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A One-Man Help Center for City’s Pakistanis
From the Daily News, 1995:
It was late Saturday night when detectives called in search of a friend or family members who could help identify the badly charred body of a man killed in a fire on Gravesend Neck Road. But it didn’t matter to Asghar Choudhri, who was nearly asleep when the telephone rang, that he didn’t even know the victim, 46-year-old Sikandar Khan. All Choudhri needed to hear was that Khan was one of the city’s thousands of Pakistani immigrants.
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Shattered community of Brooklyn, New York
On December 8, 2004, the American Civil Liberties Union released a new report :
“Worlds Apart: How Deporting Immigrants After September 11 Tore Families Apart and Shattered Communities,” – documenting the devastating effects that the Bush administration’s “anti-terrorism” policies have had on immigrant families and communities.
The report also enumerated impact of these policies on the Muslim communities in America. One neighborhood discussed in the report is “Little Pakistan” in Brooklyn, New York: “Little Pakistan,” Brooklyn, New York Mehrban Khan leaned against an empty bar- ber chair and shook his head. “Oh my God, it’s too slow,” he said. “It’s 3:30 and I’ve earned forty dollars today.”
via http://www.archives2004.ghazali.net/html/the_fall_out.html
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What’s Wrong with Ethnic Profiling?
James A. Goldston, executive director of the Open Society Justice Initiative, discusses Ethnic Profiling:
Several years ago, as terrorism, immigration, and unrest in suburban Paris were at the top of the news in France, a French police officer confided to a researcher: “If you consider different levels of trafficking, it is obviously done by blacks and Arabs. If you are on the road and see a black man or a man with Arabic features, you say to yourself, ‘He doesn’t look French,’ and then you might stop him to see if he has papers.”
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Identity/Design
Graphic Design plays an intricate role in the formation of identity. The evolution and creation of a proprietary image defines the extension of a program and the distinctiveness of a building or property.
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When advertising meets surveillance
From the New Scientist:
With electronic billboards, processing power cameras and other sensors becoming ever cheaper, it’s become possible to manufacture products that allow web-like targeting in the real world.
For example, a system developed by Singapore’s research agency lets advertising screens detect the genders of passers-by: it will soon be able to tell how old they are, too. IBM has worked on systems that can scan a crowd and estimate numbers, demographics, and where people are looking.
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Divided Cities
From the Lebbeus Woods foreword to Divided Cities: Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia:
…each emerges from a unique historical background, belonging to a quite particular and localized set of cultural conditions. Yet, each shares with the others a common set of existential factors, belonging to what we might call an emerging global condition.
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Pakistan Paper in New York in Peril Over Coverage
After publishing articles that some people in the local Pakistani community didn’t agree with — including a column by the president of the American Jewish Congress — the editor of an Urdu-language newspaper based in Queens said he has been dealing with something he thought he left behind 20 years ago when he sought political asylum in New York.
via Pakistan Paper in New York in Peril Over Coverage – May 31, 2007 – The New York Sun.
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A Plan for Coney Island – NYTimes.com
A Plan for Coney Island