[Peace] chicago actions

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Here's an excert from a notice I got from a Chicago group.  These 
actions are out of our immediate geographic area but relevant to 
the R part of AWARE.  Make the trek if you can!  I've copied the 
short facts at the top and details at the bottom.
Meg

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Friday, March 22 - 
Defend Our Rights/Free Rabih Haddad! 
Rally featuring his brother, Mazen Haddad, from Toronto and Sami 
al-Arian, a tenured University of South Florida professor fired for his 
political views in favor of Palestinian rights.  8 pm at the Al-Aqsa 
School, 7361 W. 92nd St, Bridgeview.

Saturday, March 23 - 
Defend Our Rights/Free Rabih Haddad! 
Rally at 7 pm at the United Church of Rogers Park, 1545 W. Morse 
Ave, Chicago.

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Important Solidarity Action!
Free Rabih Haddad!

Racial profiling, a few months ago considered a national scandal, is 
now official government policy against Arabs, South Asians and 
Muslims.

Through the USA Patriot Act and other measures, the government 
has stripped away many  of our rights, especially those of 
immigrants, brazenly decreeing that the Bill of Rights does not 
apply to the millions of immigrants who live in this country.

The case of Rabih Haddad has become the nation's most 
prominent example of this gross abuse by our government.  

Congressmen John Conyers and Lynn Rivers have spoken out in 
his defense, the Washington Post has editorialized against the 
secret court hearings in his case, and Conyers, the Detroit Free 
Press, the Detroit Metro News and the ACLU have filed suit against 
Attorney General Ashcroft to open up the hearings.  Haddad has 
been imprisoned in solitary confinement for more than 2 months, 
with no criminal charges, no evidence produced against him, on 23-
hour-a-day lockdown in a roach-infested cell, and allowed just one 
15-minute phone call a month to his family.  Recently the federal 
government told his lawyer that Haddad wasn't even considered a 
possible suspect for criminal charges. Haddad's treatment makes 
a mockery of the principle of due process and "innocent until 
proven guilty."

Help build the movement against these injustices by attending a 
protest rallies featuring:

Mazen Haddad, brother of Rabih Haddad from Toronto, Canada

Sami al-Arian, tenured University of South Florida  professor fired 
for his political views in favor of  Palestinian rights.

And other prominent community leaders speaking at one or both 
events:

Stan Willis, African American Committee to Free Mumia abu-Jamal 
and Aaron Patterson

Mahmud Ahmad, Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism, and 
the Committee for a Democratic Palestine

A representative of the Comité Exigimos Justicia (We Demand 
Justice Committee, an anti-police brutality & misconduct 
organization.)

8 pm, Friday, March 22
Al-Aqsa School
7361 W. 92nd St, Bridgeview

7 pm, Saturday, March 23
United Church of Rogers Park
1545 W. Morse Ave, Chicago

Sponsored by the Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism (CABN 
is an active member of the Coalition)
Web site: www.chicagoantiwar.org   E-mail: 
nowarnoracism at hotmail.com