This free event will be hosted by Gareth Peirce, Danny Glover, Wallace Shawn, Kathleen Chalfant and Deborah Eisenberg. As the tenth anniversary of September 11th is commemorated across the country, most public attention to the civil liberties and human rights abuses of the US "War on Terror" still focuses overseas to the abuses at Guantanamo, Bagram, and CIA rendition sites. Family members will tell their own stories of the human and civil rights violations here in US courts and prisons, stories of the inhumane conditions of confinement terror suspects face pre-trial and post-conviction; of over-reaching material support charges often accompanied by flimsy evidence; of years of intrusive and often illegal government surveillance; of FBI informants disrupting mosques and instigating conspiracies. Featured speakers will include family members of the Newburgh Four, Fahad Hashmi, Lynne Stewart, the Holy Land Five, Tarek Mehanna, the Fort Dix Five, Ahmed Abu-Ali and Shifa Sadequee among others. For more information about this event click here.
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