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Iranian Americans, Know Your Rights!

Claire Light - August 7, 2005

Appropriately, and not a moment too soon, an Iranian American "Know Your Rights" resolution H.Res.367 [1], condemning discrimination and bigotry against Iranian Americans, was introduced into the House last week [2]. This resolution is part of the new Iranian American Know Your Rights Campaign [3], spearheaded by the National Legal Sanctuary for Community Advancement (NLSCA) together with a coalition of community organizations.

To quote the Iranian American Political Action Committee: "The purpose of the campaign is to: (1) educate Iranian Americans of their civil rights and liberties under the Constitution and Bill of Rights; (2) offer legal protection where civil rights of the Iranian American community are being infringed upon; (3) Educate mainstream America on the Iranian American community; and (4) Create media outreach both within the Iranian American media and mainstream media sources."

For help with discrimination visit the National Iranian American Council's (NIAC) discrimination center [4]. For more general information on your rights in general and how the PATRIOT ACT has changed them, check out an earlier blog entry [5] on this subject.


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Links
[1] http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.res.00367: [2] http://www.payvand.com/news/05/jul/1184.html [3] http://www.iranianamericanpac.org/news/detail.php?str=iI7l7NcT8p4H9X0Y [4] http://www.niacouncil.org/disc_index.asp [5] http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/blog/archives/2004/11/know_your_right.html