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Archive for May, 2010

Wallace Shawn on “Tricks of the Theatre”

Posted in Actions, Community Voices, General Info, tagged , , , , on May 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »

The following statement by Wallace Shawn and Deborah Eisenberg was delivered outside the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City on May 3, 2010 where supporters of Fahad Hashmi have been gathering since last October to bear witness to the inhumane conditions of Fahad’s detention and to call for an end to the US government’s [...]

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Dear NY Times: Some News You Neglected to Print

Posted in Community Voices, Media Monitoring, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »

You may disagree with what extent the reader needs to have an empathetic understanding for Fahad’s decision. However, I think that it is uncritical to portray the plea as a simple admission of guilt. That interpretation fails to ask important questions about the government’s bizarre conduct in this case i.e. the government’s willingness to drop three other supposedly severe charges in the blink of an eye, the fact that Fahad waited until the eve of the trial before accepting the plea bargain, and the numerous critiques of the breadth of the material support statute (whose constitutionality was challenged before the Supreme Court just last month).

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