2010 Inaugural RIGHTSFEST
Location: Detroit
Theme: Civil Rights Supreme Court cases
Ling Woo Liu, KI director, with Anita Peek, Executive Director of the Rosa & Raymond Parks Institute, Karen Korematsu, KI Co-founder, Imad Hamad, Michigan Director of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Peter Hammer, Director of the Damon Keith Center for Civil Rights at Wayne State Law
Who: Sponsored by the Korematsu Institute, in partnership with the Damon Keith Center for Civil Rights, the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute and the Michigan chapter of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
When: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 3:30 – 7:30 pm
Where: Keith Center for Civil Rights, Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium, Wayne State University Law School. 471 W. Palmer Ave. Detroit, Michigan
Cost: free, but donations welcomed
Program: 2010′s program included three documentaries:
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Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: the Fred Korematsu Story Eric Paul Fournier’s Emmy award-winning film about Fred Korematsu’s heroic resistance to the US government’s Japanese American internment camps during World War II and his 40-year fight that turned a civil injustice into a civil rights victory. |
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Mighty Times: the Legacy of Rosa Parks Robert Houston’s Academy-Award nominated film about Rosa Parks’ act of defiance against segregated buses and the ensuing Montgomery Bus Boycott that overturned an unjust law and continues to inspire social advocates today. |
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USA vs. Al-Arian Voted Best Film of the New Orleans Human Rights Film Festival, Line Halvorsen’s film explores the arrest and 2 ½-year solitary confinement of a Palestinian-American professor accused of providing material support to a terrorist organization. |
Following the screening, Korematsu Institute Director Ling Woo Liu moderated a discussion with the following panelists:
Imad Hamad
Michigan Regional Director, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Peter Hammer
Director, Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights
Karen Korematsu
Daughter of Fred Korematsu & Korematsu Institute Co-Founder
Anita Peek
Executive Director, Rosa & Raymond Parks Institute
