2012 has been a breakthrough year for Enemy Alien as well as for Life or Liberty's next project, the Tule Lake Documentary.

Konrad Aderer receives "Courage in Media" Award from CAIR

On Tuesday morning, October 16, Bernard McFall, one of Farouk Abdel-Muhti's closest friends, died at age 76 in Elmhurst Hospital, near his home in Queens.

A box of redacted FBI files challenges a filmmaker to reveal what it hides.

Indiegogo campaign launched to support outreach and complete classroom version!

Communing with socially engaged university students, Nikkei and Palestinian folk.

Contact: David L. Wilson, thepoliticsofimmigration@gmail.com
For Release: April 24, 2012

We are pleased to report that the feature documentary Enemy Alien has been recommended for educational use by Booklist Online:

“This film, which allows us to see parallels between the treatment of Muslims following 9/11 and Japanese Americans in WWII, is a strong reminder of the fragility of human rights and an excellent discussion prompter.”

Report from No One Is Illegal - Toronto on their public screening of Enemy Alien March 16:

Today is the 70th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066, which cleared the way for the forced removal and incarceration of more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry 11,000 people of German ancestry (including Jews) and 3,000 people of Italian ancestry. This anniversary is being commemorated by Japanese American communities all over the U.S.

Photo taken by my grandfather Hiroshi Takayama in the Topaz internment camp

It was a real honor to have Enemy Alien included in a film festival devoted to Palestinians, to be included among Mohammad Bakri’s latest film Zahara which I was able to catch the night before my own screening.