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

[Lance Larkin]

Looks good. The only suggestion I have is add language
or a plea for people to show up in solidarity. These
people are really being brave coming forward with
these stories.

Thanks Susan,
Lance

--- Susan <susan at gleason.net> wrote:
> 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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>
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> 
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