Calling all people of conscience: Following numerous Associated Press
reports about NYPD programs that profile, investigate and entrap American
Muslims not even suspected of committing a crime (
http://www.thenation.com/blog/163159/long-life-profiling-ten-years-after-911),
it is time for Muslims and all Americans to STAND UP. While legal and political
actions and education continue, it is crucial that this movement be led by the
people it affects: all of us. Muslims, affected communities and all allies of
justice, join us:
RALLY & FRIDAY PRAYER TO STOP NYPD/CIA REPRESSION OF MUSLIM
COMMUNITIES
Friday, November 18, 2011
12 - 4 PM
Foley Square (Worth St between Lafayette & Centre St.), NYC
12pm: March from Occupied Wall St. (Zucotti Park)
1-2pm: Jummah Prayer
2-4pm: Speakers & Performances
Our Demands:
1. An immediate end to all racial, ethnic and religious profiling.
2. The dismantlement and disclosure of all warrant-less surveillance
operations.
3. An independent commission to investigate all NYPD, CIA and FBI
operations against the Muslim community.
4. The immediate protection of our right to freedom of worship, free
speech and free association.
5. The equal protection, under the law, of Muslims and all people of New
York.
Sponsored & Endorsed by:
Majlis Ash-Shura of Metropolitan New York, Arab Muslim American
Federation, Council on American Islamic Relations - New York (CAIR-NY), Muslim
American Society, Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), Al-Awda NY, Mosque of
Islamic Brotherhood, Social Justice Task Force of Muslim Alliance in North
America, Muslim Bar Association of New York, National Lawyers Guild-NYC,
Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition (MACLC), ICNA New
York, International Action Center, OWS Immigrant Working Group, United
National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), May 1 Workers & Immigrant Rights
Coalition, BAYAN USA, Pakistan USA Freedom Forum, Project SALAM, Honduras
USA Resistencia, SI Solidarity Iran, Jews for Racial & Economic Justice,
CLEAR @ CUNY Law, Veterans for Peace - Chapter 34 NYC, NY Committee to Stop FBI
Repression, Pakistan Solidarity Committee
TO ENDORSE THIS RALLY, suggest speakers for the program, or request more
information, please e-mail:
nov18rally@gmail.com
ACTION ITEMS:
1) Forward this e-mail and continue to reach out to allies and affected
communities. Let us know who you reach out to, so that we can be
efficient!
2) Thursday, 11/10/11, at Masjid ar-Rahman (15 W 29th St, Manhattan) ::
Mosque leaders and Imams, please attend an informational meeting after isha
prayers ~6:30pm. Activists and organizers, a brief meeting will follow.
3) Wednesday, 11/16/11, at International Action Center (55 W 17th St,
Manhattan) :: EVERYONE please attend a logistics/sign-making work meeting from
6-9pm.
OUTREACH: Please RSVP/commit to flyering/outreach for as many of the
following events/times as possible (e-mail
cmcgoldrick@cair.com)
1) Friday 11/11 @ OWS (Zucotti Park)
2) Saturday 11/12 @ OWS (Zucotti Park)
3) Tuesday 11/15, morning @ Transit Workers Union mobilization against
attacks on our unions 4:30 pm at Sheraton Hotel on 7th Ave between 52 & 53
St.
4) Tuesday 11/15, 6:30-8:30pm @ Common Cause event "Park 51 and
Beyond" - The Commons Brooklyn (388 Atlantic Ave btw Bond &
Hoyt)
5) Wednesday 11/16, 6-9pm @ International Action Center (55 W 17th St,
Manhattan), MAKING POSTERS/SIGNS
6) Thursday 11/17, all day, labor mobilization :: morning @ OWS (Zucotti
Park)
7) EVERY DAY :: EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD :: HOUSES OF WORSHIP, SCHOOLS,
COMMUNITY CENTERS, BUSINESSES
Flyers can be picked from: International Action Center
