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Documentaries on how communities resist deportation, detention and wartime incarceration.

13/07/2024

On July 22 we will hold a film screening and discussion to honor Farouk Abdel-Muhti, a Palestinian activist the U.S. government brutally tried to silence with an indefinite, illegal detention sentence. The filmmaker, activists and attorney who joined his struggle for freedom will reunite to discuss Farouk's long journey to freedom and martyrdom, and the lessons it holds for today's movement for Palestinian human rights.

Twenty years after his passing, the story of the grassroots campaign to win Farouk's freedom from illegal detention is newly relevant, as resistance movements for Palestinian liberation are met with growing repression in New York and beyond.
To commemorate this anniversary, we will have a two part event:
✨ First, watch "Enemy Alien" online, a documentary about the campaign to free Farouk
✨ Second, join an online talk with filmmaker Konrad Aderer, activists Jane Guskin and David L. Wilson and attorney Shayana Kadidal
A Free Event! For more info and to RSVP:
https://buff.ly/3WiCcL5

19/02/2024

Today's the anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, which authorized the U.S. military to "prescribe military areas...from which any or all persons may be excluded." It didn't mention Japanese Americans, but everyone knew the government meant to incarcerate them, and within months they had finished locking up all the Nikkei on the west coast in concentration camps.

For someone like me, there's a whole calendar full of significant anniveraries in those years from 1941-1945. I've been working on a film that takes place a bit after that, in March 1942. Imagine knowing that you're going to have to leave your home, but not being sure where you're going yet. That's the situation my grandparents faced. But they hadn't been thrown together, gotten married, and started a family yet. That all happened through mass removal and incarceration.

So, thinking about my grandparents, and my mom who was born in Topaz. And all the people surviving displacement and all the levels of state violence people in our country have been willing to countenance, for ever-shifting reasons and pretexts.

16/08/2023

Glad to support this important project and as a bonus get Japanese lessons from the brilliant Jun Suenaga !

A song of love and unity.

19/04/2023

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About Life or Liberty

Life or Liberty is a nonprofit multimedia project telling stories of resistance in immigrant communities. Our documentaries highlight the struggle against:

criminalization

deportation with subjects and organizations, to make our work useful in action-based campaigns

detention in connecting communities and historical struggles