:30pm
Langara College, Theatre Three
100 West 49th Avenue
Vancouver, Canada
October 4, 2011
9:00pm
Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas Street
West Toronto, Ontario
September 20, 2011
Tuesday, September 20
8:00pm
The Maysles Cinema
343 Lenox Avenue
Harlem
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3:30pm
Union Bank Hospitality Room
Japan Center East Mall
San Francisco Japantown
Films of Remembrance
A one-day film series held in conjunction with the Bay Area Day of Remembrance on Feb. 19, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066, which set the wheels in motion to forcibly relocate some 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry into American concentration camps during World War II.
Monday, Feb. 20
Union Bank Hospitality Room,
Japan Center East Mall,
S.F. Japantown
Admission: FREE
(donations welcome)
SEATING LIMITED
Program:
2 p.m.: “Enemy Alien” followed by video chat discussion with director Konrad Aderer
4 p.m.: “A Personal Matter: Gordon Hirabayashi vs. The United States”
4:30 p.m.: Special preview of “Manzanar Fishing Club”
5 p.m.: “Prisoners and Patriots: The Untold Story of Japanese Internment in Santa Fe”
7:30pm
Palmerston Library
560 Palmerston Avenue
Toronto, Canada
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No One Is Illegal (Toronto), a group of immigrants, refugees and allies who fight for the rights of all migrants to live with dignity and respect.
3:30pm
Langara College, Theatre Three
100 West 49th Avenue
Vancouver, Canada
World Community Film Festival, produced by CoDevelopment Canada.
Sunday, February 12
3:30pm
Langara College Main Campus, Theatre Three
100 West 49th Avenue (between Main Street and Cambie Street)
Vancouver, Canada
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The Enemy Alien screening is sponsored by the Canada Palestine Support Network (CanPalNet)
There are millions of stateless Palestinians. No one image incorporates them all. Does our mental image encapsulate the life and experience of Farouk Abdel Muhti, born in 1947, the year of the partition of historic Palestine? How does the pervasiveness of Islamophobia affect our image of the Palestinian struggle for justice? This film gives us an opportunity to explore these questions.
The World Community Film Festival is BC’s largest social justice film fest. It features over 35 social justice and environmental documentaries that go to the heart of issues confronting communities here and around the world. The focus of the festival is to motivate audiences to action through awareness of issues both local and global.
The festival is produced by CoDevelopment Canada and the World Community Development Education Society, and co-sponsored by Langara College.
9:00pm
Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas Street
West Toronto, Ontario
TPFF program info
Premiering at this screening will be the completely finished, remastered 82-minute cut, on DigiBeta, with sound mix by composer Peter Darmi.
Enemy Alien director Konrad Aderer will be coming to Toronto and attending the screening.
Tuesday, September 20
8:00pm
The Maysles Cinema
343 Lenox Avenue
Harlem
Third World Newsreel, Lillian Benson, Konrad Aderer and the Maysles Cinema Present:
Enemy Alien
Post Screening Q&A with Director Konrad Aderer
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The Maysles Cinema is located in Harlem, between 127th and 128th streets on Lenox Avenue (also known as Malcolm X Boulevard).
By Subway: The #2 and #3 train station is two blocks away at 125th street. You can also take A, B, C, D, or #4, #5, #6 to 125th street and walk or take a bus to Lenox Avenue.
By Bus: M-1, M-2, M-7, M-60, M-100, M-101, M-102 or BX 15
Parking is available at the Municipal Garage at 126th Street between Lenox Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd.
The Enemy Alien screening will be preceded by a short film screening at 7:30pm:
All Our Sons: Fallen Heroes of 9/11
Lillian Benson, 2003, 28 min.
7:00pm
Alwan for the Arts
16 Beaver Street
Manhattan, NYC
Alwan for the Arts is presenting a screening of Enemy Alien followed by a discussion of the film's themes of shared struggle between Muslim and Japanese Americans in the face of wartime xenophobia and racism, and how this solidarity can inspire an effective response to the massive expansion of immigrant detention and deportation which has continued from 9/11 to this day.
Alwan for the Arts
16 Beaver Street (between Broad and Broadway), 4th floor
Directions
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SUBWAY: 4/5 to Bowling Green; J/M/Z to Broad St.; R/W to Whitehall St.; 1 to Rector St. or South Ferry; 2/3 to Wall St.; A/C to Broadway-Nassau
BUSES: M1, M6, M9, M16, M20.
Alwan for the Arts is accessible to people with disabilities. Please call 646 732 3261 in advance, or buzz at the door to arrange a ramp.
7:00 pm: Enemy Alien screening
At this event a special 60-minute version of Enemy Alien created for outreach and education will be followed by a panel discussion.
8:15 pm: Panel discussion with the filmmaker and discussants:
Konrad Aderer lives and works in his native New York City as an independent documentary filmmaker and freelance videojournalist. Since he established nonprofit multimedia project Life or Liberty (lifeorliberty.org) in 2002, Konrad has produced several documentaries on immigrants targeted by enforcement in the years following 9/11. Konrad is completing a Masters degree in Sociology at Brooklyn College, focusing on urban immigrant communities.
