From: The Sanctuary <YourFriends@MediaSanctuary.org>
> Date: March 10, 2008 1:39:31 AM EDT
> To: Sanctuary supporter  <jami2001@earthlink.net>
> Subject: Anti-Sanctuary Protest Planned: Come Out to Support Free Speech
> Reply-To: The Sanctuary <reply.243134.196347306.9051734857097516362-jami2001_earthlink.net@en.groundspring.org>
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> Hi-
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> A protest against The Sanctuary for
> Independent Media has been announced for
> tonight (Mon 3/10), during the exhibit
> opening of Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal.
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> The demonstrators plan to convene before
> the 6 PM opening of the exhibit. We invite
> supporters of the Sanctuary to come out and
> peacefully show support for free speech and
> democracy, and to oppose the voices that
> prefer censorship.
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> Bilal's exhibit, which was abruptly
> shuttered Thursday by the RPI
> administration, is being opened at the
> Sanctuary in an attempt to restore our
> collective freedom to see the work and
> Bilal's freedom to exhibit it.
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> The piece is an anti-war allegory, but the
> public has been misled by a Times-Union
> article reprinting accusations by RPI
> Campus Republicans that the school's arts
> department is harboring "terrorists." Bilal
> himself is a US citizen and a noted pacifist
> whose work of the last several years has
> been dedicated almost exclusively to ending
> violence.
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> If we persecute Bilal for playing a suicide
> bomber in his work, by the same logic we
> should attack the actors who played the
> terrorists in Universal Pictures 2006 film,
> "Flight 93."
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> Please come out to support Bilal and The
> Sanctuary for Independent Media. We need
> your numbers.
> 
> 
> --Your Friends at The Sanctuary for
>              Independent Media
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> PS  Visit www.MediaSanctuary.org for more
> about Wafaa's show and the reaction to it.
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