[NN-Dialogue] Re: [AMERICAN] FW: Tragedy

[JEreardon@aol.com]

maybe this info and these numbers can be of some help?

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>Dearest Friends: At the Coalition Against Police
>Brutality and AALDEF meetings in NYC it became clear
>that people are not coming forward to report bias
>incidents out of fear. Please circulate this info and
>encourage others to document what the mainstream media
>is not reporting. Attached is a flyer for DRUM; please
>print and distribute at your events, universities,
>workplaces, etc. I hope you are all doing okay. Be
>safe, Jasbir
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>DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving) helpline for hate
>crime victims in Hindi, Bangla, and English (possibly
>Punjabi soon):
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>212.631.3689
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>Council on American-Islamic Relations, to report
>anti-Muslim hate crimes:
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>http://www.cair-net.org/ireport
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>For information and to document the targeting of
>Sikhs:
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>www.khalsapride.com
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>http://65.42.195.102/sikhs/
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>New York City bias crimes unit:
>888/440-HATE
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>Net-IP is also documenting incidents against South
>Asians; e-mail:
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>Manik@netip.org
>Sheetal@netip.org
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>To help walking children to school:
>arabfamilies@yahoo.com
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>To report mistreatement of children in schools:
>Jimmy Yan, 212/947-9779
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>Other orgs collecting info:
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>New York Civil Liberties Union
>212/344-3005
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>National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium
>(NAPALC) in Washington D.C., at (202) 296-2300,
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>Asian American Legal Defense Education Fund (AALDEF)
>in New York has set up a helpline: 212.760.9110
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>In the Bay Area:
>So far there are reports of Sikhs being harassed and
>abused elsewhere and of a Pakistani student being
>harassed in Berkeley. 
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>South Asian Bar Association Hate
>Crimes Hotline at 1-888-99-NOHATE (Bay Area only).
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>Alliance of South Asians Taking Action (ASATA)
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>Contact: Arthi Varma, 415-260-5409
>Shaily Matani, 415-861-2024 x. 309
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>Articles about various incidents can also be found on
>these websites:
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>Indian embassy condemns attacks on Sikhs
>T V Parasuram in Washington
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>SOURCE: http://www.rediff.com/us/2001/sep/14ny3.htm
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>Sept. 12, 2001
>http://www.rediff.com/us/2001/sep/12ny31.htm
>Sikhs become targets of ire in New York
>Tanmaya Kumar Nanda in New York
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>also Rediff.com
>Sept. 12, 2001
>Threats, snide remarks worsen the pain of Bay Area
>Muslims
>Sukhjit Purewal in San Jose
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>http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/13/nyregion/13MUSL.html
>Arabs and Muslims Steer Through an Unsettling Scrutiny
>By SOMINI SENGUPTA
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>For alternative press, see "Enough!"
>(www.commondreams.org/views01/0913-08.htm) and "The
>War Comes Home"
>(www.commondreams.org/views01/0912-07.htm). For the
>responses of the peace movement, see Peace Action
>(www.peace-action.org) and the Fellowship of
>Reconciliation (www.forusa.org). Check also the War
>Resisters League: http://www.warresisters.org/
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>For an analysis of the risks to Arab and Muslim
>communities in this country, see the American-Arab
>Antidiscrimination Committee (www.adc.org).
>
>THE AMERICAN MUSLIM COUNCIL
>E-MAIL : amc@amconline.org
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>Islamic Society of North America
>info@isna.net
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>Finally:
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>COUNTERPUNCH.ORG reports that the CNN footage of
>Palestinians celebrating is actually fake.
>Researchers at a Brazillian University have found
>identical footage from 1991.  Also note, it was
>night-time in Palestine when the news arrived.  Please
>distribute this news widely as that footage is
>inspiration for a lot of hateful feelings right now.
>--Naeem Mohaiemen
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>Check out counterpunch's front page:
>http://www.counterpunch.org
>
>But see CNN's denial:
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>http://www.poynter.org/medianews/letters.htm#jordan
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>Jasbir Kaur Puar, Assistant Professor
>Women's and Gender Studies and Geography
>162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus
>Rutgers University
>New Brunswick, NJ 08901
>tel 732.932.1151 x629
>fax 732.932.1335
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