Left Turn Magazine Fall Forum
"Anti-Arab Racism, Islam, and the Left"
Monday, Oct 9th 7:30pm
Brecht Forum, NYC
(451 West Street)
Join us for our annual fall forum next Monday Oct 9th, as we celebrate
Indigenous People's Day (formerly known as Columbus Day) and the
release of our new fall issue of Left Turn magazine #22. The holiday is
appropriate as our discussion will focus on racism, popular
culture and US policy in the near east.
Far from being just another slogan on a banner, anti-arab racism has deep
historical roots here in the US. We cannot understand US policy in the
region and why it has been so difficult for us to mount a more substantive
challenge to US imperialism abroad without looking at the history of
anti-arab racism domestically. Far from simply being a
tool of the right-wing, this form of racism has a long history within our
own progressive movements as well.
Come support Left Turn, pick up the new issue of the magazine or
Anti-Capitalista t-shirt for all your peoples, and join us for what should
be an important discussion...
Forum Participants:
Rami El-Amine is a founder and former editor of Left Turn magazine. His
articles have appeared on ZNET, Muslim Wake Up, and Dissident
Voice. His most recent article "Anti-Arab Racism, Islam, and the
Left" appeared in the fall issue of Left Turn Magazine (#22) and can be
read online at: http://www.leftturn.org/Racism.aspx
Anjali Kamat is a freelance writer who writes for *The Hindu*, and
co-hosts 'Global Movements, Urban Struggles' on WBAI radio. She has been
an organizer with NYU Students for Justice in Palestine, the
World Tribunal on Iraq, and the Action Wednesdays Against War
collective.
Sherene Seikaly is a doctoral candidate in History and Middle Eastern
Studies at NYU, and an organizer at NYU Students for Justice in
Palestine and GSOC-UAW Local 2110.
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Public Transport to the Brecht Forum
A, C, E or L to 14th Street & 8th Ave, walk down 8th Ave. to Bethune, turn
right, walk west to the River, turn left
1, 2, 3 or 9 to 14th Street & 7th Ave, get off at south end of
station, walk west on 12th Street to 8th Ave. left to Bethune, turn right,
walk west to the River, turn left.
PATH Train to Christopher Street north on Greenwich St to Bank Street,
left to the river.
#11 or #20 Bus to Abingdon Square, west on Bethune
#14A or #14D Bus to 8th Ave & 14th Street, walk down 8th Ave. and
west on Bethune to the river
#8 Bus to 10th & West Streets