Face the Truth Week of Actions

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Rights Working Group, with our local partners, released Faces of Racial Profiling: A Report from Communities Across America. On Thursday, we will be taking the report to Congress with a Congressional Briefing. Campaign partners are echoing the call to stop racial profiling with actions around the nation that you can join. Take one second to amplify that call and insure that it reverberates through out the halls of Congress. Urge your Congressman to co-sponsor the End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) of 2010.

Face the Truth Week of Actions

September 11 thru October 16: Human Rights Training
Sponsored by: Coalition of African, Arab, Asian, European and Latino Immigrants of Illinois (CAAAELII).

September 23: Town hall on racial profiling
Location: San Francisco City Hall, Room 416 l 1 Dr. Carlton B Goodlett l San Francisco, CA
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST
Sponsored by: CAIR, Asian Law Caucus, AROC, ACCC, BAAML, ASATA, Asian Bar Association & More
The event is open to the public.

September 24: A Policy Forum: Immigration, Racial Profiling, and Education
Location: Rutger's University Newark Campus l Paul Robeson Center, Bergen Room l 350 Martin Luther King Blvd l Newark, NJ
Time: 10:00 am - 11:45 am EST
Sponsored by: Network Network for Arab American Communities

September 26: "Voices of Immigrants/Voces de los Immigrantes"
Location: 526 McGee Drive l Dalton, GA 30721
Time: 6:30 pm EST
Sponsored by: Coalition of Latino Leaders-CLILA
The event is open to the public.

September 27: Conference Call - "Face the Truth to Stop Profiling Under Operation Community Shield"
Location: Conference Call, please RSVP to pbenjamin@rightsworkinggroup.org for the call in number.
Time: 1:00 pm EST / 10:00 am PST
Sponsored by: Rights Working Group and National Immigration Project
The call is open to the public.  Join the National Immigration Project’s Paromita Shah in an informal call about Operation Community Shield.

September 28: Rally to defend immigrant rights and stop Secure Communities (See flyer in both English & Spanish)
Location: 2100 Clarendon Blvd, 3rd Floor l Arlington, VA 22201
Time: 3:30 pm EST
Sponsored by: Arlington Coalition Against "Secure Communities"
The event is open to the public.

September 29: Report Release Press Conference
Location: Federal Court House l 156 Federal Street l Portland, ME
Time: 10:00 am EST
Sponsored by: Maine People's Alliance
The event is open to the public.

September 29: "Suspect Fits Description: Responses to Racial Profiling in New York City"
Location: CUNY School of Law l 65-21 Main Street l Flushing, NY 11367
Time: 6:30 pm EST
Sponsored by: New York City Law Review, CUNY School of Law
The event is open to the public.

September 29: Screening of "Americans On Hold" & Panel Discussion
Location: Emory University School of Law, Room 1D
Time: 7:30 pm EST
Sponsored by: Emory Immigration Law Society, Muslim Law Students Association and the ACLU of Georgia

September 30: Congressional Briefing, "Faces of Racial Profiling: Stories from Communities Across America"
Location: Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2226 l Washington, DC
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm EST
Sponsored by: Rights Working Group
The event is open to the public.

September 30: Public Theater Face the Truth Action
Location: Public places throughout Denver, CO
Time: 10:30 am - 3:00 pm MST
Sponsored by: Rights for All People, Colorado Progressive Coalition, Colorado Anti-Violence Program, Coloradans for Immigrant Rights (Project of the American Friends Service Committee)
The event is open to the public.

September 30: Film Screening of "Americans on Hold" followed by a Conversation
Location: NYU School of Law l Furman Hall, Room 210 l 245 Sullivan Street, New York, NY 10012
Time: 7:00 pm EST
Sponsored by: Muslim Bar Association of New York.
The event is open to the public.

September 30: Press Conference on Face the Truth National Report
Location: Coleman Park Community Center l 384 Thompson Lane l Nashville, Tennessee 37210
Time: 8:00 am CNT
Sponsored by: Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition
The event is open to the public.

October 1: Racial Profiling Data Collection Launch
Sponsored by: DRUM - Desis Rising Up and Moving

October 2: One Nation March
Location: Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC (RWG staff and volunteers will meet at Foggy Bottom Metro at 11:30 am)
Sponsored by: One Nation Working Together
The event is open to the public.  Help RWG collect signed postcards in support of the End Racial Profiling Act.  To volunteer, contact Pabitra at pbenjamin@rightsworkinggroup.org or meet the RWG staff and volunteers at the Foggy Bottom Metro at 11:30 am.

October 2: Film Screening of "Americans on Hold" at the ACLU-Georgia's 2010 Annual Membership Conference
Sponsored by: ACLU of Georgia

October 6: Press Conference
Location: OneAmerica l 1225 South Weller Street, Suite 200 l Seattle, WA 98144
Time: 11:00 am PST
Sponsored by: OneAmerica
The event is open to the public.

October 9: Press Conference
Location: PlazAmericas (former Sharpstown Mall), 7500 Bellaire Blvd @ Hwy 59S 77036
Time: All day
Sponsored by: Alianza Mexicana, America Para Todos, CAIR, Coalition in Defense of the Community, CRECEN, Grassroots Leadership Houston Interfaith Justice Center, Houston Peace and Justice Center, LULAC, NAACP, OCA of Greater Houston, OG1, SEIU, Shape Community Center, Tejano Center, Tejas, and WHEW

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