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

Resources



LIFE OR LIBERTY PARTNERS

DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving)

A community-based social justice organization of low-income South Asian immigrants in New York City founded in 1999. DRUM organizes low-income immigrants and families affected by detention and deportation, and low-income South Asian immigrant communities for power.


The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)


A non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. CCR won Farouk Abdel-Muhti's release from detention, and secured the return of producer Konrad Aderer's footage from the Counter-Terrorism Office of New Jersey.

Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)

The first legal rights organization on the East Coast serving Asian Americans. Their vital work includes the Voting Rights Project, combating anti-Asian violence, and defending immigrants' rights.

IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS

Families for Freedom

A New York-based multi-ethnic defense network by and for immigrants facing and fighting deportation. Families seeks to repeal the laws that are tearing apart our homes and neighborhoods; and to build the power of immigrant communities – as communities of color – to provide a guiding voice in the growing movement for immigrant rights as human rights.

ACTION/PROTEST

Not In Our Name

A national network of individuals and organizations working to build, strengthen and expand resistance to stop the U.S. government's entire course of war and repression being waged in the name of "fighting terrorism."

InternationalAnswer.org

A comprehensive resource for activists.

IMMIGRATION LAW

CyrusMehta.com

Cyrus Mehta's website, containing detailed, up-to-the-minute information on immigration issues.

Transcripts from Cyrus Mehta's semiweekly TV segment, "Immigration Matters"

ANTI-TERRORISM LEGISLATION

The Electronic Privacy Information Center's history of anti-terrorism legislation

The full text of the USA PATRIOT Act

MEDIA ACTION

Third World Newsreel

Founded in 1967, TWN is an alternative media arts organization that fosters the creation, appreciation and dissemination of independent film and video by and about people of color. It supports the innovative work of diverse forms and genres made by artists who are intimately connected to their subjects through common bonds of ethnic/cultural heritage, class position, gender, sexual orientation and political identification.

Association of Independent Film and Video Makers

Witness.org

An organization dedicated to putting media in the hands of underserved populations.