Why Can't America Have Human Rights?

An evening of performance and talks on Human Rights in the United States, including the death penalty, detentions and deportations, poverty, and violence and discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, and sexuality. The Forum will work to strengthen our connections and raise our voices to build an America that supports human rights instead of violating them.

Speakers and performers include:
Reverend Dr. James A. Forbes Jr.
Larry Cox of Amnesty International USA
Mallika Dutt of Breakthrough
La Bruja
DJ Spooky
Roger Bonair-Agard

Nasry Malak
Blackout Arts Collective
Afsheen Shamsi of CAIR NY
Aarti Shahani of Families for Freedom
Silvia Henriquez of National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
Ajamu Baraka of The United States Human Rights Network

Mary Beth Maxwell of American Rights at Work
Joo-Hyun Kang of The Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
Kent Lebsock of the American Indian Law Alliance
Rabbi Michael Feinberg of the Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition
The Riverside Inspirational Choir

Co-Sponsors
Advocates for Environmental Human Rights
American Indian Law Alliance
Amnesty International USA
American Rights at Work
Andolan - Organizing South Asian Workers

Asian American Justice Center
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
Blackout Arts Collective
Border Action Network
Bringing Human Rights Home Project, HRI, Columbia Law School

Center for Constitutional Rights
Center for Gender and Refugee Studies
Center for the Study of Human Rights
Center for Women’s Global Leadership
Council on American-Islamic Relations (NY)
The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions

Desipina & Co
EarSay/Crossing the BLVD
EarthRights International
Equality Now
Families for Freedom
Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues
Global Action Project
Global Rights
Hip Hop Theater Festival

Human Rights Advocates
Human Rights Project-Urban Justice Project
Indo-American Arts Council, Inc.
International Gender Organization
International Women’s Health Coalition
International Women 29/32 Rights Action Watch

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center Less AIDS Lesotho
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
Ms. Foundation for Women
Muslim Consultative Network
National Advocates for Pregnant Women

National Center for Human Rights Education
National Economic & Social Rights Initiative
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
National Lawyers Guild

New York Asian Women’s Center
New Immigrant Community Empowerment
North Star Fund
NYNonProfit.com
Peacekeeper Cause-Metics
Planned Parenthood of New York City
Project Pericles at Pace University
Queers for Economic Justice

SAKHI for South Asian Women
SALAAM Theatre
South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective
The Lane~Leota Group
Third Wave Foundation
Third World Newsreel

US Human Rights Network
WITNESS
Women’s Environment and Development Organization
Women In Islam, Inc.
World Up!

Pardon my French, but WTF does "National Advocates for Pregnant Women" have to do with "Hip Hop Theater Festival"?

Even more so for "Rabbi Michael Feinberg of the Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition" and "Council on American-Islamic Relations (NY)"

...and check out this unlikely pair:

"New York Asian Women’s Center" and "Women In Islam, Inc.".

Truly, politics doth make strange bedfellows.

I'm going to have to get off my rear and write a P.J. O'Rourke kind of piece on this.

Cheers!

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