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Civil Rights, Human Rights Groups and Community Organizations Call for a Stop to the INS Special Registrations

February 20th - National Day of Solidarity With Arabs, Muslims & South Asian Immigrants
For Immediate Release: February 18, 2002

WHAT:	Civil and human rights groups and community organizations throughout the Bay Area are calling for an end to the INS Special Registration Program that has led to the detention of hundreds of Middle Eastern and Muslim men and boys. In January, demonstrations were held in 30 cities around the country protesting the INS program. The protests drew the historical connection to the shameful WW II internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans.
WHO:	Dr. Agha Saeed, American Muslim Association; Hayward State Professor Rev Norman Fong Cecelia Chang, Wen Ho Lee Committee Karen Kai, Esq., Fred Korematsu coram nobus case Liat Weingart, Jewish Voice for Peace Issac Yamagata, Co-Chair, Northern CA Civil Rights Committee of the JACL Cosette Thompson, Amnesty International Jayashri Srikantiah, ACLU-NC Staff Attorney Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee of SF Statement from Representative Mike Honda’s Office (partial list)
WHEN:	Friday, February 21 11am to 2 pm
WHERE:	San Francisco INS Office 444 Washington St (cross street is Sansome) San Francisco, CA

ENDORSEMENTS: ACLUNC, ADCSF, Blue Triangle Network, Critical Resistance; Global Exchange; Jewish Voice for Peace, La Raza Centro Legal; National Lawyers Guild, Not in Our Name, October 22nd Coalition, Refuse & Resist, SF Day Laborers Program, Soko Bukai ministers, South Alameda Peace & Justice Coalition, United Muslims of America and others.

*THURSDAY, FEB 20th - NOON - UC Berkeley Sproul Plaza
Speakers: Hatem Bazian, UCB Middle Eastern Prof; Richard Aoki, former WWII internee, founding faculty of UCB Ethnic Studies & leader of TWLF'69 strike, Rev. Michael Yoshi, Buena Vista Methodist Chruch of Alameda, Travis Morales, La Resistencia/Blue Triangle Network and others.

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