Arab Resource & Organizing Center

categories: Immigrant Rights, Uncategorized, US News

Call on Obama to Halt All Deportations and End Detention Quotas

March 19, 2014 For Immediate Release Bay Area Immigrant Rights Organizations Reject White House Token Action: Call on Obama to Halt All Deportations and End Detention Quotas On March 13, the Obama Administration called a closed door meeting with immigrant

categories: Allies, Palestine News, US News

Statement from University of Michigan Students on Divestment Resolution

March 27, 2014 Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE): Assembly Resolution 3050 This past week has been nothing short of inspirational. Hundreds of Palestinian students, SAFE activists,and allies from dozens of student organizations persevered through a weeklong sitin, which

categories: Action Alerts, Blog, Defense of Rasmea Odeh, Immigrant Rights, International News, Palestine News, US News

Celebrate International Women’s Day: Support Rasmea Odeh!

Posted March 2, 2014 / lara

المركز العربي للمصادر والتنظيم (AROC) يهنئكم بمناسبة يوم المرأة العالمي في هذه المناسبة نود تذكير أعضاء الجالية برفع مستوى الوعي بخصوص رسمية عودة؛ امرأة عربية مهاجرة في عمر الـ 66 عاما، والتي تم استهدافها من قبل الحكومة الأمريكية لكونها فلسطينية

categories: Allies, US News

Support the Trayvon 2!

The Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC) is outraged at the ongoing racial profiling of the Oakland Police Department and their recent targeting of the Trayvon 2, Tanzeen and Lamar (aka Hannibal), two Muslim men of color. Tanzeen and Lamar

categories: Campaign News, Immigrant Rights, News, Stop Urban Shield Coalition, US News

Facing Urban Shield Public Witness & Rally

Facing Urban Shield Public Witness & Rally Friday | 09:00 until 20:00 On October 25th, from 9-5 in downtown Oakland, we will hold an all day community picket and public witness in front of the Marriott Hotel to let Urban

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Stand Against Any US Attack on Syria

Posted August 28, 2013 / lara

Self-Determination Not Imperialism! STAND WITH THE PEOPLE OF THE ARAB WORLD STAND AGAINST US WARS FOR EMPIRE! Once again, the Arab people, like the indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, and Asia before them, find themselves at the receiving end

categories: Palestine News, US News

PELICAN to PALESTINE: Khader Adnan in Solidarity with Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers

Former Palestinian political prisoner, Sheikh Khader Adnan expresses solidarity with Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers July 9, 2013 Sheikh Khader Adnan considers the policy of isolation as a cheap weapon in the hands of those who hold power. The policy of

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Unity and Accountability in the Wake of the Wisconsin Gurudwara Shootings

Posted August 13, 2012 / AROC

Statement by DRUM- Desis Rising Up & Moving The members of DRUM-Desis Rising Up & Moving express our deepest sympathy and solidarity with our sisters and brothers of the Sikh community after Sunday’s shootings in the Oak Creek Gurudwara

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MXGM Report on the Extrajudicial Killings of 110 Black People since January 1st, 2012 Released

Posted July 10, 2012 / AROC

“A human rights crisis confronts Black people in the United States. Since January 1, 2012, police and a much smaller number of security guards and self-appointed vigilantes have murdered at least 110 Black women and men. These killings are definitely

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JTTF Ordinance Becomes Law! Time to Celebrate & Keep Fighting

Posted May 10, 2012 / AROC

Yesterday, the Mayor signed into law the Safe San Francisco Civil Rights Ordinance which was unanimously passed by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, May 8th, 2012. It was only after strong community pressure through advocacy, testimonies, meetings, and rallies,