Ai Mara - January 10, 2003 - San Francisco - (Med-res 74 MB)
Ai Mara - January 10, 2003 - San Francisco - (Lo-res 37 MB)
Audio - Ai Mara - January 10, 2003 - San Francisco - (MP3 8 MB)
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On January 10, 2003, over 400 people gathered in front of the INS offices in San Francisco to declare their opposition to the INS's special registration program and events that have taken place in this country since the program has been implemented that are all too reminiscent of the World War II era which led to the historically unjust incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans whose only crime was their ancestry.
There was a large press conference with numerous speakers at 1:30pm in front of the INS offices. Below are QuickTime video files and MP3s of the speakers.
I've created some special clips of key quotes for those of you that need a quick soundbyte or quote. I'll be transcribing parts of all of these too, over the course of the week.
Tom Ammiano, January 10, 2003 - San Francisco - (Hi-res 30 MB)
Tom Ammiano, January 10, 2003 - San Francisco - (Med-res 20 MB)
Tom Ammiano, January 10, 2003 - San Francisco - (Lo-res 9 MB)
Audio - Tom Ammiano, January 10, 2003 - San Francisco - (MP3 - 3 MB)
Jeff Adachi, January 10, 2003 - San Francisco - (Hi-res 49 MB)
Jeff Adachi, January 10, 2003 - San Francisco - (Med-res 35 MB)
Jeff Adachi, January 10, 2003 - San Francisco - (Lo-res 19 MB)
Audio - Jeff Adachi, January 10, 2003 - San Francisco - (MP3 - 4 MB)
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Ai Mara - January 10, 2003 - San Francisco - (Med-res 74 MB) Ai Mara - January 10, 2003 - San Francisco - (Lo-res 37 MB) Audio - Ai Mara - January 10, 2003 - San Francisco - (MP3 8 MB) |
(Excerpt from speech) "It doesn't make me feel more secure to know that families will be torn apart, to know that I might see the police coming for my neighbors, or, worse yet, I might not even see them at all. I won't know until it's too late.
It doesn't make me feel more secure to know that first it will be the Arabs and the Muslims that will be taken from general society, and then, who knows? It might be the Koreans. The Tunesians. The Socialists. The Communitsts. The Anti-war activists. We can't afford to lose each other. We can't afford to lose each others' voices.
My grandmother graduated from high school from behind barbed wire, out in the desert. And like most other Japanese families living in those times, when those trains rolled in, they lost everything.
Sixty some odd years ago, there was another similar gathering of names, like this one. I cannot stand by and let history repeat itself...
The government knows we're watching them. Thanks to thousands raising their voices in L.A. and the hard work here of all of the people here. They know that we're keeping tabs. They can't just handcuff people left and right like they did in December."
Our country is about justice and a legal system. And we have to insist on that legal system. And when U.S. citizens can be incarcerated, indefinitely, on the mere allegation given in secret by somebody we don't know, that they may be a terrorist -- and stripped of their rights to ever have a court hearing where they say "I'm innocent. This is wrong!" Then our country is falling apart.
And what we need to do is say: "Stop! Enough is enough!"
Marc Van Der Hout, National Lawyers
Guild (Hi-res 79 MB)
Marc Van Der Hout, National Lawyers
Guild (Med-res 54 MB)
Marc Van Der Hout, National Lawyers Guild (Lo-res 29 MB)
Audio - Marc Van Der Hout, National Lawyers Guild (MP3 7 MB)
