{news} AFSC newsletter:Iraq exhibits at Yale; Free Danbury 11 petition; bus trip to see Rachel Corrie play
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From: AFSC Connecticut
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Subject: Eyes Widen Open Exhibit coming to Yale Divinity school Oct 20-31
American Friends Service Committee Connecticut
In This Issue: October 19, 2006
. Eyes Wide Open Coming to Yale Divinity School Oct 20-31
. A bus trip to New York City to see
. Dreams and Nightmares: an Exhibit on Life and Death in Iraq Coming to Yale Divinity School
. Support Immigrant Rights. Sign the Free the Danbury 11 Petition
Eyes Wide Open Coming to Yale Divinity School Oct 20-31
The well known AFSC exhibit Eyes Wide Open will be installed and on display on the quad of the Yale Divinity School in New Haven from October 20 through October 31. Eyes Wide Open, the American Friends Service Committee's widely-acclaimed exhibition on the human cost of the Iraq War, features a pair of boots honoring each U.S. military casualty, a field of shoes and a Wall of Remembrance to memorialize the Iraqis killed in the conflict, and a multimedia display exploring the history, cost and consequences of the war. We will have boots honoring U.S. casualities from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, and New Hamsphire.
If you would like to help volunteer during the exhibit we are looking for people to help with set up on Friday, October 20 starting at 10:00am, taking down the display on Tuesday, October 31st starting at 3:00pm, and for people to be on hand during the display to talk with those who come to see it.
Please contact David Amdur at 860-523-1534 or 781-249-9320 or at damdur at afsc.org if you can help out.
The address of the Yale Divinity School is 409 Prospect St, New Haven, CT 06511-2167
http://afsc.org/eyes/index.php
Dreams and Nightmares: an Exhibit on Life and Death in Iraq Coming to Yale Divinity School
From October 23-25 the new AFSC photo exhibit Dreams and Nightmares: an Exhibit on Life and Death in Iraq will be on display for the first time in Connecticut at the Yale Divinity School.
Dreams and Nightmares is a memorial to Iraqis who have lost their lives in the war and occupation. With photographs, names and personal stories, it conveys the unseen side of the war in Iraq - the tragedy being experienced by everyday Iraqis. Careful estimates put Iraqi deaths at more than at 655,000* - most of them civilians.
http://afsc.org/eyes/dreams-and-nightmares.htm
Support Immigrant Rights. Sign the Free the Danbury 11 Petition
AFSC Connecticut is actively involved in the campaign to free 11 Ecuadorian day laborers detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and Danbury police in a joint operation on September 19th in Danbury. Please sign the petetion and distribute it widely.
[The initiators of this petition ask that all friends of the immigrant rights movement take a moment to read and sign it as a show of opposition to the ongoing attacks on immigrants in Danbury and across the country. If you and/or your organization would like to endorse, please email FreeTheDanbury11 at yahoo.com or call (203) 417-3590. Thank you.]
Dear Representative Johnson, Governor Rell, and Mayor Boughton:
On Tuesday, September 19, the city government of Danbury collaborated with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in an attack on working people. A federal agent, disguised as a contractor, lured 11 immigrant day laborers into a van with the promise of work and drove them to the Danbury police station, where federal agents awaited to whisk them away to jail in Hartford, then on to detention in Boston.
With no justification, 7 of them have since been moved to a prison in Texas, making it even more difficult for families to contact them or petition for their release.
On Wednesday, October 12, the ICE attacked again, raiding the homes of
3 immigrant workers in Danbury and arresting them. On the same day, a fourth immigrant was pulled over and arrested for not using his turn signal, and Danbury police called the ICE to take him away.
These people are not criminals. They came here to work and contribute to the wealth of our society and have committed no crime.
We view all of these arrests as audacious attacks on civil liberties, due process, workers' rights, and human dignity. No attack on immigrant workers can improve the lives of American-born workers. On the contrary, every raid that goes unchallenged is an assault on the living standards of working people, regardless of legal status, because it weakens the resolve of immigrants to stand up for themselves and makes it easier for employers to get away with paying everyone less.
We demand that all the Danbury 11 be freed immediately with charges dropped. We demand an immediate end to the attacks on the immigrant community. We demand that the State of Connecticut and the City of Danbury end collaboration with ICE. Finally, we demand equal rights and legalization for all immigrants.
An injury to one is an injury to all.
Sincerely,
Initiators:
Leonel Villavicencio, President, Danbury Area Coalition for the Rights of Immigrants Franklin Pea, President, Ecuadorian Civic Center of Danbury Wilson Hernandez, Vice President, Ecuadorian Civic Center of Danbury Pastor Juana Jourdain-Villavicencio, Hispanic United Church of Christ Christopher Towne, Danbury Coalition for Peace
Endorsers (list in formation):
John Olsen, President of Connecticut AFL-CIO Art Perry, Political Director of SEIU/32BJ Connecticut Carol Lambiase, Education Director, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America Roger Vann, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut Rabbi Donna Berman, Executive Director, Charter Oak Cultural Center Rachel Meeropol, Center for Constitutional Rights Gabriel Camacho, Coordinator of New England American Friends Service Committee's Project Voice
A bus trip to New York City to see
Connecticut Coalition for Peace and Justice, American Friends Service Committee, Greater New Haven Peace Council, and West Hartford Citizens for Peace and Justice invite you on a:
Bus trip to New York to see this play:
"My Name is Rachel Corrie"
Saturday, November 11
The Hartford Courant has a review of the play tht has just opened in New York:
http://www.courant.com/hc-rachelcorrierev.artoct16,0,2403092.story
The New York Times has a review here:
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/theater/reviews/16rach.html
Minetta Lane Theatre
18 Minetta Lane
New York City, New York
Taken from the words left behind in the diaries, letters and emails of American activist Rachel Corrie, MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE chronicles the human, social and political evolution in the life and controversial death of a young woman. The play traces the life of Rachel Corrie From her early days in Washington State, through her experiences as an activist seeking to learn more about the community within Gaza.
Performed by Megan Dodds, MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE has been developed by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner, in collaboration with Royal Court Theatre's International Department and produced with the kind permission of Rachel Corries's Family.
Cost: $90 for the bus and theater ticket
For more information:
AFSC-CT office (860)523-1534 or Wayne (860)234-5405
or go to http://www.hopeoutloud.org/rachelcorrie.html
American Friends Service Committee
Connecticut Area Office
56 Arbor Street, Suite 213
Hartford, CT 06106
Phone: 860.523.1534
Fax: 860.523.1705
Email: connecticut at afsc.org Visit AFSC CT Online
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