Community members and advocates gathered yesterday to urge Mayor Lee to get behind the Safe SF Civil Rights Ordinance. This Ordinance has been endorsed by over 80 organizations and hundreds (if not thousands) of San Francisco residents. Mayor Lee himself has received hundreds of calls and emails to his office in support, yet he continues to indicate he will veto the Ordinance. Read the rest of this entry »
March 18, 2012
Dear President Yudof,
We are writing to express our concern about your response to the incident that took place at UC Davis on February 27th. We understand that Stand With Us (SWU) organized an event where students from another organization, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), silently protested and another attendee attempted to disrupt the talk and was removed from the room. Read the rest of this entry »
For Immediate Release: San Francisco, March 13, 2012
Community disappointed by “No” votes from Progressive Supervisors Cohen and Wiener, and look to Mayor Lee for future support
(SAN FRANCISCO, CA – 03/13/12) Earlier today, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to pass an Ordinance introduced by Supervisor Jane Kim titled the Safe San Francisco Civil Rights Ordinance. The Ordinance seeks to codify pre-existing San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) protocol and Department General Orders (DGO) with respect to the SFPD’s collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Read the rest of this entry »
Please help AROC find qualified candidates for this position. Spread the word to your networks! AROC is a membership based organization led by a Collective comprised of paid staff and volunteer members. Volunteer members of the Collective and AROC General Members contribute much of the programmatic work and political direction of the organization. The Executive Director will be responsible for providing organizational leadership, fundraising, program supervision, and operational management within the context of this Collective structure. While many of the duties involve operations and fundraising, we are looking for a dynamic person who is interested and able to contribute to all aspects of the organization, including our programmatic work.
Description: The Staff Attorney will be responsible for providing free immigration legal services to primarily Arab and Muslim clients through Arab American Legal Services (AALS), San Francisco’s first free immigration service for the Arab community. The Staff Attorney will also supervise the casework of the Legal and Outreach Coordinator and law student interns, collaborate with a Network of organizations on community education trainings, and participate in coalition and other collaborative activities aimed to educate, organize, and advocate on behalf of the community. Read the rest of this entry »
On Thursday March 1st, nearly 100 community members and advocates showed up to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Public Safety Committee. AROC was present alongside member organizations of the Coalition for a Safe San Francisco and diverse other community groups such as Mujeras Unidas y Activas, Causa Justa:Just Cause, LYRIC, and SEIU Local 1021. Together we presented testimony in support of an Ordinance which would regulate and create transparency and accountability in the San Francisco Police Department’s relationship with the FBI. Read the rest of this entry »
A group of activists and feminists from the Bay, NY, Lebanon, and Egypt are working together to bring the performance of Bareed Mista3jil — a book of stories published by the queer feminist organization Meem in Lebanon — to the AWID conference in Turkey this April. Our proposal to present it at the conference has already been accepted. Now we are left with the task of raising fund to get our readers there. Needless to say, this would be an amazing opportunity to highlight these stories and experiences in a space where we can build authentic community and solidarity. Read the rest of this entry »
(Mahfouz Abu Turk / APA images)
The Electronic Intifada 13 February 2012
Today the systematic dispossession of the Palestinian people continues unabated and largely unchallenged by the United States and the European Union. Barriers to Palestinian mobility, social and political development are visible everywhere. Read the rest of this entry »
We are a diverse group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and trans activists, academics, artists, and cultural workers from the United States who participated in a solidarity tour in the West Bank of Palestine and Israel from January 7-13, 2012. Read the rest of this entry »
