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Third World Newreel's
Call for Change Project
Series Producer J.T. Takagi in person

God Bless America2
Saj: Muslim in America
Just Ralph
Fulton & Franklin
Rising Up: The Alams
Work and Respect

Friday, March 24
7:00 PM
International House
3710 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia
Admission: $10, free for Scribe members

For over 38 years, Third World Newsreel has worked with socially conscious mediamakers and communities of color to bring a range of voices into the national discussion of American priorities. A call went out in spring 2004 to filmmakers, often working with artists and community organizations, to produce short videos presenting the views of underrepresented New York City communities and their state of America. The resulting video shorts in a Call for Change, produced under the aegis of coordinating producer JT Takagi, give voice to the concerns of immigrant, low-income groups and communities of color often marginalized or silenced, particularly in this period of diminishing civil liberties. In one evening of short documentaries you will hear the stories of South Asian families in DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving) fighting deportation resulting from homeland security policies, nannies and housekeepers of Domestic Workers United fighting for a bill of rights, and activists working to get New York City to pass a bill requiring any companies doing business with the city to reveal any past relationship with the slave trade. There is spoken word, a documentary about women rappers and intimate portraits of immigrants, post 9/11. Call for Change premiered at the Brooklyn Rose Cinemas and is featured in the Museum of Modern Arts' Documentary Fortnight in February 2006. Third World Newsreel produces, distributes over 400 titles, and trains in film and digital video. A new Call for Change series will be produced starting summer 2006.

Preceded by Color Conscious
Director: Cheraine Stanford
2005, US, video, 3 mins

This experimental short takes the images and emotions evoked by the colors of the Jamaican and American flags to question dual identities, stereotypes and civil liberty abuses faced by immigrants in the U.S.

Join J.T. Takagi for a Master Class
Saturday, March 25 from 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM at Scribe.

Posted by Konrad at 07:00 PM | Permalink

There is now pending before Congress a very wrongheaded and destructive bill which panders to anti-immigrant hostility and fear by further criminalizing out-of-status immigrants. The bill offers no rational solution to the fact that there are already 11 million "illegal" immigrants in the U.S.

Read an analysis of this bill, H.R. 4437.

Here's the urgent action I received from Desis Rising Up and Moving and Coalition for the Human Rights of Immigrants:

Folks,

This is a critical period of time as several anti-immigrant bills are being
considered in Congress (details below).

Take a second to (1) forward info about this online petition to your
contacts and email lists, (2) post a link to the petition on any websites
you have access to, and (3) sign the petition!

"Oppose anti-immigrant H.R. 4437 and Pass a Just Legalization Bill!"
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/HR4437/
Immigrant Communities in Action

Posted by Konrad at 09:28 AM | Permalink

First Asian American Film Festival
Friday, April 20, 2007
7 p.m
D Hall, MUST
The Hong Kong America Center
Chung Chi College
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin N.T., Hong Kong SAR China

Rising Up: The Alams

Documentary, 11 minutes, MiniDV

director/DP: Konrad Aderer

In this short documentary we meet the Alams, a Bangladeshi family living in Coney Island, Brooklyn. Mohammed Alam, father to two young U.S.-born daughters, is one of 13,000 immigrants facing deportation as a consequence of Special Registration, a post-9/11 policy which targeted nationals of Muslim countries. But the Alams are not just victims. Learn how they fight back as members of South Asian community organization D.R.U.M. (Desis Rising Up and Moving).

Rising Up: The Alams was produced as part of the non-profit media project Life or Liberty, as part of Third World Newsreel's Call For Change series.

March 1, 2006
Durango Independent Film Festival
Durango, CO

Rising Up: The Alams

Documentary, 11 minutes, MiniDV

director/DP: Konrad Aderer

In this short documentary we meet the Alams, a Bangladeshi family living in Coney Island, Brooklyn. Mohammed Alam, father to two young U.S.-born daughters, is one of 13,000 immigrants facing deportation as a consequence of Special Registration, a post-9/11 policy which targeted nationals of Muslim countries. But the Alams are not just victims. Learn how they fight back as members of South Asian community organization D.R.U.M. (Desis Rising Up and Moving).

Rising Up: The Alams was produced as part of the non-profit media project Life or Liberty, as part of Third World Newsreel's Call For Change series.

Posted by Konrad at 08:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)