OY! SUMMER 2004. "Immigrant Organizing and Coalition Building post 9/11"

Invited Panelists:

Sunaina Maira
Sunaina Maira is an Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is a member of the South Asian Committee on Human Rights (SACH), a grassroots group that works on issues of post-9/11 civil and immigrant rights in the Boston area, and has also been involved with ASATA (Alliance of South Asians Taking Action).
Eyad Kishawi
Eyad Kishawi is an activist with the Free Palestine Alliance and a member of the American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee(ADC) in San Francisco. He has been working with the ADC to create the Divestment Resource Center, a central provider of services to divestment activists nationwide.

This panel is being presented as part of OY! Summer 2004 . It is a free event and open to all, though contributions to OY! will be appreciated. Organizing Youth (OY!) is a volunteer-based organization formed with the aim of empowering youth from the South Asian Diaspora to organize for political, social and economic justice.

ORGANIZING YOUTH (OY!) invites you to Immigrant Organizing and Coalition Building Post 9/11 A Panel Discussion When: Saturday Aug 14, 6.00pm to 8.00pm Where: The Women's Building, 3543 18th St, San Francisco How the War on Terror became the War on Immigrants... When civil liberties are threatened for all, what recourse do immigrants have? In this state of siege, how do we pick our allies?
Invited Panelists: Sunaina Maira Sunaina Maira is an Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is a member of the South Asian Committee on Human Rights (SACH), a grassroots group that works on issues of post-9/11 civil and immigrant rights in the Boston area, and has also been involved with ASATA (Alliance of South Asians Taking Action). Eyad Kishawi Eyad Kishawi is an activist with the Free Palestine Alliance and a member of the American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee(ADC) in San Francisco. He has been working with the ADC to create the Divestment Resource Center, a central provider of services to divestment activists nationwide. This panel is being presented as part of OY! Summer 2004 . It is a free event and open to all, though contributions to OY! will be appreciated. Organizing Youth (OY!) is a volunteer-based organization formed with the aim of empowering youth from the South Asian Diaspora to organize for political, social and economic justice.
Supported in part by the Vanguard Public Foundation, the RESIST Foundation, and the Women's Building.