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categories: Action Alerts, Campaign News, Stop Urban Shield Coalition

WE CAN END URBAN SHIELD ON MARCH 27TH! All Out to Stop Militarized Policing in the Bay Area! What: Rally & Press Conference to Urge Vote to DEFUND Urban ShieldWhere:Alameda County Admin Building 1221 Oak St, 5th Floor Oakland, CA

categories: Blog, Campaign News, Mobilizations, Stop Urban Shield Coalition

VIDEO: People Power vs. Police Militarization: Communities Push Berkeley to Stop Urban Shield

Posted May 25, 2017 / lara

categories: Campaign News, Civil Rights, Immigrant Rights

San Francisco Board of Supervisors Vote to Resist Trump’s Racist Attacks

San Francisco Board of Supervisors Vote to Resist Trump’s Racist Attacks Yesterday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to pass the San Francisco Anti-Registry (“Non-Cooperation with Identity Based Registry”) law, the first ordinance of its kind in the country.

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 / omar ali

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

categories: Blog, Campaign News, News

Walmart cedes to pressure not to promote Israeli fascism

Posted October 29, 2015 / omar ali

Major retailer Walmart promoted the state of Israel and the “Israeli Defense Force” as a Halloween costume for children, all for under thirty dollars. The costume, which was sold alongside that of the navy seal and the US police offer,

categories: Block the Boat, Campaign News, Campaigns, Palestine News, US News

One year ago, we made history.

Block the Boat, One Year Later One year ago the Bay Area made history by blocking the largest Israeli shipping line from docking at the port of Oakland. When the entire world was taking to the streets against Israeli Apartheid

categories: Blog, Campaign News, Campaigns, Defense of Rasmea Odeh

AROC on Rasmea Odeh and Political Repression

Posted July 15, 2015 / lara

Interview with local community organizer, Sami Kitmitto of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, who offers an broader understanding of the political landscape in which community organizers like Rasmea are being prosecuted.

categories: Arabic Language Pathways, Blog, Campaign News, Language Access

Arabic language pathways in SF Unified School District

Posted May 28, 2015 / lara

Arabic language pathways in SF Unified School District Board of Education passes resolution to implement Arabic in SF public schools. Click HERE for SFUSD press release. On Tuesday night, AROC: Arab Resource & Organizing Center, and the Vietnamese Youth

categories: Blog, Campaign News, Campaigns, Language Access

AROC 2014 Voter Guide

Posted October 31, 2014 / lara

Get out and vote! November 4, 2014 The Arab Resource and Organizing Center encourages all registered voters to go to the polls. We recognize that many in our community are denied their voting rights, including non-citizens, youth, and people in

categories: Block the Boat, Campaign News, Campaigns, International News, Palestine News, Uncategorized, US News

Block the Boat Declares Decisive Victory Over Apartheid Israel

Oakland has made history once again with another BDS victory for Palestine against the Israeli Zim shipping line. This latest round of organizing has been the most momentous and historic. Members of ILWU Local 10 informed Block the Boat organizers