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Alternatives to Policing in Arab & Muslim Communities

Posted June 1, 2020 / AROC

Alternatives to Policing in Arab & Muslim Communities Download English and Arabic reports below Please feel free to distribute the documents below widely and cite the appropriate author of any tools you use (listed on page footers). AROC is available

categories: Action Alerts, AROC in the News, AYO, Campaign News, education, ethnic studies, Media Advisory & Press releases, Palestine, Youth

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

categories: Action Alerts, Campaign News, Civil Rights, News, Repression, slideshow, Youth

TAKE ACTION: Save Arab-American Studies

TAKE ACTION: Save Arab-American Studies The biggest education system in the US—California’s—is about to make an incredibly consequential decision about what kind of state we are: Will we institute a historic Ethnic Studies curriculum uplifting the stories, cultures, and traditions

categories: Action Alerts, BDS, Block the Boat, Campaign News, Community Events, Palestine, Zionism

Block the Boat 5 Year Anniversary Celebration

Block the Boat 5 Year Anniversary Celebration Five years ago, the Bay Area achieved one of the most successful BDS victories against apartheid Israel in US history! In 2014 we stopped the Israeli-owned ZIM shipping line from docking at the

categories: Arab Uprisings, Arabic Language Pathways, Blog, Campaign News, Campaigns, Immigrant Rights, Repression, slideshow, Stop Urban Shield Coalition, video, Youth, Zionism

AROC Video: 10 Years of Community Defense, Resistance, and Movement Building

Posted October 12, 2018 / AROC

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

Join us to Stop Urban Shield!

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.

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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,