Palestine Awareness Week, UCLA
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A Request for help from the Brothers and Sisters at UC Irvine
-In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful- Assalamu alaykum (peace be upon you), You may have heard of the recent event at UC Irvine with Michael Oren, the ambassador of Israel to the US. While he was invited by a student organization to speak on US-Israeli relations, the UCI Law School and the…
Thank You Howard Zinn
I first picked up Howard Zinn’s A People’s History when I was eleven years old. I had been dared to do so by a friend of mine who declared that if I successfully completed it, I’d go down in history as the biggest bookworm that ever walked the halls of our school. 675 pages of…
“My Book is your Book”: UCLA Students Fund Raise for Literacy
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a student activist group on campus, recently undertook a unique – and ultimately, successful – endeavor to bring aid to children in refugee camps in the Middle East by attempting to diffuse knowledge through literature. They put together a two day event, co-sponsored by the United Arab Society, promoting…
“Trees for Life” Campaign comes to UCLA
By Afnan Shukry The “Trees for Life- Planting Peace in Palestine” initiative was launched in the summer of 2006 with a clear goal in mind: to offset destruction caused onto olive groves in Palestine by replanting olive trees, a symbol of peace. Better yet, to replant hope into the hearts of Palestinians who lost it…
A Stormy Forecast for Student Tuition
It’s not always sunny in California. Few were spared from the Governor’s drastic budget cuts. $6.5 billion slashed from K-14 education. $2 billion from UC and CSU. $1.3 billion from Medi-Cal. $1.8 billion from municipal government funds. $1 billion from social services for the elderly, disabled and uninsured. That, and the Legislature is now trying…
Separated By Bars: The Mousavi Family Endures
By Maral Ali Al-Talib meets with former UCLA graduate student Zeinab Mousavi to talk about the Mousavi family’s experience of having their father be imprisoned in the Terre Haute, Indiana CMU. Al-Talib: Since his transfer to the Terre Haute CMU, how often has your family been able to visit Mr. Mousavi? Mousavi: A couple times.…
Inside the Counter-Terrorism Unit: The Case of Seyed Mousavi
By Maral Ali The Terre Haute CMU contains a mostly Muslim prison population. One such case is Seyed Mahmood Mousavi, a Muslim community leader in Southern California who founded Masjid Al-Nabi in West Covina. He is the father of four children (the youngest is a sophomore at UCLA) and an active member of the local…
“Little Guantanamo”: Secret Prisons in America
By Maral Ali Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay have come to symbolize the face of the “War on Terror” and the many abuses that took place in that era, yet even with the end of the Bush Administration, a silent legacy remains in the form of secret illegal prisons in the United States designed to…
Federal Judge Faults Government Actions Against Charities
By Affan Shaikh In a change of counterterrorism policy and Bush-era ideology, a Federal Court ruled against government ability to freeze the assets of charities according to terror financing laws without a warrant based on probable cause. The ruling, issued by Federal Judge James G. Carr of Ohio faulted the Treasury Department in its actions and…