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Arab Voices Archives for 2021
(click on the date to listen to any of the shows)
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January 13, 2021  |
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1st
Segment:
Remarks & Commentary on last week's attack on the U.S.
Capitol
We will talk about last week's disastrous event at the U.S.
Capitol during the certification proceedings of
President-elect Joe Biden, and will share statements and
comments from a few organizations and individuals, including
a statement and community advisory by
the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
(ADC), statement from the Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR National), and a community safety alert
issued by the local chapter of the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR Houston), statement from
the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), commentary
from James Zogby, President of the Arab American
Institute (AAI), and latest commentary from Sahar
Aziz, Professor of Law and Chancellor's Social Justice
Scholar & Director of the Center for Security, Race, and
Rights at Rutgers University Law School on "The FBI's
Racialized Priorities Endangered Our Democracy". In that
commentary, Aziz analyzes past week's siege on the Capitol,
and asks where was the FBI in the months leading up to the
violent siege on the Capitol?
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2nd
Segment:
Insurrection: A New Day
of Infamy, Rooted in Centuries Old White Supremacy!
We
will
air an episode from
Building Bridges
radio program that airs on our sister station WBAI in New
York on white supremacy and white nationalism. The episode
is titled "Insurrection: A New Day of Infamy, Rooted in
Centuries Old White Supremacy!". The guest is Eric Ward,
Executive Director and Senior Fellow at the Southern Poverty
Law Center and Race Forward, and Executive Director of
Western States Center. Eric Ward is a nationally-recognized
expert on the relationship between authoritarian movements,
hate violence, and building toward an inclusive democracy.
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3rd
Segment:
American Mirror and
Confederate Statues
We will listen to Dr. Synnika
Lofton's Topical Poem of the Week:
American Mirror and Confederate Statues.
"This week I wrapped my mind around Americas obsession with
Confederate monuments: a celebration of history or a
celebration of white supremacy?" |
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January 6, 2021  |
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Issa Amro
(in Hebron, occupied Palestine)
We
will air an interview we conducted with Issa Amro (in
Hebron, occupied Palestine) a few hours before he appeared
in an Israeli occupation military court today.
The State of Israel had brought 18 charges against Issa for
his civil disobedience and nonviolent protests against the
Israeli occupation, and today, January 6, 2021, was his day
in the Israeli occupation military court. Issa was convicted
on 6 military charges. The Judge, who is an Israeli
colonizer living on stolen Palestinian land, told Issa he is
not allowed to protest against the Israeli occupation
peacefully without a permit from the Israeli occupation
forces!!! The sentencing hearing for the 6 charges is set
for February 8, 2021.
Issa Amro is a Palestinian activist and human rights
defender based in Hebron, occupied Palestine. He is the
former coordinator and co-founder of the grassroots group
Youth Against Settlements. Issa won the 2009 One World Media
award for coordinating the B’Tselem camera distribution
project, and in 2010, he was declared "human rights defender
of the year in Palestine" by the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. In 2013, the
United Nations Human Rights Council expressed concern for
his well-being and safety due to numerous accounts of
harassment from Israeli soldiers and settlers and a series
of arbitrary arrests. Issa was arrested numerous times by
the Israeli occupation army. In 2017, Bernie Sanders along
with 3 U.S. Senators and 32 Congressmen wrote to Secretary
of State Rex Tillerson, at that time, to urge Israeli
authorities to reconsider the charges against him. In late
September 2017, after being released on bail from Israeli
occupation jail, Issa Amro met Bernie Sanders and members of
Congress in Washington, D.C.
Stand With Issa |
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