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From: "yvonne yay" <y at onomatopoeik.com>
To: <sandbox at echonyc.com>, <sandboxmagazine at topica.com>
Subject: Re: no scapegoating
Date: Sat, Sep 15, 2001, 12:12 PM


FYI

PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY.
Peace and Greetings.
On behalf of DRUM (Desis Rising Up & Moving), we?d like to extend our
solidarity and support of folks affected by yesterday?s tragedy and its
repercussions.
The incidents of yesterday will undoubtedly have a major impact on future
world events in terms of U.S. foreign policy and retaliation. But we should
not forget also the very immediate and local impacts that will be felt for a
long time ahead for immigrant and communities of color in the U.S. As in
the aftermath of the Gulf War, the World Trade Center bombing of 1993, and
the Oklahoma bombing, many people in our communities already have been
targeted, attacked, beaten, and harassed. Working class immigrants and
people of color already live under constant police and INS repression and
things will undoubtedly get worse.
There have been reports already from around the Tri-state area and around
the country of anti-Muslim/ anti-Arab/ anti-immigrant attacks. As you know,
this generally means anyone who supposedly LOOKS Arab or Muslim- South
Asians, particularly Sikhs, Arabs, and many other folks of color.
DRUM as part of the Coalition Against Police Brutality in NYC (which
includes over a dozen people of color organizations) is organizing around
bias attacks in the NYC area. We are meeting with organizations city-wide
tomorrow evening to coordinate efforts of different communities. On a
broader front, DRUM will continue to organize with other groups around the
long-term effects on INS policy and detention and immigrants rights.
DRUM is setting up a number to report all incidents of hate crimes and bias
attacks for South Asians in the NYC and New Jersey area. Please call in all
information about incidents including any contact information for those
victimized. We have begun follow-up and community outreach today through
Queens and Brooklyn, particularly at Mosques and Gurudwaras in the area. We
will work with other groups to collect this information and organize
response with the leadership of folks in our community.
THE DRUM BIAS ATTACK NUMBER IS (212) 631-3689.
In Struggle,
Monami Maulik and Subhash Kateel
Coordinators, DRUM

For info on DRUM -Desis Rising Up & Moving,
email info at drumnation.org, or call 212.631.3689
www.drumnation.org
"I have advocated, and I still advocate, revolutionary changes in the
structure and in the principles that govern the United States. I advocate an
end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the
eradication of sexism and the elimination of political repression. If that
is a crime, then I am totally guilty."
Assata Shakur


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Yvonne
vox: 646 321 5710
email: y at onomatopoeik.com
sms: 6463215710 at voicestream.net



----- Original Message -----
From: "Sylvie Myerson" <sandbox at echonyc.com>
To: <sandboxmagazine at topica.com>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 10:28 PM
Subject: FW: no scapegoating


>
>
> Dear friends
>
>  My 10 year old neighbor reported seeing an Arab shopkeeper attacked by 2
> men yesterday afternoon, in my otherwise peaceful Park Slope neighborhood
in
> Brooklyn.
> The police closed the store and sent the man home.
>
> Another neigbor who works in Crown Heights, our local tinderbox, reported
> that tensions were mounting between the Hasidic community and the Black
> community.
>
> I received a message from Mutiny, a NY group of DJs from South Asia
> calling for people in the media to speak out against incidents of
> scapegoating against innocent Arabs and South Asians [included below]. I
> have read several reports of Indian men wearing turbans who were attacked
> because somebody thought they were followers of Bin Laden. A Moroccan
woman
> I spoke to today said the Muslim women she knew had all removed their
veils
> and the men had all shaved their beards because they were terrified of
being
> attacked.
>
> Please do not let these  terrorists succeed in dividing this city any
> further. I encourage you all to speak out against scapegoating in your
> community.
>
> Let's keep the channels of information open.
>
> Sylvie Myerson, Editor
> Sandbox Magazine
> Creative & Subversive Play
> http://www.sandboxarts.org
>
>
> >
> > **********
> >
> > In light of the horrible events at the World Trade Center and the
massive
> > loss of life, this Thursday's Mutiny event has been cancelled, and the
CMJ
> > Music Marathon itself has been postponed.
> >
> > We have already heard reports of threats and attacks against innocent
Arab
> > and South Asian Americans, so we are urging everyone in our communities
to
> > be as cautious as possible. Also, for those of you on this list who are
in
> > the media or in a position to speak or write publicly, we ask that you
> > please use every opportunity to make appeals to the public against such
> > narrow-minded scapegoating and racist violence.
> >
> > Our thoughts at this time are with those who have lost friends and loved
> > ones in this tragedy.
> >
> > Thank You,
> > The Mutiny Crew
> >
> >
> >
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