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Suffolk NYCLU Announces 4/29 PATRIOT Act Forum at Huntington Cinema Arts Centre; Featured Speakers, Al-Haaj Ghazi Khankan, Executive Director for the Council on American Islamic Relations in New York and Sally Robinson, Chair of NYCBORDC

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CONTACT: Jared Feuer, media@suffolknyclu.org; (631) 423-3846

Suffolk County, New York: The Suffolk Chapter of the NYCLU is pleased to announce a forum jointly held by the Long Island Progressive Coalition and the Suffolk Bill of Rights Defense Campaign, scheduled for April 29, 2004 at 7:00pm at the Huntington Cinema Arts Centre.

The first speaker will be Al-Haaj Ghazi Khankan, Director of Interfaith Affairs at the Islamic Center of Long Island and Executive Director for the Council on American Islamic Relations in New York. Khankhan has appeared on CNN’s Talkback Live and ABC News with Peter Jennings, and has worked tirelessly on Long Island to create inter-religious dialogue and awareness of the difficulties American Arabs and Muslims have faced since September 11th.

The second speaker will be Sally Robinson, chair of the NYC Bill of Rights Defense Campaign that helped pass a February 2004 resolution in New York City for which they were honored by the City Council with a proclamation noting their “outstanding service to the city, state and nation.”

Jared Feuer, Director of the Suffolk NYCLU, noted how pleased he is to have speakers who have worked on both the cultural and legal implications of the PATRIOT Act, and stated, "During these difficult days, it is essential that we preserve dialogue, our Constitution, and openness and tolerance. We hope our community forum will be one of the many steps in this direction."

The forum coincides with the Suffolk Bill of Rights Defense Campaign's effort to pass resolutions that restate the importance of our Constitutional freedoms of due process, association, equal protection and free speech in Suffolk’s local governments. The Campaign is part of a wider nationwide movement that has passed resolutions in hundreds of communities and four states to protect their combined 49,909,239 residents' civil liberties.

Huntington Cinema Arts Centre Directions: 423 Park Avenue, Huntington, NY 11743 / 100 Yards South of Rt 25A, Main Street Watch For The Driveway Entrance

Link: http://www.suffolkbordc.org

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