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Muslim Ban NYC Presser: Yemini-Americans & Almontaser (Foley Square) vids & pics

NYC Presser: Impact of the Muslim Ban on Yemeni-American families.

June 21, 2018  11 AM. Foley Sq. The presser was streamed live and counter-protested by the New JDL-NY . I doubt they were included in the feed (sarc intended).


Hosted and endorsed by MPower Change,  Arab American Association of New York, Center for Constitutional Rights, Yemeni American Merchants Association -YAMA, Yemeni American Association (YAA), CUNY CLEAR and Arab American Association of New York (AAANY).

“Yemeni-Americans shared their experiences trying to reunite with their loved ones stranded abroad and facing immigration hurdles caused by the ban and a war at home. CCR highlighted the key findings of the new report, including how mass denials of waivers to Yemenis in Djibouti demonstrate that the waiver process is merely window-dressing on a racist and discriminatory policy that targets and separates families and must be struck down entirely.”

The speakers included, Ibraham Qatabi, Center for Constitutional Rights (video)

Radad Alborati, impacted by the Muslim Ban


Shahab Hamoud Mothena, impacted by the Muslim Ban


Diala Shamas, Center for Constitutional Rights (video)

Kavita Pariah-Sanchez, Assis. Comm, Mayor’s Off. Immigrant Affairs (included briefly in the video above)


Dr. Debbie Almontaser, Yemeni American Merchants Association. FYI- High Noon. Sun was hot and intense. Caused cell screen to go black – so I couldn’t see subject I was filming – video not framed well – apologies.

At approx 00:44 Debbie decide to air her grievance with me – for daring to  film her presser. ” Like to point out someone very special …. Pamela Hall …. since 2006, follows me around, records all my speeches, then spins it with HATE. (then as she finished a rather long speech) “Sorry I spoke a bit long, but I had a lot to say. Right, Pamela?” Guess she’s never gotten over the fact I exposed her Intifada NYC t-shirt in 2007.

Mentions World Refugee Day. Three more years of Trump. Maybe less if he gets impeached and repeats the usual misinformation regarding “native ” Americans, “No one has a claim to this land except the ‘native’ Americans (and mentions what we did to them).

“Yemeni-American community members, along with local community and human rights organizations, launched a new report,Window Dressing the Muslim Ban: Reports of waivers & mass denials from Yemeni-American families stuck in limbo, authored by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Rule of Law Clinic at Yale Law School. (to access PDF file GO HERE)

Slide show:

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About :  THE CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS

The Center for Constitutional Rights is dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South, CCR is a nonprofit legal and educational organization committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change.

and  THE RULE OF LAW CLINIC, YALE LAW SCHOOL

The Yale Law School Rule of Law Clinic was launched in 2017 and focuses on maintaining U.S. rule of law and human rights commitments in four broad areas: national security, anti-discrimination, climate change, and democracy promotion. Projects include litigation, policy advocacy, and strategic planning matter.

They concluded the presser reminding everyone that on this day and next week as well, “Whether or not we receive a Supreme Court decision on the Muslim Ban, join us in standing together with the Yemeni-American community to say #NoMuslimBanEver.

On this same day, President Trump tweeted what NEEDS to be said:

Democrats want open Borders, where anyone can come into our country, and stay. This is Nancy Pelosi’s dream. It won’t happen!

What is the purpose of the House doing good immigration bills when you need 9 votes by Democrats in the Senate, and the Dems are only looking to Obstruct (which they feel is good for them in the Mid-Terms). Republicans must get rid of the stupid Filibuster Rule-it is killing you!

The border has been a big mess and problem for many years. At some point Schumer and Pelosi, who are weak on Crime and Border security, will be forced to do a real deal, so easy, that solves this long time problem. Schumer used to want border security – now he’ll take crime!

We shouldn’t be hiring judges by the thousands, as our ridiculous immigration laws demand, we should be changing our laws, building the Wall, hire Border Agents and Ice and not let people come into our country based on the legal phrase they are told to say as their password.”

The TRUTH, it’s a terrible thing to waste.

