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Book 2011

Patriot acts

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Publisher
McSweeneys Books
Language
English
Published
2011
  • Law and legislation
  • Government policy
  • Detention of persons
  • Social aspects
  • Aliens
  • Immigrants
  • Influence
  • Civil rights

In eighteen oral histories, Patriot Acts tells the stories of men and women who have been needlessly swept up in the War on Terror, and who have found themselves subject to rendition and torture, to workplace discrimination, bullying, or FBI surveillance and harassment. Includes: a sixteen-year-old Muslim American seized from her home by the FBI, and forced to wear a tracking bracelet for the next three years; a mother of a missing 9/11 first responder and her husband searching for their son, even as the media hounded them and portrayed their son as a possible terrorist in hiding; a Sikh man whose brother was the first reported hate murder victim after 9/11.--based on publisher's description and p. [4] of cover.