Amy Gottlieb is the Program Director of the American Friends Service Committee Immigrant Rights Program in Newark, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the rights of immigrants and refugees through legal services, community organizing, and advocacy. Amy graduated from Rutgers Law School-Newark in 1996, where she is currently an adjunct professor of immigration law. She chairs the steering committee of the Detention Watch Network, and is a board member of La Fuente and Houses on the Moon Theater Company.
Nancy Mansour (aka Harrabic Tubman) is a community organizer, hip hop artist manager, and radio host on www.pncradio.fm for over 8 years. In 2009 she co-founded Existence Is Resistance, an internationalist organization promoting inter-cultural solidarity and non-violent resistance through the arts, with a focus on occupied Palestine and inner city youth. EIR’s 2010 hip hop tour is the subject of the documentary Hip Hop Is Bigger Than The Occupation, screening September 29th at the Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz Memorial Center in Harlem. For more information, please visit www.existenceisresistance.org.
Cristina "AiMara" Lee is a former organizer and national coordinator for the Not In Our Name Project, an anti-war/anti-repression project that existed between 2002-2006. Originally from California, she is the granddaughter of Japanese American WWII internees and helped organize Japanese American solidarity against attacks on Arabs, Muslims and South Asians after 9/11. She is now a law student living in Brooklyn and works for Gideon Oliver, co-counsel for the Ahmed Ferhani case. Cristina is also a trained Legal Observer and active with both Brooklyn Law and New York City chapters of the National Lawyers Guild.
About Alwan for the Arts
Alwan for the Arts serves the Arab community and educates the broader public by showcasing a range of cultural events, thereby enriching the cross- cultural and artistic encounter. Alwan is committed to maintaining a space for reflection, dialogue, and growth in the arts and cultures of the peoples of the Middle East, North Africa, and the diaspora.
9:30pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Ave & 2nd Street
Manhattan
New Filmmakers at Anthology Film Archives is presenting a sneak preview of Enemy Alien.
Preceding the feature presentation that day will be a shorts program curated by Third World Newsreel, including two Life or Liberty short documentaries:
6:30 p.m.
ENEMY ALIEN trailer (2 min)
LIFE OR LIBERTY by Konrad Aderer, 8 minutes
Shokriea Yaghi copes with the senseless incarceration of her husband in 9/11's aftermath. A Japanese American woman who lived through the WWII camps shares her bitterness and her fears for the future, as immigration law expert Cyrus Mehta and former federal prosecutor Michael Wildes debate the larger context of anti-terror policies.
RISING UP: THE ALAMS by Konrad Aderer, 11 minutes
See how a Bangladeshi-American family targeted by Special Registration fights back. As part of the Homeland security measures, immigrant men from 25, mostly Muslim countries were required to enroll in a Special Registration program. The result: no evidence of terror, but some 13,000 people are now being deported mostly for expired visas. The Alams were among the many families who believed that voluntarily participating in the Special Registration would show their loyalty. Instead, they face the prospect of breaking up their family, despite a decade of hard work and the raising of two children. Working with DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving), the Queens South Asian activist group, the Alams have become activists, organizing to fight for their right to stay. Part of the Call for Change series.
TWO MONTHS TO HOME by Janice Ahn, 8 minutes
"Ahn brings a human side to post-September 11, 2001 detentions" -- National Museum of Women in the Arts
Samira Rahman is an Afghan mother who narrowly escaped death at the hands of the Taliban just months before September 11, 2001. Upon arrival in the U.S., she is unduly held in a makeshift detention center for two months. Her husband and four children and are elated and relieved when she is finally released and allowed to remain in New York City. Samira learns a hard lesson about life in the U.S.; the price of immigration; the joy of motherhood; and the importance of finding strength in herself.
DASTAAR: DEFENDING SIKH IDENTITY by Kevin Lee, 12 min
A restaurant owner beaten. A policeman fired. A 20 year subway conductor born in the U.S., threatened with job loss: All for wearing the signature turbans of their religion, Sikhism. Since 9/11, hate crimes and job losses have plagued the Sikh-American community, whose religion originated in India, and is not even Islamic. In response, the NYC Sikh community has organized to confront the bias and attacks, through legal suits, pressure on city officials and proactive public education. An excellent introduction to an often misunderstood religion and the success of community activism.
DECEMBER 7/SEPTEMBER 11 BY Ann Brandman & Paul Nishijima, 15 minutes
A comparison of how the events and possible after effects of September 11th may mirror those of the attack on Pearl Harbor. A collection of interviews with Japanese-American veterans who witnessed the events of December 7 in Hawaii offer their insight into what has happened and what might be to come.