[Pictures and Videos property of Pamela Hall]

 

 

Vids and Pics: Linda Sarsour Rails Against Muslim Ban,Tax Scam and Fight for DREAM Act

Washington Square, December 7, 2017. 5 pm.  On this coldish December night, Sharia-Loving Linda Sarsour led a rally against the Muslim Ban, Tax Scam and to fight for DREAM Act, with her oft repeated phrase: she is OUTRAGED.

Whose rage? The Port Authority Bomber? 4 days later, he speaks to President Trump of rage, “O AMERICA, DIE IN YOUR RAGE.” 

Or Linda Sarsour’s OUTRAGE. December 7th, A Day that should Live in Infamy goes unmentioned as Sarsour rails on, “Outraged.’ She has so much rage in her body.

Linda shills for Sharia (and Islam) with veiled threats, deflecting scrutiny by saying we should not let FEAR lead us. (SHE is PEACE) “Islam is Good. Capitalism BAD and RAGE was the color of the day.”

BUT, from those who have seen the future under Sharia-Islam, we have been warned.  The threats are real. America, we should be VERY afraid.

A 9 minute video of Sarsour preaching her party line to recruit the naive and inspire her complicit followers, with transcribed excerpts of Sarsour’s remarks.

A brief on-camera interview, over heard:

Message for Trump administration, ‘We’re gonna stay organized. We’re gonna fight back …  I believe in my generation. We’re not gonna sit back.‘ (In 2018 we’ll take out any politician. We’re gonna fight back.)”

Excerpts from  her full ‘ya’ll’ speech:

“My body is full of rage. I have so much rage in my body. I hope you are all just as outraged as I am […] I am ashamed. As an American […]…the GOP tax-scam, it’s not a Bill it’s a SCAM

(re D.C. protest) Sisters and Brothers … arresting people with disabilities, with terminal diseases. We should be ashamed in this country that there could people that could die on our watch just because they don’t have access to health care.

We have an administration putting forth a WHITE SUPREMACIST agenda on OUR watch. Be outraged, my sisters and brothers.

This week (re the Supreme Court) I don’t care what religion you are, y’all gotta pray for RUTH. Ruth’s gotta be alive for a really long time (still in her good ol’ boy accent)

(refers to) BANNED people from six Muslim majority countries. (refers to 1939 FDR – turning away ship with European refugee Jews)  Dark Days in the United States of America.

Today, in Yemen, Saudi-led U.S. supported WAR, people (are) crippled by a war. Looking for safety. security. to re-unite with their families.

Outrageous, Sisters and Brothers. We cannot be the generation that takes our country back 50 years.

Sisters and Brothers, FEAR is a choice.They are using fear-politics to divide us. We will NOT choose fear. We will choose solidarity, and unity, and resistance to this WHITE Supremacist administration. [5:00]

They are trying to exhaust us, this Fascist administration; to distract us from what they are really doing; the political corruption; the ill-informed decisions, the nepotism. But, we are NOT distracted. We know exactly what is going on.

We are people that are compassionate, that have open-hearts and minds. We love ALL people. When we say justice, we say “justice for ALL people”. [7:00]

You are hope. We are hope. NYC is HOPE.

I am perpetually outraged every morning. I will continue to be outraged until every single human being that lives in our country is treated with dignity and respect….and we have a government who aligns with our value system and our principles of democracy and freedom and liberation and justice for all; ALL people. [8:00]

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism and a true patriot who loves their country will not settle for a White Supremacist in the White House; for a sexual predator in the White House; for anti-Semites in the White House or Islamophobes in the White House; Xenophobes in the White House.

We, as Americans, will not settle and we will fight until we have a administration that reflects our values and our TRUE principles. [9:00] END video

What a piece of work. Sarsour jumps back and forth from her Brooklyn accent to her ‘good ol boy- y’alls.  (Makes me think of the Hilda-beast and her “you know what I’m talkin’ about'” charade.) Pathetic fools, they LOVE  Sarsour like they LOVED Hillary.


