2/28: War on Freedom: Repression at Home Forum

THE WAR ON FREEDOM: REPRESSION AT HOME,

OCCUPATION ABROAD


A BAY AREA UNITED AGAINST WAR FORUM


This forum will address assaults on our civil liberties--especially

on immigrants and Arab, South-Asian and Muslim Americans.

And, how those assaults are linked to the wars and occupations

carried out by the U.S. government globally--from Afghanistan

and Iraq to Colombia and Palestine.


Keynote Speaker:


LYNNE STEWART:


Radical human rights attorney falsely accused of helping

terrorists. Her new trial is scheduled for May 17th, 2004.


SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILM (NOT VIDEO):


Rare film footage of San Francisco's April 27th, 1968

Anti-Vietnam War Demonstration, courtesy of the Holt Labor

Library. http://www.holtlaborlibrary.org


SPEAKERS PANEL:


KALI AKUNO-WILLIAMS, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and

Co-director, School of Social Justice, Oakland.


SAMINA FAHEEM, National Steering Committee of Blue Triangle

Network; Founder of American Muslim Voice.


DR. LANA HABASH & DR. RAWAN BARAKAT, founding members

of New England Committee to Defend Palestine and the Amer
Jubran Defense Committee.

JACK HEYMAN, Business Agent, ILWU; arrested in Oakland Port

antiwar demonstration.


A QUESTION AND ANSWER PERIOD PLUS A STRATEGY

DISCUSSION WITH LYNNE STEWART AND PANELISTS ON

HOW TO FIGHT BACK WILL GIVE THE AUDIENCE AN

OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE DIALOGUE.


SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28TH, 1-5PM


BETHANY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

1268 SANCHEZ STREET (AT CLIPPER)

SAN FRANCISCO


MUNI: 1 block west of J Church, or 2 blocks east of 24

Divisadero bus, or 2 blocks south of 48 bus on 24th Street from

BART stop (at 24th and Mission).



A RECEPTION AND INFORMAL DISCUSSION WITH LYNNE

STEWART AND PANELISTS WILL FOLLOW FROM 5-7PM.

REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED.



DONATION: $5-$15 ($15 INCLUDES RECEPTION AND

REFRESHMENTS.) No one turned away for lack of funds.


GROUPS ARE INVITED TO SET UP TABLES

(A donation of $10 dollars is requested to help offset the costs of

the event but is not mandatory.)


PICK UP FLYERS FOR SAN FRANCISCO'S MARCH 20TH, 2004

GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION ON THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF

THE U.S. BOMBING AND INVASION OF IRAQ!


Partial list of endorsers:


Asian Pacific Islander Coalition Against War; Association of

South Asians Taking Action; Bay Area Radical Women; Blue

Triangle Network; Bonnie Faulkner, Guns and Butter; Freedom

Socialist Party; International Action Center; Labor Council for

Latin American Advancement; Lynne Stewart Defense

Committee; New England Committee to Defend Palestine; Not

In Our Name, Bay Area; Ralph Schoenman & Mya Shone, Taking

Aim; Refuse and Resist; Riva Enteen; San Francisco Peace and

Freedom Party; San Francisco Unitarian Universalists for Peace;

S.F. chapter of Fellowship of Reconciliation; S.F. office of

American Friends Service Committee; Socialist Action; Socialist

Organizer; Socialist Viewpoint Magazine; Solano Peace & Justice

Coalition


Contact number: 415-824-8730

Visit our web site at: http://www.bauaw.org

Write us at:

BAUAW

P.O. Box 318021

San Francisco, CA 94131-8021