THEY WILL NOT TAKE THIS SHIRT 
OFF OUR BACKS   
 
Photo Raed Jarrar (left), Miru Kim (right) 
 
"Are they gonna call me a potential terrorist because I am wearing a shirt with Arabic on it? ... The officer was a huge guy, very intimidating, and he kept asking "what does it say on your shirt," "what do you mean we will not be silent." Miru Kim, September 23, 2015

"Miru Kim was out walking her dog, a large Canaan-mix named Guinness, shortly before 2:00 p.m. near the 9/11 Memorial. She was about to enter her apartment building when she says two NYPD officers asked her to come out into the street."

Read the story reported in the news here: 

WHAT TIME IS IT AGAIN?
Time to stand up against Islamophobia
#EndRacialProfiling #EndRacism  

CLAIM FREEDOM 
Times Square, NYC 
Friday, September 25, 2015 4:00 - 6:00 pm 
Gather at West 47th Street & Broadway
(At the Red Steps) 
Wear your WE WILL NOT BE SILENT shirt.
Email us if you need one. 
The WE WILL NOT BE SILENT project continues the work that originated a decade ago in 2006 at the height of the Bush Regime. The Arabic language shirt was created in 2006 in NYC by a group of artists and activists called The Critical Voice. The mandate WE WILL NOT BE SILENT was inspired by The White Rose, a student resistance group active in Nazi Germany from 1942-1943. The Arabic language shirt gained worldwide attention when an Iraqi man, Raed Jarrar, was stopped by Homeland Security from boarding a Jet Blue, early-morning JFK flight because he was wearing that same shirt. He was harassed and refused entry to the flight until he was forced to cover the Arabic language on the shirt with another shirt they bought for him. Courageously, Raed Jarrar went public, the media story spread and like a wild-fire, support spread as well, and tens of thousands of people all over the world demanded to wear the message WE WILL NOT BE SILENT in solidarity. The intolerable conditions of racism, xenophobia, specifically Islamophobia and abuse of power that inspired us ten years ago to act and to embody the statement WE WILL NOT BE SILENT in the Arabic language, as well as in five other languages, are still present, as we can see from this incident today.

We will not look away. We will carry on.
 
Washington, DC, March 2007. In front of the Pentagon. 
Photo by Jean-Christian Rostagni 
 

WE WILL NOT BE SILENT is an artist/activist collective that has been in existence since 2006. Through the creative use of language embodied on shirts and emboldened on signs held up in public spaces, we respond to current social justice issues, encouraging creative, direct public actions where many people can participate.

 

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