Tuesday, August 31st ? 12PM
26 Federal Plaza, Manhattan
Tuesday, August 31st ? 12PM
26 Federal Plaza, Manhattan
Meet at Columbus Park ? corner of Pearl and Bayard Streets – at 11AM. We
will leave as a group for the BICE offices at 11:45AM.
The prison cops confiscated reading material and medicines as they kicked
Abdel-Muhti to the ground, punched him, and told him to ?shut the fuck up?
and to ?go back to Palestine.? The officers, who were not wearing name
tags, pushed Abdel-Muhti against the wall on at least two occasions,
kicked him to the ground, and punched him on the side of the head. They
then confiscated his personal property, including papers, address books
and medicine, which was prescribed by the prison clinic for high blood
pressure and a thyroid condition.
-Report from the Committee for the Release of Farouk Abdel-Muhti,
regarding an attack on Palestinian detainee Farouk Abdel-Muhti on November
19, 2003.
The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11,
2001 have profoundly increased the racist policies of the United States
government. In a feeble attempt to provide the public with an illusion of
safety, the Bush administration has instituted new policies that have
destroyed the lives and freedoms of millions with the pretext of ?A War on
Terrorism.?
This so-called “War on Terrorism” is not just being fought with foreign
nations, as the news media would like us to believe. It is also being
fought here at home, as thousands of individuals in the United States are
being prosecuted and persecuted on the basis of their race, religion, and
political beliefs by the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(BICE) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Since the September 11th attacks, Bush and his Orwellian Department of
Homeland Security have engaged in an illegal and racist program of
round-ups and detentions. Thousands of men between the ages of 25 to 45
from South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa have been swept up and
in many cases disappeared, spending years in jail without being charged
with a crime.
