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Law and Disorder: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Ghita Schwarz

Oct 26, 2015: 10am - 11am
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Segment 1: In the United States today, there are more than 500 federally recognized indigenous communities and nations comprising nearly three million people. These are the descendants of the 15 million people who once inhabited this land and are the subject of the latest book by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. In An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the indigenous peoples was genocidal and imperialist "designed to crush the original inhabitants." Spanning more than 300 years, this classic bottom-up history significantly reframes how we view our past. Told from the viewpoint of the indigenous, it reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the U.S. empire. Segment 2: After the 9/11 attacks, the New York City Police Department created a vast and covert suspicion-less surveillance program targeting Muslim American communities in New York, New Jersey, and beyond. In the second segment: The federal lawsuit Hassan v. City of New York challenges the constitutionality of this program. The original complaint was filed by Muslim Advocates in the District Court of New Jersey and later joined by the Center for Constitutional Rights. The lawsuit seeks an end to the program and destruction of any records gathered. Ghita Schwarz, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, works on racial justice, immigrants' rights and government misconduct cases. Hosted by Michael Ratner, Heidi Boghosian and Michael Steven Smith.