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OUSD Board Includes Arab American Studies in Support for CA Ethnic Studies Curriculum

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—May 28, 2020 OUSD Board Includes Arab American Studies in Support for CA Ethnic Studies Curriculum At almost 2:00 am on May 28, in historic recognition of the importance of Arab American Studies to Ethnic Studies, the Oakland

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Media Round-up for Oakland Vigil Against Islamophobia March 2019

SF Weekly: Christchurch Native in SF Mourns His Mosque Community Mercury News: Photos of Vigil for Victims of the New Zealand Mosque Shootings Held at Oakland’s Lake Merritt Amphitheater KQED: Photos of Vigil to Grieve After New Zealand Mosque Attacks

categories: Action Alerts, AROC in the News, Blog, Campaigns, Immigrant Rights

SF is Hiring Arabic-Speaking Teacher

Posted March 25, 2019 /

Calling all Arabic Speaking Educators: San Francisco Unified School District Is Hiring! Full time Arabic Language Teacher Arab Resource & Organizing Center, Teachers 4 Social Justice, and the Vietnamese Youth Development Center and Au Co Cultural Center are working together

categories: Antiwar, Arab World, AROC in the News, Blog, Community Events, Immigrant Rights, Palestine, Zionism

Alameda County Board of Supervisors Proclaims May 15th, 2018 Palestinian Cultural Day

Posted May 22, 2018 /

May 22nd, 2018 Today, the Alameda County Offices Board of Supervisors recognized May 15, 2018, the 70th year of the Nakba, as Palestine Cultural Day. The people of Palestine–from Gaza, Haifa to Jerusalem– face daily violations of their human rights,

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Victory for our community! Ali is free from ICE!

Posted March 16, 2018 /

Victory for our community! Ali is out of ICE detention! Our community succeeded on March 13th, 2018 in freeing Ali, a young Yemeni man, from ICE! Ali has been detained for nine months. We packed the courtroom not just once,

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SF Suspends Participation in Joint Terrorism Task Force

Community, Civil Rights Groups Welcome San Francisco Police Department Suspending Participation in the Federal Government’s Joint Terrorism Task Force For Immediate Release : February 2, 2017 Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus (ALC), the Council on American-Islamic-Relations, San Francisco Bay

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Victory for Arabs and Muslims at SFO

Posted February 2, 2017 /

Community Self Defense at SFO Our communities fight for self determination. And this past weekend we actualized it. This past Sunday, ten thousand people joined alongside the leadership of AROC, ASATA, and other grassroots organizations to shut down San Francisco

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PALESTINE CULTURAL DAY

Posted October 12, 2016 /

On May 24th, 2016, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors proclaimed May 15th, 2016, the 68th anniversary of the occupation of Palestine, as “Palestine Cultural Day.” It is the third proclamation from the board of supervisors recognizing the cultural richness

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Palestine Cultural Day

categories: AROC in the News, Blog, Campaign News, Campaigns, Defense of Rasmea Odeh

Lina Baroudi spoke with KPFA about Rasmea’s recent victory!

Posted March 30, 2016 /

March 29th, 2016 Lina Baroudi , AROC’s staff attorney, spoke with Dennis Bernstein about Rasmea Odeh’s recent court appeals victory. Listen Rasmea KPFA.