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My Obligation to Come on This Trip
I felt very obligated to come this trip to Arizona. When you think road-trips, you think fun, jokes and irrelevant time spent… memories that are likely to fade. So when one reflects on their past or memories there is no value in the time that was spent. I love the phrase, “actions speak louder then […]
Preparing for Arizona
In less than 16 hours, 12 leaders from IMAN and the United Congress of Community and Religious Organizations will depart from Chicago for Arizona – a journey in solidarity with our brothers and sisters facing the treacherous threat of an inhumane immigration system. We profess and believe that the rights to housing, to work, and […]
Please Support the DREAM Act
Alaa worked in our communications department over several months and is one of the many DREAMers being stifled by our country’s broken immigration system. Please support her and 2.1 million others by calling a U.S. Senator today: http://action.dreamactivist.org/movedream/ I was born in Kuwait, the daughter of working class Palestinians. After the first Gulf War, when […]