01.13.09
Posted in Miscellaneous, Events at 3:28 pm by Shhh....
NAWBO Greater DC is proud to announce that it will co-host a special Pre-Inaugural Reception for women business owners in Washington, DC on January 19th from 5-7pm in the atrium of WIPP’s Headquarters.
This special reception will celebrate the Economic Blueprint: The Women Business Owners’ Platform for Growth. The Economic Blueprint presents economic principles that allow small businesses to flourish in a global market and sets a bold comprehensive set of public policy expectations on behalf of the women business owner community.
The Pre-Inaugural Reception is being presented by Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP), SBTV.com, Women’s Leadership Exchange, Count Me In, Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, and Women Presidents’ Organization.
Please join us for an exciting evening!
WIPP Headquarters
1615 L Street, NW
Washington, DC
Admission is FREE but registration is required
Please register at http://wipp.org/events.asp
Or contact WIPP at 888-488-WIPP (9477)
Tag: Pre Inaugural Reception
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01.09.09
Posted in Miscellaneous at 3:46 pm by Shhh....
by I Have a Crush on Alex Trebek
07-Jan-2009
Why does ANYONE who doesn’t live and fight in the Israeli/Arab wars take sides? Besides arguing and feeling righteous, what are you getting out of it? I couldn’t care less. Obviously, these idiotic, bloody disputes are benefitting them BOTH, financially.
I’m fed up with the Middle East. These Arabs and Israelis are shady. I don’t believe any of the crap they serve us in America year after year. Most of all, I’m sick of Israel. They take our money every year, and not measly peasly sums - large huge sums.
Are you telling me that after all that support, ass-kissing, and $$$$$ they cannot manage to be friendly and stay out of each other’s hair? I smell a rat. Both of these sides were getting US aid packages. Big ones. Obviously, Iran stepped in for the US after Hamas won the elections in 06.
Gee whiz, it sure is good for Iran. Helping the poor Palestinians. Good PR in politics, religion, bla bla bla. And it’s been good for the US; helping those Israelis. Except it hasn’t. It only helps them. These wars are obviously profitable for Israel and Palestine.
What would Israel be without a Palestine? Aren’t they DEFINED by those pesky angry arabs who throw rocks and sign their lives away to Saudi/Iranian funded pimps?
How much longer are we going to give money to a dumb country, dumb cause? Israeli has failed.
http://www.iranian.com/main/node/52634
Tags: Arabs, Iranians, Middle East, Minorities, Muslims, racism
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01.08.09
Posted in Miscellaneous, Events at 4:44 pm by Shhh....
Finally! It has come to DC and insha’Allah I will go see it.
Time and Place Date: Friday, January 9, 2009
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: BUSBOYS AND POETS
Street: 2021 14th St, DC
City/Town: Washington, DC
Contact Info Phone: 2023877638
Email: hijabi AT monologues@gmail.com
By Ade Astuti and Susy Tekunan
Washington
17 October 2007
Islam is the second-largest religion in the world after Christianity, and it is also one of the fastest-growing faiths in the United States today. Some Muslim women in America are working to foster understanding of their faith and lifestyle through theater performances. For producer Ade Astuti and Susy Tekunan, VOA’s Carla Coolman reports.
Muslim-Americans wearing hijabs
While there are no official population figures for religious affiliation in the United States, experts estimate that there are approximately six million Muslims living in the country. Yet as a non-Western faith, many Americans are unfamiliar with Islam.
To foster greater understanding, University of Chicago alumni Zeenat Rahman created the “Hijabi Monologues”.
It is a performance where American women who are Muslim tell their stories, in their own words. Through the power of story-telling, these women talk about a wide range of situations, creating a sense of shared experiences among them while enriching understanding of their lives.
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Tags: Edutainment, Hijabi Monologues, Islam in America, Muslim Women
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01.01.09
Posted in Miscellaneous at 3:44 pm by Shhh....
Walaa Hawari | Arab News
December 24, 2008
RIYADH: The women’s branch of the governmental Human Rights Commission (HRC) will launch a yearlong media campaign to raise awareness in society about women’s rights, it was announced here yesterday.