See Flickr slide show
of Linda’s minions: the Workers Party, Workman’s Circle and Socialist Party recruiters, and their many signs …

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… BOLDLY countered by the JDL pro -Israel, anti-illegal migration patriots.

[Pictures and videos property of Pamela Hall]

Addendum: December 11, 2017 follow up on  the latest Muslim Jihadi suicide bomber OUTRAGE ; allowed to live in Manhattan, un-vetted; admitted through chain-migration .

“… the NYPD faces a brutal challenge in aiming to prevent all terrorist attacks.

Which is why it’s so mystifying that the City Council is moving ahead to pass the Right to Know Act, which would dangerously discourage cops’ ability to perform proactive policing.

A vote is set for next week on this legislation, which is designed to get cops to ignore potential crimes and suspicious behavior for fear of civilian complaints.

But New Yorkers don’t want a police department that merely arrives at the scene of a tragedy to pick up the pieces. They want attacks like Monday’s prevented.

That means not handcuffing the NYPD’s ability to remain constantly.” [NY Post]

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“A would-be Muslim suicide bomber’s attempt to kill morning rush hour commuters in Manhattan yesterday is throwing much-needed light on our disastrous “chain migration” immigration system that admits foreigners based merely on family connections.

In New York, thanks to people like de Blasio, it is now more important to avoid making Muslims uncomfortable than to actually root out terrorist plots that lead to the deaths of his constituents.[Front page Mag]

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This is the Muslim way. The family is not outraged that their devout son wanted to murder as many innocent human beings as possible in the cause of Allah in the country that welcomed him and his whole family. The devout family is outraged at the NYPD for trying to save lives.

The jihad family is being represented by the terror group CAIR, of course. Just like the complicit San Bernardino mass murdering family. And the enemedia works hard to spit and shine their shoes. Let the litigation jihad begin.” [Pamela Geller]

“One of the attorneys representing the Muslim immigrant family of Akayed Ullah, the suspect arrested in the terror bombing of New York City’s subway system, has issued a scathing criticism of the police in their handling of the investigation — because they apparently worked too quickly to identify the accused. As always, CAIR serves as the apologist for the jihad world.” [Pamela Geller]

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“The accused Port Authority bomber posted a taunting message to President Trump in the hours before the attack, authorities said Tuesday.

“Trump you failed to protect your nation,” Akayed Ullah, 27, wrote on Facebook early Monday, according to the federal complaint.

Investigators scouring Ullah’s Brooklyn home turned up a passport in his name with multiple handwritten notes, including “O AMERICA, DIE IN YOUR RAGE … ” [NY Daily News]

END … For now….

In their own words: Sarsour and Tish James – Treason or Patriotism?

July 2, 2017. July 4, Independence Day is just days away. SO, I decided to transcribe Letitia (James) and Linda (Sarsour), to throw some light on their rabble rousing  accusations. BOTH claiming to be Proud Americans. Patriots who are RECLAIMING  America. Saving our Constitution…. from those hateful, racist Republicans. Are you buying what they are selling? Maybe not, but sadly, there are buyers.

These two women, one elected to office and the other aspiring to do likewise, speak for the Progs. – not the average Americans. The Soc/Commie Bernie Sanders Left who masquerade as patriots and (of course) the MSM,  the press LOVES them. So, too, does the next Gen. Primed to resist, for the revolution.

Danger lurks in the hearts of the Millennial/Alphabet Gens that they court. Fed a steady diet of lies. propaganda. fake news. fake history . They respond passionately with cheers. smiles and fist pumping.  ready for CHANGE as they take to the streets.

I witness the same scenarios over and over nurtured at protest after protest by their Comrades-in-Arms: Insurrection. Treason.  Fed to the masses  through our media, our entertainment AND our schools. Better Red than Dead? NOT!

First up, the words of  NYC Public Advocate, Letitia James . Then Linda Sarsour, the agitators this day at the Emergency Town Hall.

Letitia A. “Tish” James is an American lawyer, activist, and politician in the Democratic Party. She is the current and fourth New York City Public Advocate and first African American woman to hold citywide office. … Howard University School of Law. … admitted to practice law in New York state in 1989. James is the first member of the Working Families Party to win office in New York State and the first third-party member to be elected to the NYC Council since 1977.

