Making Contact – “Presumed Guilty: American Muslims and Arabs”

American Arabs and Muslims are under the microscope, from capital hill, to your local shopping mall.  Almost every week, there’s more news about the bust of another terrorist cell.  The effect on those communities-living in fear of demonization, or arrest– has been devastating.  On this edition: 10 years of America’s homeland war on Muslims and Arabs.  Racial profiling has happened in times of war before—how will it end this time around?

Featuring: Veena Dubal, Asian Law Caucus National Security and Civil Rights Program Staff Attorney: Lejla Duka, family member of the Fort Dix Five: Dominick Calsolaro, Albany Common Council Member: Noor Elashi, Daughter of Ghassan Elashi of the Holy Land 5: Shaheena Parveen, mother of Siraj Matin: Marlene Jenkins, mother of Tarik Shaw: Sharmin Sadequee, sister of Shifa Sadequee: Tamer Mehanna, brother of Tariq Mehanna: Fred Korematsu, formerly interned Japanese American, John Frank, Clerk to Associate Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black; Tsuyako Kitashima, Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress spokesperson; Donald Tamaki, lawyer for Fred Korematsu, Peter Irons, UC San Diego Constitutional Law Professor

 

Producer/Host: Andrew Stelzer

Producer: Kyung Jin Lee

Producer/Online Editor: Pauline Bartolone

Contributing Producer: Jaisal Noor

Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Associate Director: Khanh Pham

Production Interns:  Shaunnah Ray and Courtney Supple
Organizational Volunteers: Judy Huang, Dan Turner, Ron Rucker, Alfonso Hooker & Alton Byrd

 

For More Information:

 

Project Salam

http://www.projectsalam.org/

 

Asian Law Caucus

http://www.asianlawcaucus.org/

 

Coalition For a Safe San Francisco

http://www.safesf.org/

 

Manufacturing the Muslim Menace: A report by Political Research Associates

http://www.publiceye.org/liberty/training/project-home.html

 

Of Civil Rights and Wrongs: The Fred Korematsu Story

http://www.pbs.org/pov/ofcivilwrongsandrights/

 

Council on American Islamic Relations

http://www.cair.com/

 

San Francisco Human Rights Commission

http://www.sf-hrc.org/

 

Korematsu Institute

http://korematsuinstitute.org/

 

Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress

http://www.ncrr-la.org/

 

Free the Fort Dix 5

http://freefortdixfive.com/

 

Information on the Newburgh 4

http://www.projectsalam.org/cases/Newburgh_4.html

 

New York University School of Law Center for Human Rights and Global Justice

http://www.chrgj.org/

 

Articles, Blogs, Reports and Videos:

 

San Francisco Human Rights Commission Hearing: US Law Enforcement Profiling & Surveillance of Muslims-Arabs-South Asians

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FvyROeYv1A

 

Muslims Reject SFPD Surveillance Program

http://www.baycitizen.org/policing/story/san-francisco-muslims-reject-sfpd/