Letters from Detention

Date 

Add to My Calendar Thursday, January 26, 2017 7:00pm to 8:30pm

Location 

44 Charlton St.
The Greene Space
New York, NY 10014

Join CCR and The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC, in association with The Public Theater's Public Forum, for an evening of storytelling and conversation about CCR’s Supreme Court case Ziglar v. Abbasi and ongoing efforts to challenge institutionalized Islamophobia and the abuse of executive power. 

This month, the Supreme Court heard their final cases under the Obama administration. The last, Ziglar v. Abbasi, was argued on January 18 by CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol. CCR filed the case on behalf of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab men who were rounded up, detained in brutal conditions of confinement and abused for months, and eventually deported in the wake of 9/11 based on their race, religion, ethnicity, and immigration status. 

Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen (authors of The Exonerated and Aftermath) will present a moving and hopeful theatrical performance, adapted from a series of letters exchanged between CCR clients Yasser Ebrahim and Hany Ibrahim, two brothers held on separate floors of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn for months after 9/11.

Following the performance, we will convene a conversation with Monami Maulik (founder of DRUM-Desis Rising Up & Moving and currently working with UN Women); attorney Rachel Meeropol (Senior Staff Attorney for CCR and counsel for the plaintiffs in Ziglar v. Abbasi); and Elie Mystal (Radiolab Presents: More Perfect and Managing Editor of Above the Law's "Redline”). They’ll discuss how we hold our government, and each other, accountable for the safety and well-being of all and what role the courts can, should, and will play in reining in executive excess. 

You can purchase tickets for this special evening on the Greene Space website.

Watch a video live stream of the event here:

 

Last modified 

January 26, 2017