“Punishment is essential in cases of violence and abuse against women,” said Dr. Wafeeqa Al-Dakheel, supervisor to the HRC women’s branch, which started functioning last May.
Al-Dakheel said the women’s branch is mainly concerned with introducing itself to society and building awareness about women’s rights.
The organization is launching its one-year awareness campaign starting Monday. The campaign, similar to a high-profile one that was recently implemented to address inhumane treatment of domestic workers in Saudi households, will focus on the problem of domestic violence.
The media awareness campaign will shed light on various forms of abuses and how men use their authority in a patriarchal society to justify violence against women.
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Tags: Abused Muslimahs, Domestic Violence, Muslim Women, Peaceful Families, Spousal Abuse
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12.27.08
Posted in Miscellaneous, Do Something...Get Active! at 12:16 am by Shhh....
Dear Friend,
A new report in The Nation[1] documents what many have claimed for years–for some Black New Orleanians the threat of being killed by White vigilantes in Katrina’s aftermath became a bigger threat than the storm itself.
After the storm, White vigilantes roamed Algiers Point shooting and, according to their own accounts, killing Black men at will–with no threat of a police response. For the last three years, the shootings and the police force’s role in them have been an open secret to many New Orleanians. To date, no one has been charged with a crime and law enforcement officials have refused to investigate.
The report is helpful, but given Lousiana’s horrible record on protecting its Black citizens, justice will only come if we demand it.
I’ve joined ColorOfChange in calling on Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, Louisiana’s Attorney General Buddy Caldwell, and the U.S. Department of Justice–to conduct a full investigation of these crimes and any police cover-up. Will you join me? It takes only a moment:
http://www.colorofchange.org/nation/?id=2008-276725
In the two weeks after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, the media created a climate of fear with trumped-up stories of Black lawlessness. Meanwhile an armed group of White vigilantes took over the Algiers Point neighborhood in New Orleans and mercilessly hunted down Black people. “It was great!” said one vigilante. “It was like pheasant season in South Dakota. If it moved, you shot it.”
The Nation’s article tells the story of Donnell Herrington, Marcel Alexander, and Chris Collins–a group of friends who were attacked by shotgun-wielding White men as they entered Algiers Point on September 1, 2005. As they tried to escape, Herrington recalls, their attackers shouted, “Get him! Get that nigger!” He managed to get away. Alexander and Collins were told that they would be allowed to live on the condition that they told other Black folks not to come to Algiers Point. Herrington, shot in the neck, barely survived.
And there’s the story of Henry Glover, who didn’t survive after being shot by an unknown assailant.[2] Glover’s brother flagged down a stranger for help, and the two men brought Glover to a police station. But instead of receiving aid, they were beaten by officers while Henry Glover bled to death in the back seat of the stranger’s car. A police officer drove off in the car soon afterward. Both Glover’s body and the car were found burnt to cinders a week later. It took DNA analysis to identify the body.
These are only a few of the stories of Black folks who were accosted in Algiers Point, and you can read more in The Nation. But unless you speak out, we may never learn the full extent of the violence. Journalists have encountered a wall of silence on the part of the authorities. The coroner had to be sued to turn over autopsy records. When he finally complied, the records were incomplete, with files on several suspicious deaths suddenly empty. The New Orleans police and the District Attorney repeatedly refused to talk to journalists about Algiers Point. And according to The Nation journalist A.C. Thompson, “the city has in nearly every case refused to investigate or prosecute people for assaults and murders committed in the wake of the storm.”
The Nation article is important, but it’s just a start. For more than three years now, these racist criminals have by their own admission gotten away with murder while officials in New Orleans have systematically evaded any kind of accountability. We have to demand it.
Please join me in calling on state and federal officials to investigate these brutal attacks and the conduct of Orleans Parish law enforcement agencies, and please ask your friends and family to do the same.
http://www.colorofchange.org/nation/?id=2008-276725
Thanks.
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1. “Katrina’s Hidden Race War,” The Nation, 12-18-2008
http://www.colorofchange.org/link/?id=2008-276725&cat=nation&link=1
2. “Body of Evidence,” The Nation, 12-18-2008
http://www.colorofchange.org/link/?id=2008-276725&cat=nation&link=2
Tags: America, injustice, Katrina, racism
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