Date: June 22, 2002 (Saturday)
When: 3 pm - 5 pm
Where: Artists' Television Access.
992 Valencia Street (at 21st)

Cost: $10 Suggested Donation, No one will be turned away.

Panel Discussion and Ground Breaking Documentary

Speakers
Raka Ray, PhD. Professor of Sociology and
South and South-East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley,
and
Surina Khan. Executive Director of the
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission.

West Coast Premier of Documentary:
“HEY RAM!! Genocide in the Land of Gandhi”,
A film by Gopal Menon.
25 mins. Hindi with English sub-titles.

Organizing Coalition of: 3rd I (www.thirdi.org), ASATA
(www.ASATA.org), Coalition Against Communalism (www.ektaonline.org/cac),
EKTA (www.ektaonline.org), Narika (www.narika.org), and Trikone
(www.trikone.org)

DOWNLOADABLE FLYER (please distribute far and wide)
http://www.ektaonline.org/events/downloads/gujarat06222002.pdf

posted by CAC Admin at 8:03 PM

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is holding a hearing on the recent anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat, on June 10 at 9 AM, in the Longworth House Office Building, at the Capitol Hill in Washington DC.

Several people are scheduled to present submissions and testimonies in this hearing including Teesta Setalvad (Communalism Combat, Bombay), and Father Cedric Praksh (Prashant, Ahmedabad) from India.

Among prominent people that have submitted written testimonies there are: Nishrin and Najid Hussain, daughter and son-in-law respectively of late Mr Ehsan Jafri, former member of Indian parliament who was burnt alive in the carnage in Gujarat .

Their written testimonies are available at:
(Testimony - Najid Hussain :
http://www.mnet.fr/aiindex/NajidHussainTestimony2002.html

(Testimony : Nishrin Hussain :
http://www.mnet.fr/aiindex/NishrinHussainTestimony2002.html
posted by CAC Admin at 9:21 AM