Jan 25, 2017 : Washington Sq – Flash back quotes

Tish James : ” If you honor the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, then you have an obligation. Whenever you see a government that is lawless, you’ve got an obligation  and a duty to RESIST. RESIST. RESIST.

We’ve got an obligation and a duty to fight back… to protect the marginalized community and vulnerable community … we’ve got to protect those who they are coming after.

We’ve got to stand with them. Rise them. And let them know that THIS is the America that we love and we’ll FIGHT for it.

We are a city made great by the blood, sweat and tears of immigrants and refugees. And we will not close our borders. We will not close our shores [….] ( NYC) is an immigrant town and a sanctuary city and we will protect that right.

And so we’ve gotta stand up to the Federal Government. We’ve gotta stand up to bullies. We’ve gotta stand up to an administration that is “too male, too pale and too stale”.

We will not be silent in the face of this oppression, in the face of this discrimination; in the face of HATE. We will not normalize hate.

This is MY country and I will DEFEND the rights of immigrants and refugees. Mr. President, you and your Executive Orders, you have turned back progress for decades.  That puts you on notice, we will resist and we will ultimately see you in court.

I say to Donald Trump, you are NOT my President. I will resist you and stand up to you and I know there is an ARMY out there that will join me.

I need my young people to organize and organize and organize. It is up to you, to get out in the streets, to protect your colleagues, to protect your students, your neighbor and to PROTECT your COUNTRY.” [END]

NEXT June 29, 2017 – recent quotes Letitia James – always like she was speaking to the Comintern.

“Say it Loud Say it Clear Immigrants are welcome here. Refugees are welcome here . Grandparents are welcome here . Your entire family is welcome here.

(At) JFK airport to greet immigrants who are only seeking freedom and opportunity, we can not grow tired (or weary) now. We cannot cower now. WE cannot be fearful now.

We gotta rise up and resist with every fiber of our being […] because we are in a CONSTITUTIONAL crisis. We are at WAR with ourselves. This is not America. Our Values.

On this Independence Weekend let us rise up and DEFEND the Constitution. No Wall with separate us. No Ban will stop us.

[snip]

Make sure individuals will feel welcome here. Comfort here. We will continue to embrace them.

We will continue to challenge this UN-Constitutional Ban by an illegitimate President [… ] because THIS is Democracy and THIS is what makes America great: ALL of us HERE together. (CHEERS)

I know these are very VERY troubling times. But we cannot grow weary. We cannot be afraid. Understand, we are all in this together. When they come after one group their going to come after ALL of us. So we must ALL stand together.

Say it loud say it clear that immigrants and REFUGEES are welcome here. They’re part of the HUMAN family.

This is nothing but a MUSLIM Ban. A Muslim BAN. So we need to say that MUSLIMS are Americans too and they need to be treated with respect. They need to know that the law covers them as well.

So I stand with you today. I hope to see you at the airport. As we raise our voices. As we continue to RESIST this administration [… ] and all that we stand for and all that we value.

And on the 4th – instead of going to a B-B-Q go to JFK. Instead of fireworks.Instead of taking a day off, sitting by the beach/lying in the sun: Go to JFK!  Let everyone know that we stand for something. That the Millennials – Gen  C ,  they believe in others. That it’s not about themselves. All will work together to make this a more perfect society.

What we must do together, stand up and defend America and its values. DEFEAT Islamophobia and all those who HATE people who are different. Diversity is our strength. We gotta celebrate that. Thank you for recognizing that ALL of us are Americans.

I’m a Muslim tonight. I’m Gay tonight. I’m Latino tonight.  I’m Black tonight. We are all one. No distinction. We are all one.

Let us rise up together. Let us stand together.”(CHEERS) [END]

 Letitia was followed by the keynote advocate for insurrection, Linda Sarsour.

Sarsour, in her resignation letter from her position as executive director of the Brooklyn-based Arab American Association of New York.

