[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: Hate Free Zone Public Hearing

[Susan]

Subtitle:  AFTERMATH OF SEPTEMBER 11: TESTIMONIALS
Title:  Impacted Communities Hold Public Hearing With Officials

After a year of silence, Sikh, Muslim, East African, Arab American, 
Japanese American, South Asian and Latino communities will come together at 
an historic public hearing Saturday, September 21, 10:30am-1:30pm at Town 
Hall, standing in solidarity against the intolerance, discrimination and 
harassment they have experienced in this country since September 11.

They will be telling their stories to a panel of elected and public 
officials moderated by Justice Charles Z. Smith. Invited Commissioners 
(panelists) include Washington's Governor and Attorney General, Senators 
Cantwell and Murray and Representatives Dunn, Larsen, Dicks, and Inslee as 
well as US Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Ralph Boyd.

Quoting event organizers: "All across the country acts of intolerance and 
discrimination have eroded our sense of community. Physical and verbal 
attacks on those who 'look Arab' are three times what they were a year ago. 
State and federal agencies and law enforcement have increased the pressure 
on our communities by implementing discriminatory and anti-immigrant 
legislation, and by harassing, detaining and deporting large numbers of 
innocent people. These attacks on immigrants, refugees and people of color 
are particularly disturbing because they have created a climate of fear. 
They affect whole communities in a fundamental way because they undermine 
the ideals of  tolerance, religious freedom, diversity and equal treatment 
that inspired us to become members of American society."

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