Asia Pacific Forum
9:00PM EST
WBAI 99.5 FM, NYC
ENEMY ALIEN director Konrad Aderer will be interviewed on Asia Pacific Forum about the film and its July 5 screening at Anthology Film Archives. His segment will be the third segment on the program, airing sometime after 9:30.
Outline of program:
Asia Pacific Forum
9PM EST, Monday, June 27, 2011
Live on WBAI 99.5 FM, New York City
Podcasting at Asia Pacific Forum
Ethnic minorities in Burma resist dam construction
While the Burmese government touts hydro-power as a source of economic development, human rights activists say that new dam projects have resulted in massive displacement, fueled political unrest, and ravaged sensitive river ecosystems. Joining APF Monday to talk about this underreported crisis are two activists based in Thailand, SAI SAI of the Burma Rivers Network, and PAI DEETES of International Rivers.
"Micro-work": a new trend in international development?
A new generation of so-called social entrepreneurs is trying to harness technology to alleviate poverty, combining nonprofit work with the power of corporate investors. One such venture is Samasource, a Bay Area based organization that connects private companies with skilled workers in developing countries to do basic computer services and data processing jobs. So is this model, known as “microwork” the future of international development? APF will discuss these new trends in social enterprise with CLAIRE HUNSAKER, head of client services and Samasource, and A. ANEESH, a professor of sociology and global studies at the University of Wisconsin.
From Japanese internment to post-911 detention
Enemy Alien, a new documentary, tells the story of the dramatic two-year struggle to free Palestinian activist and WBAI assistant producer Farouk Abdel-Muhti, detained in a post-9/11 roundup of Muslim immigrants. Japanese American filmmaker KONRAD ADERER documents his own personal journey as he becomes active in Abdel-Muhti's campaign and learns more about his own family's experience with internment during World War II. Join APF on Monday as we talk to Aderer about his film.
7:00pm
May Day Books
301 Cedar Avenue
Minneapolis, MS
Sponsored by the Socialist Party USA. The screening will be followed by a discussion on Farouk Abdel-Muhti, the campaign to free him, and the continuing struggle against government harrassment of political activists and immigrants.
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Mayday Books
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1:00pm - 4:00pm
Japanese American United Church
255 7th Ave (between 24th and 25th Streets)
New York, NY
This is a special commemoration of the WW2 incarceration of Japanese Americans where a representative of Park 51 (the "Ground Zero Mosque") will be speaking. Following that I'll be sharing the trailer of Enemy Alien.
On Saturday, April 9, 2011, 1-4pm, the New York Day of Remembrance Committee invites you to a special coalition building event in remembrance of the WW II incarceration of Japanese Americans and in solidarity with Arab and Muslim Americans targeted by racism in this post 9-11 era. Across the country, our communities are using Day of Remembrance as a vehicle to shed light on the shared experience of wartime hysteria and racism.
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Our 2011 Day of Remembrance gathering is named "9066 / 9/11: Japanese American and Muslim and Arab American Communities: In Crises, In Solidarity, In Justice, In Compassion". We will be commemorating Executive Order 9066 which mandated the forced incarceration of Japanese-Americans during WWII, and the aftermath of September 11 targeting Arab and Muslim-Americans.
In recognition of the approaching 10th anniversary since 9/11, please join us as we continue to do the important work of healing and reflecting over the internment, while simultaneously considering how we as a community can stand next to another in a similar time of peril.
* · Speaker Janan Delgado from the Park 51 Islamic Cultural Center. Janan Delgado was born and raised in Ecuador, and educated in Beirut, Cairo and New York. Her academic interests center on Islamic legal theories and Medieval Islamic history. She also writes on gender and Muslim minority issues in the modern West, and her articles have been published and cited in Altmuslimah.com, Gender Across Borders, Racialicious, The Guardian UK, The Huffington Post and others. Janan Delgado lives in NYC and is Program Coordinator at Park51, the planned community center in Lower Manhattan.
* · Remembrances of Frank Emi and William Hohri
* · Composer/flutist Nobuko Miyazaki performing an original piece reflecting shared experiences of Japanese Americans and Arab and Muslim Americans, featuring poetry by Janice Mirikitani and Suheir Hammad. With April Centrone (percussion), John Vergara (oud - Arabic lute), Olivia Oguma and Nora Armani.
* · Candlelight Ceremony
* · Special film screenings of the "Enemy Alien" trailer, directed and produced by Konrad Aderer, and the short film "9066 to 9/11: America’s Concentration Camps, Then...and Now?", directed by Akira Boch.
* · A Building Bridges Community Potluck. Please bring a dish to share from your culture!
Saturday, April 9, 2011
1-4pm
Japanese American United Church
255 7th Ave (between 24th and 25th Streets), New York, NY 10001
For more information contact Michael Ishii: mikeishii@gmail.com
Donations can be made to NYC Day of Remembrance Committee. Please send donations to: NY Day of Remembrance Cmte; 4157 75th Street #2D, Elmhurst NY 11373
We look forward to seeing you all there. Help spread the word! THANK YOU!
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