“We are in a critical moment as a country and I feel compelled to focus my energy on the national level and building the capacity of the progressive movement, so it is with a heavy heart that I announce that I will be leaving my post as the executive director of the Arab American Association of New York.”

Linda Sarsour was born in Brooklyn, New York[2] and is the oldest of seven children born to a pair of “Palestinian” immigrants.

 Linda Sarsour quotes from Union Square -June 29th, 2017


“I feel like I’m having the same conversation like – every week. I came here to say what I say to New Yorkers, and in any platform that I have (had?)  before the elections, THIS is NOT normal.

Remind yourselves that you live in a country with a President and an administration that is NOT normal.

This ban is a Muslim refugee ban. No other way to describe it.

As a country that passed marriage equality (sends a message) nobody gets to decide who our families are.  We get to say who our family is and what constitutes a bonafied relationship. We have people whose grandparents and aunts and uncles are their primary guardians.


When we allow the federal government to tell us who our family members are, we undermine the decades of work that people  have done in this country,
for us to define our families and what makes up the people that we love. (applause- cheers)

This ban impacts most directly the people who need us most – people who need critical medical care – who can die if they don’t come to this country and have access to the type of health care services we have.

This is a ban  that keeps out the refugees – the very people – impacted by war and conflict that WE are instigating and fueling with our tax payer dollars and WE tell them they can’t come find refuge in our country.

We should be ashamed that there are people living in refugee camps – victims of terrorism and violence.  And we are telling them that they do not belong here and can’t come into our country.  I say we have to stay loud and outraged every single day.

I am fueled my perpetual outrage at this administration.

Sisters and brothers, our country has done horrific things to many communities BEFORE Muslims.  We have a history of doing unthinkable things to communities … a precedent that our nation has set forth  for different elements of our society. I want you to join me – to be part of the NEVER AGAIN generation. I will not allow horrific things to happen to any community on my watch or on your watch.

So, there was NO partial victory. There was NO limitation to this ban. There was just a rejuvenation of what this administration tried to do from Muslim Ban 1, Muslim Ban 2.0 and now we’re at the Supreme Court.

AND for those who know the history of the Supreme Court, THEY DON’T ALWAYS DO THE RIGHT THING.

If we have any folks resigning from the Supreme Court anytime soon – guess what – on the record – and this may not be the most professional thing you ever heard me say, WE ARE SCREWED.

If we have resignations in the  Supreme Court at this moment – all of our issues – from marriage equality, voters rights, reproductive rights, abortion, to immigration, to this ban – are ALL going to be rolled back.

I want you to stay  woke. … as our black sisters and brothers teach us :  outraged . informed.”

(Woke is a slang term that is easing into the mainstream from some varieties of a dialect called African American Vernacular English (sometimes called AAVE). In AAVE, awake is often rendered as woke, as in, “I was sleeping, but now I’m woke.” ‘Woke‘ is increasingly used as a byword for social awareness.) …. arggh….

 “Most importantly, you gotta stay united because our opposition is trying to divide and conquer us on issues. And what we’re saying to them is that we are intellectual enough. Loving enough.  That we will not be divided based on the issues we are most passionate —-  that we care about.

We will be inter-sectional in our organizing and we will show up for one another cause that’s what we do as the American people. (CHEERS)

So…what am I asking you to do? Three things: 

1. social media
2. phone call elected officials
3. show up – public spaces presence extremely critical must be outraged on THE STREETS .  (CHEERS )

And I will end by saying this, I am a proud American and the way that I express my patriotism is through DISSENT, because dissent is the HIGHEST form of patriotism.

SO, if you LOVE your country, you fight hard to make your country the greatest nation on earth, because right now this country has a far way of going —

Until we have health care for everyone who needs health care, women have full agency of their bodies, until we have immigration reform, until we end mass incarceration and UNTIL we become a nation that welcomes ALL immigrants in this country,  until then we are NOT the greatest nation on this earth.

So – stay strong (fist held high above her head), stay united and stay organized.”  [END]

== WHAT are they fighting for. WHOSE America?==

 [Pictures property of Pamela Hall]